Watauga Residential College is an integrative learning experience for students who are looking to get a little more out of their educational careers here at App State. Watauga is a place for students to...

Crowds laughed with excitement and screamed with shock Saturday night as sideshow performers Captain Steele and Madame Maybelle, nicknamed “America’s Favorite Sideshow Couple,” performed at Boone...

Caitlin Windsor’s father passed away from early-onset frontotemporal lobe dementia in December 2016. He was 57 years old. Windsor, a senior exercise science major, along with co-coordinator Rachel...

Braving cold and rainy conditions, the Rho Tau chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia fraternity hosted 20 high school bands on Saturday for the 38th annual Appalachian Marching Band Festival. Bands arrived...

Fiddler and seed saver William Ritter grew up reluctantly helping his parents in the yard and begrudgingly listening to regional Appalachian music. He disliked working outside with his hands and listening...

Reckless Arts, a nonprofit art residency program located on King Street, has been growing slowly since its foundation on Jan. 1. The gallery dedicates itself to the work done by artists in the community,...

Tucked away in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, a short drive from Appalachian State University’s campus, is a coffee shop that is serving more to the Boone community than just coffee. Hatchet...

The members of The Appalachian Nerd Network spent Sunday night piping bags of frosting, aligning candy decorations  and carefully carrying almost a dozen cakes to the fourth floor of the student union,...

Raining Sunshine Co. is an upcycled clothing company created by two best friends, Sarah Grace Paul and Montana Goldsmith, who have a passion for thrifting and upscaling. They have been friends since Paul’s...

Pink-haired Sandi Cassidy smiled and placed a pink beaded necklace around another woman sporting a pink ‘do. Pink balloons, pink frosted cupcakes, pink popcorn, pink rubber ducks and pink floral arrangements...

Halloween is less than two weeks away, and several spooky events in the Boone area are taking place in the days leading up to the holiday. Whether students want to be scared at a haunted trail, participate...

On Tuesday, the Hispanic Student Association and the Appalachian Popular Programming Society came together to coordinate the annual Hispanic Heritage Festival. The event featured three speakers, all from...