Story co-written with Sarah Pruitt November is Native American Heritage Month, but it’s not just a heritage for the Cherokee people of Western North Carolina. It’s a living, vibrant culture. There are 547 federally recognized tribes in the United States. Native Americans were not automatically afforded U.S. citizenship until 1924. November was not declared […]
Forest fires in WNC impact the air quality and safety
December 5, 2023 by
Story co-produced with Tyler Elcock “One word, horrific. It is a very hard thing to imagine that you may lose everything you own… In the end, we ended up losing an outbuilding and some trees on our property,” said medical assistant Stacy Morgan in an email message as she recalled her experience with the recent wildfires […]
Jackson County Veterans Day Parade
November 19, 2023 by
The Jackson County Veterans Office held a Veterans Day parade on Nov. 11 in downtown Sylva. The cloudy skies did little to deter over 100 locals as they lined the streets to cheer on their hometown heroes. Sheila Setzer, the director of the Jackson County Veterans Office, started the Veterans Day Parade in 2015, which […]
Veterans Day lunch highlights the importance of camaraderie for WCU’s veterans
November 17, 2023 by
Story co-produced by Mackenzie Atkinson The WCU Office of Student Military Services celebrated Veterans Day by hosting a lunch in the Cardinal room of the University Center on Friday, Nov. 9. Over 30 WCU students and staff from all branches of the military attended the lunch. Not many know what it is like to have […]
Veterans speak about their unseen scars
November 17, 2023 by
Story co-produced with Ryan Mullis Story updated on 11.28.23 For most people in America, war is what we see in movies, video games, or on the news. We take for granted the bliss of never seeing the unprecedented horrors of combat. War comes with an invaluable loss of life and leaves deep wounds on the […]
WCU Staff Senate is raising umbrellas at Mountain Heritage Day
October 26, 2023 by
Western Carolina University’s staff senate is selling special ornaments designed and created by staff to fund the Staff Senate Scholarship program. They had a booth during the Mountain Heritage Day on Saturday, Sept. 30. Chair of the staff senate, Zachery Williams, described the organization as a collection of WCU staff working with the university to […]
