CHAMPS!
MOUNTAINEERS WIN NATIONAL TITLE
Friday, Dec. 16, 11:30 p.m.--ASU beats Northern Iowa 21-16 in Chattanooga to claim the Div. I-AA national championship. Details to come.
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All we want for Christmas
Kara Westmoreland, a first-year graduate student at ASU, waits along with more than 200 others Tuesday evening to cheer on the ASU football team as their bus heads out of town. The players were headed to Chattanooga, Tenn., to prepare for tonight's Division I-AA championship game against the University of Northern Iowa. Kickoff will be at 8:06 tonight (Friday) and the game will be broadcast on ESPN2. Several local sports bars and restaurants will broadcast the game as well. When asked if she would indeed be happy with nothing else under the Christmas tree except a nationial title, Westmoreland said, “That's it, that is all I want. I've been to every single game at the 50-yard line. I'd like to think of myself as their No. 1 fan.” For more on tonight's game, please link with sports in the side menu. Photo by Marie Freeman
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Steep slope task force advocates moratorium
The Boone Steep Slope and Multi-Family Task Force approved six recommendations to go to the Boone Town Council, one of which includes the word “moratorium.”
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Museum may move downtown
The Appalachian State University Cultural Museum may not find its new home before Christmas, but the university administration has found a spot that could better accommodate the museum in downtown Boone.
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Closing hotel earns award
Appalachian State University literally bought quality. The Quality Inn Appalachian Conference Center, sold to ASU for $9.8 million and now leased to continue operating, will close in March 2006, when it will then be refitted and renovated into a student dormitory – but it’s going out with a bang.
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Creeping toward a new recreational trail
A Valle Crucis man is pushing state trails representatives and Ashe County leaders to explore the development of the old “Virginia Creeper” railroad bed as a possible recreational trail.
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December 14, 2005
The hot ticket
Larry Faulkner with the Appalachian State University ticket office sells tickets to Meghan Graham and Ashley Pudelski for the I-AA championship game in Chattanooga on Friday. Sales of tickets reportedly have been brisk, causing lines of people to form outside the Holmes Convocation Center. Tickets may also be ordered online via the Web site, www.goasu.com. Photo by Marie Freeman
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Lodging was light despite big game
Appalachian State University may have conquered Furman last Saturday, but tourism did not conquer the town of Boone as was expected.
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Van driver delivers roadway heroism
Clyde Widner had steered the old delivery van a thousand times along the road between Boone and his job in Abingdon, Va., but he’d never seen anything quite like this before.
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Watauga-Ashe leaders discuss water
The Watauga and Ashe county commissioners met in Jefferson Monday to explore the possibility of a joint regional water system.
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Remembering Bill Horn
Can one person really make a difference to society? Yes! That’s the answer thousands of Watauga County residents would give, if the person in question were pediatrician Bill Horn. His community involvement, often behind the scenes and without any thought of personal recognition, raised the standard of living here through improvements in child welfare, public recreation, and environmental quality.
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UPDATE: Tuesday, Dec. 13
ASU football team
send-off today
Mountaineer fans catch the spirit!
The ASU football team is off to Chattanooga, Tenn., this afternoon in quest of a national championship.
Area residents can join other ASU Mountaineer football supporters today (Tuesday) at 5:45 p.m. for a special High Country send-off for the team.
Those interested in the send-off should meet behind the Broome-Kirk Gym off Rivers Street.
Be sure to wear black and gold.
Go Mountaineers!
December 12, 2005
ONE TO GO!
Ecstatic Appalachian State fans take down the goalpost after the Mountaineers reached the Division I-AA final on Saturday in Boone, beating conference rival Furman 29-23. Next will be ASU’s first ever appearance in a national championship game, which will be played in Chattanooga Saturday, Dec. 16. ASU will face off against N. Iowa. Link with sports in the side menu for more on the game. Photo by Marie Freeman
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Horn: George Trivette owned child porn
A local man who pled guilty last month to a federal charge he trolled an Internet chat room to entice a minor to have sex with him, also had child pornography on his computer’s hard drive according to court documents filed with the U.S. District Court.
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Local tree prices stay stable in national market
While reports are mixed nationwide on Christmas tree prices, wholesale and local retail prices are stable, according to those in the industry.
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U.S. Rep. Foxx sponsors immigration reform bill
U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx (N.C.-5) of Watauga County is one of the four major co-sponsors of an illegal immigration reform bill.
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Water ordinance changed; mayor to step down
A special meeting of the Boone Town Council and Water Study Committee resulted in new text for the town’s water ordinance.
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Freshmen class links up new perspectives
Sometimes the greatest educator is experience. Jasmine ShoShanna sought to prove this point to her Appalachian State University freshman seminar class, and her students’ final grades will serve as the deciding factor.
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