Here’s a look at some of what’s been happening around WNC recently: The founder of a controversial Henderson County animal shelter faces dozens of charges of animal mistreatment; a group of school children met Jesus in Black Mountain; police are investigating an Asheville dentist who mysteriously shut down her upscale dental office; the economic engine that is the WNC Agricultural Center will soon get bigger; and there’s a big reward offered in the attempted bombing of a Boone Wal-Mart.
In March 2008, Ronnie Eugene “Butch” Davis and Jack Willis “Jackie” Shepherd entered plea agreements in federal court and explained their involvement in an illegal gambling operation. The pleas are the latest in the federal government’s wide-ranging investigation into illegal gambling involving video-poker machines in Western North Carolina, a case that has netted video-poker-machine owners […]
Joe Dunn, a former Asheville City Council member who signed up earlier this year to run for the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners, has announced in a letter that he has decided to drop out of the race.
Two economists delivered an annual assessment of the Asheville metro area’s economy on July 23, 2008. Despite the longest-running financial panic in the U.S. since the Great Depression, Asheville and its strong health-services and tourism sectors continue to see sustained economic growth, two economists said Thursday night. Tom Tveidt, director of the Asheville Metro Business […]
Despite the longest-running financial panic in the U.S. since the Great Depression, Asheville and its strong health-services and tourism sectors continue to see sustained economic growth, two economists said Thursday night.
Here’s a look at the sign on the Merrimon Avenue location of the Staples office-supply store before recent changes, and after. The changes are the result of years of wrangling between city residents and Asheville City Council over the city’s enforcement and interpretation of its Unified Development Ordinance. The city initially approved the building and […]
Every year, they come for Bele Chere. The peddlers of plastic shoes, cheap jewelry and $3 magnets. The bunched-up teens in too-small skirts. The sellers of turkey legs, gyros and the funnel cakes. The schreeching street preachers. The zombie-fied tourists, shuffling through the streets of Asheville, sucking down too much beer and soaking up too […]
Duke Energy Corp. is building an 800-megawatt coal-burning power plant in Rutherford County. Environmentalists have opposed the plant, and on July 16, 2008, the Southern Environmental Law Center filed a lawsuit in federal court in Asheville aiming to halt construction at the Cliffside Steam Station. The organization contends that Duke Energy doesn’t have a valid […]
These plans for the Haywood Park development — to include a hotel, condominiums, retail space and a parking deck — show the downtown area included in the plans, as well as renderings and aerial views of what the final project would look like. Click here to download a PDF of the documents.
Here’s a quick preview of Mountain Xpress’ upcoming edition: It’s time for Bele Chere, baby!
In this week’s edition of the news around the mountains: There’s a UFO sighting in Waynesville; people love their Snackburgers; Haywood County’s embattled hospital looks at the possibility of a merger; there’s new energy around a redevelopment project on The Block in downtown Asheville; and you’ll be able to spot reporters and photographers by their bright yellow vests.
Construction on the Village at Haywood, a high-density, mixed-used development on the former site of St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church more than two years in the making, is scheduled to begin July 21. On hallowed ground: Greenstone Builders recently broke ground on a new mixed-use development along Haywood Road, on the site of the […]
Rebecca Willis used to love dancing a Friday night away at the Marshall Depot. Bobbing and weaving, dipping and twirling, an exuberant Willis would wheel around the former train depot, now leased by the town for community gatherings. But for Willis, the music stopped seven years ago when the town of Marshall formally banned her […]
Depending on whom you ask, Fletcher-based neurosurgeon Michael J. Rosner is either a skull-shaving savior or a shameless opportunist who’s needlessly operating on patients desperate for a cure. Dr. Michael J. Rosner has operated on hundreds of patients to remove bits of bone at the base of the skull and along the spinal cord — […]
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Thunder Road is paved with stories of moonshine, mayhem and Mitchum, and Wedge Brewing wants to hear them.
In this week’s collection of what’s happening in the mountains: Graham County gets a big economic boost; Waynesville shoppers await their Wal-Mart; there are bears on the streets of Tryon; and what happened to Reece’s Tire Deals on Merrimon Avenue?
Miyoko Watanabe, a survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, will speak at 7 p.m. tonight at UNCA’s Karpen Hall.
Miyoko Watanabe, a survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, planned to visit Asheville on July 9, 2008, as part of the arrival of a national traveling exhibition, “Hiroshima-Nagasaki: Images and Stories from Eyewitness Accounts.” A delegation from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum planned to attend the opening of the exhibition. The museum advocates […]
Consider the caber. By “caber,” we mean “big log.” Its girth is that of a telephone pole, slightly tapered on one end. It’s about 20 feet long and can weigh 100 to 140 pounds. Now consider giving it a hug and a heave. By “heave,” we mean a calculated upward and outward thrust, so that […]
Workers armed with cordless drills and a boom last week took down the massive white letters and the deep-red background of the Merrimon Avenue Staples store sign to replace it with a version about half the size of the original. The changes are the latest chapter in a years-long battle between city residents and Asheville […]
