The impacts of an Aug. 12 raid on the Mills Manufacturing Corp. plant in south Asheville that netted 57 suspected illegal workers continue to ripple through the community, the plant’s executive vice president and immigration activists say. Your papers, please: A federal raid at Mills Manufacturing, which makes parachutes for the Defense Department, has touched … Read more
Flavor: Chinese of your choosing Ambiance: For $1 delivery charge, your own living room Price: Varies Where: 48 Westgate Parkway Contact: 236-3839 Hours: Sun-Thu, 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Fri-Sat, 11 a.m.-10:30 p.m. If I was a Beijinger, I probably would have munched on a Big Mac during the Olympics opening ceremonies last week, or watched the … Read more
My father must have been claustrophobic. I grew up in Colorado doing a lot of camping during hunting and fishing trips with him. Dad always set up a lean-to—a tentlike structure with a waterproof top, back and bottom, but with the front and sides wide open. Open for dinner: Hobey Ford tests the lean-to’s superior … Read more
Move over, Martha Stewart. The power behind the flowers at Biltmore House is a group of women with more than 75 years’ worth of collective experience in floral design and horticulture. Flower team: The Biltmore Estate employees who put the power in flower arrangements. Photo by Cinthia Milner They’re the full-time floral ladies, a funny, … Read more
As a collector of plants, I was both amused and dismayed by Cinthia Milner’s essay “Serendipity: The Art of Roadside Digging” [The Dirt, May 28]. I applaud the rescue of plants from the blades of bulldozers. And it’s rewarding to find unusual old varieties of flowers that mark abandoned or long-gone homesteads. These old plantings … Read more
At a time when many people are facing hard choices about how to support themselves, I would like to take this moment and this column of print to remember someone lost in the struggle. Last month, a 19-year-old man named Jeremy Johnson was killed while riding his bicycle across Tunnel Road. He was headed to … Read more
The recent “Daily Deed” cover article [“Doin’ It Daily,” Aug. 6] highlighting a new marriage guide about sex, intimacy and navigating monogamy really has me confused. I know life in Asheville is a bit different from life in the tamer, more conventional Charlotte to our south—where the author and her husband live—but are things really … Read more
I’m sorry, did I read it right? “Parking meters should be updated to enable motorists to pay by debit or credit card” [“A House Divided,” Aug. 6]. Is Fred Burchett working for Visa? He must not know that each single transaction, regardless of amount, costs anywhere from 15 to 25 cents, plus there’s an additional … Read more
Saving the farm: Hickory Nut Gap Farms won’t become fodder for mountainside development. With help from state legislators and the Southern Appalachian Highland Conservancy, the historic farm will be protected through the N.C. Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund. Run by the N.C. Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Sciences, the trust fund provided $703,500 … Read more
I am writing in regards to the piece on eating locally [Edgy Mama, July 23]. As a farmer and mother, I found her supposedly humorous and flippant tone throughout offensive. The title, “Eat Local, Go Hungry?,” was a bad start. My husband and I have a farm and sell at three tailgate/farmers markets in Asheville. … Read more
