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• Hendersonville OKs test closing of Main Street May 29-31 to allow eateries to expand outside

  Created: Tuesday, 02 June 2020 16:25

  From Staff Reports  HENDERSONVILLE — As a one-time experiment, Hendersonville City Council recently voted to close Main Street to vehicles on May 29-31 to encourage outdoor dining with adequate spacing — and other activities. During O...

• Letters to the editor: Doctor with a potential COVID-19 cure censored

  Created: Tuesday, 02 June 2020 12:25

  Dr. David Brownstein runs a clinic in Michigan where he has been treating viruses in the corona family for over 20 years.  This year he has had more than 85 patients with COVID-19 and all of them have recovered.  With a success rate like that ...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: Time to open N.C. gyms

  Created: Tuesday, 02 June 2020 12:24

  The time has come to allow the restricted reopening of gyms and other indoor exercise facilities throughout North Carolina. Gyms and other indoor exercise facilities (such as yoga studios, dance studios and rock-climbing facilities) were expected to open...

• Decision in 1775, decision in 2020

  Created: Tuesday, 02 June 2020 12:22

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet Decisions come to us in all sizes – from the life-changing big ones to the every-day small ones.   Some decisions can be postponed or even avoided altogether, but some are like crossroads: you take...

• THE CANDID CONSERVATIVE: Trump has Twitter – the left has everything else

  Created: Tuesday, 02 June 2020 12:20

  By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet “Meathead, dead from the neck up.”                                         — Archie Bu...

• DuPont Forest partially reopens popular trails

  Created: Tuesday, 02 June 2020 12:18

  From Staff Reports MILLS RIVER — DuPont State Recreational Forest began the first phase of its reopening plan on May 14, with trails made accessible to the general public. However, gathering areas remain closed. The forest is open to th...

• Harrah’s Cherokee 2 casinos begin gradual reopening

  Created: Tuesday, 02 June 2020 12:17

  From Staff Reports CHEROKEE —  Harrah’s Cherokee Casinos began a gradual reopening on May 18 of Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort, located in Cherokee, as well as Harrah’s Cherokee Valley River, just outside of Mu...

• Screening postponed, but school scores hit by offering film viewing option in vehicles

  Created: Tuesday, 02 June 2020 12:13

  From Staff Reports One day after it was announced, the May 29 screening of the Disney-Pixar film “Onward’ was sold out, UNC Asheville stated in a May 19 press release. However, the school announced the Friday before the scheduled screening ...

• North Asheville landmark Beaver Lake reopens to public

  Created: Tuesday, 02 June 2020 12:11

  From Staff Reports Beaver Lake, the privately owned recreation area off Merrimon Avenue, has reopened its trails to the public, a May 13 Facebook posting noted. Beaver Lake features a system of trails and and adjoins the Elisha Mitchell Audubon Society�...

• UNCA to screen 'Onward' as drive-in movie on May 29

  Created: Monday, 18 May 2020 22:31

  From Staff Reports UNC Asheville will offer the community a chance for a safe, entertaining change of scenery the evening of May 29, presenting a free drive-in screening of Disney-Pixar’s "Onward," with food trucks available on site. ...

• Governor OKs step to restart N.C. economy

  Created: Monday, 18 May 2020 22:27

  From Staff Reports    RALEIGH — Governor Roy Cooper and his Coronavirus Task Force on May 5 unveiled the timeline and details for their plan to reopen North Carolina for business. The governor said the state would enter phase one of a ...

• $28M Amazon facility to employ 200 in Mills River

  Created: Monday, 18 May 2020 22:25

  From Staff Reports   MILLS RIVER — Amazon.com Inc. has revealed that it will locate a distribution center employing about 200 people in Mills River (population 7,359). Amazon, is “an American multinational conglomerate technology comp...

• Close Hendersonville’s Main Street on weekends? Plan would allow expansion of outdoor retail, dining space ... with social distancing

  Created: Monday, 18 May 2020 22:24

  From Staff Reports   HENDERSONVILLE — A plan recently was unveiled to close — temporarily — Main Street in Hendersonville to traffic on weekends to allow downtown restaurants and retail businesses to expand their spaces outdoor...

• Hold a real graduation ceremony later, East High senior urges

  Created: Monday, 18 May 2020 22:21

  From Staff Reports   HENDERSONVILLE — School leaders in Henderson County, as well as in the rest of the nation, claim to be doing all that is possible to honor high school seniors during a coronavirus pandmic when mass gatherings are prohibi...

• Letters to the Editor: May 15, 2020

  Created: Monday, 18 May 2020 22:16

  What pandemic? ‘Terrible job’ by Cooper, area leaders   I mourn for Asheville. Her economy severely damaged. Her great spirit wounded. Her leaders have not served her well by following the draconian orders of Governor Cooper. Come ele...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: Drive-in 'everything' era dawns

  Created: Monday, 18 May 2020 22:15

  The coronavirus pandemic era — at least temporarily — has converted innumerable activities into drive-in adventures. Even the movie-watching experience is being offered this spring and summer in a parking lot at Brevard Music Center in Brev...

• ‘Reopen’ protests are less than meets the eye

  Created: Monday, 18 May 2020 22:13

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet   When it comes to protests, the right is definitely second-rate compared to the left.  Take the current wave of “reopen” protests in state capitals.  Lame.  The crowds arenâ�...

• The Candid Conservative: Tyranny of the anointed

  Created: Monday, 18 May 2020 22:11

  By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet “The Road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of truth.”                                ...

• Drive-in movie series to make debut at BMC

  Created: Monday, 18 May 2020 22:10

  From Staff Reports   BREVARD — The Brevard Music Center will launch Brevard Music Center @ The Drive-In Movies, which it is touting as “an exciting summer drive-in movie series brought to you by Ingles Markets, presenting spo...

• Lake Lure beach, Chimney Rock village reopen

  Created: Monday, 18 May 2020 22:09

  From Staff Reports   LAKE LURE — The Town of Lake Lure on May 9 reopened its parks, including the beach at Lake Lure, which is limited to foot traffic only, with no swimming or gatherings permitted. Other reopened recreational ven...