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• World Equestrian Games? 300K-400K might attend

  Created: Monday, 03 September 2018 10:45

  From Staff Reports  TRYON —  One of the largest sporting events ever held in North Carolina is expected to draw 300,000 to 400,000 people to the area Sept. 11-23.   The Tryon International Equestrian Center will serve as the host for th...

• N.C. Apple Festival expected to draw turnout above 250K

  Created: Monday, 03 September 2018 10:42

  From Staff Reports  HENDERSONVILLE —  The 9th Annual North Carolina Apple Festival, to be held Aug. 31-Sept. 3 in Hendersonville, is expected to draw more than 250,000 people. Historic downtown Hendersonville is the official home of the fest...

• UNCA's Ramsey Library receives major grant

  Created: Sunday, 05 August 2018 11:35

  UNC Asheville’s D. Hiden Ramsey Library has been awarded a $100,000 grant to be used to partner with 12 other UNC System libraries in creating an infrastructure for long-term preservation of books as part of a shared collection, the university announced...

• District elections become law in AVL

  Created: Sunday, 05 August 2018 11:32

  From Staff Reports  RALEIGH — District elections for seats on Asheville City Council passsed both chambers of the state General Assembly and was passed into law on June 28. The bill provides five council districts and two at-large council seats. ...

• Local officials’ MPO gives green light to I-240 widening plan through WAVL

  Created: Sunday, 05 August 2018 11:29

  From Staff Reports   The Metropolitan Planning Organization on June 28 voted 15-3 to expedite the widening of I-240 in West Asheville.  One new lane would be added in each direction.  The MPO is comprised of representatives who advise o...

• City leaders spar over APD monitoring

  Created: Sunday, 05 August 2018 11:28

  From Staff Reports  Asheville Vice Mayor Gwen Wisler and City Councilman Vijay Kapoor recently indicated that they believe threats received by the Asheville Police Department warranted actions taken.  Conversely, Councilmen Brian Haynes and Ke...

• Former police officer who eat black pedestrian cleared by federal prosecutors

  Created: Sunday, 05 August 2018 11:25

  From Staff Reports   Federal prosecutors on June 29 announced they will not charge ex-Asheville Police Officer Chris Hickman in the beating of Johnnie Rush.  Bodycam video leaked to the Asheville Citizen Times shows Hickman beating Rush in th...

• APD chief fires 2nd police captain in three months

  Created: Sunday, 05 August 2018 11:24

  From Staff Reports Asheville Police Chief Tammy Hooper on July 13 fired a second one of her three captains — Mark Byrd — in just three months. Details are not a matter of public record. Both terminations are being linked to the handling of the Johnn...

• Buncombe to accept $2M settlement in Greene case

  Created: Sunday, 05 August 2018 11:23

  From Staff Reports  In a closed meeting July 17, the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners unanimously agreed to the first settlement in an attempt to recover taxpayer dollars federal investigators claim were squandered by the former county manager...

• Sheriff Duncan laments direction of Dems, catches flak

  Created: Sunday, 05 August 2018 11:22

  From Staff Reports  Buncombe County Sheriff Van Duncan has received recognition for serving honorably the last 12 years. He is, actually, one of the longest-serving leaders of his stature in recent history in Asheville and Buncombe County to have n...

• Mission Health sets up trust as sale to HCA still pending

  Created: Sunday, 05 August 2018 11:21

  From Staff Reports Mission Health announced July 16 that the Dogwood Health Trust was now a legal entity. As terms of the nonprofit hospital’s pending sale to for-profit, Nashville-based HCA, it was agreed that proceeds of the sale would go into a tru...

• Man charged with kicking dogs of homeless, being intoxicated

  Created: Sunday, 05 August 2018 11:20

  From Staff Reports  A man was arrested on July 7 for allegedly kicking several dogs belonging to different homeless people in downtown Asheville.  Paul Jones, 33, also was accused of trying to pick a fight with another homeless man.  In ...

• Asheville woman named 124th chief of N.C.’s Bar

  Created: Sunday, 05 August 2018 11:19

  From Staff Reports WILMINGTON — Jacqueline D. Grant of Asheville has been installed as the 124th president of the North Carolina Bar Association.  Chief Justice Mark Martin of the N.C. Supreme Court administered the oath of office to Gr...

• 4 charged with firing fireworks at firefighters, APD officers during blaze on Fourth of July

  Created: Sunday, 05 August 2018 11:17

  From Staff Reports  Asheville police responded to a 10:45 p.m. July 4 call to assist firefighters battling a structure fire — and four people — in West Asheville’s Pisgah View Apartments. The fire was under control, but residents had been aim...

• Commissioners, school board clash over late budget change

  Created: Sunday, 05 August 2018 11:16

  From Staff Reports  The Buncombe County School Board expressed dissatisfaction with an 11th-hour change to the county budget. Just prior to its adoption, Buncombe County Commissioner Al Whitesides made a motion to grant both the Buncombe County and ...

• Fuddruckers site sold; apartments, shops proposed

  Created: Sunday, 05 August 2018 11:16

  From Staff Reports  Earlier this month, Kassinger Development purchased 130 Charlotte Street in North Asheville, the lot on which Fuddruckers is situated.  The developer intends to build a mixed-use complex with more than 200 residential units...

• Free Medicare classes to be offered in Asheville area

  Created: Sunday, 05 August 2018 11:14

  From Staff Reports  Late summer and early fall dates for free Medicare Choices Made Easy semseminars were recently announced by the Council on Aging of Buncombe County, in conjunction with Seniors’ Health Insurance Information Program,. The class...

• Iconic Chief Pontiac statue removed, taken to Virginia

  Created: Saturday, 04 August 2018 18:23

  From Staff Reports  To anybody wondering about that huge image of Chief Pontiac cruising around town on his back ….  On July 13, the giant statue of a Native American marking Harry’s on the Hill was removed.  Harry’s used to sell P...

• Was Trump’s 2016 win good for Dems this year?

  Created: Saturday, 04 August 2018 18:20

  By D.G. MARTIN Special to the Daily Planet CHAPEL HILL  —  I thought I was so smart back in 2016 when I wrote that Democrats, who were confident they would defeat Donald Trump, should be pulling for him to win. A Trump win, I explained, c...

• Letters to the Editor: August 2018

  Created: Saturday, 04 August 2018 18:09

  Trump’s Helsinki insults called threat to democracy At President Trump’s recent meeting in Helsinki, Finland, Putin once again denied any involvement “by the state,” in the 2016 presidential election. Trump called t...