Archives for November 2015

Adding a star to the band’s flag

Who is Julia Sanchez? “Julia was a social butterfly. She was known for smiling all the time. She was determined. Julia never met a stranger,” said Julia’s mom, Dotty Sanchez. Julia is the new star of the Pride of the Mountain Marching band (POTM). Julia Sanchez grew up in Fuquay Varina, NC. When it was […]

Western Carolina Catamounts stay undefeated at home

Troy Mitchell was on fire Saturday scoring 5 total touchdowns, 3 through the air and 2 on the ground, to help the Cats to their huge 48-10 win over Furman. Troy Mitchell threw for 305 yards and ran another 55 yards in the win. Western Carolina bounced back huge from last week’s lost to Chattanooga. […]

Show Review: Mountain Faith @ WCU

One word was bouncing around my head during the Mountain Faith concert on Thursday night: precious. With the harmonies of biscuits-and-gravy angels, and lyrics as pure as a Saturday drive on the Blue Ridge Parkway, Mountain Faith is everything and more you could hope for in a small-town band. Sam McMahan is the patriarch of […]

Coming up this weekend in Western Carolina Athletics

  Western Carolina Athletics  has a big weekend with Football, Volleyball and Basketball games happening on campus. The biggest game of the weekend is the final home football game against the Furman Paladins on Nov 7, at 3:30pm. If the football team beats the Paladins, the Catamounts would not have lost at home all season. […]

Photo story: Advising day project

News Reporting 1 class had a photo story competition with a theme Advising day. Kristi Watkins was the winner in the contest. See the story she did and let us know what you think!

CPP: WNC voters pick city, town governments

Carolina Public Press published the preliminary results from the local elections held yesterday, Nov. 3. From the preliminary results seems like Sylva will be getting a new mayor. Lynda Sossamon, won 35.16 percent of the votes. The present mayor, Danny Allen, won 34.07 percent of the vote. Here are the the rest of the early unofficial […]