Day: September 18, 2015
High tension wires: Duke Energy and Henderson County residents at odds over proposed transmission lines
Power giant Duke Energy’s proposal for a 45-mile transmission line through Western North Carolina, part of the company’s multifaceted Western Carolinas Modernization project to upgrade and integrate the mountains with a larger regional power grid, is meeting staunch opposition from residents since the company announced its intentions in mid-July.
Visual artist Douglas Lail’s exhibit explores life after addiction
“It is my hope that through the Hello My Name is… project, that those that choose to will find the strength and courage to step outside the rooms and break free from the lingering social stigma of addiction,” says local artist Douglas Lail, whose work will be on display at Parish Hall Saturday, Sept. 26.
Message About a Bottle
After recently unearthing (unmonumenting?) a time capsule put there in 1897 from the now-refurbished Vance monument memorial in downtown Asheville, plans to place a new capsule into the rededicated monument have been made by local officials. What insights into (now-modern/by-then-ancient) Asheville will future inhabitants of the region be able to divine?
