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• Biltmore Estate restricts reopening: Top city tourism draw limits admission to WNC passholders

  Created: Monday, 18 May 2020 22:08

  From Staff Reports   The Biltmore Estate, the Asheville area’s largest tourism draw, began its phased reopening on May 9. Specifically, the first-phase of the plan allows entry only to Bilmore annual pass-holders who live in Western North C...

• Arboretum reopens on trails-only basis with admission limits

  Created: Monday, 18 May 2020 22:06

  From Staff Reports The North Carolina Arboretum, a 434-acre public garden located in Asheville, reopened its trails on May 9. The action was taken in conjunction with the North Carolina’s lifting of its stay-at-home orders and phased reopening ...

• AMA president to speak Aug. 1 at UNCA's commencement

  Created: Monday, 04 May 2020 11:33

  From Staff Reports Dr. Patrice A. Harris, president of the American Medical Association and leading international medical expert, will be the featured speaker at UNC Asheville’s Spring Commencement, rescheduled to take place in person at 9 a.m. Au...

• Buncombe chief deputy put on leave during probe

  Created: Monday, 04 May 2020 11:29

  From Staff Reports A Buncombe County deputy was placed on paid administrative leave as the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation conducts an investigation involving him, the sheriff's office announced in an April 25 news release. Chief Deputy Don...

• N.C. lockdown for pandemic runs till May 8; future up in air

  Created: Monday, 04 May 2020 11:26

  From Staff Reports  RALEIGH — A decision on North Carolina’s stay-at-home order, extended through May 8, will be reconsidered on that date, Gov. Roy Cooper announced April 23.  Based on the requirements Cooper set out, North Caro...

• Daily Planet to begin twice-monthly printing this month

  Created: Monday, 04 May 2020 11:25

  From Staff Reports As the economy reopens and the pandemic continues, the Asheville Daily Planet will be jumping from monthly to twice-monthly print and digital editions, beginning this month. The newspaper will be distributed at the beginning and middl...

• 5-story hotel-condo project unveiled for downtown HVL

  Created: Monday, 04 May 2020 11:23

  From Staff Reports HENDERSONVILLE — A plan for  a five-story hotel and condominium project — described by the Hendersonville Lightning as “the biggest new development in downtown Hendersonville in recent memory” and incorpo...

• Asheville native Franklin Graham catches flak from gay activists as he aids in N.Y. coronvirus relief

  Created: Monday, 04 May 2020 11:22

  From Staff Reports  North Carolina evangelist and Asheville native Franklin Graham and the LGBTQ community recently was involved in a controversial flare-up, according an April 1 report in The Charlotte Observer. “This time,” the Observ...

• Nurses still battling Mission for a union

  Created: Monday, 04 May 2020 11:21

  From Staff Reports  The coronavirus pandemic has postponed — for now — the union election, but the campaign to organize 1,500 Mission nurses has continued on with the vigorous exchange of stinging verbal shots and blistering accusation...

• Myrtle Beach reopens, but others remain closed

  Created: Monday, 04 May 2020 11:19

  From Staff Reports MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. —   The City of Myrtle Beach has decided to reopen all of its beaches, a move that allows people access to one of the state's most-visited locations after weeks of being closed because of the co...

• Spartanburg’s WestGate Mall to reopen May 1

  Created: Monday, 04 May 2020 11:18

  From Staff Reports SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Management at WestGate Mall said the mall will reopen on May 1, according to an April 28 report by Spartanburg television station FOX Carolina. The mall will operate on amended hours — from ...

• Columbus’ drive-through farmers market to debut May 2

  Created: Monday, 04 May 2020 11:17

  From Staff Reports COLUMBUS, N.C. —  The Columbus Farmers Market will reopen — for drive-through only — on Saturdays for the 2020 season from 8 a.m. to noon May 2 at Polk County High School at 1681 NC Hwy. “The ...

• The Advice Goddess: Opener sesame!

  Created: Monday, 04 May 2020 11:12

  By AMY ALKON Syndicated Columnist I’m a single woman. I’d love to get into a relationship. Often, when I’m at a bar, I see a guy I’d like to chat up, but I won’t even approach because I don’t know what to say....

• Letters to the editor: May 1, 2020

  Created: Monday, 04 May 2020 10:51

  Conservative â€˜parasites’ ripped I believe that ALL conservatives and Republicans in the USA should return their Relief Checks to the federal government so that they do not become “unproductive” ... and “lazy wel...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: Where art though, Corona beer?

  Created: Monday, 04 May 2020 10:49

  Among the many casualties of the coronavirus pandemic was the temporary closure of one of the world’s great beers, Corona, by its owner, Group Modelo, in early April in Mexico. The brewer posted an announcement on Twitter, stating that it was halt...

• 2 men who are ‘the right kind of strong’

  Created: Monday, 04 May 2020 10:47

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet My grandfather was born in Stewart County, Ga., in 1867. So I’m sure he would argue with me on the point I’m about to make here – that America, today, needs somebody with the core character...

• candid Conservative: Catastrophe is rarely an accident

  Created: Monday, 04 May 2020 10:43

  By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet “If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same….”  — Excerpt from “If” by Rudyard Kipling    We are in the...

• Trio to fuel Earth Fare restart

  Created: Wednesday, 01 April 2020 12:07

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com   Earth Fare, a health and wellness supermarket chain founded in Asheville in 1975 that grew to 50 stores before shutting down in bankrupty on Feb. 25, will reopen as a five-store, trimmed-down compa...

• Coronavirus pandemic strikes

  Created: Wednesday, 01 April 2020 12:03

  N.C. governor issues â€˜stay-at-home’ order through April 29 ... might extend it From Staff Reports  Gov. Roy Cooper announced March 27 a statewide “stay-at-home” order f...

• Tourism occupancy tax plan unveiled, questioned

  Created: Wednesday, 01 April 2020 12:00

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com  Changes proposed to the Asheville-Buncombe County tourism tax and its structure were unveiled to the Council of Independent Business Owners during a March 6 breakfast meeting at UNC Asheville’s Sh...