There’s a trail in them hills: The Carolina Mountain Club needs help completing a stretch of the Mountains-To-Sea-Trail. Join members for a day in the woods on Saturday, Nov. 10. Bring hiking, boots, lunch, and plenty of water. The trail-building detail will depart from the Moose Café (next to the WNC Farmer’s Market) at 9 […]
Author: Kent Priestley
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What are you afraid of?
Let’s make a list.
Weather questions answered
Wondering how much it’s rained in the last several days? There are ways to find out.
Critter Love: Don’t try this at home
Some procedures are best left to veterinarians.
Buncombe County Commissioners
When the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners approved a comprehensive zoning ordinance earlier this year, it did so at the expense of mobile homes. The ordinance banned manufactured homes from the county’s R-1 (single-family residential) and R-2 higher-density residential) districts, grandfathering existing homes in those areas. But some residents cried foul, arguing that prohibiting such […]
Swannanoa, Inc.
Some locals have long been in the habit of referring to an area east of Asheville as “Swannanowhere.” The nickname might have seemed apt, once. But Swannanoa isn’t feeling so remote and undiscovered these days. Subdivisions are going up, several at a go, including the high-profile Cliffs at High Carolina, planned for Swannanoa Mountain. “Our […]
Outdoor Journal
Bringing the gold back to Swannanoa: The Warren Wilson College mountain-bike team dominated Division II of the Southeastern Collegiate Cycling Conference Championships in Clemson, S.C., on Oct. 13 and 14. Senior Kylie Krauss and junior Patrick Hurley pedaled to women’s and men’s overall individual titles, respectively, during four events: short track, cross country, dual slalom […]
Fruit of the earth
The Coleman Boundary woods east of Barnardsville are lush, crisscrossed with streams and filled with hemlocks, beech, sweet birch and oak. They are also profitable, if you know what to look for. Check out more mushroom picking photos here. Photos By Kent Priestley Alan Muskat is someone who does. Perhaps the best-known of a handful […]
Run, you fools!
Ah, fall. The colors! The crisp air! The crunch of leaves underfoot! The smell of wood smoke and wet wool! Once again the earth’s axis is tilting away from the sun, bringing us the first cool caress of Canadian air. Summer’s oppressive heat is gone. The leaves are changing. The competitive urge is aroused. The […]
Outdoor Journal
Du the right thing: The nonprofit Friends of DuPont Forest are hosting their “Tour de Falls” on Saturday and Sunday, October 20 and 21, with visits to Triple Falls, High Falls, Bridal Veil Falls and Lake Julia. Buses will depart for the falls every 15 minutes from a parking area adjacent to Buck Forest parking […]
Buncombe County Commissioners meeting: It’s gonna be huge
It’s deja vu all over again. After postponing its first meeting of the month, on Tuesday the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners will retrace the steps it might taken two weeks ago.
Books, books and more books
Pack Memorial Library’s annual book sale begins tomorrow. Bring money.
Autumn glow
A few weeks before Christmas in 1929, Thomas Edison left his home and laboratory in West Orange, N.J., for his winter retreat in Florida. With him were his wife, Mina, four servants and a dozen assistants. They traveled in a five-vehicle convoy, aiming for the inventor’s winter residence at Fort Meyers. Along with a carefully […]
Outdoor Journal
No phone booth required: Asheville Brewing Company will host its “Super Hero 5K” on Saturday, Nov. 10. Runners are encouraged to wear capes, tights and other accoutrements, and prizes for the best superhero costume will be awarded. The race starts at 5 p.m. at the Coxe Avenue location and weaves through downtown Asheville, into Montford […]
N.C. state lottery: Coming up short?
A New York Times Web feature takes our state lottery to task.
Critter love: Harry and the night visitors
Who knows what lurks near our porch lights?
Extreme measures
Elijah White was 3 years old when he decided he wanted to be a skateboarder. His parents bought him a discount-store board, thinking this might satisfy him; for a while, it did. Then, last spring, Steve White and his wife, Wendy Sause, were driving past Asheville’s Food Lion Skate Park “on a whim” when they […]
Outdoor Journal
The Greatest: Diamond Brand Outdoors in Arden will host a free premiere of the new Chris Gallaway film, The Green Race Movie, on Friday, Oct. 5. Viewers need not be paddlers to feel the thrill. The film starts at 7:30 p.m.—be there. For more information visit www.thegreenracemovie.com or call the store at 251-4668. Don’t strain […]
Buncombe Commissioners: Oct. 2 meeting CANCELED
****UPDATE: The Board of Commissioners announced this afternoon that today’s meeting is canceled, due to a lack of a quorum. The agenda items slated for the meeting will be taken up on Oct. 16.****
Harping on
Asheville teen multi-instrumentalist Alex Reidinger stormed Ireland last summer … and returned to tell about it.
Black Mountain College mentioned in NPR news feature
Director and WW II vet Arthur Penn attended the influential school thanks to the G.I. Bill