Canton tech shop @Home Computers held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the beginning of its off-grid operation on solar power. The Main Street store is energized solely through its rooftop array of sixteen solar panels, according to owner Rob Worth.
In his bid to win the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor, Dan Forest brought his campaign to Asheville Monday, canvassing door-to-door with volunteers.
To hone their skills in case of emergency, local amateur radio operators set up improvised, off-grid stations in order to contact as many other operators as possible in a 24-hour period.
I spend a good deal of time downtown and I photograph compulsively (a fact that has been covered in previous Argus posts and ought to be self-evident by now anyway). The combination leads to a staggering amount of downtown photos. So for today, an archive purge.
Jada Elaine Nye and Patrick Hill Farris, Jr. were married today in a short ceremony at the Paris of the South Flea Market in Asheville’s River Arts District.
D-Day veteran Andy Andrews appeared as a guest on WWNC’s Pete Kaliner Show to mark the 68th anniversary of the Allied invasion in World War Two.
A group of bicyclists toured green-built homes for sale in West Asheville, viewing homes and condos along a five-mile tour.
What better symbol of the status quo than a parking lot? It’s always there, and it’s kind of ugly, and most of us never think about it. But we still drive our cars into the city and leave them somewhere while we do our business.
The Preservation Society of Asheville & Buncombe County gathered Tuesday at Asheville’s Basilica of Saint Lawrence to give a show of support for the historic site.
Five-year-old Ayla Orta presented a check for $750 to Andy Clark, commander of local Disabled American Veterans Chapter Two.
An impromptu memorial grew Saturday as community members placed remembrances on the roadside spot where eight-year-old Eryka Phillips was killed Thursday. Drivers on the busy four-lane Smokey Park Highway slowed to look at the collection of teddy bears, balloons and written messages
I’ve been around a fair amount of gunfire and fireworks, and I can tell the difference in their reports. But, apparently, my paranoid reflexes cannot. After I picked myself up off the pavement, I tried to tell myself to be cool, that it was just a march. And my self said: you’re an idiot, and you’re in a real situation here.
Cigar enthusiasts crowded into north Asheville’s B&B Tobacconists cigar and pipe shop last night for the monthly “First Thursday Smoker,” an informal gathering for regulars and novices alike.
A small crowd gathered downtown today to pray publicly as part of the Silent Voices Campaign, a movement started by local conservative firebrand Dr. Carl Mumpower.
The Southeast Propane Autogas Development Program and the Land-of-Sky Clean Vehicles Coalition hosted the North Carolina Propane Autogas Roadshow at the Biltmore Estate today. Present were two of the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Department’s propane-powered patrol cars. Deputies Keith Kutchman and Ben Stilwell touted the virtues of propane as a clean burning, cost-efficient and safe vehicle fuel.
Local Occupy Asheville activist John Penley started the May Day Labor rally early this afternoon, sitting on the sidewalk in front of the Patton Avenue branch of Bank of America two hours before the rally was scheduled to start.
A large and diverse group gathered this afternoon at the Beth Israel Synagogue for the Eighth Annual Celebration Israel Festival, an event that marks the founding of Israel and showcases Jewish culture, including ethnic music, dancing, food, pottery, and crafts.
A small crowd gathered this afternoon in Pritchard Park for the YWCA’s stand against racism.
There was no winter. For weeks Ashevillians have been walking around in unseasonable clothes, looking guilty. I have been holding out for snow, because bad weather makes good photos. But I feel guilty too, because bad weather also makes car accidents. Therein lies the journalist’s moral paradox: If everything is fine, what will I report?
Dozens of local boaters gathered for the Asheville Sailing Club’s regatta at Lake Julian Saturday. According to the club’s press release, the regatta consisted of Jet-14 class boats, which are “high performance, two person, 14-foot. sailboats with a spinnaker.”
Asheville MS Walk and Wellness fair raised both money and awareness for the National Mutiple Sclerosis Society.
