Worst Case Scenario: School systems plan for deadly threats
Volume
29
/ Issue 2
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School safety is on the minds of families, law enforcement and school personnel. Officials from Asheville City Schools and Buncombe County Schools explain what they are doing alongside the Asheville Police Department and Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office to alleviate fears.
arts
Music industry insiders talk DIY versus the studio touch
Precisely what sonic rubrics need to be met can change from person to person, but as area radio hosts, publicists and studio professionals note, success is attainable for local musicians…Around Town: Historic Asheville inn invites writers to interpret history
The Gray Rock Inn Writers Project calls on local authors to contribute fiction and nonfiction pieces. Also: Dark City Poets Society celebrates one-year anniversary of Poetry Night; LEAF Down By…food
What’s new in food: Food Connection introduces Fran the mobile meals truck
Flori Pate, Food Connection’s founder and current leader of community engagement, wants the communities it serves to be on a first-name basis with the nonprofit’s newest venture, a mobile meals…living
City, county file class-action lawsuit against HCA/Mission
Asheville and Buncombe County filed a class-action lawsuit against HCA Healthcare and Mission Health on July 27 in U.S. District Court. The lawsuit alleges HCA is attempting to monopolize health…news
Q&A: Handcyclist Dustin Baker discusses the positive impact of the sport
Xpress speaks with Dustin Baker to discuss the challenges of handcycling and how the sport benefits veterans in our area and across the nation.City, county districts stress school security
Uvalde, the deadliest school shooting in a decade, underscored persistent questions about school safety, stricter gun laws and ways to “harden” schools to help keep students and staff safe. In…Green in brief: Nonprofits plan conversion of Saluda Grade into trail
The path, running along an inactive railway, would stretch about 31 miles northwest from Inman, S.C., through Tryon and Saluda before terminating in Zirconia, about 7 miles southeast of Hendersonville.…How do traffic impact studies shape development decisions?
Traffic studies, which are required by the state and the county for certain projects, are prepared by engineering firms to forecast additional traffic associated with a development and identify possible…Buncombe leaders talk rising poverty, county economy
According to data presented by Tim Love, Buncombe’s director of economic development and governmental relations, the county’s poverty rate went up from about 11.5% in 2018 — its lowest point…opinion
Letter: Celebrate clean water by volunteering
"The enactment of these regulations has allowed us to preserve one of our most vital resources, and we should celebrate this monumental milestone for clean water."Letter: Kudos to APD for handling break-in
"By acknowledging both the positive and the negative, we can create a complete picture that can serve as a solid base from which we can move forward as a community."Letter: The empire strikes back
“'We must have ever more destruction of the environment to save it,'” chants the Kool-Aid quaffing Sierra Club."Alienated
Letter: What’s really causing river pollution
"MountainTrue believes the primary sources driving E. coli and water quality impairment are failing septics, animal agriculture and urban stormwater runoff."Letter: Cartoon misses mark on river pollution
"The [July 27] Molton cartoon is a very unfortunate representation of what is involved in the water quality issues in the French Broad River."Not making it up
Downtown dodged a mall, but substation now looms
"What may have initially made sense on a map fails completely in reality."