Day: June 13, 2007
Buncombe County Commissioners
Parents, teachers and Asheville City Schools administrators urged increased school funding during a public hearing at the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners’ June 5 meeting. The county’s draft budget for fiscal year 2008, which begins July 1, would maintain the current tax rate for the city schools. But without a tax increase, inflation and built-in … Read more
Missing guns, drugs and money at Buncombe Sheriff’s Department
A routine audit performed by the Buncombe County Finance Department last December during the transition from outgoing Sheriff Bobby Medford to his successor, Van Duncan, has come up short of cash, weapons and drugs seized during criminal investigations. The Asheville Citizen-Times, which obtained a copy of an internal evidence-room audit report released to the SBI … Read more
Reinventing a river
Atop the austere and stuffily named Legal Building, overlooking construction traffic in the city’s once-and-future central park, sit the Asheville offices of Design Workshop. Although the company’s name may not be familiar to many area residents, its work in landscape architecture, land planning and urban design has borne fruit in projects worldwide. And now, Design … Read more
The Green Scene
Major players in Asheville’s real-estate and economic-development sectors—the Asheville Home Builders Association, the Asheville Board of Realtors, and the Council of Independent Business Owners, to name a few—have partnered with the Western North Carolina Green Building Council and Warren Wilson College’s Environmental Leadership Center to stage a conference on sustainable development. This is how it’s … Read more
The new papa paradigm
For expectant dads, the act of conception was the fun part (let’s be real here, fellas). Rad dad: Jason Pradway’s parenting group, Radical Dads, seeks to challenge and discuss traditional perceptions of fatherhood. photo by Jonathan Welch But, oh, to hold your newborn and dream of his or her future and your new life as … Read more
Help with the woolly bully
Everywhere you look in Asheville, the hemlock trees are trimmed with white fluff, more technically known as the hemlock woolly adelgid. The tiny, aphid-like insects suck the life out of their hosts and have spread through the region’s forests in recent years. While scientists search for ways to battle the horde, for now the only … Read more
