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• Lincoln Trio to enchant May 23 at Opera House

  Created: Saturday, 15 May 2021 14:55

  From Staff Reports NEWBERRY, S.C. — The Chicago-based, Grammy-nominated classical trio, Lincoln Trio, will perform at 3 p.m. May 23 at the Newberry Opera House in a return engagement. “Described by The Strand as ‘sensational’ a...

• Entertainers beach music band to open summer concert series at Point Lookout Vineyards

  Created: Saturday, 15 May 2021 14:54

  From Staff Reports EDNEYVILLE —  The Entertainers, a Carolina beach music band, will open the summer concert series from 7:30 to 10 p.m. May 28 at Point Lookout Vineyards, 408 Appleola Road, Edneyville. The Entertainers, founded in 1980, sco...

• ‘Love, Linda’ to be staged May 21 in Hendersonville

  Created: Saturday, 15 May 2021 14:53

  From Staff Reports  HENDERSONVILLE —  The one-woman show “Love, Linda: The Life of Mrs. Cole Porter,” will be performed from 7 to 9 p.m. May 21 at The Center for Art & Entertainment at 125 S. Main St. in downtown Henderso...

• The Advice Goddess: Loot, actually

  Created: Saturday, 15 May 2021 14:48

  By AMY ALKON Syndicated Columnist I’m envious of a friend whose boyfriend frequently does nice things for her: bringing her soup when she’s sick and surprising her with a weekend getaway and a pricey handbag she’d been coveting. M...

• UNCA-MAHEC vax site celebrates 15K doses and counting

  Created: Sunday, 02 May 2021 14:01

  From Staff Reports In just two months since opening the doors on Feb. 19, the UNC Asheville-MAHEC COVID-19 Immunization Site has administered a total of 15,000 vaccines to community members from across Western North Carolina. The partnership b...

• Turnover leaves APD in ‘staffing crisis;’ response to calls lagging

  Created: Sunday, 02 May 2021 13:59

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com Since January 2020, the Asheville Police Department has accepted resignations from 76 of its 238 sworn officers, resulting in what Asheville Police Chief David Zack termed a “staffing crisis” in an...

• 30 more people moved from homeless camps around Asheville

  Created: Sunday, 02 May 2021 13:56

  From Staff Reports  Working with community partners, the City of Asheville on April 23 provided 15 rooms for unsheltered people relocated from Duke Energy property near Isaac Dickson Elementary School, a recent city press release stated. More speci...

• ‘Dramatic’ Youngs Mountain Trail opens for hiking near Lake Lure

  Created: Sunday, 02 May 2021 13:54

  From Staff Reports LAKE LURE — A new hiking trail just opened at Youngs Mountain, offering spectacular views of Lake Lure, Rumbling Bald, Weed Patch Mountain, and the lower Hickory Nut Gorge.  Conserving Carolina opened the 2.1-mile trail wi...

• A record 6 challengers seek to unseat Cawthorn

  Created: Sunday, 02 May 2021 13:52

  From Staff Reports With 19 months remaining before the election, U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-Hendersonville, is facing a record number of potential election challengers, with six known opponents as of the Daily Planet’s noon April 27 news deadli...

• Cawthorne’s tweet that businesses will ‘burn’ regardless of Chauvin verdict ignites both sides

  Created: Sunday, 02 May 2021 13:50

  From Staff Reports Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-Hendersonville, ignited a so-called “tweet-storm” from both his supporters and opponents — and massive coverage in the news media — after lobbing what, for him, was a prototypically po...

• Timeline for lifting N.C.’s COVID-19 restrictions outlined: As vaccinations continue, trends stabilize, governor says he will lift key limits by June 1 Govern

  Created: Sunday, 02 May 2021 13:48

  From Staff Reports  RALEIGH — A timeline for lifting current pandemic restrictions was laid out during an April 21 press briefing by Gov. Roy Cooper and Dr. Mandy K. Cohen, who is the secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and H...

• Cooper visits Buncombe vaccine site to encourage people to get their shots

  Created: Sunday, 02 May 2021 13:47

  From Staff Reports Gov. Roy Cooper and Dr. Mandy Cohen, secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, on April 22 visited a vaccine clinic at Mission Health / Asheville-Buncombe Technical Conference Center in Asheville to see p...

• Slight uptick in COVID-like illness noted in Buncombe; vaccines highly encouraged, county health chief reports

  Created: Sunday, 02 May 2021 13:46

  From Staff Reports COVID-like illness surveillance, an early indicator, showed a slight uptick in Buncombe County in the week ending April 10, county Public Health Director Stacie Saunders reported during her weekly COVID-19 community update during the A...

• Letters to the Editor: May 01-14-21

  Created: Sunday, 02 May 2021 13:34

  Chauvin faced ‘exigent circumstances’ Exigent circumstances,” is a phrase used in TV police dramas to enter a building – “we heard a woman screaming.” Wikipedia – “An emergency situation requiring swi...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: Time to boost the APD budget; vote out council

  Created: Sunday, 02 May 2021 13:32

  It it way past time to vote out Asheville’s mayor, City Council and one-party political machine and to substantially boost the budget for the beleaguered Asheville Police Department, which has lost an alarming 76 officers by resignation since the s...

• The jury did its job; now it’s up to the Senate

  Created: Sunday, 02 May 2021 13:30

  This column was posted on April 22.  By BILL PRESS Syndicated Columnist It’s been a rough 16 months.  Battered by the perfect storm of a pandemic, economic slump, invasion of the U.S. Capitol, repeated cases of police violence, and ...

• The Candid Conservative: Passion + Power – Reason = Failure

  Created: Sunday, 02 May 2021 13:27

  “Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty — never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.” — Winston Churchill By CARL MUMPOWER Special to ...

• Derek Chauvin: The great white defendant

  Created: Sunday, 02 May 2021 13:24

  This column was posted on April 22. By LARRY ELDER Syndicated Columnist In the brilliant novel “The Bonfire of the Vanities,” author Tom Wolfe describes what he calls the intense media interest in covering “The Great White Defendant...

• Guest column: The cost of resegregation

  Created: Sunday, 02 May 2021 13:23

  By CECIL BOTHWELL Special to the Daily Planet   I’m child-free but I’m happy to pay for public schools because I greatly prefer living in a culture peopled by the educated.  To the degree that we all share some basic knowledge ...

• Destroy the police in order to rebuild it

  Created: Sunday, 02 May 2021 13:20

  This column was posted on April 16. By TED RALL  Syndicated Columnist The killing of 20-year-old Daunte Wright by a Minnesota police officer during a traffic stop is the latest in a long line of high-profile shootings to have sparked widespread ...