Day: January 26, 2005
Full retreat
It wasn’t all dull reports and fat sheaves of paper at the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners’ annual planning retreat, held Jan.17-18 at the Crest Center & Pavilion on Ben Lippen School Road in Emma. Some of the most revealing discussions took place during meals and fireside chats — perhaps because the blazing fire created … Read more
Buncombe County Commission
Years of wrangling over the creation of public-access television in Buncombe County culminated in a unanimous vote of support from the Board of Commissioners at their Jan. 18 meeting. The board approved both a 10-page management contract with URTV Inc., a nonprofit corporation, and a funding-distribution plan that will substantially underwrite operations at the station … Read more
Buzzworm news briefs
Healthy house, healthy planet An arts-and-crafts bungalow in Black Mountain is the first house to be certified under the North Carolina HealthyBuilt Homes Program. Launched in 2003 by the North Carolina Solar Center (located on N.C. State University’s campus) in collaboration with the State Energy Office and the N.C. Department of Administration, the program’s purpose … Read more
Letters to the editor
Co-op provides for community and beyond I would like to publicly thank the French Broad Food Co-op for its recent help to Asheville Playback Theatre’s fundraising efforts. As many know, APT will soon travel to Cuba as part of an international conference and training in Playback forms. It occurred to me as I was shopping … Read more
Consider This
[Consider This is an e-mail update and analysis put out three times a week by the Common Sense Foundation, a nonpartisan public-policy organization formed in 1994 “to ensure that state government and the political process attend to the interrelated economic, political, social and cultural needs of those who are systematically denied access to power,” according … Read more
