A group of local fire fighters have mounted a fundraising effort to help the family of Capt. Jeff Bowen, who died July 28, 2011, while responding to a fire at the medical office building at 445 Biltmore Avenue.
Year: 2012
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Still need a 2012 calendar? Try Moog pioneers in the studio
Midway through the first week of January, I still don’t have a new calendar. Here’s a sweet one from the Bob Moog Foundation.
Children and school namesake tour new Koontz Intermediate School
The first day of classes is still a few days off, but students got to see their new school and meet the school’s namesake..
Upcoming book events
If your New Year’s resolution was to read more, or at least spend more time in the vicinity of books, here’s a good start. An author event, a book signing, and the return of The Flood Reading Series to Posana.
Planning and Zoning wrangles over digital billboards, directs staff on new rules
Following a lengthy public comment period and debate among its members, the city of Asheville’s Planning and Zoning Commission voted 5-2 to direct staff to draw up new rules increasing setbacks and restricting digital billboards in certain corridors of the city.
Live Twitter coverage of Planning and Zoning consideration of digital billboards
At its meeting this evening, the city of Asheville’s Planning and Zoning Commission will consider possible changes to the city’s rules on digital billboards. Follow Live Twitter coverage of the meeting here.
This weekend on a shoestring
Saving for the new year? We’ve got a host of budget-friendly performances and film screenings to kick off 2012 without breaking the bank. As always, share more low-cost events in the comments section.
Unemployment dropped in Asheville area in November
With modest job gains, the Asheville metropolitan area saw unemployment drop to 7.5 percent in November — the second-lowest in the state — while unemployment in Buncombe County declined to 7.2 percent, according to numbers released by the state’s Division of Employment Security.
CalCast: Jan.5-8
Kick off the new year with a film, class or sport. CalCast has what you need to enjoy something different in 2012.
ASAP’s concepts bring big funding
The Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project is creating a Local Food Research Center dedicated to big ideas in the scaled-down world of local food.
Smart Bets web extra: Christmas with Dickens
Celebrate a (late) Victorian Christmas Charles Dickens style: dinner, entertainment and readings from A Christmas Carol, on Jan. 7.
Buncombe Commissioners request Smoky Park Bridge be renamed in honor of Capt. Jeff Bowen
Among other actions, the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously Jan. 3 to request that the North Carolina Board of Transportation dedicate the Smoky Park Bridge in honor of Capt. Jeff Bowen’s. Here’s a list of highlights from the board’s first meeting of 2012.
Instead of ban, Council committee recommends permit process for Occupy Asheville campers
A proposed ban on camping on city property — drafted in response to Occupy Asheville‘s encampment in front of City Hall — didn’t make it past Asheville City Council’s Public Safety Committee. Instead the committee directed staff at its meeting this afternoon to look at a permitting process for campers.
Live Twitter coverage of the Jan. 3 Buncombe Commissioner’s meeting
The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners will consider a number of issues at its first meeting of 2012, including a “Mental Health Services Report,” a proposal to rename the Smokey Park Bridge in memory of Capt. Jeff Bowen and a rezoning request. Follow live Twitter coverage beginning at about 4:30 p.m. here.
Live Twitter coverage of Public Safety meeting about Occupy Asheville camping rules
Asheville City Council’s Public Safety Committee will consider (and possibly modify) a proposed ban on camping on city property developed in response to Occupy Asheville‘s encampment in front of City Hall. Follow live Twitter coverage here.
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Cranky Hanke’s Weekly Reeler Jan. 4-10: Tinker Tailor Soldier—Devil?
Well, here we are with the first “Reeler” of the year. As I promised you, we get something tasty this week, and something that looks more than a little suspiciously like rankest Velveeta. The tasty is Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker Tailor Solidier Spy. It’s a film that straddles the realm of art and mainstream, though it leans more toward the former than the latter (I say that having seen it twice now). However, it’s done well enough elsewhere that my guess is that it won’t just open at The Carolina and the Fine Arts, but may well be at the Regal Biltmore Grande, though that’s not confirmed. Also unconfirmed (if anybody really cares) is just who is getting the … well, we’ll call it mainstream release, The Devil Inside. Theoretically, some theater will be the lucky recipient.
Dancing in the new year: Scenes from the five-day Lindy Focus
Lindy Focus — a five-day dance extravaganza that takes place between Christmas and New Year’s — features workshops and nightly entertainment in the Lindy Hop, Balboa, Blues and Jazz Dance styles that were so popular in the 1930’s. Here are some highlights from the event, taken by freelance photographer Suzi Camarata.
Big Ideas 2012: Deferring the deluge
The local Sierra Club chapter has another big idea for 2012: bolstering Progress Energy’s coal-ash ponds in Skyland to avoid a disaster like the massive spill at Kingston, Tenn. back in 2008. The local utility’s two coal-ash ponds are unlined and contained by earthen dams; activists worry that toxic contaminants are leaching into local ground […]