Day: September 10, 2008
Academic Coach Program
Asheville City Schools Foundation’s volunteer academic coaches assist students with a wide variety of tasks that support their educational success, including organizational skills, navigation of the educational system, relationship building, preparing for exams, homework help, literacy and math skills and other tools necessary to excel at school. Academic coaches commit to working with a student … Read more
Campaign calendar
A note on North Carolina’s youth vote: About one-fourth of the state’s citizens ages 18 to 25 are still not registered to vote, according to a recent report by the nonprofit campaign-reform group Democracy North Carolina. And although Bob Hall, the group’s executive director, stresses that 90,000 more young people are registered now than in … Read more
As Pack Square Park takes shape, Conservancy begins to change focus
The director of the group overseeing the $20 million makeover of Asheville’s high-profile center-city park is planning to step aside. Park circle: Donna Clark, at right, the spokeswoman for the nonprofit Pack Square Conservancy, says the work on the new Pack Square Park is taking shape week by week. She’s standing next to what will … Read more
Weigh in on I-26
A decade in the planning, the I-26 Connector through Asheville may finally be ready for its close-up. Over the years, the six-or-eight-lane argument and the prospect of a new I-240 bridge (including an option for that structure designed by local volunteer architects) have both provided Asheville with plenty of discussion and political drama. And now … Read more
Asheville downtown plan presentation may be postponed
A presentation intended to unveil a draft Downtown Master Plan for Asheville may get bumped back, project manager Sasha Vrtunski told Xpress. The presentation, the next step in a series of meetings intended to engage the public in the design process for a comprehensive downtown development-and-transportation plan, may be delayed so more work can be … Read more
Medford and fellow deputies to learn their fate Oct. 6
A federal judge will announce the prison sentences of former Buncombe County Sheriff Bobby Medford and three of his former deputies on Oct. 6, closing the latest chapter in one of the biggest public-corruption cases in WNC history. Medford and former deputy Guy Kenneth Penland will be sentenced in federal District Court in Asheville at … Read more
Buncombe Commissioners
Site problems could add $1 million to cost of new animal shelter Fewer unwanted animals killed Controversy over the Buncombe County commissioners’ approach to Planning Board appointments continued at the commissioners’ Sept. 2 meeting. Critics questioned both the makeup of the powerful board and the lack of transparency in how the appointments are being handled. … Read more
