June 27, 2012 – mountainx.com

CTS activists take their case to Washington, D.C., next week

June 27, 2012 by Bill Rhodes

Tate MacQueen, seen here at a recent Buncombe County Commissioners meeting, is set to meet with federal officials in Washington, D.C., next week to request oversight of EPA’s Region IV.

Clean vehicles coalition celebrate improved CNG filling station

June 27, 2012 by Bill Rhodes

Land-of-Sky Regional Council, Asheville City and Mission Health officials re-dedicated an improved compressed-natural-gas filling station on McCormick Place today, June 27.
(Ronald Paulus, MD, CEO and President of Mission Health at the re-vamped CNG filling station on McCormick Place; photo by Bill Rhodes)

This weekend on a shoestring

June 27, 2012 by Dane Smith

From free food and live music to wilderness survival and outdoor theater, Xpress brings you the best in low-cost weekend entertainment.

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June 27, 2012 by Brent Brown

Madison County organic growers question herbicide use along power lines

June 27, 2012 by Susan Andrew

With French Broad Electric Membership Corporation set to apply herbicides to the power-line corridor in Madison County, organic farmers in Spring Creek are asking why there isn’t more public input on the way the utility manages the rights-of-way through their farms and near local streams.

Mulberry-Globe Stewardship Project will improve Caldwell County Streams

June 27, 2012 by Webmaster

The U.S. Forest Services has announced that several streams around the Boone Fork Campground will be improved as part of the Mulberry-Globe Stewardship Project now under way in the Grandfather Ranger District, Pisgah National Forest.

Busk Break: Another trio from the archives

June 27, 2012 by Steve Shanafelt

Daniel Hensley rocks the drums, Big Nasty plays “Tin Roof Blues” and a jazz four-piece covers Fleetwood Mac.