Students from the Arthur Morgan School in Celo and Rainbow Mountain Children’s School in Asheville participated in the beta test of a new educational game called Earth Voyage.
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Progress Energy to cancel Woodfin lease — “if”
An e-mail from the utility suggests that Progress will terminate the lease voluntarily if it decides not to challenge Woodfin’s denial of a permit.
From Hawaii to Paradox to Haywood Road
Rainbow Mountain Children’s School in West Asheville has brought in its first “outsider” to run a school that put experiential, holistic learning on the Western North Carolina map 30 years ago. Reneé Owen was hired away from Paradox, Colo.,—but how she came to be here requires just a bit of storytelling. Learning to play, playing […]
DOT engineer offers I-26 connector update
In a May 10 “Doughnuts and Dialogue” event at the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce, Division Engineer Jay Swain of the North Carolina Department of Transportation updated close to 50 attendees on the I-26 connector project, which is slated to begin construction in 2012. “The whole goal is to separate I-26 traffic from local traffic,” […]
Tom Terrific meets the Buddha
Every culture has its mythical (often religious) heroes and tales of quests, battles, immortality, death and redemption. For the Chinese, the main man is a monkey, variously referred to as Monkey, the Monkey God, Great Sage Equal to Heaven, or the Monkey King. Susan and Giles Collard have elected to use the latter in a […]
Garden Journal
Local eats: Most area farmers’tailgate markets are now open for the season. This is opening week for Saturday markets in Black Mountain, Brevard, Morganton and Rutherfordton, and for the Wednesday markets in Spruce Pine, Asheville and Morganton. Current local produce includes: broccoli, spinach, arugula; lettuces and other spring vegetables; eggs; pastries, specialty breads, croissants and […]
Play review: N.C. Stage Company goes to the dogs
Chesapeake is another solid offering in a string of fine NCSC productions.
Buncombe Board of Commissioners preview: May 15 meeting
Buncombe commissioners and the county legal department said they would explain details of the Progress Energy lease in Woodfin at their meeting this Tuesday, May 15, but they have evidently changed their minds.
Buncombe County Commission
Though the outcome of a second vote on proposed countywide zoning was never in doubt, the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners labored over the issue for much of a 3-1/2 hour regular session on May 1. Commissioner Bill Stanley was absent due to a death in his family. At the outset, during the premeeting public […]
Well, well
Is the rash of development in WNC affecting wells? The answer depends on whom you ask. Over the past three-and-a-half years, Alexander residents Tim and Jeannie Deering have drilled a total of more than 2,100 feet but still haven’t found a reliable source of water for their four-year-old home. “We drilled our first well in […]
Written in Charleston? It ain’t necessarily so
When Asheville Ballet reprises its 2000 performance of Porgy and Bess this week at Diana Wortham Theatre, many in the audience may be unaware of the story’s local roots. Porgy, the novel, was started and finished in Hendersonville, where Charleston writers Dubose and Dorothy Heyward owned a summer home. Dubose’s book was lauded as “the […]
Garden Journal
Home grown goods: The Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project now sponsors “Appalachian Grown,” a label displayed on food grown in WNC and the surrounding mountains by family farmers. Since the program was launched, nearly 100 farms have become Appalachian Grown-certified. On top of that, nearly 20 businesses, including local grocery stores, food cooperatives and restaurants, have […]
Versant buys Woodfin water
Versant, a gated community slated for Woodfin, has signed a water agreement with the Woodfin Sanitary Water and Sewer District.
Breathing easier
The ozone season — the period from May through October when ground-level ozone levels rise — is upon us. In years past, ozone levels in WNC have occasionally risen to levels that threatened public health, but the Land-of-Sky Regional Council reports that air quality has improved.
Press your spaceface close to mine
Perched beside the headwaters of the ancient French Broad River, outside the tiny town of Rosman, near Brevard, there is a magic window. Peering through it, you can look back through time all the way to the beginning of things, back when the universe was new and humans weren’t here at all. Further, even, to […]
Scapegoat hits a home run
Going into the 2007 season, Director Taryn Strauss had loaded the bases, having previously coached the Scapegoat Theatre Collective productions of Everything in the Garden, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told and The Exonerated. Now, like any pinch hitter worth the name, she has blasted one over the fence. The company’s current production of Richard […]
Garden Journal
Year of living locally: Charlie Jackson of the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project says, “All trend spotters point to local food as the biggest thing in food, and here in the mountains we have been way ahead of the curve on growing and promoting food for local consumption.” ASAP’s 2007 Local Food Guide is hot off […]
Neighborhood activists have CAN-do attitude
Over the past two decades, the Coalition of Asheville Neighborhoods, composed of residents and local business owners, has repeatedly come down in favor of thoughtfully regulated development, simultaneously embracing increased commercialization along corridor roads and decrying lapses in enforcement of the city’s Unified Development Ordinance. Pedestrian friendliness: CAN has been a major mover in slowing […]
Buncombe County Board of Commissioners preview
Buncombe commissioners will almost certainly approve county-wide zoning at their meeting this Tuesday, May 1.
“Local” is the new “organic”
The realization that food from distant places can lose nutritional value while requiring additional fossil fuels for transport — to say nothing of leaving local farmers out of the loop — is helping make “local” the new “organic” for many conscientious eaters.
Buncombe County Commission
Faced with two options for siting a new animal shelter, the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners decided to take advantage of both. At the board’s April 17 session, County Manager Wanda Greene presented the commissioners with an offer from the state of North Carolina to lease six acres in Swannanoa to the county for $1 […]