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• Project cost $18.5K, with $2,600/mo. scaffolding rent

  Created: Sunday, 19 July 2020 19:43

  From Staff Reports To enclose the Vance Monument in a shroud to shield the allegedly racist monument from public view, the City of Asheville reportedly paid a contractor $18,500 for his assistance with the project. What’s more, after the first 28...

• COVID-19 cases surge in Buncombe

  Created: Sunday, 19 July 2020 19:42

  From Staff Reports As of 11:30 a.m. July 14, there have been 928 lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Buncombe County residents resulting in 40 deaths, according to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. “The total is 30 more th...

• New Buncombe public health director named

  Created: Sunday, 19 July 2020 19:41

  From Staff Reports Stacie Saunders has been selected to serve as the Buncombe County public health director, Buncombe County Health and Human Services announced on June 26. Saunders has extensive public health experience and comes to Buncombe County fro...

• Governor announces he will keep N.C. paused in Phase 2 until Aug. 7: Calls COVID-19 numbers ‘still high, but it’s steady’

  Created: Sunday, 19 July 2020 19:39

  From Staff Reports RALEIGH — North Carolina will stay in Phase Two of reopening for at least three more weeks, Gov. Roy Cooper announced during a July 14 news conference. Cooper’s plans had called for Phase Two possibly ending at 5 p.m. ...

• Biltmore permanently cuts nearly 400 jobs, citing lingering pandemic

  Created: Sunday, 19 July 2020 19:38

  From Staff Reports  The Biltmore Estate, the Asheville area's largest tourist attraction, is permanently eliminating about 390 jobs — nearly 15 percent of its workforce — because of the impacts on business resulting from the lingering ...

• Letters to the Editor: July 15, 2020

  Created: Sunday, 19 July 2020 19:31

  Vance Monument proposal: Renamed it MLK Jr. Memorial  Given the harsh reality of the City of Asheville’s seriously stressed current financial condition (which is millions of dollars in the hole and underwater due to City Council’s indu...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: Bye, bye, Eskimo Pie! Ice cream treat’s owner decides ‘eskimo’ is ‘derogatory,’ hops on name-change train

  Created: Sunday, 19 July 2020 19:30

  After nearly 100 years, Eskimo Pie ice cream will get a new name,” CNN reported on June 20. Going with the flow, Dreyer’s Ice Cream announced plans to change what it terms the “derogatory” name of its Eskimo Pie product, the late...

• Are immigrants essential to who we are as a nation?

  Created: Sunday, 19 July 2020 19:27

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet   Our Founding Fathers had names like Adams, Franklin, Washington, Madison, – English one and all. The First Congress in 1789 had two Smiths, two Lees, two Carolls.    They were aware th...

• THE CANDID CONSERVATIVE: Our self-correcting world is a wonderful thing….

  Created: Sunday, 19 July 2020 19:25

  By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet “Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted..”  — Ralph Waldo Emerson   The problem America’s Democrat-run ...

• 3 artists chosen to lead in painting of BLM mural

  Created: Sunday, 19 July 2020 19:22

  From Staff Reports Three artists recently were chosen to lead the design of the Black Lives Matter mural in downtown Asheville. The three — Jenny Pickens, Joseph Pearson and Marie Cochran — are all local artists. The temporary art installa...

• Racial Justice Coalition plans to file complaint alleging excessive force by APD

  Created: Sunday, 19 July 2020 19:20

  From Staff Reports Asheville’s Racial Justice Coalition announced in a July 6 press release that it has gathered excessive force experiences involving the Asheville Police Department  and “plans to seek accountability with formal compla...

• Sign calling for her to resign, garbage left by someone at mayor’s house on July 4th on Independence Day

  Created: Sunday, 19 July 2020 19:19

  From Staff Reports Following June’s protests in downtown Asheville, at one point prompting Mayor Esther Manheimer to declare a citywide state of emergency, someone reportedly left garbage and a sign at her home on the Fourth of July. The Ashevi...

• Electronics manufacturer to invest $3M, employ 60 in North Asheville

  Created: Sunday, 19 July 2020 19:18

  From Staff Reports  Charles Edward Industries announced plans to invest $1.5 million over three years in a new manufacturing operation between Moog Music and High Five Coffee, on Broadway Street in North Asheville, according to a June 24 press relea...

• Campaign seeks $2M for new Nina Simone Archive building

  Created: Sunday, 19 July 2020 19:16

  From Staff Reports   TRYON —  A $2 million capital campaign will be launched to underwrite the construction of the “Nina Simone Archive,” the Nina Simone Project announced on June 19. To that end, Asheville television s...

• Airport Authority pressed to keep golf at Broadmoor

  Created: Sunday, 19 July 2020 19:15

  From Staff Reports  HENDERSONVILLE — A plan for the Asheville Regional Airport to purchase Broadmoor Golf Links in Fletcher is officially on hold, pending further discussion, Asheville television station WLOS (News 13) reported on June 17. S...

• N.C. Mountain State Fair canceled for 2020: Pandemic blamed for axing gala; Junior Livestock Show still ‘on’

  Created: Sunday, 19 July 2020 19:13

  From Staff Reports  FLETCHER — As a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the uncertainty of conditions in September, the N.C. Mountain State Fair will not be held this year, the fair  announced in a July 7 press release. The ann...

• The Advice Goddess: Sittin' on the dock of the bae ....

  Created: Sunday, 19 July 2020 19:11

  By AMY ALKON Syndicated Columnist I’m a 34-year-old woman, and I’ve been with my boyfriend for about eighteen months. He’s a loving guy but comes up a little short on romance (“butterfly moments,” I guess you’d ...

• Removal OK’d of downtown Confederate monuments

  Created: Wednesday, 01 July 2020 22:56

  From Staff Reports  The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners on June 16 voted 4-3 in favor of a joint resolution — unanimously approved by Asheville City Council seven days earlier — to remove confederate monuments in downtown Ashevi...

• Governor requires masks, ‘pauses’ N.C. in Phase 2

  Created: Wednesday, 01 July 2020 22:55

  From Staff Reports  RALEIGH — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper — during a June 24 press briefing — issued an executive order to keep the state in Phase 2 for another three weeks, while making face coverings mandatory in public. &...

• Black Lives Matter mural proposed for downtown

  Created: Wednesday, 01 July 2020 22:54

  From Staff Reports Asheville City Councilwoman Sheneika Smith, along with the Asheville Area Arts Council and other community groups and leaders, “are coordinating a public art installation in Asheville’s central business district,” ac...