“We’ve pretty much been doing cleanups for 50 years without really seeing any real changes,” says Asheville GreenWorks’ operations manager Chelsea Adams. “We go back to the same roads, in the same section of river and creek, every single year and do cleanups over and over and over.”
“Nowhere did I see the type of ugly, burnt band of chemical brush kill that I see all over North Carolina’s highway margins.”
“Asheville and Buncombe County are in danger of losing a significant amount of financial support from the federal government by residents not completing and returning their census information by Sept. 30.”
“The initial inspiration for the book was observations made while driving along most of I-81 with my family many years ago and thinking that there was much to see along the route that most travelers were oblivious to — geology, physiography, vegetation, etc.”
“Helpful and informed article by Max Hunt. Great research and looked at both the underbelly of new highway construction and the shiny parts, too!”
The North Carolina Department of Transportation held a Feb. 11 open house at A-B Tech’s Enka campus to encourage public input and conversation and to discuss some of the projects queued for Western North Carolina counties.
Above: Jeff Joyce (left), government affairs manager of the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce, and Ben Teague, executive director of the Economic Development Coalition, listen intently to a presentation by WCU Professor Dr. Michael Smith — Photo by Michael Muller
