Asheville High auditorium was packed to the gills with book-toting fans of Barbara Kingsolver, who spoke and read from her new novel, The Lacuna, this evening at Asheville High School auditorium. “Let there be no doubt,” reported @mountainxpress via Twitter, “Asheville is a town of book lovers.”
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Asheville City Council approves Transit Master Plan (Citizen-reported via Twitter)
Asheville City Council votes 6-1 to accept Transit Master Plan, tweets Xpress reporter Brian Postelle. Council will hear implementation options at its January retreat. “OK, TMP fans,” tweets an ebullient @ashevillebus, “It’s time to start lobbying council to find the money to fund the plan.” Council also voted to postpone for one week the cancellation of the Asheville-Weaverville route.
Asheville’s Haiti connection: Mission MANNA final day and return to the U.S.
One week after they departed Asheville, MissionMANNA’s medical team touches down back in Miami, on their way home. Here’s a brief report, a video, and a poem.
Asheville’s Haiti connection: Mission MANNA’s medical team preps for Day 6
Mission MANNA’s team is back from the mountains and about to undertake their last day of clinics.
Asheville’s Haiti connection: Mission MANNA returns from the mountains (Day 5)
The medical team has returned from its two-day trek, reports Todd Kaderabek, Mission MANNA’s point person in Asheville. “The Asheville team is off mountain and back in Montrouis,” says Todd. “Looks like it was rough. They happened upon a rollover injury.” Thursday evening, Oct. 22: Dr. Derek Dephouse reports, “Many malnourished kids. It was Haiti […]
Asheville’s Haiti connection: MissionMANNA medical team heads into the mountains
Wednesday night, Oct. 21: The Asheville Mission MANNA medical team should be camped 2,500 feet above the Caribbean by now, nestled under the same stars as you, but a world away,
Asheville’s Haiti connection: MissionMANNA’s medical-support project unfolds (Days 3-4)
This is the second report from the group of Asheville doctors, nurses and volunteers from Mission MANNA, who flew to Haiti this past Saturday — as they do twice yearly, to provide ongoing medical assistance to more than 1,000 kids in need. Here’s how the team reported it, relayed via Twitter.
Asheville’s Haiti connection: MissionMANNA’s medical-support project unfolds (Days 1-2)
This past Saturday, a group of Asheville doctors, nurses and volunteers from Mission MANNA flew to Haiti, as they do twice yearly, to provide ongoing medical assistance to more than 1,000 kids in need. Here’s the first installment about their trip, told as it unfolded, via Twitter.
Aerial photographers will map every foot of North Carolina this winter
The project, which will produce photo-maps of unmatched detail, is part of the state’s 911 emergency-readiness program. “You will be able to make out individual branches on the trees,” said N.C. forester Andrew D. Bailey. In addition to helping emergency response, the imagery will also be used by other state and local agencies, including conservation agencies such as the state Forest Service and local parks and recreation offices.
City Council candidates forum, Oct. 15 (a Twitter-feed report)
Once again, we bring you the news as it was reported via Twitter. This time, there are two reporters, one an Xpress staffer, the other a representative from the Asheville Chamber.
For the record: Asheville Primary Twitter coverage via #avlelect hashtag (UPDATED)
Xpressville Tweets tagged with #avlelect, as they appeared on mountainx.com’s moderated feed : fobes:RT @asheville: AVL city primary turnout at record low: A yr after soaring amid excitement of a presidential.. http://bit.ly/3voMFE Oct. 8, 8:39 am fobes:RT @ashevilleallie: for those in asheville who were disappointed from the low turnout yesterday: bit.ly/UlW1n Oct. 7, 12:53 pm […]
Media with a mission
Fifteen years ago, in keeping with Asheville's continuing love affair with upstarts, a small group of believers launched Mountain Xpress. It was a long shot. Xpress started small, running about 24 pages a week, and slowly gained traction by virtue of its local focus and its chutzpah. We told readers that we published the news […]
If you’re into herbal medicine, you need to know about this two-day symposium
Warren Wilson hosts a weekend of collaboration, brainstorming, environmental advocacy and education, with a team of experts, including James Duke, author of The Green Pharmacy. April 17-19. $65.
Mountain Xpress: Our Twitter Manifesto
The Mountain Xpress, Asheville, N.C.‘s, alternative newsweekly, took a remarkable step on Wednesday, ending its 14-year run as a print publication (today’s issue is our last), suspending its regular online news reports and converting its entire news operation to Twitter dispatches from staff and trusted community journalists.
Anatomy of a local Twitter argument resolved: Politics & peace in a small town
Early this morning, local Twitterer WNCGOP began his day with a terse politically and sociologically charged one-liner: WNCGOP: “Good morning everyone. It’s raining here in Asheville, NC (which is a good thing, because it keeps down the stink of those damned hippies).” Here’s what happened in the ensuing hours of Twitter discussion:
Videos of URTV’s most recent board meeting
Seven short video recordings of the URTV board of directors’ March 19 meeting.
Extensive fire damages Richmond Hill Inn (Twitter report) ***UPDATED***
(UPDATED 2 p.m. with photos) Fire in the early night hours of March 19 burned an extensive portion of Richmond Hill Inn. Here’s the initial report, via citizen reporting on Twitter.
Asheville’s Girl Scout cookie saga: How one local scout’s story went national (A Twitter Report)
National media went into a feeding frenzy over Wild Freeborn’s innovative online efforts to sell cookies. Here’s what it was like, as it unfolded, for an 8-year-old Asheville girl and her dad to be swept up in a series of New York studio appearances.
Gov. Perdue’s speech (The Twitter report)
Gov. Beverly Perdue spoke about the economy to more than 200 people on Thursday at a CIBO meeting. Here is a compilation of Xpress’ live coverage, transmitted via Twitter.
Asheville twittered the inauguration
Obama’s inauguration—as seen and twittered by Ashevilleans. This feed reveals their in-the-moment views and reactions.
File under quality of life—yours and mine
A wave of sadness passed through the disparate community of Western North Carolina activists at the news of Chick Squire’s death Jan. 4. A lot of us knew Chick, who died at age 88 of natural causes, as well as from what I call the miracle of life. Chick Squire Chick was the last of […]