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Running through Jan. 1
The High Country Holiday List. Parades, tree lightings, wreath nights and carols, Nov. 13 to Jan. 1. Updated as events turn up. Read it →
Sun, Nov. 15.
Saturday gave us flurries, a wind with a lot to say, and a high stuck in the 30s. I'm pretty sure I saw the last leaf drop. Today the forecast says partly cloudy and cold, high near 40, breezy early. The coat stays on, but the sun is out. Boone forecast
Sports
App State beat Marshall 20-16 to go 6-4 and become bowl eligible. Evan Fleischer has the game column, App Can Now Go Bowling.
Boonerang
Boonerang Didn't Start as a Festival is up now, and Old Crow Medicine Show, on Mark Freed's original wish list, has the album with Wagon Wheel on it On Rotation. And on Wednesday, Nov. 18, filmmaker Bradley Pearce screens his documentary Boonerang: Returning to the High Country at Greenbrier Theater. You saw the weather. This one is good for a long morning and a hot coffee.
The Rack
The Appalachian gets hyped for Marvel. Listen on The Rack
Sports WrApp is back with the week in Mountaineer sports. Listen on The Rack
Today's picks
The Appalachian Symphony Orchestra at Rosen Concert Hall and the Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra at the App Theatre are in the orange button below.
◆ Book of the Week · with Huzzah Books
The Leaders of the CPSU are Betrayers of the Declaration and the Statement
Editorial Department of Renmin Ribao
A polemical tract from China's state newspaper accusing Soviet Communist Party leadership of abandoning Marxist-Leninist principles. This Cold War-era political critique reflects the ideological rupture between Beijing and Moscow in the mid-1960s.
Read the pick →
🌒 Waxing Crescent · 29% lit
Half-lit moon: planets and bright constellations show well, the dimmest stuff hides.
Sky's truly dark after 6:47 PM.
☄ Leonids peaks Nov 17 — look the east the hours before dawn.
◆ NASA's photo today: Leonid Meteors Through Orion →
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