JAM Youth Musicians Carry On Mountain Music
Young people are fiddlin’ around with energetic tunes, and bonding with others curious about local musical heritage.
Dogged UGA Fanatic Hunter Street Wolfs it Up
A Henderson County native cheered loudly as he got a birds-eye look at his school’s drive toward a second consecutive national title.
Reflections on a Christian or Pagan Holiday?
Are Christians really celebrating a pagan holiday when they celebrate Christmas?
Grove Arcade’s Roaring 20s Soiree & Rich History
Flappers and dappers enjoy a step back in time to the Roaring 20s in the perfect venue, the Grove Arcade.
Asheville Water Crisis: Lack of Leadership Where it’s Needed
It’s said that Nero fiddled while Rome burned. The question is, what did the leadership of Asheville do while nearly 40,000 went without water over the holidays? Of course, the notion that Nero fiddled is just that, a notion, as the fiddle was not invented until the 11th century. If Nero played any instrument, it […]
N. Buncombe Future Farmers of America Has Very Busy Fall
The members of the North Buncombe High School's FFA program have had a very busy first half of the year.
Land Preservation & Boykins Go Hand in Hand
Mary Palmer and Hugh Dargan have a special Boykin Spaniel, Henry, who takes them into the wetlands and fields. This reminds these landscape architects how important land preservation is.
Water’s Restored, Confidence? Not So Much
A water outage over Christmas break affecting 38,500 users was annoying, but not as annoying as the City of Asheville's shortage of communication about the problem. Following four days without a press conference, when the city did speak, citizens felt leaders were not being upfront about the source of the problem, and they resented being strung along, day after day, with promises that services would be restored within 24-48 hours.
Equitable Inconsistency: Criticism of the City’s Master Plan
Buncombe County says its 20-year comprehensive draft plan is supposed to be a document brought about by a democratic atmosphere of consensus while representing the residents’ wishes on the whole. Instead, it reads more like a manifesto written by socially-empowered people, virtue-signaling a particular perspective on the country’s history as a foundational presupposition for justifying […]
Buncombe’s 20-Year Plan: County Wants to Hear from Citizens
The draft plan for Buncombe County's next 20 years awaits your comment at a meeting on January 12.