Balsam News

The resume is dominated by Appalachian State and the address has read Boone for the past nine years, but there is a lot of Catamount in Western Carolina's new football coach.

Roland M. Harper was born in Maine but spent practically his entire professional life in the South, where his work embraced studies in plant geography, forestry, systematics, human demography, and economic botany.

Getting there: It will take you about 50 minutes to get to Sylva from downtown Asheville.

A Caroline and Burton Edwards pose in front of a waterfall at their new office headquarters on U.S. 23/74 on the way to Balsam.