Morgan Sykes

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Local author aims to illustrate a topic many leave unexplored DIRE EFFECTS: “Only 22% of elementary schools in the entire country are teaching puberty,” says local author Julia Considine Pierce. Not learning the basics, she warns, can have dire effects. Photo courtesy of Pierce Julia Considine Pierce is more scared of Appalachian black bears than anything in the Sahara Desert.

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When a Tree Falls: Artists craft beauty from Helene’s downed trees Volume / Issue Cover Design Credit: Scott Southwick Cover Photography Credit: Caleb Johnson In the aftermath of Tropical Storm Helene, Liisa Andreassen founded Echoes of the Forest, a nonprofit that transforms fallen trees into public art to memorialize nature and support community healing in the region. The project brings together local artists and woodworkers to create sculptures and installations from salvaged wood....

1 week ago | mountainx.com | Morgan Sykes

County commissioners presented with possible tax increase SOUR NOTES: Franklin Keel, music teacher at Asheville High School, pleads for his job as Curt Euler, right interim county attorney, looks on. Photo by Brooke Randle The county budget proposed May 6 in the wake of Tropical Storm Helene did not please a lot of people.