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HICKORY — The Catawba Valley Camera Club has announced the winners of its photographic competition for the Oct. 6 meeting. The competition was for projection images with the assigned topic
The next time somebody asks you to describe North Carolina, pull out and read aloud this quote from the beginning pages of Bland Simpson’s new book.
The next time somebody asks you to describe North Carolina, pull out and read aloud this quote from the beginning pages of Bland Simpson’s new book.
No one will get the OK from the U.S. Forest Service to harvest ginseng in Western North Carolina this year, thanks to continued declines and low population levels. Commercial harvesting of wild ginseng is 250 years old, but this year, USFS is not issuing permits after declines of the medicinal plant from long-term harvesting, recent overharvesting, out-of-season harvesting and the taking of mature plants without planting their seeds for future crops. There are now too few plants in the national forest for ginseng to be sustainably harvested, according to USFS. "Every year we've seen few...
Graduates seated socially distanced at the first-ever commencement ceremony at Neyland Stadium on May 8, 2021. Seth Chapman / The Daily Beacon Though they will not be on campus together, students from the Class of 2021 and the Class of 2025 have a unique shared experience: they both spent their senior years adapting to and overcoming the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. The senior class that graduated in May included many notable campus leaders and volunteers, each of whom left UT older and wiser and more prepared for their lives because they weathered ...