Archives for March 18, 2015

WCU plans to give Brown a new look

Western Carolina University has big plans for the Brown Building. It will be the new food services and dining facility that will also house some residential living administration, include an outdoor fire pit and indoor fireplace and student support activities. WCU administrators are hoping the building to be open for use in spring 2017, but it is a expensive […]

Offshore drilling may be coming off the East Coast

The Obama administration proposed a plan in Jan. 2015 to allow companies to buy leases of federally owned land for oil and gas exploration in the Atlantic Ocean spanning from the Georgia coast to Virginia. This plan could even lead to seeing the huge oil rigs on North Carolina coast. Two companies, Spectrum Deo inc. […]