Here’s a rundown on local clean-air-related activities happening this month. Asheville/Buncombe County events • FR & SA May 10-11, 6-10 p.m. – A 28-hour open-mic Clean Air Vigil and Voters’ Summit on Mountain Air Quality will be held at Pack Square. Speakers, music, poetry, prayers and meditations will support the effort to pass S1078 – … Read more
The mind does not absorb what the eye cannot see. — Aldo Leopold Across Western North Carolina, winter-weary residents are welcoming another spring. Unfortunately, May also marks the start of the season of increased ground-level ozone. Automobile and industrial emissions mingle with sunlight to create ozone and other pollutants. And from May through September, the … Read more
A true education goes beyond old-fashioned book learning. Consider the Asheville Area Arts Council’s Arts-in-Education initiative. Now in its second year, the local program funds a variety of projects in Buncombe County — bringing artists into classrooms, showing teachers how to incorporate the arts into the curriculum, artist residencies and performances at schools, and bigger … Read more
This past winter, it seemed that nearly everyone in Asheville — from Sadie Funderburk in West Asheville to Police Chief Will Annarino to City Council member Joe Dunn — was suddenly discovering a plethora of panhandlers. Chief Annarino maintained that “these people” — that is, panhandlers — were responsible for backing up traffic and stopping … Read more
