The 23-story Ellington hotel and condominium high-rise proposed for 35 Biltmore Ave. will make an appearance before Asheville City Council at its Sept. 11 meeting. Council’s nod to the conditional-use permit would be the final step in the city’s approval process.
The Asheville Firefighters Association is endorsing Bryan Freeborn in the upcoming City Council elections.
Asheville’s attitude towards billboards is inspiring Wilmington to examine if the plan is right for them, the Wilmington Star-News is reporting. A Hooters billboard at the city’s gateway has inspired criticism by City Council there, and they may find a solution in Asheville’s 2004 ordinance.
Blogger or not, you may well have opinions about Asheville’s thriving blog culture. Now is the time to weigh in and nominate your picks for the 2007 BlogAsheville Awards.
Two years after a community group shined the spotlight on some businesses’ violations of the city’s Unified Development Ordinance—and a year after those complaints were supported by a consultant’s report—Greenlife Grocery says it’s ready to take steps to address the problems. And Staples, which had not responded to several prior requests for a meeting with […]
After a nearly yearlong stalemate between the city and the Staples office-supply company, a face-to-face is finally in the cards. On Sept. 7, Mayor Terry Bellamy will visit Staples headquarters in Framingham, Mass., to discuss issues surrounding the Merrimon Avenue store, including it’s controversial sign.
So much for good intentions. According to this listing in today’s Asheville area Craigslist “free” category, the purchase of a set of books entitled “Lovemaking for Lovers” has landed a presumably well-meaning boyfriend in some hot water with his significant other. She is cutting him off, and he needs your help unloading the offending contraband.
On June 21, the footbridge that spans the former New Asheville Speedway was packed with people, many waving their hats in the air and cheering the race cars rumbling around the track. It was the first time cars have been on the loop since the speedway closed in 1999, but this time, the drivers kept […]
The Asheville City Council put an end to the battle over balconies on a downtown renovation project, ordering staff to draw up a stricter process for approving future sales of the city’s air rights. But local activist Elaine Lite, a City Council candidate who brought the issue into the spotlight by bidding for air rights […]
Veggies and meaties may sometimes butt heads here, but Asheville still catches the favor of high profile animal-rights supporters. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has named Early Girl Eatery restaurant of the month on its VegCooking.com Web site.
Sonja Korner had crawled out of bed shortly after 3 a.m. for a quick trip to the bathroom when she noticed how light it was outside her Riverview Drive home. It was Aug. 5, and the early sunrise was actually a fire that had engulfed the house across the street—one of a string of new […]
A dubious beacon for years, the Interstate Motel sign is now gone from Asheville’s skyline. But developer Tony Cecil says the sign will live on in a new form. Signing off: The Interstate Motel sign, long a fixture next to I-240, has been taken down. But parts of it will have a future yet … […]
According to a city of Asheville report, the State Board of Elections met Friday and determined the new filing period would take place from noon on Monday, Aug. 13, through noon on Monday, Aug. 20. And it’s not just unaffiliated candidates who have to get on board. According to the report, all candidates “must file during this new filing period, regardless of whether they had previously filed.”
It all started with a cookout. Even in hyperfactionalized Asheville, indie booksellers and animal-rights activists hardly seem the likeliest of antagonists. What’s the beef? A July vegetarian demonstration touched off a rift between Malaprop’s Bookstore and two local animal-rights activists. The incident occured at an appearance by Fred Thompson, author of Barbecue Nation, which dishes […]
H.K. Edgerton, the solitary African-American dressed in the uniform of a Confederate soldier who totes the rebel flag, has become an Asheville fixture over the years, often seen standing atop overpasses on I-240 in full regalia. The former president of the Asheville chapter of the NAACP, he’s better known for his involvement with the Sons […]
The fire that burned an unoccupied West Asheville house early Sunday morning was deliberately set, says an investigator. “I can tell you right now that’s definitely the case,” Asheville-Buncombe Arson Task Force investigator Jeff Tracz told Xpress today.
Predictions: • Continuing tension between old and new • Parkway views essential to attracting visitors • Overuse could hamper outdoor recreation The same things that put Asheville on the tourism map stand a good chance of continuing to bring people here for decades to come—provided that we manage and maintain those attractions wisely. That’s the […]
In her four years on Asheville City Council and almost two years as mayor, it has become commonplace to see Terry Bellamy remove herself from Council meetings when the discussions and votes involve affordable housing. As marketing manager for Mountain Housing Opportunities—a local nonprofit that is inextricable from any discussion of affordable housing in Asheville—her […]
Penny Briggs’ parents have been disabled since before she was born. Her mother gets around with a motorized scooter and her father relies on a wheelchair. Accordingly, the family uses a van with a lift to get around, and sometimes when they go out, they find handicapped-parking spaces taken by vehicles that aren’t displaying the […]
Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy has announced that she will leave Mountain Housing Opportunities at the end of the month. Bellamy has been the nonprofit’s marketing manager for 10-and-a-half years.
There are advocates and there are critics, but the voices missing from debates about the homeless are often those of the very people being discussed. Speaking for themselves: StreetSide, a new newspaper published by local ministry Zacchaeus House, tells the stories of Asheville’s homeless people in their own words. With that in mind, a new […]
