This story was co-written with Jessica Wooten. Every year, according to a 2015 study, North Carolinians throw away 23.6 billion pounds of trash. That is enough trash to circle the earth twice. It isn’t spite that makes NC residents throw away their recyclables, but ignorance. Ipsos, a market research company, performed a study in 2011 during […]
Forums underway as WCU, educators explain lab school
March 28, 2017 by
The first of two forums about the new Catamount School unveiled plans, objectives and information. The forum, which took place March 16 on the campus of Western Carolina University, was led by Kim Winter, associate dean of The College of Education at WCU; Dan Grube, director of The School of Teaching and Learning at WCU; […]
Joanna Woodson: Your voice matters, dammit
December 6, 2016 by
It wasn’t until three weeks after the election that the Jackson County Board of Elections finally sat down for canvassing day. Until this year I wasn’t aware that canvassing day–a time after the election board members go one by one through questionable provisional ballots and determine which ones will count–existed. To me, provisional ballots existed […]
Making sense of the election
November 9, 2016 by
Ashley Kairis contributed the photo story for local elections. Tuesday night was a roller coaster of emotion and surprise for many people as election results surprised people nationally and locally. President-elect Donald Trump may have been the biggest surprise, as results began to defy media and poll predictions for a Hillary Clinton victory. The USC/LA […]
Service project impacts Jackson County seniors
October 9, 2016 by
The sounds of chainsaws and wood splitters rang resiliently as enormous logs were split and new bonds were formed on WCU’s campus. With over 100 people contributing, 59 truckloads of wood were collected, cut, split, and delivered to residents in Jackson County. In its seventh year, Impact Day, took place at Cullowhee United Methodist Church […]
CPP: WNC voters pick city, town governments
November 4, 2015 by
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 […]
