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High Country Beer Fest brews up

High Country Beer Fest brews up

Alex Hubbell August 24, 2018

The High Country Beer Fest will return to Boone Saturday at the High Country Fairgrounds from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. “The High Country Beer Fest is a celebration of craft beer from around the region and the...

Katie Doge, founder of G7AMEDAY5, posing with Parker Collins, former App State football player. Dodge said Collins was her inspiration to create her clothing brand that features customized App State spirit wear.

App State student designs fashionable game day wear

Mariah Reneau, A&C Editor August 24, 2018

With countless clothing stores lining King Street, it’s easy to feel as though the options for game day wear in Boone are countless. However, when senior management major Katie Dodge transferred to App...

Team Sunergy unveils new solar vehicle

Team Sunergy unveils new solar vehicle

Cristian McLaughlin, Business Manager June 27, 2018

The App State solar vehicle team, Team Sunergy, unveiled their new solar racing vehicle at an event held in the Holmes Convocation Center on Friday. The new solar car, named “Running on Solar Energy,”...

Black Violin is joined by Watauga County schools orchestra students.

Black Violin thinks outside the box to break stereotypes

Alex Hubbell April 29, 2018

The musical duo Black Violin played for a sold out show in the Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts Friday night, as part of the APPlause! series, which is dedicated to K-12 education through high-energy...

Shakey Graves performs at Legends

Shakey Graves performs at Legends

Laura Boaggio, Reporter April 26, 2018

Shakey Graves performed a sold out show at Legends Thursday night as part of his Sleepwalker Tour and played new songs from his unreleased album. Alejandro Rose-Garcia is the man behind the name Shakey...

Pagan Student Association puts on Faerie Festival

Pagan Student Association puts on Faerie Festival

Amber Grant, A&C Reporter April 26, 2018

The Pagan Student Association held their annual Faerie Festival Saturday. Held on Sanford Mall, the festival included several events such as inflatable jousting, maypole dancing and tarot or divination...

Earth Tones Music Festival is happening on Friday, April 20th at Duck Pond Field.

Solar Energy Society aims to educate through Earth Tones music festival

Natalie Broome, The Appalachian Weekly News Director April 19, 2018

The Appalachian State University Solar Energy Society is hosting its seventh annual Earth Tones on Friday. Designed to educate about sustainability, Earth Tones invites students and the public to enjoy...

Two members of the BRWIA board, Julia Showalter and Ms. V, at gathering in March.

Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture serves as a ‘pollinator’ for the High Country

Victoria Haynes April 18, 2018

Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture is an organization dedicated to strengthening the overall High Country food system. While originally the organization was created by female farmers for female farmers, it...

The Appalachian State Biology Greenhouse is located off of State Farm Road. Its conservatory contains over 900 plant species.

Green spaces educate students and the community

Mariah Reneau, A&C Editor April 18, 2018

Appalachian State has three main green spaces for students to practice their hand in botany and gardening. The oldest of the three places, the Biology Greenhouse, is home to 1,200 plant species with...

Chantal Bilodeau presents 'Addressing Climate Change through the Arts'

Chantal Bilodeau presents ‘Addressing Climate Change through the Arts’

Mack Foley, A&C Reporter April 17, 2018

Visitors were shuffling about the Grandfather Mountain Ballroom of Plemmons Student Union as 5:30 p.m. rolled around on April 9, studying posters that were placed around the room. The posters each examined...

Students celebrate the Hindu holiday Holi, or "the festival of colors," on Sanford Mall as a part of App State's 2018 Diversity Celebration.

Holi celebrates the coming of spring

Amber Grant, A&C Reporter April 16, 2018

Holi, an Indian festival known for celebrating the coming of spring, was held on Sanford Mall on Wednesday. This was the first Holi festival that App State has put on for the campus-wide Diversity Celebration...

A piece in the Decolorizing art exhibit titled “What It Means to Be a Real Indian” by Raven Moffet. Her work is displayed in the Looking Glass Gallery.

Raven Moffett asks ‘Am I Native enough?’ in art installation ‘Decolonizing the Self’

Savannah Nguyen, Senior A&C Reporter April 12, 2018

Raven Moffett, a senior art and visual culture major, calls themselves overt and upfront and said the same can be said of their installation, “Decolonizing the Self,” the newest exhibition featured...

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