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• Letters to the editor: Are mayor, other officials hiding behind digital divide?

  Created: Monday, 15 June 2020 16:15

  If the mayor and other city-county officials can gather with a thousand others outside on Church Street (in downtown Asheville) for nearly an hour to speak about ongoing uprising, why can’t they hold council meetings to conduct the people’s ...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: Following horrific killing, MLK would have marched with nonviolent protesters

  Created: Monday, 15 June 2020 16:14

  What was done in the May 25 death of George Floyd is a cruelty that should not be done to anyone. It was brutal, horrific and we know of nobody who condones what happened. Condemnation is universal. Floyd, 46, who is black, died after Derek Chauvin, 44, ...

• Presidents bring their character with them to office

  Created: Monday, 15 June 2020 16:12

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet Not everybody is cut out to be president of the United States. The great ones had something special; the failures had something unfortunate. These “somethings” weren’t fuzzy and subjective...

• THE CANDID CONSERVATIVE: 2020 is the new 1984

  Created: Monday, 15 June 2020 16:10

  By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet “Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”  — George Orwell, “1984”   The problem Listenin...

• GOP runoff election for Meadows seat set June 23

  Created: Monday, 15 June 2020 16:09

  From Staff Reports The hotly contests runoff election between Republican candidates Lynda Bennett and Madison Cawthorn, the two top vote-getters in the March 3 primary vying for the seat in U.S. Congress from the 11th District vacated by Mark Meadows, is...

• UNCA drive-in screening rescheduled on June 25

  Created: Monday, 15 June 2020 16:04

  From Staff Reports UNC Asheville has rescheduled its drive-in movie screening of Disney-Pixar’s "Onward" for  June 25, with food trucks available on site.  "Onward" is rated PG. The screening had originally been scheduled...

• Music on Main Street concert series to begin on July 24; dancing to be banned (for safety)

  Created: Monday, 15 June 2020 16:03

  From Staff Reports HENDERSONVILLE — The start of the summer outdoor concert season planned in Hendersonville has been pushed back this year in order to follow federal- and state-mandated guidelines for social distancing.  The concerts are he...

• Monday Night Live! to start July 20 with 28 Pages band

  Created: Monday, 15 June 2020 16:02

  From Staff Reports HENDERSONVILLE — The city’s free Monday Night Live! sumner concert series, beginning late because of the COVID-19 pandemic, will be held 7-9 p.m. July 20 and Aug. 3, 17 and 31 outside the Visitor Center at 201 S. Main St....

• Film to be screened, drive-in-style: ‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade’ classic to be shown June 20

  Created: Monday, 15 June 2020 16:01

  From Staff Reports BREVARD — The eight-film Brevard Music Center @ The Drive-In Movies summer series will continue with the screening of the action classic “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” at 9 p.m. June 20 in the parking lot at Br...

• BRCC moves its Music by the Lake series to late summer

  Created: Monday, 15 June 2020 16:00

  From Staff Reports FLAT ROCK — Blue Ridge Community College is shifting its annual Music by the Lake 2020 series to late summer. BRCC’s free, outdoor musical concert series, located on the shore adjoining the college’s lake, usually...

• Theatrical center plans to reopen this summer in Hendersonville

  Created: Monday, 15 June 2020 15:58

  From Staff Reports  HENDERSONVILLE — The Center for Art & Entertainment “is preparing to open during the state’s Phase 3 reopening in July with modified seating for social distancing and other safety adjustments,” the...

• COVID-19 pandemic fails to cancel Hendersonville’s 4th of July fireworks

  Created: Monday, 15 June 2020 15:57

  From Staff Reports HENDERSONVILLE —In contrast to many area localities, a festive Independence Day fireworks display will take place from 9:30 to 10 p.m. July 4 in Hendersonville.  The Independence Day Fireworks Display may be viewed from do...

• Asheville unveils flexibility in allowing business use of sidewalks, private lots

  Created: Monday, 15 June 2020 15:54

  From Staff Reports The City of Asheville — on May 22 —  began accepting requests from businesses and organizations to temporarily use up to 50 percent of private parking lots, landscape areas and walkways for merchandise display and sa...

• Hendersonville OKs three more ‘Open Streets’ weekends

  Created: Monday, 15 June 2020 15:53

  From Staff Reports HENDERSONVILLE —  In an effort to boost downtown businesses, Hendersonville City Council voted June 4 to extend the weekend closure of Main Street — on a bi-monthly basis — through early August.. The three ev...

• Grail Moviehouse aims to relocate in undisclosed location

  Created: Monday, 15 June 2020 15:52

  From Staff Reports  The Grail Moviehouse, an indy cinema in downtown Asheville, announced May 20 it is leaving its 45 S. French Broad venue and “working on relocating” to an undisclosed Asheville location.  “This is already i...

• The Advice Goddess: The afterwife....

  Created: Monday, 15 June 2020 15:51

  My wonderful stepmom died last year, and my dad was debilitated by grief. I got him to go to a support group, which really seemed to help. He’s been dating a woman he met there, and they’ve gotten serious. My brother says my dad wants to mar...

• Bad weather fears prompt UNCA to postpone screening of drive-in movie

  Created: Tuesday, 02 June 2020 16:36

  From Staff Reports UNC Asheville’s scheduled May 29 drive-in screening of Disney-Pixar's "Onward" has been postponed due to the threat of inclement weather.  The outdoor movie screening vendor utilizes weather.com to make ...

• N.C. moves to ‘modest’ Phase 2 amid pandemic: Plan opens eateries, but bars, gyms stay closed

  Created: Tuesday, 02 June 2020 16:31

  From Staff Reports RALEIGH — North Carolina shifted into Phase 2 of Gov. Roy Cooper’s three-part plan to gradually ease coronavirus restrictions at 5 p.m. May 22, Cooper announced during a May 20 press briefing.  However, due to risin...

• Henderson sheriff declines to enforce ‘distancing’

  Created: Tuesday, 02 June 2020 16:27

  But he urges his officers to take precautions inside jail and out on patrols From Staff Reports HENDERSONVILLE — The Henderson County Sheriff’s Office will not enforce the st...

• Asheville ponders opening outdoor dining space

  Created: Tuesday, 02 June 2020 16:26

  From Staff Reports  City of Asheville officials are examining ways to spark local businesses by allowing more commercial activity to occur in public spaces, a May 15 story in the Asheville Citizen Times noted. “That could take many shapes, ac...