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Mountain BizWorks restructures, launches new programs
That year, a sudden funding crisis threw the long-running nonprofit Mountain BizWorks into a tailspin. An expected grant failed to come through, and just like that, the organization found itself struggling to survive.
Asheville Grown Business Alliance director Franzi Charen asks ‘localists’ to help preserve independent businesses downtown
In a recent newsletter that calls chain businesses out as detrimental to Asheville’s downtown landscape, Asheville Grown Business Alliance director Franzi Charen asks Asheville residents: “Are we ‘planting the seeds of our own decline?’” In her plea, Charen reflects the growing pains other cities have experienced after introducing chains and multiple hotels into their downtown […]
Spicing it up: Local entrepreneurs tap ginger for Asheville’s newest brews
WNC beverage enthusiasts are harnessing the kick of ginger in their alcoholic and nonalcoholic brews.
County Chairman David Gantt not seeking re-election
At an emotion-filled press conference Wednesday morning, July 22, long-serving Buncombe County Commissioner and Chairman David Gantt notified the public that he would not seek re-election, leaving office at the end of 2016. He spoke to the measures of success and what he felt were the top accomplishments during his tenure. Thanking all the fellow commissioners and county […]
DA-sponsored expunction clinic serves a different brand of justice
People in search of renewed opportunity flowed into the auditorium at Pack Memorial Library in Asheville on Wednesday, July 8, when lawyers and interns from Pisgah Legal Services and Legal Aid of North Carolina helped clients seek expungements of criminal records.
WNC’s wine and cheese industries come of age
The artisan wine and cheese industries in Western North Carolina are experiencing a major growth spurt as increasing numbers of entrepreneurs seek out careers in these fields.
TAPS healing retreat unites children of deceased veterans
A healing retreat held by the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors helps adult children of fallen soldiers cope with the lose of a parent.
Living Web Farms of Mills River to host roundtable on pollinator protection, June 13
Eight local pollinator, conservation and food experts comprise the panel that will be featured at a forthcoming event hosted by Living Webs Farms of Mills River. The roundtable takes place at their educational farm at 176 Kimzey Road on Saturday, June 13, from 1:30 p.m. until 7 p.m., and discussions will “examine the challenges and […]
Asheville Beer Week: Reincarnated (and it tastes so good)
With its Reincarnation of Beer event on May 26, Burial Beer Co. offered an opportunity to try six of its beers that had been aged on a variety of adjuncts from raisins to mangos to bourbon-soaked oak. Food pairings from Salt + Smoke were also part of the fun.
UNC Asheville, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians sign agreement
UNC Asheville and Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Sign Agreement Members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) will have new opportunities to attend UNC Asheville as part of an instructional credit agreement that was signed today on the university’s campus in both English and Kituwah Cherokee syllabary. With members of the campus and […]
Transformative journey: Appalachian Trail thru-hiker reconsiders his life path
On February 18, Xpress published “Tales from the Trail,” detailing the experiences of Appalachian Trail thru-hiker Gary Sizer. In the story, we met Henry Wasserman, who was seeking a transformative experience on the A.T. On March 19 Wasserman began his months-long trek north, trudging mile after mile through red Georgia clay.
What screams may come: Asheville’s evolving metal scene
Any examination into heavy metal in Asheville runs into the inevitable gray area of what metal music is. And while this variety makes it difficult at times to tell who fits in where, one uniting and striking quality of Asheville’s metal scene is the joy its players take in their craft, regardless of material success.
In the Spirit: Open to the one
Xpress corresponded with AskLizze founder Liz Cox, and Sangha Shabda vocalists Jojo Silverman and Aditi Sethi-Brown about Kirtan with Sangha Shabda, part of musical series Open to the One.
Asheville Grown Business Alliance: Working for now and 50 years down the road
From the Get It! Guide: The Asheville Grown Business Alliance takes 2015 by storm with a focus on diversifying, learning and courageously leveraging our community’s assets to create radical resilience and prosperity for everyone.
Local blacksmith competes on “Ellen’s Design Challenge”
Local blacksmith and furniture artist Carley Eiseberg appears in competition with five other artists on the upcoming “Ellen’s Design Challenge.”
MountainTrue environmental organization gains official name and nonprofit status
From MountainTrue: At the Nov. 20 Annual Fall Gathering, the boards and members of WNCA, ECO and Jackson-Macon Conservation Alliance enthusiastically agreed to move forward as one united organization: MountainTrue. The merger and name change became official on Jan. 1. We are very grateful to the more than 100 people who came to celebrate this […]
The Goodies reunite at Asheville Music Hall
Looking back to 1995 when The Goodies moved from Atlanta to Asheville, frontman Holiday Childress recalls a time of cheap rent, three restaurants and just as many bands. The first local entertainers to explore vaudeville and cabaret rock, the group made its mark on a slowly rejuvenating town. In the process, the band’s lead guitarist and vocalist […]
WNC Food Policy Council awarded $10,000 for agribusiness and food bank training
From a WNC Food Policy Council press release: WNC Food Policy Council awarded $10,000 for agribusiness and food bank training CULLOWHEE, N.C. – The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina (CFWNC) has awarded $10,000.00 to the Western North Carolina Food Policy Council (WNCFPC). The funding will coordinate multiple local efforts in agribusiness training and food […]
Permit by numbers: City offers public art contracting classes
“Putting artists to work” may sound like a WPA-era poster slogan. But it’s also the fundamental basis of a new series of public art contracting courses hosted by RiverLink and organized by Brenda Mills, the city of Asheville’s economic development specialist. The classes offer an introduction and general overview of being a contractor with the city — […]
Go Local 2015: Asheville Grown is growing up
It all began with a picture in a shop window, but as the Asheville Grown Business Alliance has developed from a poster to a loyalty card to a web of interdependent local businesses, the goal has always been, well, growth.