With one day left in the filing period, the Asheville City Council race is heating up, as the field has grown to eight candidates vying for three seats. After remaining publicly noncommittal for months, Council member Jan Davis filed for another run. Haw Creek Community Association President Chris Pelly and activist Lael Gray also officially joined the race.
The weekend is coming up fast and there are dozens, maybe hundreds of events in Western North Carolina. If your head is spinning and you need to narrow it down, check out CalCast, the community calendar podcast. Each week, the Mountain Xpress teams up with Asheville FM to highlight fun and unusual events in the Asheville area.
More same-sex couples per-capita live in Buncombe County than anywhere else in North Carolina, according to a study of U.S. Census data done by the Williams Institute and recently reported in the Asheville Citizen-Times. Buncombe County has 15.5 same-sex couples for every 1,000 residents — the highest rate of any other county in the state. Durham County ranked second with 12.7 per 1,000 residents. In Asheville, the rates appear to be even higher: 19.7 same-sex couples per 1,000 compared to the city of Durham’s 13.2.
