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Wherever Asha Evans’ career has taken her, her love for words has followed. The Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵapp alumna has told stories of student-athletes at small private colleges to Division I powerhouses — and now she’s sharing them at a national level.

Christopher Childers never cared much for theme parks, pools or playgrounds as a kid. Instead, his eyes grew big inside the movie rental store.

Behind each stroke on Sadler Miller’s canvas is a moment ingrained in her memory. Every swipe is a chime from the Alumni Tower hitting her ears, and every trace is the rush of a gameday at E.J. Whitmire Stadium.

WCU students assist in recovery of human remains.

Be persistent. Be studious. Try, and keep trying.

There is no part of Western North Carolina untouched by microplastics. No river that flows without fibers. No rain that falls without microscopic debris.

When Meghan Greenly, sitting beside her proud mother, got her offer, she couldn’t help but smile.

Our experience of the night sky is everchanging. As our eyes wander to the heavens and we gradually learn more about the moon and stars, the twinkling cosmos glow in greater detail.

Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵapp English professor Jeremy Jones’s byline is a bit of a mainstay in Our State magazine. His stories tend to involve history or family in some way, taking him to the family reunion of Chang and Eng Bunker, the original Siamese twins, and leading him to write a piece on how Southerners call each other food names as terms of endearment.

Home is found in the unlikeliest of places. For Bri Myles this summer, it was in Costa Rica.