On Thursday, July 22, Bele Chere started with the golf-cart brigades — skads of volunteers and city staffer on foot, buzzing around in carts, setting up street barriers, unloading garbage and recycling barrels, walking around with clipboards and cell phones… By midday on Friday, the streets, the booths, the vendors, the police, the bands, the stages will all be ready for the flood of Bele Chere visitors.
photos by Margaret Williams
Remember Carl Mumpower, everyone’s favorite conservative? Well, the former Asheville City Councilman is having a contest and you could win cash money. Not a lot, mind you — probably just enough to buy yourself a fake Green Card and dinner at Mamacitas — but still, in this economy, money is money. You see, Carl has just completed a book on “reviving the real conservative mission in America” and he’s looking for your help in providing him a caricature before the book goes to press.
Biltmore Park is welcoming six new commercial tenants to its 42-acre mixed-use planned community in south Asheville, representatives of the company told Xpress this afternoon.
The Wine Loft, Lavender Fields, Lenscrafters, Neo Burrito, Shades of Green and Ideal Image have all signed leases and are in various stages of the permitting and upfitting process.
Another magnificent sunrise over the mountains just south of Asheville. Photo by Leia Cator. For more of her work, visit Mo’s Way Sunrise
