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WNC News Roundup
What’s making news in Western North Carolina this week ranges from local connections to big national stories (think plane crash and inauguration) to continuing economic woes and a sudden surge in the construction of local liquor stores.
Asheville marks inauguration
Around Asheville, people took time out to watch and celebrate the inauguration of President Barack Obama, and Mountain Xpress was there.
What’s next for the Asheville Film Festival?
Editor’s note: Mountain Xpress has a long history of involvement with the film festival; this inevitably places the paper prominently in the story. But it has also given Xpress staffers a firsthand look at the event’s inner workings over a number of years. The following story draws on both those experiences and the perspectives of […]
Burton Street neighborhood celebrates reopening of community center
The spiffed-up Burton Street Recreation Center should really just be called “home,” because that’s what it felt like as folks gathered Jan. 12 to celebrate its recent reopening. Neighbors hugged, carried in covered dishes and checked out the community center’s fresh paint and gleaming halls. Once a shabby symbol of the drug-ridden streets outside, the […]
UNCA’s wrapped trees, Christo-style
The husband-and-wife artistic team of Christo and Jeanne-Claude are famous for public-art installations using brightly colored materials to encase large buildings or surround islands. The two will speak at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 5, at Thomas Wolfe Auditorium as part of the Asheville Art Museum’s Distinguished Artist Series. Photo by Jason Sandford. When a […]
Police arrest “blue light bandits”
There’s perhaps nothing more unnerving than being robbed by people you thought were police officers. And for the real men and women in blue, there’s perhaps nothing more galling. On Jan. 12, local police arrested and charged 28-year-old Gregory Neal Hitch of Fletcher and 27-year-old Jason Everette Allen of Arden with approaching people, pretending to […]
Haw Creek Park to be named for Rory and Hazel Masters
Listen to Charlene Noblett talk about her parents, Rory and Hazel Masters, and you’re transported back in time. It was a time when there were more farms than developments; when people looked out for one another; when hard work and the community good trumped just about everything else. “They were the best parents God could […]
Mountain BizWorks director steps down
Greg Walker-Wilson is stepping down as chief executive officer of Mountain BizWorks, an Asheville-based nonprofit that helps entrepreneurs develop businesses and find financial support. He plans to move his family to South America later this year to enrich their life experience and extend his service work. Walker-Wilson, his wife, Susanne, and their two children, 11-year-old […]
Xpress-rated: Video sneak peek at the Jan. 21 issue
Here’s a video sneak preview of the Wednesday, Jan. 21, edition of Mountain Xpress.
Local inaugural celebrations gear up
People in and around Asheville are set to celebrate the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama on Tuesday.
WNC News Roundup
The sour economy is a thread running through stories making headlines across Western North Carolina.
Walker-Wilson and family announce mission trip
Greg Walker-Wilson, the executive director of the Asheville nonprofit Mountain BizWorks, announced Thursday that he would move his family to South America later this year to enrich his family’s life experience and extend his service work.
Citizen-Times dramatically revamps print product
The Asheville Citizen-Times introduced a dramatically slimmed-down product on Jan. 5. The move was forced by the bad economy, said Publisher Randy Hammer. In an explanation printed on the daily newspaper’s front page, Hammer enumerated the changes: • Hour-earlier daily deadlines were set to accommodate printing the paper at The Greenville News in Greenville, S.C. […]
Pack Square Park pavilion construction delayed but still on tap
A $2.46 million pavilion planned for Pack Square Park will be built, the group overseeing the park’s construction decided Jan. 7, but construction won’t start until later this year. Postponed but not scrapped: A $2.46 million pavilion planned for Asheville’s new Pack Square Park will be built, but construction won’t start until next fall at […]
Federal judge: TVA must install pollution controls at four coal-fired power plants
In an order signed Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Lacy Thornburg ruled that pollution from the nation’s largest public utility constitutes a “public nuisance” and must be cleaned up.
N.C. vs. TVA clean-air lawsuit
North Carolina filed this nuisance lawsuit in 2006 in a bid to force the utility to reduce the air pollution produced by TVA’s 11 coal-burning power plants in Alabama, Kentucky and Tennessee. State Attorney General Roy Cooper argued that thousands of N.C. residents suffer adverse health affects, such as asthma, because of pollution blowing over […]
Burton Street neighborhood celebrates reopening of community center
The spiffed-up Burton Street Recreation Center should really just be called “home,” because that’s what it felt like Monday night as folks gathered to celebrate it’s recent reopening.
Asheville police make arrests in law-enforcement impersonation case
Police arrested two men on Monday and charged them with approaching people, pretending to be law enforcement officials, then robbing them in three incidents that date back to Christmas Day.
Xpress-rated: Video sneak peek at the Jan. 14 issue
Here’s your video sneak preview of the upcoming edition of Mountain Xpress.
Beauty of Appalachia on display in PBS series
A PBS miniseries highlighting the people and the environmental history of Appalachia will have its North Carolina premiere in Asheville on Friday, Jan. 16.