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Friday, April 19, 2024
By Amber Pope, Staff Writer Complications from Hurricanes Gustav and Ike have made gas scarce in portions of the Southeast. Parts of Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and the Carolinas have been the hardest hit. Oil refineries were shut down for both hurricanes, and refineries remained at a lower production rate due […]
By Paige Carrick Staff Writer If you drive through Sylva, before you turn to go downtown, you will notice a newly constructed pavilion. If you look closer, you will also notice some debris hiding a newly constructed bridge. The pavilion however, is not as out of place as one may […]
By Paige Carrick Staff Writer A local orchard and residential community in Western North Carolina is an active Superfund site according to the EPA. Barbers Orchard off of HWY 23/74 in Waynesville, NC was proposed to the National Priorities List in January 2001 and finalized in September of 2001. The […]
By Catherine Connor Staff Writer Every fall, students walk by a string of t-shirts hung out on a clothesline in front of the University Center. Each of these t-shirts are strung with messages from victims of domestic violence for a week. I interviewed the new director of the Women’s Center, […]
By Amber Pope Staff Writer A bill called TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program), also called the “Bailout”, was proposed in Congress earlier this week and shot down with much ceremony. The bill called for an unprecedented government intervention in the finances of private corporations, as well as in housing and […]
By Curt Collins Contributing Writer Lately there has been a lot of conversation out in Jackson County, and media attention about the use of oil, what we are forced to engage in to secure it for our country, its limited availability and how do we get off of it. What […]
By Jon Benton Staff Writer Max Payne came out in theatres October 18, a rendition of a video game into movie form. This movie sort of popped out of left field for me, as I wasn’t aware of it until the day before it was released. I decided to give […]
By Max Kath Staff Writer “Office” fans rejoice! The new season is off to a great start. It started off on a really positive note by showing the viewers what happened over the eight weeks of summer that the show usually glosses over. By doing this the writers have made […]
Jon Benton’s Poetry Apparatus Vehicle Extravaganza: “Gregory was once a magician” Gregory was once a magicianhe did acts that non could believehe vanished and appeared across the binhe flew, defying all laws of gravityhe entered a competition, seeking a winhe didn’t, however get what he had hoped forhe went home […]
By Christine Elder Contributing Writer Currently exhibiting in the Fine Art Museum of The Fine and Performing Arts Center at Western Carolina University is Lewis Buck with his life works in painting and assemblage. Spanning over six decades and still in the process of making art, Lewis Buck has not […]
