March 27, 2019 – mountainx.com

Lower-than-expected Mission tax revenues crunch Asheville budget

April 1, 2019March 27, 2019 by Daniel Walton

At a budget work session on March 26, city CFO Barbara Whitehorn reported that Asheville can expect to receive $2.5 million in property and sales taxes from the health system in fiscal year 2019-20 — only half of the $5 million initially estimated by the Buncombe County tax office — then $5 million instead of $8 million for every year to follow.

Smart Bets: Transgender Day of Visibility Community Art Show

March 27, 2019 by Edwin Arnaudin

Local transgender, non-binary and gender nonconforming artists’ work will be displayed and auctioned on March 31 at the Taylor Art Gallery.

Unspoken Tradition celebrates its third album

March 28, 2019March 27, 2019 by Bill Kopp

“Not only is the music evolving,” mandolinist Ty Gilpin says, “but the subject matter of the music is also changing to reflect what’s happening in the world today.”

WNC farmers look to new business models after last year’s flooding

March 27, 2019 by Kim Winter Mako

In April, Cane Creek Valley Farm in Fletcher will open two of its organic fields to the community through a new garden-share program that’s aimed at bolstering the small, family-owned operation against the damaging effects of weather events.

Smart Bets: Tina & Her Pony

March 27, 2019 by Edwin Arnaudin

The Asheville folk/Americana duo perform new songs at Ambrose West on March 29.

Letter: Bare feet pose no threat

March 27, 2019 by Letters

“The feet of anyone choosing to be barefoot are no threat whatsoever to anyone around them.”

Ahead of meeting, DOT backs off four lanes for Amboy and Meadow roads

March 27, 2019March 27, 2019 by Mark Barrett

The N.C. Department of Transportation has begun planning for a project intended to improve traffic flow and add facilities for pedestrians and bicyclists along the corridor that connects West Asheville and Biltmore Village. But with neighbors gearing up to oppose what they feared would be a plan to widen both Amboy and Meadow roads to four lanes, a DOT engineer says the agency has already taken that option off the table.