Asheville’s Brit-pop band The Cheeksters play Downtown After 5.
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Win tickets to the Beer City Bash at the Orange Peel! ***UPDATE: We have our winners***
Take the Asheville Disclaimer Downtown Master Plan Challenge, and score a pair of passes to a night of brews and music
Growing wheat in Waynesville
An excerpt from the blog of Jennifer Lapidus, project coordinator of the N.C. Organic Bread Flour Project (photo by D. Kaleb Rathbone):
Buncombe Commissioners: budget, 911 and the Energy Loop
In their June 23 meeting — the last before a month-long break — the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners passed a $327 million budget, a 911 agreement between the city and county and signed off on a new location for the Energy Loop sculpture.
Asheville City Council brief
Council adopts sustainability plan, delays both URTV appointment and 51 Biltmore purchase.
Bike lockers land downtown
On June 24, cycling volunteers installed the first of 10 bike lockers that will be available in downtown Asheville for public use.
The bike lockers have landed!
On June 24, cycling volunteers installed the first of 10 bike lockers that will be available downtown for public use.
U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan to meet with Council and Commissioners Friday
The city of Asheville announced today that the senator will meet with Asheville and Buncombe leaders Friday afternoon.
80s tribute
Civic Center Director resigns ***UPDATED***
Asheville Civic Center Director Sherman Bass, who took on the job 17 months ago, is headed back to Amarillo, according to an e-mail.
Title: Pat & Alli’s Weekly Winners
Each week Xpress reporter Alli Marshall and WOXL DJ Pat Ryan team up to bring you their entertainment suggestions.
Outside Asheville Hardware
This weekend on a shoestring
Don’t have much money? No problem, the following list means you can spend your nickels and dimes on a six-pack and a watermelon and still have enough to check out a band or three.
Weekly Asheville Disclaimer Page: 06/24/09
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Drop by drop
Oscar Wong sent all of it down the drain. All 6,000 gallons of it. Every drop — 193-1/2 barrels, or 375 pint glasses — of perfectly decent beer flushed away. It was 1994, and the fledgling Highland Brewing Co. was struggling to stay alive in the cramped, dank basement below Barley's Tap Room on Biltmore […]
Buncombe Commissioners: No relief?
Waste-management fee raised Calls for social services increase On the agenda for the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners' June 16 meeting, the matter was simply labeled “Resolution Rescinding Resolution 06-08-06,” but what it meant was far more complex, as the commissioners decided to postpone the county's next property-tax revaluation until 2014. The last revaluation was […]
Askville: Making things look effortless
Preston Marks likes to roll. That's his word for getting down on the mats and sparring in jujitsu, an ancient Japanese martial art. But despite the 14-stitch gash on his forehead (from an accidental head butt during practice), don't imagine he's some hulk: Marks is all of 5 foot 6 and about 150 pounds. Polite, […]
Perdue speaks up for education at Asheville rally
Lisa Horak had just completed her first year of teaching when the Buncombe County Schools notified her that, due to proposed state budget cuts, her contract wouldn't be renewed. Sign here: Children were encouraged to sign posters, while their parents and others were asked to sign letters and petitions, during a June 18 rally at […]
Asheville economy down but not out
Through good times and bad, local economic forecaster Tom Tveidt has repeated a simple mantra: Asheville's unique mix of business and industry means the local economy's peaks and valleys never reach too high nor fall too low. But that hasn't held true for the current recession. "We're in the low lows this time," Tveidt told […]
Caffiend closes; Firestorm stokes the fire
The current economic situation is taking its toll on local small businesses, and even the coffeehouse model so well rooted in Asheville is not immune. But while one local beanery is shutting down, another is taking a community-based route toward survival. Calling all caffiends: In response to the credit crunch, Firestorm Cafe and Books is […]
URTV removes board member
On an 8-0 vote with one abstention, the URTV board of directors removed Richard Bernier from his post June 15, asserting that he hadn't dealt with conflicts correctly and had damaged URTV's reputation with his outspoken criticism of the station's management. Maintaining that he'd tried to bring up important issues of transparency that many of […]