Documents provided by residents of the Wellington Estates Mobile Home Park, located off Airport Road in Arden, reveal that the owners of the park, the county’s largest, had repeatedly told residents that the park would not be sold. However, an online listing for the property, last confirmed Jan. 9, designates the property as “commercial” and for sale.
So, yeah. There was a primary and a debate. But it’s not all politics all the time in Asheville’s blogworld. Here are some nonpresidential distractions from the week, courtesy of local bloggers.
The 2006 report prepared by David W. Owens, Professor, Public Law and Government at the UNC School of Government that analyzes the City of Asheville’s actions regarding the Unified Development Ordinance in the cases of Greenlife Grocery, Prudential Realty and Staples. Click here to download a PDF file of the document.
A nationwide search for the greenest grade school in America has narrowed it down to 10 finalists, and Asheville’s Evergreen Community Charter School is one of them.
These documents, provided by Wellington Estates residents, show two letters from the owners of the county’s largest mobile home park asserting that the park will not be sold. A third document is a copy of an online listing, showing the park for sale as commercial property. The Buncombe County Commissioners unanimously rejected a controversial request […]
Although online for less than a month, the MountainX.com forums have become quite the internet hangout for our readers. Here are a few recent highlights.
Three years in the making, new West Asheville bar plans to open at last.
Each week Xpress reporter Alli Marshall and WOXL DJ Pat Ryan team up to bring you their entertainment suggestions.
Rita Mae Brown’s latest book is a comfy mystery geared toward animal lovers with a penchant for sleuthing.
See the online supplement to this week’s cover story on the demise of the East’s greatest hemlocks.
UNC-Asheville took a spot in the top 100 “best values” list for colleges and public universities, released annually by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance.
Here’s the idea: Each week, we pick three local musical acts, link to a site where you can listen to their songs for free, then ask you to spend a few moments of your time to tell us what you think about them. Some may be great, others may be middling or awful — that’s for you to decide. All we ask is that you listen with an open mind.
Asheville Chess Club is a casual and friendly, community-oriented club. Chess players of all strengths and ages are welcome to participate Wednesday nights beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the North Asheville Community Center, 37 Larchmont Lane off of Merrimon Avenue. Members range from beginners and experts to children and elderly, and include rated and unrated […]
Building on steep slopes is a pretty slippery topic in the mountains these days. Accordingly, the House Committee on Environment and Natural Resources has scheduled a regional hearing for Thursday, Jan. 10, to solicit public input on the state Legislature’s Safe Artificial Slope Construction Act (H1756). Three primary sponsors—all from Western North Carolina—introduced the bill […]
Painting the town green Natural as dirt: Earthpaint founder Tom Rioux shows off his biodegradable paint at The Healthy House, a green-building store in Fletcher. Photo by jonathan welch When Tom Rioux set out to develop a nontoxic, regionally sourced paint product several years ago, he wasn’t just following the green-building fad. A painter by […]
It’s time to dig out from under the detritus of December—paper, boxes and, lord knows, bottles—and the city of Asheville and Curbside Management are leading the charge with their Feed the Bin and Win contest. It’s not just about good, green feelings, either—there’s also cold, hard cash involved. Beginning Monday, Feb. 4, participating households will […]
It’s not a Frank Lloyd Wright, exactly, but the newly erected hut in downtown Asheville’s Pritchard Park will at least give the city’s new ranger a place to escape the cold. Jennifer Payne, formerly a security guard in the North Carolina Department of Corrections, has already taken her post at the park, a role that […]
While the presence of politics in music can reassure listeners, socially conscious performers always run the risk of alienating and even smothering their audience. Folk singer/songwriter Catie Curtis has always been able to avoid this conundrum by channeling her convictions through an appreciation for life’s simple pleasures. In her writing, Curtis shuttles between politics and […]
It’s easy to get lost in the details when thinking about the Three Girls and Their Buddy tour, no matter how you look at it. With the combined talents of Emmylou Harris, Shawn Colvin, Patty Griffin and Buddy Miller—all headlining performers in their own right, joined together for a powerhouse of a 12-date tour—it’s hard […]
Forget, for a moment, the latest handbag, all-terrain shoe or multitasking watch. The question at hand is not what accessory you should next acquire for your own ensemble, but what exciting piece of decor your house wants for the new year. A stop by Mobilia (42 Haywood St., Asheville, 252-8322) reveals plenty of inspiration (even […]
On a brittle morning last February, Will Blozan and his colleague, Jess Riddle, along with fellow arborists Jason Childs and Josh Kelley, drove west from Black Mountain to Cataloochee Valley, in the eastern part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The peaks that surround the valley—Mount Sterling and Mount Guyot—were a confection of frozen […]
