Local resident Dr. Sarah Warren Asbill reflects on her volunteer work with OpenDoors.
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Local resident Dr. Sarah Warren Asbill reflects on her volunteer work with OpenDoors.
Local resident Sharon Wood reflects on her volunteer work at Asheville Humane Society.
Local resident Greer Gunby reflects on his volunteer work with MountainTrue.
Local resident Mike Erwin reflects on his volunteer work at the WNC Nature Center.
Local resident Jan Oliver discusses her volunteer work with Friends2Ferals.
Local residents Tricia and Charlie Franck reflect on their work with Habitat for Humanity.
Local resident Philip Blocklyn reflects on his volunteer work with RiverLink.
Local resident Joanna Kalp reflects on her volunteer work with the National Alliance for Mental Illness of Western North Carolina.
“Marrying one of the world’s biggest war corporations has consequences.”
Although the region’s technology sector is relatively small, local tech entrepreneurs take pride in their Asheville-inflected approach to business. The firms flourishing here combine a devotion to quality with a sense of social responsibility, aiming to make up for their modest proportions in societal impact.
The city used a scoring system to winnow the field of applicants, but at least one council member questions the fairness of that approach.
“Wilma Dykeman’s shadow covered all of us and inspired us to speak out and support citizens who were becoming more and more concerned about water quality, air quality, land use, land conservation, forest management, etc., in our mountain area.”
Jackson County, home to Western Carolina University, has no domestic violence shelter, but efforts to combine federal dollars and other funding are working to change that.
Black Mountain hopes to extend the life of a 90-year-old earthen dam using $300k from its share of federal American Rescue Plan Act money.
Western North Carolina is a mountain biking hub on the East Coast. And demand for new trails is high. Since the beginning of the pandemic, mountain biking has skyrocketed in popularity nationwide.
“Kids’ hearts and minds are at stake, and it is not just the gay and brown ones; the richness of truth, the beauty of a diverse world is denied to every single child when gag orders are placed on shared histories and ways of being.”
The city in North Carolina’s rainiest county is putting much of its federal American Rescue Plan Act funds toward stormwater infrastructure.
“Perhaps slash-and-burn capitalism has succeeded in changing Asheville where Raleigh hasn’t.”
Through September, Chloe Lieberman will be answering readers’ gardening questions. You can email all inquiries to gardening@mountainx.com.
“Residents’ health shouldn’t have to suffer when there are practical alternatives to open burning.”
The state’s relief comes from the $46 billion Congress approved through federal stimulus. The assistance was created to curb evictions due to widespread income loss at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.