Amid the din of arriving and departing buses at Asheville’s Transit Center on Coxe Avenue, Rep. Heath Shuler announced today that he had secured $238,000 in federal funding for the city’s planned transition to hybrid buses.
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Asheville Board of Realtors purchase of Montford property
The Asheville Board of Realtors spent $2.1 million to buy a building on Montford Avenue for new offices. The April 7, 2009, purchase has rankled some members of the organization, who say they had no idea the board had such deep reserves and shouldn’t be spending that much money in a down real estate market. […]
Asheville Board of Realtors buys Montford building for new offices
The Asheville Board of Realtors recently spent $2.1 million to buy a building on Montford Avenue for new offices. The purchase has rankled some members of the organization, who say they had no idea the board had such deep reserves and shouldn’t be spending that much money in a down real estate market.
This weekend on a shoestring
It’s Easter weekend. The perfect time to get all hopped up on Cadbury Creme Eggs and dance the holiday away to some great tunes. We’ve got you covered. From rag time and indie rock to Christian folk and all-girl punk, there’s something for almost everyone in this round up (and, as usual, nothing over $5 at the door)
Book Report: Homunculus
Local author Jerry Stubblefield’s new novel is not for the faint of heart.
Buncombe Commissioners seek stimulus cash
Given that state and local governments around the country are struggling with their finances due to the economy, it came as little surprise when county staff informed the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners at its April 7 meeting that, as per the board’s instruction, they’re pursuing federal stimulus money for a variety of uses.
Pat & Alli’s Weekly Winners
Each week Xpress reporter Alli Marshall and WOXL DJ Pat Ryan team up to bring you their entertainment suggestions.
Asheville Regional Airport will get $7.5 million in stimulus money
The Asheville Regional Airport will get $7.5 million in federal stimulus money to improve its terminal, a release from Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced today.
Bill could expand access to N.C. public records
Legislation introduced yesterday in the N.C. General Assembly could make public records more accessible by allowing for recovery of attorney’s fees in successful suits for disclosure.
Hitting the streets, census style
The census, that constitutionally mandated national head count that takes place every ten years, doesn’t kick off until this time next year. But beginning April 6 of this year, a prep team will hit the streets of Western North Carolina to make sure all addresses are accounted for when it comes time to mail questionnaires […]
Get yer locally grown hot dogs here
McCormick Field’s peanuts and Cracker Jack will likely take a back seat to hot dogs this baseball season—which will be made from locally pastured pork and organic ingredients. Meats and treats: The Hickory Nut Gap Farm store in Fairview. The farm’s latest offerings are an assortment of meat products. Photos by Jonathan Welch The Asheville […]
Commission passes undesirable-uses moratorium in wake of court action
At a special April 3 meeting, the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners approved 5-0 a moratorium on 14 “undesirable” land uses in the unincorporated areas of the county. The move comes in the wake of a recent court decision that overturned the county’s zoning ordinance. Stumping for zoning: Erin Polzeretsky, president of the North Buncombe […]
Abuzz about buses
Sure, the consultants from HDR Engineering, the company helping draft Asheville’s new Transit Master Plan, are experts. That’s why the Raleigh-based firm is on the job. But get a roomful of regular bus riders together, as the city did on April 2, and you find out quick who the real experts are. A hundred or […]
Raising awareness of sexual assault
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and Our VOICE, Buncombe County’s rape crisis center, has planned a host of events. The group served more than 1,000 individuals last year with counseling and crisis intervention, case management, medical and court accompaniment, and prevention and education programming. The message? Join the community in raising our voice against […]
Maya Angelou returns to Mars Hill
In 2006, Maya Angelou—poet, playwright, author and more—spoke at Mars Hill College to a full house of 1,500 people. She returns to the small WNC campus April 16, just a few days after marking her 81st birthday (April 4). An evening with Maya Angelou: Eminent poet, playwright, best-selling author, professor and more returns to the […]
Arts Journal
“It has come to my attention that a lot of people think that Menage has quit,” writes Mary Ellen Bush, bassist for the popular folk-rock group. Bush, whose projects of the past year also include old-time band The PitchSlickers and jazz group The Sireens, wants to dispel that myth. Menage hasn’t quit—the band will play […]
The Green Scene
These are names that only a congressional bill sponsor could love: the Tracing and Recalling Agricultural Contamination Everywhere Act, the Food and Drug Administration Globalization Act, the Food Safety and Tracking Improvement Act, and the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009. Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, a Democrat, has sponsored the latter bill, which has […]
From teapots to deck chairs, this craft is sexy
Looking for art at the edge? April is woodworking month and surprises abound. This is not your grandpa’s woodwork. Though plenty of woodworkers are, in fact, grandpas, the work they’re creating is anything but predictable. Current exhibits at Grovewood Gallery and Blue Spiral include everything from turned bowls translucent as glass to furniture that provides […]
Saving green by going green
“My job is to make it as easy as possible for people to make environmentally-responsible choices,” says Josh Dorfman, a.k.a. “The Lazy Environmentalist.” Since the 2005 launch of Dorfman’s alter-ego (a career comprising two books, an eco-furniture company, a radio show and the resource-rich Web site lazyenvironmentalist.com) Dorfman has noticed a profound impact on his […]
Watch out for robots
Two venues, two stages, 20 acts: Here’s what to know about Asheville’s first electronic music summit. Breakbeat livetronica group Pnuma trio plays Tron-A-Thon on Friday night. • The lineup is stellar. If you missed Eliot Lipp on his recent trip to town, or on his recent tour with Sound Tribe Sector 9, you can catch […]
Far from shore
Originally, Toronto’s Great Lake Swimmers was to be a solo project. Over the course of the past six years, however, Tony Dekker’s brainchild has morphed from country-boy-in-the-city-with-an-acoustic-guitar to a semi-collective with an alternating body of participants to a proper band incorporating a fairly solid lineup of friends and collaborators. Watery, wide-eyed wonder: Great Lake Swimmers […]