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• Lowe’s to build distribution center in Mills River

  Created: Friday, 02 October 2020 13:31

  Town’s Amazon delivery station opened Sept. 23 with 60 new jobs From Staff Reports  MILLS RIVER — Lowe’s announced in late September that it will be building a distribution center on about 10 acres at 342 Banner Farm Road, ne...

• Waynesville apple festival set Oct. 17 — with restrictions

  Created: Friday, 02 October 2020 13:29

  From Staff Reports WAYNESVILLE — The Haywood Chamber of Commerce recently announced that it will move forward with plans for its annual apple festival, which recently was renamed 2020 Apple Harvest Daze. The event will be held from 10 ...

• Scenic Biltmore Estate locale offers activities galore for fall, holidays

  Created: Friday, 02 October 2020 13:27

  From Staff Reports Surrounded by the Blue Ridge Mountains, Biltmore “boasts some of the most stunning fall color in Western North Carolina,” an Aug. 27 Biltmore Estate press release noted. “We offer several experiences that ar...

• Eliada corn maze open through Nov. 1 with safety limits

  Created: Friday, 02 October 2020 13:26

  From Staff Reports Eliada’s 2020 Annual Corn Maze, which opened Sept. 25, will run through Nov. 1 — on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays — at 2 Compton Drive in West Asheville. Each day, one can purchase tickets for a specifi...

• WNC Nature Center to reopen Oct. 5

  Created: Friday, 02 October 2020 13:25

  From Staff Reports The Western North Carolina Nature Center at 75 Gashes Creek Road in East Asheville will officially reopen to the general public on Oct. 5, after closing in March amidst the pandemic. Visitors are being encouraged to purchas...

• The Advice Goddess: Meet Joe Backup

  Created: Friday, 02 October 2020 13:23

  By AMY ALKON Syndicated Columnist The guy I’m seeing is super attentive and affectionate when we’re together, but then he always falls off the grid. He’ll wait weeks before texting me to make plans again, and sometimes I have to i...

• Letters to the editor: Sept. 15-30, 2020

  Created: Tuesday, 15 September 2020 12:21

  Hendersonville letter-writer’s karmic argument blamed on his unresolved hatred EDITOR’S NOTE: The following letter is a response to a letter to the editor by Hendersonvlle’s Richard D. Pope that appeared in the Aug. 1 edition of the ...

• Black woman picked to fill Asheville council seat: History made with three African-Americans serving on 7-person top city body

  Created: Tuesday, 15 September 2020 12:07

  From Staff Reports Asheville City Council voted 4-2 on Sept. 8 to appoint attorney S. Antanette Mosley as its newest member. The Asheville Citizen Times noted in a story appearing afterward that Mosley’s appointment makes history because it is th...

• Donald Trump Jr. makes big pitch to re-elect his father as president

  Created: Tuesday, 15 September 2020 12:06

  From Staff Reports HENDERSONVILLE — Donald Trump Jr. addressed a capacy crowd of several hundred enthusiastic supporters at an outside rally — slamming what he called the hypocritcal, virtue-signaling, Marxist-leaning Democrats and biased n...

• Governor OKs N.C. Phase 2.5 reopening until Oct. 2

  Created: Tuesday, 15 September 2020 12:04

  From Staff Reports RALEIGH — Governor Roy Cooper announced at a Sept. 1 press briefing that, after a summer of hard work to slow the spread of COVID-19, North Carolina will take a modest step forward with a move into Phase 2.5, running from 5 p.m....

• Nina Simone’s childhood home saved forever

  Created: Tuesday, 15 September 2020 12:02

  From Staff Reports  TRYON — The protection of Nina Simone’s childhood home recently was secured by the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, in partnership with World Monument...

• Strong winds blamed for tearing off shroud from Vance Monument

  Created: Tuesday, 15 September 2020 11:58

  From Staff Reports A section of fabric used to cover the Vance Monument on Pack Square in the center of downtown Asheville recently was torn off from windy weather, the city’s capital improvements department recently confirmed. The shroud ripped ...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: Thank you, to farmers, for effort to keep us fed

  Created: Tuesday, 15 September 2020 11:27

  Contrary to the recent criticism of farmers voiced by the lead doctor at Pardee Hospital in Hendersonville, we feel totally the reverse ... that farmers — locally and nationwide — are deserving of much praise for their efforts to keep the ag...

• Cash cow fattens the White House

  Created: Tuesday, 15 September 2020 11:25

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet I remember the night my father came home carrying a wooden box. My mother locked the door and darkened the front rooms. Daddy took the box to their bedroom and put it under the bed. It was the ballot box from ...

• THE CANDID CONSERVATIVE: Getting real on black-on-black crime

  Created: Tuesday, 15 September 2020 11:23

  By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet “Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.” — MLK   The new editor of Asheville’s daily pap...

• UNCA rises to 7th-place tie nationally among public liberal arts universities in U.S. News and World Report rankings

  Created: Tuesday, 15 September 2020 11:17

  From Staff Reports UNC Asheville has moved up a notch and is now ranked seventh in the nation among public liberal arts universities in U.S. News and World Report’s new “2021 U.S. News Best Colleges,” released onlin...

• Asheville Art Museum reopens at 50% capacity

  Created: Tuesday, 15 September 2020 11:12

  From Staff Reports Following Gov. Roy Cooper’s Phase 2.5 announcement allowing museums to open at up to 50 percent capacity, the Asheville Art Museum reopened Sept. 9-11 to museum members and Sept. 12 to the public.  The museum has...

• Aboretum to offer drive-through Winter Lights show

  Created: Tuesday, 15 September 2020 11:09

  Holiday show to sparkle â€” with a twist, for safety’s sake From Staff Reports  The Asheville-based North Carolina Arboretum’s Winter Lights holiday light show “will ligh...

• WNC Nature Center planning to reopen, but date still not set

  Created: Tuesday, 15 September 2020 11:08

  From Staff Reports Following a record-breaking year in attendance in 2019,  WNC Nature Center in Asheville is wrapping up plans to reopen soon, but a definitive opening date had not be set as of the Daily Planet’s press deadline for...

• BRCC cancels Music by the Lake for September; Oct. 4 restart eyed

  Created: Tuesday, 15 September 2020 11:07

  From Staff Reports FLAT ROCK — Blue Ridge Community College announced on Sept. 8 that, as a result of COVID-19 restrictions in North Carolina, all September events for Music by the Lake on its campus “have unfortunately been cancel...