Day: July 25, 2007

While we all wait for the Board of Elections to validate signatures, I think we should all reflect on what was achieved in the Let Asheville Vote petition drive. There was no one person that we couldn’t do without. Rather, there were dozens of people whose absence would have derailed our campaign. There were the … Read more

Regarding partisan/nonpartisan elections—so, what do you do when Republicans run as independents? Where I came from, Republicans wouldn’t run under the Republican flag. They called themselves independents, hoping to attract more votes. — Dan Stitt Black Mountain

Reading the article in Mountain Xpress promoting Coon Dog Day in Saluda [“Free Barking: You Won’t Get Hounded by a Lot of Rules at Coon Dog Day,” July 5], I found myself drawn back in time to a haunting childhood memory, forever etched in my psyche, [of] when my father took me along on a … Read more

I would like our community to know about a wonderful thing Doc Chey’s did for me recently. Following a back surgery that turned unlucky when I contracted a rare infection from surgery, I was out of work for several months. Doc Chey’s organized a day where they would donate 5 percent of their sales to … Read more

When did the word development come to mean destruction? Did I lose a piece of understanding somewhere? I thought development meant to continue developing that which already exists. Yet instead, here in Asheville, it is showing up as meaning to destroy—destroy our natural beauty, our mountainsides, our hills, our scenic long views. In our own … Read more

I ask that you consider the metaphor of Asheville as a beautiful, wealthy, innocent young woman being courted relentlessly by men of all ages, some of whom are rapacious rogues. They desire her only for her wealth—her beauty a secondary consideration, at best. The rogues appear presentable to her parents, who want a good marriage … Read more

In response to “Mourning the Mountain” submitted by Eva Scruggs of Leicester [Letters, July 11], I respectfully disagree with the statement that Rose Hill Plantation’s “developers are really just destroyers.” On behalf of the Rose Hill Plantation development: We understand and sympathize with individuals who are concerned about good land management in Western North Carolina. … Read more