The 24-hour Merrimon Avenue coffee shop will shut its doors for good following a finale by Hellblinki Sextet.
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Demonstration at Pritchard Park tonight to protest education cuts
Children First of Buncombe County will become the latest to host an event protesting state education budget cuts that would eliminate teachers and support personnel jobs statewide.
Cape won’t seek second term
Asheville City Council member Robin Cape, noted as a sustainability advocate, will not seek re-election in November. Cape crusader: Asheville City Council member Robin Cape, a staunch sustainability advocate, has announced that she won’t seek re-election this fall. The move ensures that there will be at least one new face on Council this winter. File […]
The basilica’s big idea
City staff are working up a preliminary agreement with the McKibbon Group for a seven-story hotel on Haywood Street. But the Basilica of St. Lawrence has some ideas of its own for the city-owned property across the street from the historic downtown church. A modest proposal: This alternate vision for the city-owned parcel on Haywood […]
Laid off or fired up?
On June 1, the Buncombe County Schools sent out about 80 letters informing nontenured teachers that their contracts will not be renewed. The move came in anticipation of a state education budget currently working its way through the N.C. House that would increase classroom size by two students due to an 11 percent budget reduction. […]
Teachers’ rally packs Enka gymnasium
Well over 1,000 teachers, parents and students packed the gymnasium of Enka High School on Monday evening to rally against state education cuts.
Asheville City Council preview: June 9 meeting
It’s time to speak your mind on Asheville’s annual budget. And the city settles a lawsuit from a 2006 police raid that left a man burned.
Blog Log: The week in local blogging
Publishing what amounts to an online diary to untold numbers of readers is inherently awkward. But maybe blogging is best when it drives us out of our comfort zones.
Parent-teacher rally to oppose education cuts
A rally has been planned for 6 p.m. on Monday at Enka High School in response to the possible loss of 80 Buncombe teachers.
Asheville City Council
Council still not ready for tethering ban Mumpower pitches his own solution to water stalemate Going into the Asheville City Council’s May 26 meeting, the big question was what sort of reception Council would give the long-awaited Downtown Master Plan. The team from consulting firm Goody Clancy had presented its work to Council members on […]
In memoriam
Some 200 people—including uniformed soldiers, patch-wearing vets, Boy and Girl Scouts and assorted civilians—gathered at Memorial Stadium above McCormick Field on May 25 for the Asheville/Buncombe Memorial Day ceremony. The sixth annual observation was also notable for the dedication of a veterans memorial on the site after a years-long and sometimes troubled effort by city […]
80 Buncombe teachers may lose jobs
A letter mailed on Monday to about 80 teachers describes the school system’s reactions to pending state education budget.
Robin Cape not running for second term on City Council
The Council member talks to Xpress about her decision not to seek reelection (and no — she’s not running for mayor)
Blog Log: The week in local blogging
From Asheville’s apparent monsoon season springs forth sprouts from the blog garden.
Council adopts master plan “in concept”
In a 5-2 vote Tuesday night, Asheville City Council voted to adopt the long-awaited Downtown Master Plan.
Building opposition
The irregular patch of pavement at the corner of Haywood Street and Page Avenue in downtown Asheville is heating up again, and it’s not just the warmer weather. The city-owned parcel, adjacent to the Civic Center and the Basilica of St. Lawrence, was once earmarked for a parking deck that proved highly controversial and was […]
Parkside appeal heard in Raleigh
On May 19, attorneys representing Black Dog Realty and the heirs of George Pack made their respective cases before the N.C. Court of Appeals in Raleigh, reprising their arguments concerning a disputed piece of land that’s at the heart of the high-profile Parkside controversy. Last August, Buncombe County Superior Court Judge Marlene Hyatt ruled in […]
Marking Memorial Day 2009
About 200 people, among them uniformed soldiers, patch wearing vets, boy and girl scouts and civilians, gathered at Memorial Stadium above McCormick Field for the Asheville/Buncombe Memorial Day ceremony on Monday.
Asheville City Council preview: May 26 meeting
Downtown Master plan public hearing, tethered dogs, Overlook Park and the Sullivan Acts and a special work session for a budget review. What else do you need?
Blog Log: The week in local blogging
You bloggers are a bunch of movers and shakers. Not content to sit there gathering cobwebs, you all are getting around. Moving? Yes. Grooving? Yes.
Downtown Association donates drums at tonight’s Pritchard Park circle
The Pritchard Park drum circle is well underway this season, but tonight’s Friday-night thundering will get an extra boost from the Asheville Downtown Association.