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• The Advice Goddess: Real houseknives

  Created: Tuesday, 15 September 2020 11:01

  By AMY ALKON Syndicated Columnist I was dismayed at how off-base you were when I read your response to a woman wanting to give her female friend advice to stop her from dating and hooking up so much after her breakup. It’s common knowledge that...

• UNCA to renamed Vance and Hoey halls; calls for task force to review names of all campus buildings

  Created: Monday, 31 August 2020 18:55

  From Staff Reports The UNC Asheville Board of Trustees on Aug. 28 voted to adopt a resolution to remove the names of Vance and Hoey from UNC Asheville campus buildings immediately and will work collaboratively with the campus community to study all build...

• Trump’s visit to Mills River draws crowd; president says election is most important in history

  Created: Monday, 31 August 2020 18:48

  From Staff Reports MILLS RIVER –  President Donald Trump heaped praise on the Farmers to Families Food Box program and its Mills River partner,  Flavor 1st Growers and Packers, during what was billed as a surprise visit on Aug. 24. In a...

• Cawthorn makes sparks fly as speaker at RNC

  Created: Monday, 31 August 2020 18:45

  From Staff Reports WASHINGTON, D.C. — Madison Cawthorn, a young Republican congressional candidate from Hendersonville, urged his fellow Americans to “to be a radical” for freedom, liberty and the republic during his address at the Rep...

• 6 finalists for open seat named; Sept. 8 appointment set

  Created: Monday, 31 August 2020 18:43

  From Staff Reports   The newest member of Asheville City Council will be appointed on Sept. 8, replacing former councilman Vijay Kapoor and filling the 14-month vacancy he left, council announced at its Aug. 25 meeting. Council also announced the ...

• Buncombe records 16 COVID-19 deaths in 2 wks., health officials say Buncombe says

  Created: Monday, 31 August 2020 18:42

  From Staff Reports  As of midday Aug. 24, Bncombe County had recorded nine additional coronavirus deaths in county residents over the last seven days, which raised to 16 the total of new deaths reported over the last two weeks, according to county h...

• Sports Commentary: LeBron James is a bigot

  Created: Monday, 31 August 2020 18:38

  EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is a sports commentary written on Aug. 25 by Jason Whitlock, widely regarded as one of the all-time most controversial — and politically incorrect — sportswriters, from Outkick.com, with its permission. He is a lo...

• Letters to the editor: Sept. 1-14, 2020

  Created: Monday, 31 August 2020 18:29

  Cultural insensitivity seen in removal of monuments Nobody has asked us what our monuments mean to us.   One-half of military age men died or were permanently maimed in the war. These monuments were dedicated to them.  Sherman said in 1864 he...

• The Daily Planet’s Opinion: Can anyone withstand modern scrutiny? A book on perfect heroes would be ... very thin

  Created: Monday, 31 August 2020 18:27

  It was interesting to hear a contrarion viewpoint aired on liberal-leaning National Public Radio recently that bravely takes issue with our current era in which statues of historical figures (formerly generally accepted as “great”) — ra...

• They ‘got a lot richer.’ We got gypped.

  Created: Monday, 31 August 2020 18:25

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet When the history of the Donald Trump era is written – beginning this Thanksgiving, we hope – I think his tweets will be yawn material. They will be seen as each day’s noise.  The Trum...

• THE CANDID CONSERVATIVE: Asheville’s Council of Doom

  Created: Monday, 31 August 2020 18:22

  By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet “Two things form the bedrock of any open society — freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country.” — Sal...

• Open Streets morphs into LoveHendoSaturdays

  Created: Monday, 31 August 2020 18:20

  From Staff Reports HENDERSONVILLE — Downtown Hendersonville recently decided to bolster activities for— and make revisions to — its monthly Open Streets weekend series, effective with its Aug. 1 event. The next Open Street...

• Orchard Trail Days planned over Labor Day Weekend

  Created: Monday, 31 August 2020 18:20

  From Staff Reports HENDERSONVILLE — Orchard Trail Days will be held over Labor Day Weekend, Sept. 4-7, to launch the 2020 apple season in Henderson County. The event is being held in lieu of the annual North Carolina Apple Festival that...

• Saluda still taking a look at screening 2 nightly films, drops concert series plan

  Created: Monday, 31 August 2020 18:19

  From Staff Reports SALUDA — The city’s commissioners agreed on Aug. 10 to give further consideration to a proposal that would offer a series of two free nightly movies in downtown Saluda’s McCreery Park, but decided to pull...

• Sunflower beauties bloom in phases into September

  Created: Monday, 31 August 2020 18:18

  From Staff Reports  Summertime is when Biltmore Estate’s landscape is literally full of itself, when tropical plantings mix with manicured patterns, including the annual crop of bedazzling sunflowers that were in full bloom recently. As for ...

• Canton plans Labor Day airshow, cancels parade

  Created: Monday, 31 August 2020 18:17

  From Staff Reports CANTON — For Labor Day, the town will feature — in its skies — aerial acrobatics performed by a procession of airplanes, instead of its annual Labor Day Parade, which was canceled because of safety concer...

• The Advice Goddess: Catty litter ....

  Created: Monday, 31 August 2020 18:05

  By AMY ALKON Syndicated Columnist I’m a woman who just turned 30, and so is my best friend, who just got out of a three-year relationship. She’s now on the rebound hard — hitting on her co-workers, going on multiple dates every we...

• UNCA official notes 3rd-party data incident

  Created: Monday, 17 August 2020 12:04

    EDITOR'S NOTE: Ben Underwood, associate vice chancellor for advancement operations at UNC Asheville, issued the following statement about a date incident on Aug. 6: • "At UNC Asheville, we take the protection of you...

• Confederate statue to stay under compromise: ‘Sylva Sam’ to remain, with changes

  Created: Monday, 17 August 2020 11:56

  From Staff Reports   SYLVA — The Jackson County Board of Commissioners voted 4-1 on Aug. 4 to keep a Confederate statue in front of the historic courthouse in Sylva, but it also agreed to cover the Confederate flag and remove “Heroes o...

• Buncombe votes 4-3 for reparations: Commissioners vote along party lines in decision that follows Asheville

  Created: Monday, 17 August 2020 11:53

  From Staff Reports   The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners voted 4-3 for a resolution supporting reparations for the county’s black residents on Aug. 4. During an extended discussion on the issue, Al Whitesides, a Democrat and the lone...