At a forum on the controversial I-26 Connector Monday night, representatives of local groups, as well as Mayor Terry Bellamy and Buncombe County Board of Commissioners Chairman David Gantt urged residents of the Burton Street neighborhood to continue their activism and petition state officials to spare damage to their neighborhood.
Responding to complaints about predatory towing in downtown Asheville, Asheville police parked a decoy car as bait Saturday night on Lexington Avenue, then reeled in their catch. Police charged two men, 25-year-old Trevor Kyle Ballinger (pictured on left), and 32-year-old Leonard Tobias Best, of All-Safe Towing & Recovery, with obtaining property by false pretense after … Read more
The YWCA Diabetes Wellness Program. photo by Sandra Stambaugh The public is invited to Healthy Family Day: Preventing Diabetes on Saturday, March 14, from 8 a.m. to noon at the YWCA of Asheville, 185 S. French Broad Ave. Healthy Family Day is free for anyone whose life has been touched by diabetes. This bilingual event … Read more
