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Thursday, November 14, 2024
By Joshua Smith Staff Writer Curt Collins has had an organic, sustainable garden for four years now, but this is the first year he’s decided to turn it into a business. Its name is Avant Garden. Every Thursday from 3:00-7:00 pm, Curt and his partner John Thompson set up their […]
By Parker Millar News Editor April 20, 2009 will mark the anniversary of one of the darkest events in my generation’s collective memory. On April 20, 1999, two students at Columbine High School in Littleton Colorado walked through the double doors with guns drawn, bent on murder. Eric Harris and […]
Randall Holcombe WCU Public Relations CULLOWHEE – Mountain Heritage Weekend events at Western Carolina University, including a bluegrass concert this coming Friday, Sept. 26, and the university’s Mountain Heritage Day festival on Saturday, Sept. 27, will go on as scheduled despite gasoline supply problems in Jackson County and across Western […]
By Justin Caudell Sports Editor For the eleventh straight season, the Catamounts won their home opener on Thursday, Aug. 28, blanking the Shorter College Hawks 35 – 0 on the gridiron to start the 2008 season. The triumph ended a seven game losing streak, dating back to last year. The […]
By Justin Caudell Sports Editor Despite maintaining possession of the football for five minutes longer than the opposition, Western was shut down by the Seminoles of Florida State University on Saturday, September 6 in Tallahassee, Florida. The start of the game was delayed 1 hour 21 minutes because of lightning, […]
By Morgan Carver Staff Writer On Thursday, September 18, 2008 Western Carolina will be hosting a Japanese drumming ensemble at the Fine and Performing Arts Center. It will begin at 7:30 and the tickets are $5 dollars for students and $20 dollars for the public. Fushu Daiko will be performing […]
By Carolyn Ellison Features Editor On September 3, WCU was lucky enough to have Amnesty International Poet Laureate Alvin Lau perform his spoken word in the Illusions room. Lau drove all the way from Chicago to do the show. However he is no stranger to the area, Lau spent his […]
By Kaitlyn Mullis Sports Writer The men’s and women’s Catamount cross country team opened the 2008 season Friday, Aug. 30 at the Western Carolina Open. The meet featured five other teams from around the state, including Gardner Webb and the University of North Carolina at Asheville. The distances set for […]
By Tammy Wilson Staff Writer Tuesday morning of last week, (August 26, 2008), a female resident student was hit by a truck driven by a university employee. She was given immediate medical attention and the driver of the truck was unharmed. The student was released from the hospital on the […]
By Kevin Dunn Staff Writer Only once have I been surprised by an exhibition at The High Museum of Modern Art that is entirely classical or neo classical, always cleverly swathed in its modern architecture. I usually venture into the High on the weekend to check out some of my […]
