WordCamp Asheville is back for another year in 2016. The WordPress conference will be hosted for its third year at the Highsmith University Union building on the downtown campus of the University of North Carolina Asheville (UNCA). Friday June 3 will feature PreCamp, created specifically for WordPress beginners.
Photoshop and Sketch come jam-packed with tools to help you work smarter and faster. Some of them are right on the surface while others take a little more digging to find and learn how to use correctly.
On May 7th, the WNC Nature Center, with special guests from Colburn Earth Science Museum, soon to be Asheville Museum of Science (AMOS) will celebrate the official grand opening of a new mining sluice at the Explorer’s Outpost area at the Center.
Unemployment rates (not seasonally adjusted) decreased in all 100 of North Carolina’s counties in March. Hyde County had the highest unemployment rate at 13.3 percent, while Buncombe County had the lowest at 4.2 percent.
The Asheville Small Business Week event series will highlight the importance of small businesses in the Asheville area from May 2-5.
Sharon Cooper and Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre are proud to present “Motown Memories.” An exciting, entertaining, moving evening of new contemporary dance at the BeBe Theatre April 29 and 30 at 8:00 pm and May 1 at 6:00 pm. The concert features new work by long time ACDT dancer, Sharon Cooper.
During the week of April 23rd to the 30th over 275 law enforcement, EMS and security bike professionals from across the United States, one U.S. territory and the province of Ontario will descend on Asheville for the 26th Annual International Police Mountain Bike Association (IPMBA) conference.
Canyon Kitchen, located in the rustically elegant Jennings Barn at the foot of Cow Rock Mountain in Lonesome Valley, will be opening for the season on Thursday, May 5. Executive Chef Adam Hayes and his team of seasoned culinary professionals have been preparing for the restaurant’s opening for months and are looking forward to the new offerings and enhancements.
On Saturday, April 23, 2016 from 10AM to 2PM, CARING for Children will host a ribbon cutting ceremony and volunteer appreciation event to celebrate the opening of a new playground at its 50 Reddick Road offices in East Asheville. The public is invited to attend.
From French Broad Co-op: Starts at 3pm sharp with a brief update. 330-5:00 snacks, refreshments, 8 table discussion seeking input The French Broad Food Coop will come together this Sunday afternoon at the Orange Peel to give community members and Co-op Owners an update on the expansion planning for the significant land around the downtown […]
Candidates looking for work with Buncombe County will have one less question to answer on their application. During its Tuesday, April 19 meeting, the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners approved a resolution, effective immediately, to remove a question about past criminal offenses on the county’s preliminary employment applications.
The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners has a decidedly lighter agenda for its upcoming meeting compared to this month’s previous seven-hour slugfest. There are no public hearings scheduled and the four new business items don’t appear to be inherently contentious in nature when commissioners tackle the agenda on Tuesday, April 19. Among those issues are amending the budget to pay for June’s Congressional primary and consideration of removing the question regarding an candidate’s criminal past on the county’s hiring application.
Leisure sport enthusiasts will have the chance to be king of cornhole, dominator of disc golf or the beast of bocce ball. Hall Fletcher Elementary will transform its space into the West Asheville Leisure Olympics on Saturday, April 23. WALO is open to the public as a fundraiser for the school and offers you a chance to solidify your presumed dominance in the competitive field of leisure sports.
The upstairs room of West Asheville’s Buffalo Nickel transforms into a cerebral battle royal every Tuesday. Around 6 p.m. tables start to become scarce as Kipper Schauer prepares to emcee his pop culture infused trivia night.
UNC Asheville’s 32nd annual Economic Crystal Ball Seminar will be held on Thursday, April 28, at UNC Asheville’s Lipinsky Auditorium. Noted economists David W. Berson and James F. Smith will make forecasts on the business and financial outlook for the coming year, taking account of Federal Reserve decisions about interest rates.
W. David Guice (MHU ’79), Commissioner of the Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice for the North Carolina Department of Public Safety, spoke to a senior seminar class on Race/Ethnicity and Crime on April 12 at Mars Hill University.
This summer Penland School of Crafts will be offering an exciting program of one week, arts-oriented day camps for children ages 3 to 18. Penland’s Kids Camp begins on June 20th and runs through August 5th with different camps each week.
A Mountain BizWorks program called ScaleUp WNC is helping established new businesses take the next steps in growth. The program is funded by a $1.25 million grant from the Small Business Administration and free for accepted applicants.
My Name is Asher Lev, the “coming-of-age” story of a boy prodigy, is scheduled for three matinee performances by The Autumn Players of Asheville Community Theatre (ACT): Friday and Saturday April 29 and 30, 2016 in 35below at ACT and Sunday, May 1, 2016 in the Manheimer Room at UNC Asheville’s Reuter Center. Curtain is at 2:30 pm.
On the afternoon of Tuesday, April 12th the Asheville Police Department responded to Pinnacle Point Drive in East Asheville after receiving a report of a deceased subject. The man has been identified as Phillip Nathan Carter (35) of Black Mountain.
After eight months of education and community service, 16 members of United Way of Henderson County’s fifth annual Rising Leaders Program have graduated and are better prepared to start making a difference as volunteers with Henderson County nonprofit organizations.
