Growing up in Andrews, Ciara Payne was always impressed by how hard her mother – Laynette Morrow - worked to support their family.
For months, members of Southwestern Community College’s respiratory therapy quiz team spent countless hours preparing for the state and national “Sputum Bowl” contests.
National Park Service Ranger Joseph Kolodski took his role seriously as a part-time Seasonal Law Enforcement Training (NPS-SLET) instructor for Southwestern Community College.
To honor some of our most tenacious students, our Student Recognition Retention Action Team has started a “Student of the Week” award.
The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina awarded $5,500 in grant funding to Southwestern Community College’s Small Business Center for the second annual Appalachian Farm School, which starts Jan. 12.
When Gifty Mansah arrived in Western North Carolina in 2013, her English was – as she put it – “not good.”
Around 9:30 on a recent Friday night in Macon County, a crowd of imposing young men clothed in intimidating outfits began jumping around and yelling angrily in the direction of Curtis Dowdle.
