In Brazil, he took a doctorate degree and completed three post-doctoral studies. He has a law degree as well and is the only Indian origin lawyer practicing in the South American country. He has been a major environmental activist and even lived in a houseboat on the Amazon river. The
Price named WCU’s director of economic development
Rich Price, a passionate and proud 1988 graduate of Western Carolina University, has spent the last seven years as the director of economic development for Jackson County. Now he will get a chance to marry his love of both WCU and Western North Carolina in his new role as the university’s executive director of economic development and regional partnerships.
Price will begin his new position on March 1.
“I’m very proud of WCU,” Price said. “I’m very proud of the growth of the university and the impact it has had, and knowing the greater impact it can have. It really is very special to get to come back to WCU as I move through this point in my career.”
This week brought the return of curbside recycling from the El Paso Environmental Services Department but it also brought with it stricter rules about recycling. The Department had to put curbside recycling on hold in November because COVID-19 was causing a lot of employees to have to stay home but also because residents weren’t recycling properly.
Environmental Services officials say people were being all kinds of cochinos and putting the wrong things in the blue bin or not rinsing food items off recyclables. Add that to people putting recyclables in plastic bags and putting regular trash into the blue bin which is also not allowed and that caused a lot of problems with the recycling machines.
The Tibet autonomous region has placed nearly half its land area under the strictest ecological supervision, it was announced at an annual meeting of the regional People's Congress, which kicked off on Wednesday.
Volunteers are wanted to help the Great Smoky Mountains National Park monitor visitor use patterns in some of the park’s most popular locations. .