Welcome back catamounts! We hope you had a great summer, we certainly did. Over the summer, we’ve kept busy finding ways to keep improving The Western Carolinian for you!
As you may know, last year we set up our new distribution boxes in front of Ingles in Sylva, Mountain Laurel in downtown Sylva and next to the Town of Dillsboro Office. We still have one more distribution box to set up once we find the perfect home. We constantly strive to make every copy of The Western Carolinian more accessible for you, our readers.
This year, we’re excited to work with WHEE-TV in hopes of bringing some of our stories to life through their live newscasts and printing some of their video stories to share with you. WHEE-TV’s newscasts will be available on the new multimedia tab on our website. This year until November, we will also have an election tab featuring stories by WCU students covering local elections in Jackson County, Macon County, Swain County and Haywood County with the hopes of keeping you informed.
Speaking of our website, we’re excited to rock a new look. Over the summer, we redesigned our website to make it brighter, with new tabs added and some tabs taken away in order to make stories easier to find.
Finally, we are excited to share our new newsletter. This email newsletter will include news stories, movie and book reviews, opinions and commentary and so much more. There will also be surveys on each letter where you can vote which staff member has the best taste in a variety of categories such as best song, favorite comfort tv show and good books.
We hope you are as excited as we are for this upcoming year. We plan to make it our best one yet. As always please feel free to reach out to us for any reason including tips, opinions or ideas. You can call us at (828)227-2694, email us at westerncarolinian@wcu.edu or follow us @thewesterncarolinian on Instagram and @wcunews on Facebook. Thanks for reading!
