Street party/rally celebrates the passage of the N.C. Clean Smokestacks Act On June 29, nine days after Gov. Mike Easley signed the Clean Smokestacks Act into law, supporters gathered at Asheville’s City/County Plaza to celebrate the legislation –which requires North Carolina utility companies to significantly lower emissions at coal-fired power plants — and to call […]
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Writing program at Warren Wilson College presents open readings and lectures Every six months, students from across the country gather at Warren Wilson College for an intensive 10-day residency of workshops, classes and readings, as part of the college’s MFA Program for Writers. These residencies are combined with a nonresidential semester of highly focused study, […]
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Speak out for high-speed Internet service To help Internet providers build a business case for extending high-speed Internet access to underserved areas of North Carolina, the e-NC Initiative has created a central location where citizens can request service. The group’s Web site includes a page where citizens can register requests for high-speed service. “We’ve simply […]
The Practical Gardener
Whenever I meet someone from another country, I ask about the kind of food they eat at home and where their fresh produce comes from. What I find amazing is that, six times out of 10, they know that their food comes from a local source. Even more incredibly, these foreigners often know the name […]
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Celebrating the crafts of Scotland The mountainous terrain of the Southern Appalachians bears a strong resemblance to the rocky Scottish Highlands, making this area a natural choice for the many Scots who settled here in the 18th and 19th centuries. No surprise, then, that Appalachian crafts and culture, language and lore also closely reflect their […]
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A school for local activists A free workshop, “Working Locally for Social Change: Transforming Political Rhetoric into Social Action” aims to help local activists increase their impact. This interactive, skills-based workshop will take place Saturday April 13, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at A-B Tech’s Simpson Lecture Hall (340 Victoria Road). Sponsored by Democracy South […]
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“Buy local” food campaign chosen for national initiative It was nearly a year-and-a-half ago that Mountain Partners in Agriculture (a community-based collaborative working to develop sustainable farming and food systems) publicly launched its “Get Fresh, Buy Appalachian” campaign, aimed at encouraging WNC consumers to buy locally grown food. The campaign, part of the organization’s Appalachian […]
A long and winding road
For most locals, every attempt to navigate one of Asheville’s traffic-choked arteries — whether by car, bike or other means — is likely to bring the city’s transportation woes into sharp focus. How did we ever come to this? The long answer to that question begins at least in the 18th century, when travelers were […]
Buncombe County Commission
A dose of hip infused the Feb. 19 Buncombe County Board of Commissioners meeting, as local folks involved in film, television and multimedia work pitched public-access TV as a tool for economic development. Loosely organized by Asheville-based digital-media consultant David McConville, the group urged commissioners to push for more money from Charter Communications in the […]
Asheville City Council
Raising taxes can be the kiss of death for any politician, especially in an election year. “It’s a soul-searching, gut-wrenching thing to do,” commented Asheville Mayor Leni Sitnick during City Council’s Feb. 27 formal session. But she went on to note that it’s something the city hasn’t done in 10 years. With that in mind, […]
Letters to the editor
In praise of white-trash ingenuity It was refreshing to read Jerry Sternberg’s brown-cow theory [Commentary, Jan. 17, “How about a little compassion, folks?”]. I have had a less polite response in mind, considering the way Asheville tends to put out of mind the existence of what is less romantically dubbed the white-trash population. Not necessarily […]
Meat plant
It was a slow news day until the phone rang. The caller had a story idea and wanted to know if I was interested. He said it would involve an early Saturday-morning trip to a nearby wetland to investigate the possibility of reintroducing a rare plant species. I was hesitant at first — especially about […]
Letters to the editor
Keep your nose out of my business I have never seen a city (Asheville) filled with so much gossip in all of my life. You can’t even go out and have a good time in this town without somebody or some group (mainly losers) who can’t focus on their own miserable lives telling folks what […]
Get Fresh!
“Pea shoots, baby!” exclaimed gardener Patryk Battle. In a scene reminiscent of Stalking the Wild Asparagus author and eat-almost-anything enthusiast Eull Gibbons, Battle waved the viney snippet of green under the nose of a male guest at the Appalachian Harvests gala, held Oct. 25 at the Grove Park Inn. The event served up a smorgasbord […]
Heartbreak queen
Pretty much every man I’ve known in my adult life (and a fair number of women, too) have, at least on some transcendental level, been in love with Emmylou Harris. Even the famously gruff Steve Earle waxed downright soft and mushy when her name came up in an interview I did with him last year. […]
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Reality pales by Hanke’s comparison I wanted to take a moment to express my appreciation for the work of Ken Hanke, and to make sure you understand what a treasure you have in this man. I am not a rabid movie fan. At least, not of current films, although like most cinema buffs, I have […]
The reel deal
Back in 1992, when Elaine Ciampi walked into the ballroom of what was to become the Skyland Arts Cinema in downtown Hendersonville, she had one thing on her mind — foreign films (make that great foreign films). Jim Northington, who was renovating the old Skyland Hotel ballroom with the intention of turning it into a […]
In the eye of the beholder
Last June, James M. Sandlin shot a stray dog four times and nearly hacked its head off with an ax. The killing outraged animal lovers and prompted the Buncombe County district attorney’s office to prosecute the Fairview man on a charge of felony cruelty to animals. After the case ended in a mistrial last month, […]
Where are you, Piedmont Airlines?
The natives seem to be getting restless about airline service in and out of Asheville. (For the purposes of this article, we’re going to call it ‘service,’ anyway.) Along with that, there seems to be the belief that, if we make our displeasure known, surely the airlines — or maybe the government — will take […]
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Animal Services Advisory Board is a circus sideshow Bored with Seinfeld reruns? Does the movie fare look bleak? Come on over to the old Carolina Power and Light building across from Three Brothers Restaurant, where — on the first and third Monday of each month — the Advisory Board to the Animal Shelter (recently mysteriously […]
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One man’s trash… With all the enthusiastic recyclers in our area, it should come as no surprise that Asheville will soon host the Carolina Recycling Association’s 10th annual Shoot for the Stars Conference and Trade Show. The regional association, said to be the largest state-based recycling organization in the country, bills the conference as the […]