November 27, 2015 – mountainx.com

Working on the Shame Gang

December 3, 2015November 27, 2015 by Brent Brown

Letter writer: Don’t take your guns to town

November 27, 2015 by Letters

“Speaking for myself and probably lots of other people, I would feel safer dining in a place that does not allow guns.”

Asheville’s escape rooms offer claustrophobic fun

November 27, 2015 by Jonathan Rich

A new form of entertainment has arrived in Asheville where small groups of people pay to be locked in a room filled with puzzles and clues that may facilitate their release within an hour.

Brown Thursday

November 28, 2015November 27, 2015 by Brent Brown

New Asheville City Council members to be sworn in; will choose Vice Mayor

November 27, 2015 by Virginia Daffron

Newly-Elected City Council members Brian Haynes, Julie Mayfield and Keith Young will take the oath of office in Council chambers on the second floor of City Hall on Dec. 1 at 4 p.m. A new Vice Mayor will be elected from the seven-member Council.

Eyes on the future: Saving WNC’s farms

November 27, 2015 by Max Hunt

Robin Reeves is the sixth generation to grow up on her family’s Madison County farm — a lineage that dates back to before the Civil War. Reeves spent much of her youth helping her parents raise cattle, burley tobacco and tomatoes as well as her extended family in Sandy Mush. As an adolescent, she sold … Read more

VIDEO: Free Planet Radio and The Opal String Quartet

November 27, 2015 by Alli Marshall

In a live performance from August, local world music outfit Free Planet Radio collaborates with chamber music collective The Opal String Quartet for a performance of “You, who’ve gone on pilgrimage.”

Buncombe Commissioners to vote for new vice chair, discuss zoning additions

November 30, 2015November 27, 2015 by Hayley Benton

At the Tuesday, Dec. 1 Buncombe County Board of Commissioners meeting, the commissioners will vote for a new vice chair of the Board — and also decide whether to amend the county zoning map by adding zoning to unincorporated areas.