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The Appalachian

Crystal Gomez-Aguilar performs “Canta no Llores” on trumpet to an audience at the Latin Hispanic Heritage Festival, Sept. 23, 2022.

Latin Hispanic Alliance hosts annual Hispanic heritage festival

Nataly Aguiar, Reporter September 26, 2022

The Latin Hispanic Alliance hosted their annual Hispanic Heritage Month festival Friday featuring an array of games, food and activities for all. People gathered around the front of Plemmons Student...

Poet Savannah Sipple reads her favorite poems for the audience.

Visiting writer helps craft a new perspective

Alexia Ramirez Garcia, Reporter September 25, 2022

App State hosted author Savannah Sipple Thursday during the Visiting Writers Series to read excerpts from her poetry book “WWJD and Other Poems,” detailing her experience growing up queer in Appalachia.  The...

Members of the Junaluska Gospel Choir of Mennonite Brethren Church performing at the Schaefer Center for the Junaluska celebration Sept. 20

Junaluska community, common reading highlighted in celebration

K. Slade, Visual Managing Editor September 23, 2022

The Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts highlighted this year’s Common Reading book with a Junaluska celebration Tuesday, centering on one of the oldest African American communities in western North...

Women in healthcare discuss leadership in an interactive webinar

Women in healthcare discuss leadership in an interactive webinar

Madison Lipe September 22, 2022

In collaboration with Rutgers University, App State hosted a Zoom webinar with three women healthcare professionals Monday, sharing their stories and leadership capabilities with students. The webinar...

BREAKING: Brown/Barreto impeached

BREAKING: Brown/Barreto impeached

Gabrielle Troutman, Reporter September 20, 2022

The SGA Senate impeached and removed Student Body President Quson Brown and Vice President Alejandro Barreto from office Tuesday evening.  The vote to impeach and remove Brown and Barreto from their...

Brown/Barreto SGA presidency under investigation by SGA Senate

Brown/Barreto SGA presidency under investigation by SGA Senate

Hollie Moore and Jenna Guzman September 19, 2022

App State’s SGA Senate voted unanimously in their meeting Sept. 6 to investigate the 2022-23 academic year presidential elect Quson Brown and his vice president Alejandro Barreto. The Senate held...

A student stands in front of the Carving Board in Roess Dining Hall as their meal is prepared.

New changes to meal plan, student opinions

Madalyn Edwards, News Editor September 19, 2022

Campus Dining updated this year’s new meal plan concerning to-go containers on Sept. 12. The new meal plan has been a work in progress and as reflected by the recent update, is still going through...

Chancellor discusses upcoming plans for university in BOT meeting

Chancellor discusses upcoming plans for university in BOT meeting

Sarah Brittain, Reporter September 18, 2022

App State board of trustees met Friday to discuss the national spotlight App State has claimed, projects it's completed and are planning as well as the social impacts the university has had on the community.  Chancellor...

Being Black at App, navigating a PWI

Being Black at App, navigating a PWI

K. Slade, Visual Managing Editor September 16, 2022

The Black Student Association invited university students to an open discussion Sept. 12 highlighting the Black experience at a predominantly white institution.  The forum was hosted by Victoria Virella,...

View of Boone from Rich Mountain #6 Photograph by Palmer Blair, Photo Courtesy of Watauga Digital Archives.

Authors offer new perspectives as Boone turns 150

Andrew Rice and Will Hofmann September 16, 2022

Boone celebrates its 150th anniversary this year. To commemorate this milestone, the Town of Boone has planned many events throughout 2022 recognizing Boone's uniqueness in the last 150 years, including...

Horn in the West cast on a boulder, with Glenn Causy overlooking the scene on the right hand boulder, circa May 1960. Photograph by George Flowers. Photo courtesy of Digital Watauga.

Horn in the West: 70 years of success

Zoey Sigmon and Will Hofmann September 15, 2022

Located at 591 Horn in the W Drive, the nation’s longest-running Revolutionary War drama, “Horn in the West,” celebrated its 70th season this summer. Written in 1951 by playwright Kermit Hunter...

Aladdin leads the call to prayer beginning the Jumaah Prayer service, on August 26, 2022 in Boone, North Carolina.

The story of Boone’s first mosque

Jenna Guzman, Former Editor-in-Chief September 14, 2022

Boone welcomed a new mosque in July, making it the first official mosque in the High Country. Located at 643 Greenway Road #G, the Islamic Center of Boone opened its doors to the public July 1. The...

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