Day: May 9, 2007
Buncombe County Commission
Though the outcome of a second vote on proposed countywide zoning was never in doubt, the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners labored over the issue for much of a 3-1/2 hour regular session on May 1. Commissioner Bill Stanley was absent due to a death in his family. At the outset, during the premeeting public … Read more
Well, well
Is the rash of development in WNC affecting wells? The answer depends on whom you ask. Over the past three-and-a-half years, Alexander residents Tim and Jeannie Deering have drilled a total of more than 2,100 feet but still haven’t found a reliable source of water for their four-year-old home. “We drilled our first well in … Read more
The kid’s all right
School’s almost out for the summer, and for many students that means the lure of three months of lazy days and hot party nights. For Adam King, a rising junior at Reynolds High School, it’ll most likely mean more writing for Asheville Citizen-Times blog “Student on the March,” volunteer work throughout the community and his … Read more
Pritchard committee meeting is no picnic in the park
While members of the newly formed Pritchard Park Committee bandied about ways to make their board more diverse, many of the roughly 20 audience members who’d turned out at the Asheville Civic Center banquet hall for the committee’s May 4 meeting were more interested in getting down to the business of addressing the park’s problems. … Read more
Girls 4 Girls: Singing the body eclectic
Young women’s appraisals of their bodies have been under assault at least since the invention of the corset. Since then, things have gotten markedly worse. Tugged between the beauty standard of the knock-kneed model and the realities of the modern-American lifestyle—i.e. TV, empty calories and inactivity—many girls today don’t know how they should be shaped, … Read more
Waking a landmark
The For Sale sign in the front window of the S&W Cafeteria Building in Asheville may be coming down soon—and a new floor going up. Patton Avenue’s iconic terra-cotta-roofed landmark, designed by Douglas Ellington in the 1920s, has stood dormant since the departure of Shotzy’s bar a few years back. “We kind of want to … Read more
New Segregations: A video dialogue
Decades after Asheville’s businesses and schools were officially desegregated, some local communities are still living very much separate lives. And some of those communities still go largely unseen—or unnoticed—by their neighbors. Liam Luttrell-Rowland is out to change that for the young residents of Asheville’s predominantly African-American Erskine neighborhood. He’s put their daily lives in the … Read more
Committee meeting is no picnic in the park
While members of the newly formed Pritchard Park Committee bandied about ways to make their board more diverse, many of the roughly 20 audience members who’d turned out at the Asheville Civic Center banquet hall for the committee’s May 4 meeting were more interested in getting down to the business of addressing the park’s problems. … Read more
As good as it gets
When did our collective fascination with all things futuristic (mod boots, The Jetsons, hovercraft) grow stale, and nostalgia for a distant, golden past kick in? We’ve barely embraced Bluetooth technology—meanwhile, a hipper generation of hipsters is scouring eBay for rotary-dial telephones and the portable record players once found in junior-high language labs. “I think we … Read more
