Day: April 19, 2011
Where to go?
The Buncombe County Department Of Health is in the process of relocating from its longtime home at 35 Woodfin Street to a renovated Human Services Building in downtown Asheville at 40 Coxe Avenue. In the meantime, the Department of Health is providing services from several interim sites: • Administrative Offices and Vital Records are at … Read more
Charting the future
Kit Cramer came on board as the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce’s president and CEO last fall. Xpress sat down with her recently along with Ben Teague, the Chamber’s senior vice president for economic development. They discussed the organization’s new long-term strategic plan for business development as well as the controversy over the Asheville group’s … Read more
Turn off the radio, Bob!
One has to shake one’s head trying to come up with a response to Bob Youngerman’s diatribe on pulling funding from public broadcasting — namely, National Public Radio [“Please Tell Me Why I Should Support NPR,” April 6 Xpress]. It’s obvious that Mr. Youngerman, the “unaffiliated voter with a conservative bent,” is ignorant of the … Read more
Green Scene: Bats in the balance
The discovery of the deadly bat disease known as white-nose syndrome in more WNC counties doesn’t bode well for the future of many bat species here, according to biologists with state and federal wildlife agencies. In late January, a team of biologists conducting a bat inventory of a cave at Grandfather Mountain discovered a single … Read more
Keeping it simple
If you live and garden in Western North Carolina, chances are good you've heard of Jeanine Davis. If you're a farmer, chances are better that you've benefited from her research, expert advice or constant efforts to improve the quality of local farming. Davis is an associate professor at N.C. State University who’s stationed at the … Read more
Weekly Picks
Learn how to run and walk injury-free and more efficiently with a certified ChiRunning instructor at Carrier Park on Wednesday, April 20 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. These hour-long training sessions are free to the public and held weekly. Info: 252-9828, Facebook.com/ChiRunning or nicole@chiliving.com. Warren Wilson Theater presents "The Cherry Orchard," Anton Chekhov's final play, … Read more
Mud fish and menudo
At Smiley's Flea Market in Fletcher, a young girl with black hair, a rose-patterned dress and silver cowboy boots kicks up dust as she runs between stalls piled with fruit, a plastic bag of sugar-dusted churros in her hand. A truck squeezes through one of the narrow roads that divide the market, filling the air … Read more
