Sheriff gives first annual report County to pay for water line to The Oaks subdivision Millions of dollars worth of county-financed building projects are either pending or in progress around Buncombe County, and Planning Director Jon Creighton updated the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners on them during the board’s May 13 meeting. The 248-bed jail … Read more
After many years of visiting from New Orleans, we arrived in Asheville in September of 1981, finally ready to make it our home. Once again we were struck by the skeletal remains of a once-vibrant city now barely connected to its illustrious past, except for a mishmash of glorious but unkempt early-20th-century architecture. But even … Read more
It took the jury in the federal corruption trial of former Buncombe County Sheriff Bobby Medford and former reserve Capt. Guy Penland just two hours on May 15 to find both men guilty on all 10 counts. Medford faces the music: Former Buncombe County Sheriff Bobby Medford, center, emerged from the federal courthouse after his … Read more
