The Buncombe County Health Department will offer the H1N1 flu mist vaccine to certain populations between the ages of 2 and 49 at seven schools around the county from 4 to 7 p.m. tomorrow (Thursday, Nov. 19).
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Buncombe Commissioners brief: Nov. 17 meeting
After a tense public hearing that saw one person thrown out of the chambers, the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners reinstated countywide zoning in a 4-1 vote.
WNC Rail Corridor meets to discuss restoring passenger service to Asheville (via Twitter)
The idea of restoring assenger railroad service to Asheville has been discussed for years. The WNC Rail Corridor group met today to see where the issue stands.
Book Report: Women, Writing and Soul-Making
Women, Writing and Soul-Making: Creativity and the Sacred Feminine, Peggy Tabor Millin’s new book published by Story Water Press, encourages writers to claim their power and voice while exploring a feminine approach to inspire creativity.
Living Green: A special section on sustainability
Passive aggressive Ken Huck pushes the virtues of a well-sealed house Margaret Williams A guide to green organizations Scores of local eco groups push for sustainability Compiled by Mannie Dalton Looking for greener goods? Local companies and products with an eco emphasis Alli Marshall Copenhagen or bust Asheville travels to the climate talks Margaret Williams […]
This weekend on a shoestring
Here’s your latest installment of Weekend on a Shoestring with Thursday and Sunday bookends. All for $5 or less.
Brights and neutrals
Asheville City Council: Keeping a safe distance
Health Dept. reports on H1N1 Asheville City Market headed to Pack Square It will be up to a new Asheville City Council in a new year to determine what level of protective buffers will be installed around Asheville's streams. That decision by the current Council came at its Nov. 10 meeting, weeks after a Planning […]
Passive aggressive
Green-building consultant Ken Huck has been playing with energy since he was 12 years old. The Canadian native helped wire his family's farmhouse more than 30 years ago, then toyed with radio kits in high school and studied the history of science and technology in college. By the time he worked on a solar-array project […]
A guide to green organizations
Appalachian Voices Bringing people together to solve the environmental problems that have the greatest impact on the central and southern Appalachian Mountains. Info: 262-1500 or www.appvoices.org. Asheville Green Drinks Community members who are interested in environmental issues and topics meet for drinks at BoBo Gallery, 22 Lexington Ave. A guest speaker usually makes a short […]
Looking for greener goods?
There's more to green products than just an official-looking emblem on the packaging. Ingredients get top consideration — and buzzwords include organic, sustainable, renewable and recycled. Yet not everything that's dubbed "eco-chic" by advertisers is automatically earth-friendly. For example, wood is a renewable resource, but exotic species are not always harvested sustainably. Corn-based products are […]
Copenhagen or bust
This December, world leaders will convene in Copenhagen, Denmark, to continue what they started with the Kyoto Protocol in 1997: fleshing out the framework for an international agreement aimed at combating climate change. Several Asheville residents will be there, reporting what happens, providing technical expertise and trying to convince world leaders to make strong commitments […]
Greening the painted ladies
Ashevilleans go gaga over historic architecture and get their geek on when the subject is green technology. But historic homes are notorious energy wasters, and those located in national historic districts like Montford are restricted by national and local guidelines drawn up to ensure architectural conformance to the era in which they were built. The […]
"We’re not stopping"
It's been an eventful year at AB-Tech. Not long after Betty Young ended her brief and controversial tenure as president by announcing her resignation in March. Russ Yelton, who had founded the college's Global Institute for Sustainable Technology, left for unrelated reasons. GIST has been a key player in AB-Tech's efforts at encouraging sustainability both […]
What thing would you never give up to go green?
Jon Elliston: My Mountain Xpress "It's true that we recycle all of our leftover papers each week, and that the paper is printed with soy-based ink on 72 percent recycled materiel, of which 26 percent is post-consumer recycled paper. But there's no denying that our publishing and distribution operations have a sizable carbon footprint — […]
The write-in rundown (aka "Who voted for Squirt the Wonder Clam?")
In the Nov. 3 municipal election, Asheville City Council member Robin Cape received 4,478 write-in votes, according to figures from Buncombe County Election Services. While Cape's bid for a second term was serious, many write-in voters were not. (Squirt the Wonder Clam, really?) Cape, who changed her mind and decided to run for a second […]
New roof starts on Civic Center
The leak stops here: It was a day many feared might never come. A new Asheville Civic Center roof is under construction, replacing an old roof notorious for dripping water during performances. The new roof will be white, intended to reflect heat from sunlight and reduce cooling costs. Added insulation is expected to further reduce […]
Veteran’s memorial
In a rain-drenched, somber ceremony, a group of about 300 people gathered at Pack Square Park on Veterans Day to dedicate the new Western North Carolina Veterans' Memorial. Darlene and George Houghton of Candler participated in a wreath-laying at the memorial, which honored their son, Capt. George Bryan Houghton, a 22-year-old pilot who died in […]
Downtown Master Plan action committee activated
During the two years it took to draw up the Downtown Master Plan, adopted by Asheville City Council in May, skeptics frequently invoked the specter of other city plans gathering dust on some literal or figurative shelf. That, says project manager Sasha Vrtunski, will not be the fate of the DMP. "We don't want to […]
Pack Memorial Library gets makeover
The $3.1 million renovation to the beating heart of Buncombe County's library system — Pack Memorial Library — is speeding along ahead of schedule. On a recent tour of the work underway at 67 Haywood Street in downtown Asheville, Ed Sheary, director of the Buncombe County Public Libraries system, says that once it's complete, the […]
Arson cited as cause of devastating apartment fire
Fire investigators last week continued to probe a Monday, Nov. 9, explosion and ensuing blaze that gutted a Hillcrest Apartments building of six units. They believe it was intentionally set. Watching your home burn: Shelby Edwards (left) and her mother, Sharon Fox, dab tears from their eyes as they watch a fire destroy the Hillcrest […]