Day: June 16, 2010

Susan Andrew's survey of the good work at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute ["PARI Presents a Look Back in Time," June 9 Xpress] was much appreciated, but it jettisoned an important part of the facility's history into a black hole, so to speak. She wrote that in 1981, the facility was transferred from NASA "to … Read more

Thank you Mountain Xpress for running the article "From the Ground Up" in your June 9 issue. As project coordinator of the N.C. Organic Bread Flour Project — an effort that has for the last year-and-a-half entailed numerous baker meetings, farmer meetings and lots of e-mail communications — it is exciting to see our efforts … Read more

Pastor Jerry Young, chairman of URTV board of directors, has sent a letter to the [Asheville] City Manager's office announcing the pending shut-down of our public-access station. This financial collision was what I and others who were paying attention had become deeply concerned about since early 2008. Numerous attempts to alert both our elected officials … Read more

Your article on the financial condition at URTV was interesting ["Broke," June 9]. Having operated a profitable production company and served on the board of a community-access channel, I continue to be amazed at how complicated URTV has made its financial picture. The financial operation of a station the size of URTV is fairly straightforward. … Read more

After reading about the trail the bear had taken downtown ["A Different Kind of Tourist," June 2 Xpress], it amused me how smart the creature was not only in finding his way down and back, but also in his health-conscious mindset in selecting berries to curb his appetite. — Elaine Kabat Asheville