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• WCU's Hunter Library sharpens focus on regional history with two new websites

  

  Jeff Fobes | 11/10/2011

  Individuals with an interest in the region’s past can now search two new online archives devoted to Cherokee culture and the evolution of travel in Western North Carolina, thanks to Western Carolina University's Hunter Library.

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• WCU ensemble will perform gamelan music concert

  

  Jeff Fobes | 10/22/2011

  The WCU Low Tech Ensemble will perform a free concert of music from the Central Javanese tradition and by contemporary composers at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3.

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• Goats brought in to deal with kudzu at WCU's old landfill

  

  Jeff Fobes | 10/17/2011

  An environmentally friendly weed-eradication strategy that has been gaining popularity across the nation made its way to Western Carolina University recently in the form of 70 kudzu-chomping goats.

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• Area authors launch poetry-of-place chapbook "Every Breath Sings Mountains" (videos)

  

  Jeff Fobes | 10/04/2011

  On hand at the Sept. 23 launch in Sylva: Authors Barbara Duncan, Brent Martin, Thomas Rain Crowe, Charles Frazier, Wayne Caldwell, Keith Flynn, George Ellison and Jon Lane, plus artist Robert Johnson.

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• WCU Chancellor: "shedding my reactionary mantle and donning the proactive ‘carpe diem’

  

  Jeff Fobes | 08/19/2011

  Western Carolina University Chancellor David O. Belcher declared 2011-12 “a point of departure” for the institution, announcing a new strategic planning process as the top priority in a series of initiatives designed to give the WCU community a sense of ownership in the university’s destiny.

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• Plot thickens for controversial Big Ridge development near Cashiers

  Nelda Holder | 09/16/2008

  Federal prosecutors have taken over the case of one of the investors in the Jackson County’s Blue Ridge Mountain Estates development .

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• Big Ridge development in Jackson County spotlighted by investigative journalist

  

  Nelda Holder | 07/22/2008

  Jackson County has long held allure for Floridians as a retreat and an investment mecca. One new development there, helmed by a Miami developer, is scrutinized in a new St. Petersburg Times investigative report.

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• Hunting rules set to change in Jackson County

  

  Nelda Holder | 06/28/2008

  Pending the governor's signature, new hunting restrictions in Jackson County passed by the N.C. General Assembly will prohibit roadside hunting and spotlighting of deer.

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• Suspended Jackson County teacher makes his case on YouTube

  

  Nelda Holder | 05/14/2008

  Jackson County teacher Doug Ward explains his refusal to give a sure-to-fail student the required end-of-grade test.

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• The writing on the wall

  Mark Jamison | 04/30/2008

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