Portfolio - sort of

I haven't posted here in some time, but today I was picked by Native Eyewear as a finalist in their "Locals Only" contest. They're choosing a team of writers and photographers to document what it's like to be a local in Brevard, my hometown for the past 16 years.

They're calling this my portfolio on their Facebook page, when actually it was just one of a series of links I sent them. So allow me to temporarily post some samples of my writing here so Facebook voters can get a taste of what I'm capable of writing, besides fishing reports:

Here's a recent article I wrote for the Hendersonville Times-News about the new Headwaters State Forest in Transylvania County -

As part of my job, I do a lot of environmental and outdoor reporting. Here's an earlier piece on a controversial logging project proposed in a remote area of the Pisgah National Forest, just outside Brevard.

I've also been known to cover entertainment. Here's an article about a festival in Asheville I wrote for the Mountain Xpress. 

Click here to see an article I wrote recently about Outside Magazine choosing Brevard as one of its top towns in which to raise an outdoorsy kid.

Finally, here's a piece I wrote for the Times-News about the new Bracken Mountain mountain biking trail system.

Please vote for me! If I win, I promise to turn around and spend every dollar I earn locally in Transylvania County.

Cheers,
Than