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North Carolina senators react to death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Faculty and students create phone application, campaign for COVID-19 behavioral accountability

September 21, 2020

Phone application Habitood allows students to hold one another accountable for their actions related...

Board of election lawsuit unites campus political clubs

September 19, 2020

Leaders of App State political organizations are upset and disappointed about a lawsuit two Republican...

Student organizations mobilize marginalized voters ahead of election

September 19, 2020

Students involved with the Multicultural Center, Black at App State and the Intercultural Student Association...

Office of Sustainability hosts virtual film series for Fall 2020 semester

September 18, 2020

Available for free to App State students, faculty and the public, the Office of Sustainability will host...

Attorney General, state elections board: Don’t vote twice

September 16, 2020

North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein and the North Carolina State Board of Elections want to make...

Watauga County Board of Election members file lawsuit against state board over App State campus voting site

September 15, 2020

AT A GLANCE:  Republican members of the Watauga County Board of Elections are challenging the legality...

“Tremendously disappointing:” App State men’s tennis program cut
Five takeaways from App State’s season opening 35-20 win vs. Charlotte

September 14, 2020

1. App State’s ‘Legion of Boone’ secondary looks reloaded Coming into this season, both senior cornerback Shemar Jean-Charles and junior cornerback...

App State DC Dale Jones back in Boone for 24th season

September 14, 2020

Defensive coordinator Dale Jones has been part of the Appalachian community for a long time and returned to App State’s staff after spending 2019 with...

Diarrassouba leads Mountaineers: “When Soub speaks, everybody listens”

September 13, 2020

As the 2020 season gets going, uncertainty clouds all of college football. Conferences have canceled seasons, games will be played in empty stadiums, and...

Mountaineers run past Charlotte 35-20 to open 2020

September 12, 2020

On a rainy, grey afternoon in an empty Kidd Brewer Stadium, App State rushed for over 300 yards and four touchdowns en route to a 35-20 season-opening...

“I never expected my video to blow up:” photographer finds video fame on TikTok
Playlist of the week: Happy fall

September 21, 2020

As temperatures begin to drop, the leaves start to fall and coffee shops introduce their pumpkin-flavored drinks, it feels more and more like fall.  With...

Boone bands look to the future

September 21, 2020

Basements, garages and bars once packed with people, colored lights and music-saturated air are now silent. Due to COVID-19, tightly-packed crowds dispersed...

Boone Docs switches spotlight to independent documentary films

September 20, 2020

Independent and documentary films will fill the spotlight in Boone Docs, a year-round film series presented by the Appalachian Theatre of the High Country,...