NASA-STEM join to present Interactive Science Exhibit
A touring interactive science exhibit about the sun and earth is in Downtown Hendersonville for over a month, joining forces of NASA research with STEM curriculum.
Festivities abound for Labor Day weekend in Hendersonville
Hendersonville's annual apple festival parade was cancelled due to COVID-19. Instead, Downtown Hendersonville held a Labor Day celebration.
Changes to Woodfin brush collection
At the last Woodfin Board of Commissioners meeting, Woodfin Administrator Eric Hardy told the board that the town’s public works department was working overtime to catch up with brush collection.
Barn preservation benefit to help artists and historic group
The Appalachian Barn Alliance (ABA) is partnering with local artists for a benefit art exhibit in the Asheville River Arts District during the month of October.
Dry Falls Brewing expands outdoors, adapting to state limits
Dry Falls Brewing Co. is a classic case of a local business turning a major drawback into positives, by greatly expanding its outdoor seating and year-round capacity to adapt to pandemic restrictions.
Local bank gets new director
HomeTrust Bank recently announced that the Company’s Board of Directors had appointed Rebekah M. Lowe as a director of the Company, effective September 1 of this year.
Full-service beauty & tanning salon opened in Weaverville
Owners David Scott and Dawn Payne opened Beauty & the Sun Bum, a full-service beauty and tanning salon on July 1st on N Main St in Weaverville.
Mission Hospital is center stage in struggle against unionizing NC Nurses
Mission Health, the state’s sixth-largest hospital system, is fighting efforts to unionize 1,600 registered nurses across 18 counties in western North Carolina.
Historic small town drug store closes after being in business since 1928
Weaverville Drug Company originally opened in 1885, but the present-day store opened in 1928 and was a longstanding institution of downtown Weaverville. A recent Walgreens buyout of Smith Drug Company marks the startling end to this local favorite.
Maybe now’s a good time to try and kick my drug habit
Well, ‘all good things must come to an end,’ so the saying goes. On Monday, that was the case for the Weaverville Healthwise Pharmacy, aka to locals as Weaverville Drug Company.