Asheville City Council at its April 28 meeting approved new rules for keeping chickens but held off on a dog-tether ban.
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Pat & Alli’s Weekly Winners
Each week Xpress reporter Alli Marshall and WOXL DJ Pat Ryan team up to bring you their entertainment suggestions.
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Buncombe Commissioners
Sheriff’s Office reports increased calls for service, decreased response time County still working on reinstating zoning Tensions ran high at the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners’ April 21 meeting. Officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources were there to talk about ongoing efforts to clean up […]
Economists: Recession will end this year; recovery will be slow
Economic forecasts can be tricky, and the events of 2008 caught many experts by surprise. So it was with a note of caution that two noted economists offered their best guesses as to what lies ahead. Economic upswing: Economist James F. Smith of Arden says the national recession is likely to end by the fourth […]
A family affair
[Editor’s note: The historic gathering of the Oklahoma-based Cherokee Nation and Western North Carolina’s Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians April 16 to 18 unleashed a cascading array of images, memories and deep emotions. The following text and photos aim to convey something of the essence of the event.] Click here to view slideshow Music by […]
Bogan crowned Ms. Wheelchair N.C. in Asheville
Concord, N.C., resident Erika Bogan lives by a simple motto: “Anything is possible.” Tiara trio: Meritta Thomas (left) and Brandee Ponder (right) prepare to crown Erika Bogan of Concord, N.C., the new Miss Wheelchair North Carolina. The pageant was held April 18 in Swannanoa. Photo by Jason Sandford Paralyzed from the waist down in a […]
Two URTV board members suspended
URTV board President Jerry Young has informed Davyne Dial and Richard Bernier that they’ve been suspended from the public-access channel’s board. Both have been outspoken critics of the station’s management. In an April 10 e-mail, Young stated that both had been suspended—Bernier for not paying his membership dues and Dial because she’s facing dismissal from […]
Nips and tucks
Asheville’s budget for the next fiscal year will come in at around $135 million, Chief Financial Officer Ben Durant predicts. And if City Council approves the budget he’ll propose on May 12, it will be balanced, with revenues equaling expenditures. That’s an accomplishment even in a good year, but all the more so given that […]
National Parkinson’s Awareness Month
April is National Parkinson’s Awareness Month Parkinson’s disease—a central nervous system disorder—currently affects more than 1.5 million people in the U.S. Sixty thousand Americans are diagnosed every year. There is no cure. The major symptoms include tremors, rigidity, an inability to balance and slowness of motion. Medication can mask the symptoms but can’t control the […]
Celebrating the active and the reflective
Poets from Western North Carolina and the world will re-converge on Asheville this weekend for Asheville Wordfest. Word up: Asheville-based poet Allan Wolf performs at the Green Door Retrospective at last year’s Wordfest. Photo special to Xpress. “At the heart of Wordfest is our desire to draw communities together at the table of poetry,” says […]
The Green Scene
Not enough, say residents frustrated by a proposed agreement with CTS Corp. for cleaning up contamination at its former Mills Gap Road manufacturing site. A 1987 North Carolina law caps participating companies’ liability in such cleanups at that amount. Contained? Fences don’t prevent toxic vapors—produced by the suspected carcinogen trichloroethylene—from reaching residents living near the […]
“Pass it around like cornbread and beans”
“I’ve played every watering hole and just about every crack in the sidewalk in Buncombe County and of course I don’t remember all of it,” singersongwriter Malcolm Holcombe says. For those who recall the early 1990s heyday of acoustic folk (when clubs like Be Here Now and McDibbs booked sincere songsters like David LaMotte and […]
Spork
It won’t get much hotter than this: Asheville’s Latin dance community is joining up for a massive Cinco de Mayo celebration. Come to watch and/or come to dance—each group will perform, followed by a set of music designed for dancing and mingling. Salseros 828 brings together a dozen different types of Latin music and dance […]
A dinner to remember
Prom is all about firsts: A first dress with a triple-digit price tag. A first evening out without curfew. And, for most teens, a first grappling with the question that nightly nags a vast majority of American adults: “Where should we eat?” Prom is a culinary rite of passage, marking high schoolers’ formal induction into […]
Outdoors: The Practical Fly
I was in seventh grade when I caught my first trout on a fly, using a royal coachman. Lee Wulff, the warrior god of modern fly-fishing, improved on this classic pattern, substituting hair for wings and tail (to make it more buoyant, durable and easier to see in rough water) and dubbing it the royal […]
The Dirt: It’s thyme to plant herbs
Oregano was the second thing I ever tried to grow on my own. Cacti came first, back when I was a teen and wanted a windowsill plant that wasn’t particular about water and other niceties. Initially, I tried my not-so-green thumb on a Christmas cactus. Because my grandmother could coax a puny, store-bought specimen into […]
Graffiti is in the eye of the beholder
Doesn’t it seem like we are striving for excellence in our artistic community? What is being traded in for depth of substance? I have traveled all over this country and seen some of the best graffiti. But with a lot of the “art” communities in this town, graffiti turns into the same ol’-same ol’ clique […]
Going green, greener, greenest
Are Asheville folks really interested in going green? In celebration of Earth Day, I attended the Leadership Asheville Forum’s “Going GREEN at Home and at Work” presentation. I listened attentively to the three male speakers and the questions that followed. One woman asked what could be done for existing structures to make them more environmentally […]
Will MHO follow its mission?
Mountain Housing Opportunities has proposed building a three-story, 64-unit apartment complex in the middle of a single-family neighborhood in small-town Waynesville. While they have met the letter of Waynesville zoning law, they are not meeting the spirit or intent of their own mission statement, which is to “to build and improve homes, neighborhoods, communities … […]