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Summit to address business impacts due to road projects

Story was published in The Sylva Herald March 4 edition.  Story co-written with Chandler Keller The Small Business Center at Southwestern Community college will host the HWY 107 Business Summit, a free, all-day event geared towards helping local businesses impacted by the coming U.S. business/N.C. 107 construction. The event is designed to bring resources and […]

WCU LMP: Not so last minute

Story co-written with Nicole Ellison.  Last Minute Productions is generally an unknown organization on Western’s campus yet you may have been to one of their events. Founded in 1979, this year marks LMP’s 40th year of existence on WCU’s campus. LMP is in charge of The Drag Show, homecoming carnival, concerts on campus and many […]

Parking Operations: New parking deck and additional parking in construction

WCUs increasing population has caused a need for additional parking lots including the university’s first parking garage. The WCU Board of Trustees approved the project back in Sept. 2017, after their first quarterly meeting of the 2017-18 academic year. Although construction has not started, the garage has a set location: Baseball Lot or how the […]

WCU increased its recycling 70% since 2016

Jeff White, recycling coordinator at WCU tells the story of a single water bottle that’s washed away in roadside ditch and it ends up in the Tuckasegee river. From the Tuckasegee river, it floats through the Fontana Dam and into the Tennessee river. The water bottle makes its way to the Mississippi river and is […]

As Western grows so does sustainability efforts

 Co-written with Hallie West Much has changed at Western Carolina University since its inception in 1889, such as the number of students, curriculum, class sizes and more. Not surprisingly, the growth in the student body over the many years has called for an increase in construction, vehicles on campus, and most importantly, people. Inevitably, as […]

UNCC shooting hits close to home

“So far in 2019, 131 people have been killed and 391 wounded in 109 mass shootings.” This statistic from Vox includes the recent mass shooting at UNC Charlotte on Tuesday, April 30, that resulted in the death of two students and four others injured. The two students killed were Riley C. Howell, 21, and Ellis […]