Asheville retail sales have grown rapidly in the last 15 years. How does Asheville compare with other North Carolina cities? Does Asheville get back from the state its fair share of the sales taxes it generates? How do those tax dollars get divided up between Buncombe County and Asheville? What is Asheville’s regional economic role, in Western North Carolina?
An old bridge, with weight restrictions, means no heavy trucks can take the shorter I-40 detour route.
After a two-and-a-half-month hiatus, Farm & Sparrow artisan bread returns to shelves this Friday. WNC has been blessed with traditional bakers, each of whom has contributed much to putting such fine loaves on our table.
The perennial bus-rider’s question, “Where’s my bus?” might finally yield an easy answer if the Asheville Transit Commission gives the go-ahead to a group of citizens proposing a real-time GPS bus-tracking system that can be accessed via Internet-connected computers and smart-phones.
Help Haiti Heal Benefit, a two-day concert in Black Mountain, starts Saturday, Feb. 6 and continues on Sunday and will showcase a wide range of local talent. Xpress hopes to carry a live video feed of the concert for those who can’t attend.
In a bold community-spirited move, WNC’s Mountain Area Information Network hopes to win federal funds to establish an advanced Internet-based network known as “cloud-computing.”
Weaverville’s reputation was tarnished a bit last month when one of its otherwise upstanding citizens, Wallace Shealy, was called on the carpet (a rollled-out red one, likely) for being the year’s boldest-faced liar.
A truck whisked away donated relief goods from Asheville last week. And another will do so again early next week. What happens to those goods? Here’s part of the story.
“A mill devoted to NC grains made sense to everyone,” says well known area baker Jennifer Lapidus. “The estate of Alan Scott, is providing our project with the use of his 48” diameter stone-burr Osttiroller gristmill with sifters for one year as a test mill. It was Alan’s work that inspired me to do the work of linking the farmer, miller, and baker in North Carolina. It seems the appropriate measure, a bittersweet story, for Alan’s mill to be used to inspire growers to plant wheat and bakers to buy local grain in North Carolina.”
In this week’s news, as reported on the “avleat” Twitter-feed: Comings and goings, raves and reviews, sweet bits, hot tips, and cooking classes for parents and children.
Asheville-based MissionMANNA, which has been helping Haiti for years, offers ways of helping Haiti.
Use this online tool to find out what authors and books are associated with which counties or regions of North Carolina.
Local and organic farmers got a boost today at the Buncombe County commissioners’ annual retreat, as commissioners took in a presentation underlining how a “buy local” initiative could help the economy.
New Year’s Eve in Asheville, as chronicled by a sampling of tweets carried on Mountain Xpress’ #AvlNYE Twitter feed.
North Carolinians are invited to submit proposals for innovative green building, biofuels and environmentally focused energy projects to the North Carolina Green Business Fund, which will be handing out $8 million in grants in 2010.
If you’re looking for news about green building — both local and national — you should be watching the fast-moving Green Building Twitter feed on the right side of the mountainx.com homepage. Here’s just a sampling of the sort of info you’ll find there.
“Welcome to the world of dal, bhat and tarkari (lentil, rice and curry), a popular meal prepared twice daily in every family’s home throughout Nepal,” the menu declares.
The Citizen-Times provided details today about it’s online collaborative journalism project, LINC, which similar to a Seattle Times project, and is part of a five-paper project sponsored by American University’s J-Lab Institute and funded by the Knight Foundation.
Here’s the weekend oh-so-local “news & views report,” as seen from the Xpress Twitter feed, including a homicide/suicide, a post-modern prom, the doings at the River District Studio Stroll, swimming in the French Broad, and a whole lot more.
Twitter kept the news flowing as election day wore on and then as voting returns started coming in. It was an interesting collaboration among journalists, voters and bloggers. Here’s a slightly distilled version of are #avlelect tweets as they came through Xpress’ moderated feed.
Time-lapse video shots looking down from Craggy Gardens on oceanic clouds depict their energy and feel as they roil and flow up against the mountainsides and sometimes over the ridges. Audio track by Dep.
