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• ‘80s’ dance party, costume contest planned March 26

  Created: Monday, 15 March 2021 10:22

  From Staff Reports GREENVILLE S.C. — An “I Love the ‘80s” Dance Party — including a costume contest and appetizers and desserts — will be held from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m March 26 at Greenville’s The Venue at Fall...

• Great DuBois’ ‘Masters of Variety’ show to be held March 27 in Newton

  Created: Monday, 15 March 2021 10:21

  From Staff Reports NEWTON, N.C. —   The Great DuBois’s “Masters of Variety” show will be performed at 7 p.m. March 27 at the Newton Performing Arts Center, 60 W. 6th St.  An event promotion noted, “As seen in th...

• Dancers swing, sway on a balmy afternoon

  Created: Monday, 15 March 2021 10:20

  From Staff Reports  EDNEYVILLE — The Hendersonville-based cover band Sound Investment performed on the patio outside Point Lookout Vineyard’s main building for thee hours until late afteroon on March 7. A crowd of more than 150 people...

• The Advice Goddess: Smear pressure

  Created: Monday, 15 March 2021 10:15

  By AMY ALKON Syndicated columnist I’m a college sophomore, and my boyfriend is a senior. He’s a football player, and other girls have crushes on him. Recently, he was with his guy friends at a party. A girl came over and said I’d ...

• UNCA awarded $100K, nearly $1.5M in funding in NC

  Created: Sunday, 28 February 2021 21:16

  From Staff Reports RALEIGH— The Board of Directors of SECU Foundation on Jan. 27 approved the renewal of the SECU Public Fellows Internship program, which a UNC Asheville press release termed "excellent news for students seeking unique internship ...

• Free, at last! Governor partially reopens N.C. after lockdown

  Created: Sunday, 28 February 2021 21:12

  From Staff Reports   RALEIGH — As North Carolina’s numbers continue to show improvement and vaccine distribution increases, Gov. Roy Cooper announced Feb. 24 that the state will carefully ease some of its COVID-19 restrictions under E...

• Asheville OKs new hotel rules with public benefits requirements

  Created: Sunday, 28 February 2021 21:11

  From Staff Reports   Asheville City Council voted 6-1 on Feb. 23 for new regulations specifying how new hotel plans can win approval.  “It happened on the same day that the city’s year-and-a-half-long moratorium on new hotels exp...

• Lieutenant governor delivers Facebook tribute to iconic radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh

  Created: Sunday, 28 February 2021 21:06

  ‘We have lost one of my personal heroes,’ N.C. leader says From Staff Reports   RALEIGH — Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, a recently elected Republican, recorded a Facebook video o...

• ‘Might vaccine distribution be political?’ 2 legislators ask

  Created: Sunday, 28 February 2021 21:02

  ‘But we’re told science and data don’t lie,’ WNC GOP leaders assert From Staff Reports RALEIGH – State Senator Chuck Edwards, R-Henderson, and N.C. Representa...

• Vaccine rollout continues in Buncome as COVID-19 trends improve, county health director reports

  Created: Sunday, 28 February 2021 21:01

  From Staff Reports   The number of new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 per week has decreased significantly in Bncombe County since the beginning of the year and is now 171 per 100,000 per week, Buncombe County Health Director Stacie Saunders said durin...

• Letters to the Editor: March 01-14, 2021

  Created: Sunday, 28 February 2021 20:45

  Cawthorn has 100% backing of BCGOP There have been several articles in the Asheville Citizen over the last few weeks, disparaging to the newly elected congressman, Madison Cawthorn. What needs to be understood is that Congressman Cawthorn is repres...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: Prediction of herd immunity by April? Wouldn’t it be nice!

  Created: Sunday, 28 February 2021 20:44

  Just about the most wonderful prediction possible has been made by a prominent doctor, who aired his belief that COVID-19 will be “mostly gone” — sometime in April —  in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal on Feb. 19. Spec...

• The mighty Rush Limbaugh: America at its worst

  Created: Sunday, 28 February 2021 20:42

  By BILL PRESS Syndicated columnist   For someone who has made a career in talk radio, once news broke of Rush Limbaugh’s death this week (Feb. 17) from lung cancer, it was hard for me to hear so many in the media gush about Rush. Count me o...

• The Candid Conservative: Sorry progressives — conformity ain’t unity

  Created: Sunday, 28 February 2021 20:40

  By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet “Conformity: con·for·mi·ty | kən-ˈfȯr-mə-tē | Compliance with · adherence to · accordance with · observance of · observation of · obedience to · acquiesc...

• City explains its new hotel development ‘public benefits table’

  Created: Sunday, 28 February 2021 20:39

  EDITOR’S NOTE: On the same day as Asheville City Council voted on new hotel regulations, the City of Asheville issued a press release explaining the intent of the new plan that council voted 6-1 to approve. (See story on front page for details.) I...

• The case against reparations, Part 1

  Created: Sunday, 28 February 2021 20:36

  This column was posted on Feb. 25. By LARRY ELDER   Syndicated columnist Last week, I testified before the House Committee on the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties regarding H.R. 40: Examini...

• Hendersonville hires police chief; began duties Feb. 15

  Created: Sunday, 28 February 2021 20:35

  From Staff Reports HENDERSONVILLE — After an extensive search and selection process spanning five months, the City of Hendersonville recently unveiled its choice of a new police chief. In a virtual meeting on Jan. 15, Hendersonville City Manager ...

• ‘70s singing icon Tony Orlando to ‘Knock Three Times’

  Created: Sunday, 28 February 2021 20:34

  From Staff Reports NEWBERRY, S.C. — Tony Orlando, known for such pop hits from the 1970s as “Knock Three Times” and “Candida,” both released in 1970, will perform at 8 p.m. March 6 at Newberry Opera House. His vocal trio T...

• Ye haw! ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ star John Schneider to perform in March 20 show

  Created: Sunday, 28 February 2021 20:33

  From Staff Reports NEWTON, N.C. —  John Schneider, a star of “The Dukes of Hazzard,”  will perform in concert from 7 to 9:30 p.m. March 20 at the Newton Performing Arts Center, 60 W. 6th St. Regarding the Schneider show, an ...

• Impressionism exhibit to run through April 19

  Created: Sunday, 28 February 2021 20:32

  From Staff Reports  The art show “Across the Atlantic: American Impressionism Through the French Lens,” which began Jan. 22, will continue through April 19 at the Asheville Art Museum at 2 South Pack Square in downtown Asheville. D...