The North Carolina State Board of Elections voted unanimously to certify the results of the 2024 election Tuesday. The results were certified for all races except 10 currently undergoing recounts in the state.  One of the 10 races in North Carolina undergoing a recount is the race for North Carolina Supreme Court Associate Justice Seat 6. The race is between Democrat Allison Riggs and Republican...

App State celebrated its seventh annual Founders Day and 125th anniversary Thursday in the BB Dougherty Administration Building. The celebration continued later in the Summit Trail Solarium in the Plemmons Student Union where pizza was given to students and faculty.  Founders Day and the bell ringing have traditionally been held outside on Founders Plaza, but due to undesirable weather, it was...

CHAARG, a.k.a “Changing Health, Attitudes and Actions to Recreate Girls” launched at App State this past spring. CHAARG is a community in the form of chapters that prioritize health, wellness, and focus on fitness. Currently, there are over 100 chapters across the nation. Like the other chapters, CHAARG is designed for any and all fitness levels, from experienced powerlifters to those who have...

Editor’s note: Resident interviews were conducted in Spanish. Direct quotes were translated to English. The Spanish version of this story can be found here.    Following the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, the Town of Boone returned to normalcy with lifted curfews, re-opened shops and restaurants and resumed operations at App State. However, the same cannot be said about one community,...

A typical October in the High Country brings the arrival of vibrant leaves, bathing the area in rich colors of red, yellow and orange. With the foliage’s arrival comes the equally vibrant sea of red brake lights dotting the roads up and down Boone. However, the beginning of this October brought unprecedented damage and destruction caused by Hurricane Helene — no more was the sea of cars dotting...

A layer of fog fell on Cartner’s Christmas Tree Farm as a group congregated around a decades-old Fraser Fir on Wednesday, with a slight chill to the morning air. The tree, nicknamed Tremendous, stood around 21 feet tall, reaching 12 feet wide at its base, making it taller than most surrounding it. Its rich-green needles cascaded down the tree, forming the fir into a cone shape, its woody-pine...