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Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Western Carolina University’s biology department presented academic scholarships to four students during its annual awards banquet held recently. Holly Morrison Bright of 4124 Fieldstone Drive, Gainesville, Ga., received the $1,000 John C. Rice Family Scholarship for the spring semester. Bright, daughter of Gainesville residents Sue Mathis and Robin Bright, is […]
Former WCU graduate student Derek Nicholas Anderson, 32, was denied a hearing, which was intended to prove he is not a fugitive from North Carolina, by Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Daniel A. Noonan. Anderson has been incarcerated in Milwaukee County 10 months since being indicted in North Carolina on a […]
Western Carolina University will sponsor the Western North Carolina Regional Computer Security Conference from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 15, at the Asheville Renaissance Hotel. The conference will focus on identifying threats to computer network infrastructures, how to assess vulnerabilities in information systems, and the basics of […]
Last week, some jerk named Staff Writer took over my column. Sorry about that. I’m back now. Let us dip into the reader mailbox and see what we have in store…. This comes from Whit. “A couple of movies to consider: ‘Nothing but Trouble’, from about 1992. Has John Candy, […]
To judge a movie by its previews is to judge a book by its cover. The cliché, however tired, is accurate. Therefore, one cannot judge Orange County to be another dilly-bopper teen movie set in California by its commercials alone. While it is set in California and it involves teens, […]
This week I am previewing a concert that will actually take place, unlike last week’s cancelled Piedmont Charisma show. That is, it will take place unless legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan turns senile or falls out of his walker and can’t perform. I shouldn’t make fun of Dylan; he is the […]
Western Carolina University freshman Colin Warren Lewis, 19, was arrested Jan. 23 for breaking, entering, and larceny in connection with the theft of approximately $15,000 worth of computer equipment from room 171 in the Belk Building. He has been released on $5,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in Superior […]
Maybe I am out of the loop, but I didn’t hear Outkast until 1998. I was sitting in Best Buy where I was employed doing paperwork. We were listening to 102 JAMZ, which is apparently the only radio station in Winston-Salem that anyone listens too, and “SpottieOttieDopalicious” came on. Man, […]
By now, it’s old news that “A Beautiful Mind” swept the Golden Globe Awards. But for those who haven’t seen the new Ron Howard -directed bio-pic of mathematician John Nash, I offer the following – “A Beautiful Mind” deserved it. From the deeply woven story that keeps viewers guessing until […]
Western Carolina split a pair of Southern Conference games over the weekend, topping Davidson 70-67 in overtime Saturday in Davidson while Appalachian State defeated Western 66-62 Monday night at the Ramsey Center. Senior forward Willie Freeman scored a game-high 23 points and grabbed a career-high 15 rebounds against the Mountaineers […]
