At its meeting tomorrow, the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners will vote on an agreement between the county and the city of Asheville to consolidate their 911 services. Also on the agenda: the results of a community child-care study and an update on mental-health legislation.
Year: 2009
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Into the Forums
You’ll never guess what they’re talking about in the Mountain Xpress online forums
Blog Log: The week in local blogging
From Asheville’s apparent monsoon season springs forth sprouts from the blog garden.
Asheville video-blog log
Morris dancing, Pritchard Park drumming, Tommy “Trauma” Sauer fights Michael Hueser … and seeking a cool name for this weekly blog of Asheville-based videos.
Tooth & Jaw
Check out the latest street style images
New pics, plus Street Style patches now available.
Skate park
Lexington Courtyard
First Buncombe case of H1N1 virus found in hospital worker ***UPDATED 3:05 p.m.***
An unnamed Mission Hospitals employee is the first confirmed case of the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, in Buncombe County, health department officials confirmed in an announcement today.
URTV board approves new bylaws
In a special meeting Thursday, URTV’s Board of Directors unanimously approved new bylaws that concentrate more power in the board’s hands, but kept the current membership structure intact.
2009 MSF Schedule
Climbing Cycling Disc Paddling Dodgeball Running Event Time Location Friday Youth Ultimate Event 4:00 – 5:30 PM Festival Village Kid’s Event 5:00 -6:00 PM Festival Village Trail Running Race 5:00 – 7:00 PM Black Mountain, NC Disc Golf 5:00 – 10:00 PM Festival Village Kid’s Event 6:00 – 6:30 PM Festival Village Ultimate Event 6:00 […]
Cranky Hanke’s Screening Room: Rethinkings, reworkings and other heresies
Last week the trailer for Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes (slated for a Christmas Day release) hit theater screens and the internet. For those not following such things, Sherlock Holmes stars Robert Downey, Jr. as Holmes and Jude Law as Dr. Watson. It’s very obviously a rethinking of the much loved Conan Doyle characters. The tone is comedic and the trailer suggests considerably more action than is generally associated with the detecting duo. Not surprisingly, this has caused much consternation among the Sherlockian set.
Council adopts master plan “in concept”
In a 5-2 vote Tuesday night, Asheville City Council voted to adopt the long-awaited Downtown Master Plan.
Calling all Twitterers and Flick-sters for Mountain Sports Fest
Bring us your tweets, your Flickr’d photos. It’s time for the Mountain Sports Festival!
Tailgate’shrooming
It’s tailgate-market time in WNC.
URTV board will meet tomorrow to vote on new bylaws
In violation of its own bylaws — which require at least seven days’ notice — the URTV Board of Directors will hold a special meeting tomorrow to vote on a new set of bylaws that would eliminate the current membership structure and place more power in the board’s hands.
What’s hatching in WNC – June
Insect Time of month Patterns to Match type Eastern Green Drake Early Eastern Green Drake, Green Drake Biot Thorax, Coffin Fly, White Wulff, Corey’s Calftail sizes 8-12 Green Drake Emerger Nymph, Green Drake Cripple, Crow fly sizes 8-12 dry subsurface Olive Caddis Early Olive Elk Hair Caddis, Olive Egg layer Caddis Braid Pupae (olive) 14-18 […]
Buy local, support land/water conservation on June 6
On June 6, a host of local businesses will donate portions of their sales to the regional nonprofit Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy.
This weekend on a shoestring
As the weather heats up, so do the musical offerings. This weekend brings plenty of free listening ops.
Buncombe Commissioners: To cut or not to cut?
No tax cut in budget, “non-core” services a lower priority Commissioners extend development moratorium Health Department responding to H1N1 flu threat Hard times are here. That was the feeling that pervaded the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners’ May 19 meeting, as both members of the public and some commissioners weighed in on the proposed budget […]
Sweeping changes to URTV bylaws proposed; board cancels meeting
The meeting was supposed to determine whether local public-access channel URTV would adopt sweeping changes to its bylaws, scrap the current membership structure and place more power in the hands of its board of directors. But assembled outside the offices of Buncombe County Television on May 21, those board members faced a more immediate problem: […]