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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Artists known for their biographical songs are reemerging onto the scene this week. Train, the group responsible for the now way-overplayed “Meet Virginia,” and Shawn Colvin of “Sunny Came Home” fame both released new albums last week. Train’s sophomore album Drops of Jupiter reflects an increase in the artistic maturity […]
The Western Carolina football squad will complete its 2001 spring practices with the annual Purple-Gold Scrimmage, held Sunday (April 8), at E.J. Whitmire Stadium. The team will take the field at approximately 2 p.m., with the first snap set to take place at 2:30 p.m. Admission and parking will be […]
Marijuana – the devil’s weed, scourge of the children of America. Among its many dangerous effects are hysterical laughter, loss of inhibitions, lusty depravity, and finally insanity. It will make you sleep around, drive too fast, and kill people left and right. The best part is, since people who distribute […]
Western Carolina junior Donovan Minero was named the Southern Conference Player of the Week. The announcement was made on Monday. Minero raised his season batting average 41 points to .352 this past week, going 10-for-18 (.556) at the plate with three home runs and ten RBIs. Versus Tennessee, he went […]
The Duke National Championship seemed right, yes. The Atlantic Coast Conference is a perennial power conference, loaded from top to bottom. Strictly by the numbers, two of the nation’s supposed four-best teams that made the trip to Minneapolis hailed from the east coast league. In the end, by definition, the […]
Springtime is often associated with the onset of baseball season. It also typically means an increase in rain fall. Both were true this week as the Catamounts’ Tuesday afternoon date with the 8th-ranked Clemson Tigers was washed out a day after the major league’s opening day. At the time of […]
The Western Carolina tennis squad dropped two matches in Southern Conference action last weekend on the road. Sunday the Lady Cats (4-10, 0-7) traveled to Johnson City, Tenn., where they could not keep pace with East Tennessee State University, 2-5. In their first match, the team fell to Chattanooga 0-7. […]
The Western Carolina Catamount baseball team ended their season-long 11-game homestand last weekend by taking two from mountain-rival Appalachian State (7-3, 18-7, 11-13). With the wins the Catamounts moved to 14-16 overall on the season and 8-6 in the Southern Conference, placing them in a tie for fourth in the […]
Dear Editor: After reading the biography written about me by Staff Writer Lee Schwarz in last week’s edition of the Western Carolinian, it is obvious to me that clarification is needed on some statements which were printed. Although I am not implying that Mr. Schwarz misconstrued my statements, I am […]
Dear Editor, On Monday, April 7, I represented the Canary Coalition at the Haywood County Commissioner’s meeting, in offering them a resolution in support of the Clean Smokestacks Plan prepared by the NC Clean Air Coalition. This resolution urges our state lawmakers to pass legislation that would bring North Carolina’s […]
