PARTY LOCAL: Thanks to a thriving local homebrewing community and well-stocked bottle shops, Asheville brews were flowing at a recent Year in Beer birthday celebration. Photo by Christopher Arbor
BOTTOM LINE: Rachel Cohen, a member of the Sunrise Movement, a local climate activist group, unscrolled 178 signatures of residents who want to build back greener as part of the $225 million disaster recovery funding plan. Photo by Brionna Dallara
LOCAL LORE: In her new novel, Happy Land, Dolen Perkins-Valdez offers a fictional interpretation of the real-life Kingdom of the Happy Land. Author photo by Norman E. Jones
SUPPORT LOCAL: “Buy local groceries when you can and research where your food comes from,” says Kathryn Wolfe, co-president of the A.C. Reynolds High School Environmental Club. Photo courtesy of Wolfe
