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• 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...

• The Candid Conservative: Conservatives in wonderland

  Created: Saturday, 04 August 2018 18:04

  By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet “I’m a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second – and don’t you ever forget it.” — Ann Coulter The problem Living in the epicenter of liberal conformity as a conserva...

• City’s Chief Pontiac statue could have been much more

  Created: Saturday, 04 August 2018 18:03

  Much has been made of the recent departure of the 23-foot-tall “Muffler Man” statue of Chief Pontiac, which solemnly stood sentinel, gazing down on Asheville’s motor-vehicle choked Patton Avenue for more than 50 years, fronting Harry’s on the Hill...

• How will history see the times we live in?

  Created: Saturday, 04 August 2018 18:01

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet When now is history, I’ll be dead and gone. And, man, I’d really love to know what’s going to be said and written, say, 50 years from now about the days we’re in now.  Things happen every day th...

• Fade diet

  Created: Saturday, 04 August 2018 17:53

  By AMY ALKON Syndicated Columnist Q: I got ghosted — dumped by a guy who just disappeared on me, no explanation — after three months of lovey-dovey dating. Clearly, he isn’t a great person, yet I’m unable to stop thinking about him and wonderi...

• ‘Broadway on the Rock’ rocks

  Created: Saturday, 04 August 2018 17:46

  4 singers sizzle in red-hot revue of Broadway songs By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com  FLAT ROCK —  The musical revue, “Broadway on the Rock,” was touted by the Flat Rock Playhouse as an...

• Dirty Dancing Festival aims to dazzle with film, dancing, fun

  Created: Saturday, 04 August 2018 17:40

  As the late, great Patrick Swayze said in the film, ‘Nobody puts Baby in a corner!’ From Staff Reports  LAKE LURE —  The 9th Annual Lake Lure Dirty Dancing Fest...

• Arboretum to feature Symphonic Winds at Summer Lights gala

  Created: Saturday, 04 August 2018 17:39

  From Staff Reports Summer Lights, an outdoor summer concert series and light show, will hold its final 2018 summer shows from 8 to 10 p.m. Aug. 3-4 in the North Carolina Arboretum’s Outdoor Events Amphitheater in South Asheville. Guests will be treate...

• July 18 Leadership Asheville Buzz Breakfast to Focus on Promoting Sexual and Gender Diversity

  Created: Thursday, 05 July 2018 12:29

  From Staff Reports Leadership Asheville’s next Buzz Breakfast —  at 7:30 a.m. July 18 — will provide a forum for discussing ways to promote sexual and gender diversity in area workplaces. Tina Madison White, executive director of Blue Ridge Pr...

• Mayor defends transit system spending jump over fire dept.

  Created: Thursday, 05 July 2018 12:25

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com Following a presentation on the City of Asheville’s municipal budget for 2018-19, Mayor Esther Manheimer fielded at least two questions accusing the city of favoring its transit system — Asheville Redefine...

• Buncombe puts $950,000 lien on ex-manager’s property

  Created: Thursday, 05 July 2018 12:22

  From Staff Reports A lien filed for more than $950,000 on property owned by former county manager Wanda Greene has been added to Buncombe County’s lawsuit against her, according to a recent filing. An order of attachment that included the lien was fil...

• The Advice Goddess: July 2018

  Created: Thursday, 05 July 2018 12:16

  Ambivalence, actually My boyfriend of two years read my diary and found out that I had expressed feelings for another guy while we were together. I never acted on them (and I wouldn’t have), and I probably shouldn’t have told the guy I liked him...

• After complaint, Chief Pontiac statue to be moved

  Created: Thursday, 05 July 2018 12:14

  From Staff Reports  The 23-foot-tall Indian statue that has towered over Asheville’s Patton Avenue fsince 1967, giving a “How” to passersby, is coming down.  Pat Grimes, co-owner of Harry’s on the Hill automotive dealership, explained ...

• 2 downtown properties, home to popular restaurants, sold

  Created: Thursday, 05 July 2018 12:13

  From Staff Reports Ellington Realty Group announced on June 6 the sale of two properties — home to two popular restaurants — in downtown Asheville. The first, 48 Biltmore Avenue, was sold to Big Tex San Antonio, LP, for $3.2 million. ...

• Exodus continues as county manager retires abruptly

  Created: Thursday, 05 July 2018 12:11

  From Staff Reports  After a rash of reforms for transparency, which included an online dashboard for citizens to keep track of county money; the Buncombe County leaders most heavily engaged in the changes — including County Manager Mandy Stone �...