Quick: Name the geological feature known as a thin band of sediment that marks what many believe was a mass-extinction event more than 65 million years ago.
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Downtown homeless shelter to expand
The Western Carolina Rescue Ministries plans to launch a $7 million construction project in May that will double space and services for homeless people and people battling drug and alcohol addiction.
CJIS puts computer power in hands of local law enforcement
Thanks to in-car computers, police officers on the streets of Asheville have an amazing array of information at their fingertips. Officers can call up the criminal history at a particular address, update a traffic-accident report from the field, look at mug shots of suspects and more. What makes all this possible is the Criminal Justice […]
WPVM dials in new interim director, temporarily tunes out nine volunteers
A new interim station manager started last week at Asheville’s low-power FM community-radio station, but the news did little to quell ongoing tensions that have roiled the station since last fall. For months, station volunteers have lobbied to have Wally Bowen, executive director of the Mountain Area Information Network, removed from direct control of the […]
Western Carolina Gang Task Force
http://www.mountainx.com/files/GangAgreement.pdf
Nurse-in ends in standoff
About 25 protesters, including several breastfeeding mothers, staged a protest Sunday outside the Denny’s restaurant in West Asheville.
WNC News Roundup
News around WNC included: A big house on the move for Habitat Humanity in Haywood County; a fundraising drive for a library and courthouse renovations in Jackson County; a pet deer in Macon County; and much more.
A-B Tech campus remains unsettled in wake of president’s announced resignation
Nearly two months after the president of A-B Tech announced her plan to resign, Dr. Betty Young remains on the job. The college’s vice presidents presented transition plans to the Board of Trustees on Monday, but one report riled a number of faculty members.
A-B Tech transition reports, February 2009
Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College’s Dr. Sam Dosumu, vice president of instructional services, presented his transition plan to the college’s Board of Trustees on Feb. 16, 2009. In his executive summary, Dosumu distilled the input he said he’d received through what he described as a “comprehensive effort” to hear from academic deans, associate deans, faculty and […]
The $787 billion question: How do we get our hands on economic-stimulus cash?
Local governments should collaborate in applying for and using federal tax dollars that will come to Western North Carolina through the just-signed federal stimulus package and be cautious in budgeting for the cash, Rep. Heath Shuler said Thursday afternoon.
All about the Oscars
Local movie reviewers, including the Mountain Xpress’ own Ken Hanke, will dissect the upcoming Academy Awards ceremony tonight (Wednesday) on public radio station WCQS.
A bridge to Africa: Motherland International
There’s no shortage of disease and poverty in Africa. But for Christopher Keiser-Liontree—co-founder of Motherland International Relations—there’s another way to see the continent. Making connections: Christopher Keiser-Liontree (center-left), co-founder of Motherland International Relations, on his third trip to Ghana in 1998, where he was a facilitator with a group that built a Habitat for Humanity. […]
Books as building blocks in Bolivia: BiblioWorks
The premise behind BiblioWorks is simple: Books build communities. Over the past four years, the nonprofit has opened six libraries across Bolivia, mostly in rural areas, with the help of Peace Corps volunteers and Bolivian churches, authorities and nonprofit agencies. Young readers: Children in Morado K’asa, Bolivia, celebrated the opening of their first library in […]
Teaching Jamaica’s teachers: WCU’s Jamaica Program
On the campus of Western Carolina University, it’s simply called “the Jamaica Program.” Graduation day: These students are graduates of Western Carolina University’s master of arts in education program with a concentration in college administration, which is based in Discovery Bay, Jamaica. The university has been involved in teaching Jamaica’s young teachers for four decades. […]
Planetary education: David McConville
David McConville is a world traveler and a knowledge explorer. Like other Asheville residents who have an impact around the world, McConville can be hard to keep up with. In his work as a media artist and researcher who specializes in the development of dome-based display technologies, he travels the world. But McConville is also […]
Giving Moldovan children a chance: Moldova World Children’s Fund
What’s a crazy sailor doing in a landlocked country like Moldova? Caring for kids: Ray West of the Moldova World Children’s Fund, shown here in an orphanage in Balti, Moldova, about five years ago, has helped repair schools and funded educational scholars It’s a question that sometimes comes to mind when Ray West talks about […]
WPVM volunteers present management plan
Volunteers at Asheville’s low-power community radio station have proposed a new management structure for the station. The plan was presented during the Feb. 10 meeting of the Mountain Area Information Network’s board; the Asheville-based organization, a nonprofit Internet service provider, holds the station’s broadcast license. MAIN’s board oversees WPVM, which broadcasts at 103.5 FM from […]
Interim station manager named for WPVM
An interim manager will oversee Asheville’s low-power FM community radio station, WPVM, which is staffed by volunteers. Nine of those volunteers have been asked to stay away from the station for six weeks.
Xpress-rated: Video sneak peek at the Feb. 18 issue
Here’s your sneak preview of the Feb. 18 edition of the Mountain Xpress: It’s time for Mardi Gras!
N.C. video gambling law
The following documents reveal the legal wrangling between attorneys representing two computer gaming companies, Hest Technologies and International Internet Technologies that are seeking to overturn new gambling laws passed to shut down the operation of computer-based gambling games in convenience stores. The first is a 2005 ruling against prosecuting games like those of Hest or […]
WNC News Roundup
Headlines this week in Western North Carolina include: plans to build a new livestock auction; a hops-growing workshop for beer-loving farmers; an airport extension on an ancient Cherokee site; and much more.