From Asheville Citizen-Times
By Mark Barrett:
Private groups mostly passed on a city government invitation to come up with an event that might have replaced Bele Chere.
The city received only two formal responses to a city request for initial interest from groups to put on what a staff report called “Asheville’s next signature event,” the city staffer overseeing the process said Tuesday.
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