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Students shared their COVID-19 experience on a display on Sanford Mall throughout April and May.

A year of change: 21 photos from 2021

Max Correa, Photojournalist
December 31, 2021
Rusty Estes (left), owner of Peak Farms, looks at the 20-foot-tall Frasier fir bound for the White House as his son Beau Estes operates the tractor to lift the tree. Rusty Estes has worked in the Christmas tree industry since 1979.

From Blue Ridge to Blue Room: Local tree selected for White House display

Jesse Barber, Photojournalist
November 18, 2021
Boone celebrated Halloween by hosting Boone Boo downtown Oct. 31. Local sites were decorated to invite participation from community members.

PHOTO GALLERY: Boone Boo: Halloween in the Appalachian town

Evan Bates, Photo Editor
November 2, 2021
Cooper Statile, drummer for Caffeine Daydream, replicates the crowd’s high energy. A founding member, Statile has been with the band since its inception the summer of 2019.

10 hours, 16 bands: Draba hosts Boonechella at Ransom

Andy McLean, Photojournalist
October 24, 2021
APPS set up tents around Sanford Mall offering cotton candy and apple cider to personalized street signs and decals.

Cornhole and caramel apples: APPS hosts AppalFest

Kara Haselton, Photojournalist
September 22, 2021
Lynn Patterson, class of ‘89 alumna, rings the bell. Patterson is a Belk Library university program specialist and daughter of fellow Bell Ringer Roberta Jackson. Karl Campbell, the event’s leading speaker, said Patterson represented “the service of faculty and staff to App State and the many multi-cultural mountaineers, multi-generational families.”

122 years of education: University marks history with social, bell ceremony

Cameron Marshall and Kara Haselton
September 18, 2021
Luke Combs performing at Kidd Brewer Stadium Sept. 4, 2021.

Mountain music and Mountaineers: Luke Combs returns home

Max Correa, Photojournalist
September 7, 2021
The COVID-19 tests from Wednesday’s testing event were self-administered by those getting tested.

“I feel more like a person”: App State hosts pop-up COVID testing

Kara Haselton and Jake Markland
August 26, 2021
After staff sanitized the socially distanced seating areas, the Convocation Center remained empty until the next round of graduating students entered for their commencement ceremony.

Caps on, masks up: 2021 graduates walk the stage

May 8, 2021
Bailey Gardin (right) and DJ Evans (left) shake hands during their swearing-in ceremony, April 28, 2021.

Gardin, Evans sworn in as SGA president and vice president

April 28, 2021
On Tuesday nights, the trumpet studio hosts a “master class,” now offered virtually, where students can show up with pieces they are working on and receive additional feedback from professors and other students. Lipsette and two other students often reserve a practice room in Hayes School of Music to attend the virtual master class in a small, socially distanced group.

Changing the Tune: Music Student Seniors in the Age of COVID-19

Kara Haselton, Photojournalist
April 23, 2021
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