“Lots of advantages to electric vehicles, especially lack of pollution and noise, and trolleys have a fond heritage in Asheville.”
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Taking place Sunday, July 17, 2 p.m. at Salvage Station, the inaugural Big Secret Family Festival features The Secret Agency with Secret Agent 23 Skidoo, Empire Strikes Brass, Snake Oil Medicine Show with Caroline Pond and Eastern Band Cherokee storyteller and cultural ambassador John John Grant.
“Lots of advantages to electric vehicles, especially lack of pollution and noise, and trolleys have a fond heritage in Asheville.”
“Notwithstanding the pontifications of the City Council and their attorney, the Vance Monument was a gift to the people of Asheville, largely paid for by Vance’s friend George Willis Pack, on property donated by Pack on the condition that it be retained forever.”
Despite the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, local outposts of the Veterans of Foreign Wars have stayed active in the community, providing a social outlet for those who have served while continuing a variety of charitable works.
“I miss things that are suddenly no longer appearing in the Citizen Times (after 16 years, I am thinking of surrendering my subscription) and wish your paper would publish more editorials and letters to the editor.”
“This is effectively a giveaway to developers under the guise of providing affordable housing.”
The $15 million grant for Asheville Regional is one of only two grants awarded to build a completely new air traffic control tower; the other is in Peoria, Ill.
“As city and county governments get past the current legal obstructions to removing the remnants, they consider a repurposing of Pack Square that focuses on the present and the future, not just the past.”
“Stop throwing people in the streets while making housing and access to food only for those that you are most comfortable with.”
Asheville can feel as if dogs have the run of the place. They are seemingly in every brewery and restaurant and on every trail. Nearly all of these animals are pets that might occasionally earn their keep by barking at a black bear in the trash or chasing a gopher from the tomato patch. But […]
As residents cope with Asheville’s red-hot housing market and rising mortgage rates, some low- and moderate-income families are turning to local and national down payment assistance programs to overcome one of homebuying’s biggest barriers.
Xpress recently caught up with U.S. Army veteran Matthew Bacoate about his continued interest in golf, the importance of Skyview Golf Association and how his military service informs who he is today.
Xpress speaks with the award-winning poet, Anne Maren-Hogan, about the people and places that inspired the poems in her latest collection, “Vernacular.”
Photography, music and writing have helped area military servicemen work through combat trauma.
Veterans Healing Farm helps vets through agritherapy while ABCCM’s culinary courses place graduates in prestigious kitchens.