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• $45M redevelopment plan for AVL Mall? City says take it back to drawing board

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 22:54

  From Staff Reports   Asheville City Council voted unanimously on March 12 to continue the public hearing on a proposed $45 million redevelopment of closed Sears properties at the  Asheville Mall. Council never made a motion to vote on the pro...

• Under pressure, Murdock resigns from Eblen Charities post, A-B Tech board

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 22:53

  From Staff Reports The executive director of Asheville’s Eblen Charities announced recently his immediate departure from his post after a 47-year-old woman told the news media that he sexually abused her when she was his teenage student  Bill Mur...

• Holocaust survivor discusses ‘camps,’ Nazis, anti-Semitism

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 22:50

  Second in a series of two stories   By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com   EDITOR’S NOTE: Weaverville resident and Holocaust survivor Walter Ziffer, a local scholar now in his 90s, addressed “Anti-Semitism” on Jan. 31 at the UN...

• Asheville ranks 14th for ‘bang for your buck?’ Some locals scoff?

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 22:50

  From Staff Reports Asheville, often touted for its desirability as a place to live (or visit) by city-rankers, recently was  named No. 14 on Livability’s “2019 Top 100 Places to Live” for its “bang for your buck.”  Specific...

• Fryar gives update on agreement on A-B Tech tax issue

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 22:48

  From Staff Reports The Buncombe Board of Commissioners and A-B Tech Board of Trustees had “been working on this for a long time,” Mike Fryar said — of an agreement that had been reached recently between the two parties — in an address at the Marc...

• City planning chief reviews accomplishments, issues

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 22:47

  From Staff Reports Asheville Planning Director Todd Okolichany began his presentation with much laughter from the audience — as Okolichany joined in the merriment — after Buzzy Cannady, chief and emcee of the Council of Independent Business Owners, m...

• Letters to the Editor: April 2019

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 22:44

  What socialism is and isn’t; Sanders, AOC? Mislabeled It is about time that the American people were educated and informed about what true “socialism” is and is not.   The fact is that, in true socialism, “the means of p...

• The Daily Planet’s Opinion: April 2019

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 22:41

  Move soccer complex out of floodplain to avoid $1M bills So it is good and bad news that East Asheville’s popular-but flood-prone John B. Lewis Soccer Complex, which has been closed since major flooding last...

• Looking for a restoration specialist

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 22:39

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet   Years ago, when I was young and working, I was approached by a company needing help with their name. The company’s business was house fires. They did everything necessary to return the house to its o...

• The Candid Conservative: Who’s writing your script?

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 22:37

  “To have doubted one’s own first principles is the first mark of a civilized man.”  —  Oliver Wendell Holmes By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet   The problem In the early part of the 20th century, Germany was arguabl...

• City Councilwoman Julie Mayfield to seek District 49 N.C. Senate seat

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 22:34

  From Staff Reports  Asheville City Councilwoman Julie Mayfield announced on March 23 that she plans to run for the North Carolina Senate seat in District 49. “Not only will I take on climate change and restore protections for air and water, I wil...

• THE ADVICE GODDESS: Woman wonders about her eye anxiety

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 22:16

  By AMY ALKON Syndicated Columnist Q: I’ve been with my boyfriend for four years. I thought I was super happy, but I recently got a crush on a co-worker. Now I’m worried that maybe I’m not totally satisfied in my relationship. If I were truly in ...

• Biltmore Gardens Railway to make sparks fly

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 22:09

  Asheville’s Biltmore Gardens Railway is bringing large-scale model railroads and handmade buildings to two locations on the estate — the Conservatory&n...

• Edwin McCain to perform for fire fighters’ show

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 22:07

  From Staff Reports Edwin McCain will perform in concert at 8 p.m. April 5 at the U.S. Cellular Center in downtown Asheville in a fundraiser for the Asheville Fire Fighters Association. “Called the ‘great American romantic’ by the New Y...

• Annual Heritage Classic’s dance competitors? Bedazzling

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 22:05

  From Staff Reports The pro show — as usual — was a highlight of the 32nd annual Heritage Classic Dancesport Championships, which featured competitive ballroom-style dancing from  Feb. 26 to March 2 at the Omni Grove Park Inn in North Asheville...

• Tickets available for Dirty Dancing Festival

  Created: Tuesday, 02 April 2019 22:03

  From Staff Reports   LAKE LURE — Ticket sales began in mid-March for the 10th anniversary of Lake Lure’s Dirty Dancing Festival on Sept.13-14. Tickets may be purchased by visiting www.dirtydancingfestival.com.  “This two-day celebratio...

• ‘Muslim Mafia’ author says U.S. faces big Islamic threat

  Created: Wednesday, 06 March 2019 12:09

  By JOHN NORTH  john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com  SKYLAND — Chris Gaubatz, undercover agent in the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas and author of the book “Muslim Mafia” (telling of that experience), described on Feb. 12 the threat to this nat...

• New Asheville city manager says she plans to ‘collaborate’

  Created: Wednesday, 06 March 2019 12:06

  Asheville’s new City Manager Debra Campbell shared her goals and aspirations for the city — and said her job is to “collaborate” rather than to be “a mover and a shaker” — during a Feb. 1 meeting of the Council of Independent Business Owners...

• The Advice Goddess: March 2019

  Created: Wednesday, 06 March 2019 11:58

  America's next top (plastic) remodel? Q: I’m seeing so many women on Instagram who’ve had themselves made over to be super hot through cosmetic surgery and injectable fillers. They all have the same face — with big, luscious lips and huge doll-li...

• New Buncombe county manager named

  Created: Wednesday, 06 March 2019 11:57

  From Staff Reports  The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously on Feb. 5 to hire Avril Pinder as its new county manager. Pinder, who will be the first African-American to hold the county’s highest job, officially begins her duti...