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The Appalachian

AppHealthCare and ARHS offer guidance on cloth masks and face coverings

AppHealthCare and ARHS offer guidance on cloth masks and face coverings

Moss Brennan, Reporter April 8, 2020

AppHealthCare and Appalachian Regional Healthcare System are following the new recommendations by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the public wearing cloth face coverings in public settings. The...

Three campaign violation cases filed in student body presidential race

Three campaign violation cases filed in student body presidential race

Moss Brennan, Reporter April 8, 2020

In a contentious student body presidential election, three total campaign violations have been filed by the Mullins.Martin and Davis.Hunter campaigns in the SGA Elections Court. The Davis.Hunter campaign...

Boone Police Chief announces May retirement

Boone Police Chief announces May retirement

Tucker Wulff, Reporter April 8, 2020

Boone Police Department Chief of Police, Dana Crawford, announced his retirement from the role March 27. But, he said he plans to continue “making a contribution to the law enforcement profession in...

Survey: Best of Boone

Survey: Best of Boone

Melissa Alsup, Marketing Director April 7, 2020

This year we have split up the Best of Boone survey into three categories, Best of Food, Best of Lifestyle and Best of App State Campus Life. We will be highlighting each of the surveys throughout the...

This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses.A novel coronavirus, named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China in 2019

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster issues stay-at-home order

Ansley Puckett, Reporter April 7, 2020

During the COVID-19 pandemic, The Appalachian has reporters across the region reporting from their homes, so we are attempting to broaden our coverage and including stories from across the Southeast. The...

Signs line the carts leading into the Boone Walmart asking people to social distance and remain 6 feet apart.

Walmart limits number of people in stores to combat COVID-19

Moss Brennan, Reporter April 6, 2020

Walmart shoppers are greeted with a new site when they head to the store looking for necessities: shopping carts marking six feet of distance in a line leading to the entrance. On April 3, Executive...

This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses.A novel coronavirus, named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China in 2019

Courts ordered closed until June 1 due to COVID-19

Gianna Holiday, Reporter April 4, 2020

North Carolina Chief Justice Cheri Beasley postponed all court proceedings until June 1 on Friday. Beasley's order stated that all court proceedings will be postponed for a second time to June 1 or...

Boone's Earth Fare, which closed a few months ago, is reopening its doors once again.

Boone Earth Fare will reopen its doors in a few months

Tommy Mozier, Senior Reporter April 4, 2020

After store-closing blowout sales cleared Earth Fare’s shelves, “The Healthy Supermarket” will re-fill its aisles and re-open its doors in the coming months, the store's new CEO confirms.  An...

App State announces pass/no credit grading system for spring semester

App State announces pass/no credit grading system for spring semester

Moss Brennan, Reporter April 3, 2020

App State students now have the option to choose a pass/no credit grading system instead of the normal grading scale. App State announced Friday that it has adopted an "Enhanced Pass-No Credit Alternate...

First Ashe County resident tests positive for COVID-19

First Ashe County resident tests positive for COVID-19

Jackie Park, Reporter April 3, 2020

An Ashe County resident with close contact to someone with a travel history is the first in the county to test positive for the new coronavirus, AppHealthCare announced in a press release Friday. The...

AppHealthCare announces ways community can help in COVID-19 response

AppHealthCare announces ways community can help in COVID-19 response

Moss Brennan, Reporter April 2, 2020

AppHealthCare announced ways the community could help each other during the COVID-19 pandemic. AppHealthCare also strongly urges people to cooperate with Governor Roy Cooper’s Executive Order to stay...

SGA candidate profiles: Devin Mullins and Karolyn Martin

SGA candidate profiles: Devin Mullins and Karolyn Martin

Jackie Park and Moss Brennan March 31, 2020

The Appalachian sent questions to each student body president and vice president candidate to create profiles. Below are the responses from presidential candidate Devin Mullins and vice presidential...

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