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• Late educator to be honored at WCU commencement

  Created: Tuesday, 11 December 2007 18:37

  CULLOWHEE ó Western Carolina University will bestow a posthumous honorary doctorate upon a former chairman of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors as WCU holds fall commencement exercises at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Ramsey Regional Activit...

• ASU, Delaware to clash Friday for FCS crown

  Created: Tuesday, 11 December 2007 18:36

  BOONE ó Appalachian State University will go for an unprecedented third-straight FCS national championship when it faces Delaware at 8 p.m. Friday in the FCS title game in football in Chattanooga, Tenn. Delaware nipped Southern Illinois 20-17 in a...

• Football stadium expansion approved for Mountaineers

  Created: Tuesday, 11 December 2007 18:35

  BOONE ó Appalachian State Universityís Board of Trustees approved a plan last Friday for the expansion of Kidd Brewer Stadium, the home of ASU football. The expansion, which will include 4,400 new seats in an upper deck on the stadiumís east sid...

• QBís exploits help Apps burn Richmond; FCS title game looms

  Created: Tuesday, 11 December 2007 18:34

  ASUís Dexter Jackson makes it look easy as he catches a touchdown pass against Richmond last Friday night. BOONE ó On the strength of perhaps the best individual performance in NCAA Division I Football Championship S...

• Police Blotter: Dec. 12, 2007

  Created: Tuesday, 11 December 2007 18:31

  Teen charged with murder of 14-year-old high schooler Police arrested an 18-year-old man last Thursday in the shooting death of an Erwin High School student on Dec. 5. Police charged Brian Keith Banks, of Indiana Avenue, with first-degree m...

• Theological dilemmas aside, ëCompassí proves captivating

  Created: Tuesday, 11 December 2007 18:28

    Roger Ebert By ROGER EBERT ìThe Golden Compassî is a darker, deeper fantasy epic than the ìRingsî trilogy, ìThe Chronicles of Narniaî or the Potter films. It springs from the same Briti...

• Advice Goddess: Kids need to hear the word ënoí

  Created: Tuesday, 11 December 2007 18:25

  The Advice Goddess Amy Alkon Iím a stay-at-home mother of two young kids. Come Saturday, I want nothing more than to fade into the back bedroom with a 2-liter of Pepsi and the remote ... leaving my saint of a...

• Our Opinion: ëDonít know much about ...í anything

  Created: Tuesday, 11 December 2007 18:24

  Many Americans seem to be in denial (or are perhaps just too dumb to care) about the general ìdumbing downî of our citizenry, especially relative to other developed nations, that seems to have snowballed in recent years. To that end, a study rele...

• Bicycle music-blasters surely are headed our way

  Created: Tuesday, 11 December 2007 18:23

    John North Editor & Publisher ìBOOM-bah-BOOM-bah-BOOM....î Donít you love that bass beat coming down your street, rattling your windows ó and sometimes even your teeth ó as a souped-u...

• U.S. nuclear policy? Itís tough to decipher

  Created: Tuesday, 11 December 2007 18:21

    Mark West The policy of the United States concerning nuclear proliferation is at best, mystifyingly opaque. At worst, our position perversely rewards rogue states that engage in precisely the behavior we ar...

• Some children will be staying with strangers this holiday season

  Created: Tuesday, 11 December 2007 18:13

    Janese Johnson The winter holidays for most people are a time of sharing, loving, and getting together with family and friends. It is also a time for many to remember holiday childhood experiences, and...

• City Council OKs $130,000 in funding for Reid Ctr. repairs

  Created: Tuesday, 04 December 2007 17:08

  From Staff Reports Asheville City Council on Nov. 27 authorized spending $130,000 to give a quick boost to a group trying to raise funds for renovations at the W.C. Reid Center. The recreation center on Livingston Street in South Asheville ser...

• Russian victory celebration

  Created: Tuesday, 04 December 2007 17:06

  Youths wearing red capes with the image of Russian President Vladimir Putin and carrying flags participate in a pro-Putin demonstration in front of the Kremlin in Moscow that was held last Monday to celebrate the victory of the United Russia part...

• Educator driven out as head of deaf school recommended to be next provost of UNCA

  Created: Tuesday, 04 December 2007 17:05

    Jane K. Fernandes From Staff Reports An educator who was at the heart of a controversy over her appointment to lead a university for deaf students has been tapped to be the next provost of UNC Ash...

• ASU advances to national semifinals by nipping Eastern Washington 38-35

  Created: Tuesday, 04 December 2007 17:03

  BOONE ó Quarterback Armanti Edwards accounted for 347 yards of offense and three touchdowns while Appalachian State Universityís defense limited Eastern Washingtonís potent aerial attack to a season-low passing output en route to a 38-35 triumph in l...

• Late run sparks Virginia Tech past UNCA 65-51

  Created: Tuesday, 04 December 2007 17:01

  BLACKSBURG, Va. ó After suffering through a 5:28 scoring drought midway through the second half, the Virginia Tech menís basketball team finished the game on a 24-7 run to knock off UNC Asheville by a score of 65-51 last Saturday night at Cassell Coli...

• 6-footer plays big in Bulldogs win

  Created: Tuesday, 04 December 2007 17:00

  UNC Asheville, led by senior guard Bryan Smithson, one of its shortest players, topped Tusculum College 84-73 in menís basketball on Nov. 27 at the Justice Center. Ironically, the Bulldogs played without 7-7 Kenny George, the tallest menís colleg...

• WCUís leading scorer quits team

  Created: Tuesday, 04 December 2007 16:59

  CULLOWHEE ó The athletic programs at Western Carolina University continue to be roiled with problems, the latest blow coming when the menís basketball teamís leading scorer, Nick Aldridge, quit the squad last Wednesday. A sophomore from South We...

• Surging Mountaineers place seven players on SoCon team; one Catamount nets honor

  Created: Tuesday, 04 December 2007 16:58

  SPARTANBURG, S.C. ó Appalachian State University placed seven football players on the coachesí All-Southern Conference first team, which was announced on Nov. 26. In addition, ASU senior defensive back Corey Lynch was honored as the SoCon Defensi...

• Residents plan to sue over water contamination from former CTS site

  Created: Tuesday, 04 December 2007 16:57

  From Staff Reports SKYLAND ó A group of residents living near a former CTS of Asheville plant have taken initial steps toward a lawsuit against the former and current owners of the Mills Gap Road property over water contamination from the plant. ...