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Mum’s the wordsmith
Mumpower: Halting construction of North Shore Road is a “surrender to envirojackers”
Carolina Stompers starting to get on Dems’ nerves
Those stompin’ mad Republicans we reported on a few weeks ago are back, and this time they’re garnering headlines across the state.
Under pressure, agencies visit hazardous-waste site
The bluish, oily sheen coating the surface of a tiny creek that runs downstream from CTS of Asheville is obvious to any observer. So is the sharp odor it gives off. All in a day’s work: Harry Zinn, a DENR staffer, takes a water sample near the old CTS plant. A concerned state representative and […]
The Green Scene
Earth-minded merchants offer green alternatives As far as Truly Ball and Sarah Easterling are concerned, making a difference in the world can begin with a shopping trip. The mother/daughter team, whose family can be traced back six generations in Western North Carolina, co-owns Nest Organics, a green-goods shop that opened on Lexington Avenue several months […]
Know your history
Take an immediate right at the top of the escalator at Asheville’s Innsbruck Mall, and you’ll find yourself stepping back in time. Or so it seems at the Old Buncombe County Genealogical Society, a cozy library staffed by cheerful history buffs and crammed full with historical photos and relics, deeds, cemetery records, wedding announcements and […]
Soldier from Candler to be tried for murder of unarmed Iraqi civilians
On Friday, a U.S. soldier tearfully admitted to shooting an unarmed Iraqi last spring, and told the court-martial that Staff Sgt. Michael Hensley had ordered him to do it. The story, which appeared in the New York Times and other publications, brings the bloodshed in Iraq closer to home for Western North Carolinians, as Hensley is from Candler.
Environmental agencies respond to pressure on CTS factory-site cleanup
The hazardous-waste site on Mills Gap Road has received attention from concerned neighbors, a state representative, a member of Congress and a nonprofit group. Now, the state and EPA are beginning to take notice.
The Green Scene
These days, you don’t need a phaser or a lightsaber to battle alien invaders. Armed only with gloves, herbicides and some guidance from groups like the Western North Carolina Alliance, local volunteers are laboriously uprooting tenacious bunches of exotic grass and other plants that have taken root in the region’s public lands. Without such efforts, […]
Learn how to design a green roof
At a free seminar sponsored by LandDesign takes place in Asheville this Thursday, Sept. 27.
How one Staples is going “green”
Miami’s brand-new, LEED-certified Staples might leave Asheville green with envy. Then again, maybe not.
The Green Scene
Asheville is one of 10 cities in the eastern and southern U.S. that will experience fewer healthy air days as a result of global warming, according to a report released Sept. 13 by the Natural Resources Defense Council and Environment North Carolina. By 2050, Asheville will have more than twice as many bad-air days per […]
Take me to your reader
It sounds like something straight out of a sci-fi thriller: tiny chips embedded in consumer products or even beneath the skin, enabling Big Brother or a corporate cousin to track your every move. Tag, you’re it: Radio-frequency identification tags are manufactured at UPM Raflatac in Fletcher. Photo Courtesy Upm Raflatac But that kind of talk […]
Commissioners to look at mandatory micro-chipping for pets
A revision to Buncombe County’s Animal Control Ordinance would require pet owners to have their animals micro-chipped if they’re found wandering at large.
CTS of Asheville update: RiverLink meets with Health Shuler’s office about groundwater contamination
Hartwell Carson, RiverLink’s French Broad Riverkeeper, met with Rep. Heath Shuler‘s office yesterday to discuss the groundwater threat at the former CTS of Asheville, a hazardous-waste site on Mills Gap Road.
The Green Scene
Black Mountain and Clyde are officially “cool” “Black Mountain is leading the way,” Tom Jensen proclaimed during a Sept. 4 ceremony at the Town Hall. Not wanting to sound insincere, he added, “I’m dead serious. … Folks out here have an amazing amount of vision and common sense.” “Does this mean I am officially a […]
Happy rabies day!
Winning the war on rabies is not as much fun for pets.
Breaking the bathroom barrier
The “safe to pee” movement comes to North Carolina.
“Interesting folks”
The Official 2007 Visitor Guide to Asheville, published by the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority, counts Lexington Avenue as a downtown attraction. “Asheville in one word? Funky,” advises the guide. “The area around the intersection of Walnut and Lexington, known as ‘Lower Lex,’ is a nexus for offbeat clothing boutiques, coffeehouses, music stores and an […]
The Green Scene
Conservation ambassadors Cody and Shalimar are gray wolves, but they don’t look gray. Cody, a 4-month-old male, is almost black, while Shalimar, a 3-month-old female, has a cream-colored coat. And while gray wolves—also called timber wolves or tundra wolves—were once native to Western North Carolina, these pups were born in a wildlife facility in Montana […]
Burning ban lifted
Want a s’more? Burn on, Asheville.