Campaign Calendar • Wed, Sept. 20: Congressional candidate Heath Shuler will appear at the 11:30 a.m. Critical Issues Luncheon of the Leadership Asheville Forum at the Country Club of Asheville. The public is welcome; reservations are required (contact Terry Wooten at woot683@bellsouth.net or 683-0910). A $16 cost covers lunch — and there is a request … Read more
We’re LAAFFing with you What better place to scope out local fashion (not to mention costumes) than at Asheville’s most local of festivals? On a recent Sunday, Lexington Avenue filled with brightly dressed revelers, vendors and performers, all showing off their unique personal styles. And, better yet, many of those pictured below purchased wardrobe pieces … Read more
Writing’s on the rock: Ellicott Rock, along the Chattooga River, is history in plain sight. photo by Danny Bernstein The sign, which reads “Ellicott Rock,” points down and toward the river. No mistaking it — I drop my pack on the trail and scramble down. I reach the rock, marked “N G” to designate the … Read more
Nearly a third of the way into the free-bus-ride experiment here in Asheville, it’s still too early to tell what, if any, lasting impact the program will have on the number of people using city buses. But I am willing to jump on board with the principles behind the program right now. It’s exciting to … Read more
At this writing, Asheville is three weeks into its 90-day, ride-for-free promotional campaign for mass transit. Already, ridership has increased by 66 percent. The buses are running full, and we’ve gone from people saying that no one would ever ride the bus here to actually having some concern about overcrowding. We know that Asheville is … Read more
Making life more bearable I believe your article on the controversy surrounding Bartram’s Walk [“Bartram’s What?,” Aug. 9] contained the first printed concern I have seen about encroachment of development upon the habitat of the black bears in our area. For 15 years, I have lived and hiked on the Haw Creek side of Cisco … Read more
Early on the morning of Aug. 24, Mike Harrison, the Republican candidate for the N.C. House of Representative’s District 114, launched a campaign salvo in cyberspace. In a posting on the Asheville Citizen-Times‘ online reader forum, he asserted that a local Democratic incumbent, Rep. Bruce Goforth, “was just rated by his peers as the third … Read more
“We had 350 members. Our classes were full. The bottom line is, we were delivering the goods.” — Former URTV General Manager Kurt Mann “We’re looking for a more buttoned-down management style at this point.” — URTV Board President Mark Wilson Public-access television station URTV went on-air last month after years of sometimes heated public … Read more
“I sunk to my shins in places where I used to walk on hard ground.” — Council member Robin Cape After a long and heated debate, the Asheville City Council dramatically scaled back the controversial plans for Richmond Hill Park in the wake of a state citation for failure to adequately control erosion. Approved in … Read more
Hit the books, hit the trail: What if everyone in WNC took time to read the same book? That’s the premise of the Together We Read program, now in its fifth year. This year, program participants are reading Saints at the River by WNC author Ron Rash, a fictionalized account of a real drowning that … Read more
