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• Man who punched cyclist sentenced to 3 days in jail

  Created: Friday, 04 May 2018 15:09

  From Staff Reports  Claude Donald Watson pled guilty to simple assault for punching a bicyclist in the face, according to Bunbombe County District Attorney Todd Williams.  On the afternoon of Sept. 27, Watson had been trailing a cyclist in a D...

• Man with AK-47 arrested at Biltmore Estate

  Created: Friday, 04 May 2018 15:08

  From Staff Reports  A man who Biltmore Company police say brought a stolen AK-47 rifle and more than two and a half pounds of marijuana onto Asheville’s Biltmore Estate entrance was arrested April 11 by the BC police unit. Torrey Lane Hodsden, 21...

• Sinatra died 20 years ago, but recordings of his exquisite vocals remain unsurpassed

  Created: Friday, 04 May 2018 15:07

  By HERB STARK Special to the Daily Planet I can't believe 20 years have gone by and it's time to remember Hoboken, New Jersey’s hometown son, Frank Sinatra who passed away on May 14, 1998. His legacy is first and foremost, his music. From “All Or N...

• Letters to the editor: May 2018

  Created: Friday, 04 May 2018 14:59

  ‘Fine-tuned’ administration needs to be 'fine-tuned' (again) f, as President (Donald) Trump says, “My administration is running like a fine-tuned machine,” how come there’s such a “yuuuge” turnover? It seems there are a lot of loose s...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: May 2018

  Created: Friday, 04 May 2018 14:55

  Simone makes triumphant entry into R&R Hall of Fame The late Tryon native Nina Simone richly deserved her April 14 induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame at its 33rd annual ceremony in Cleveland. Th...

• The Candid Conservative: Dads — Here’s 10 things to teach your kids

  Created: Friday, 04 May 2018 14:50

  By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet “The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” — Theodore Hesburgh   The problem No matter what the dark statistic – crime, drug abuse, early mortality...

• Frazier’s lovely language worth the wait

  Created: Friday, 04 May 2018 14:49

  By D.G. MARTIN Special to the Daily Planet CHAPEL HILL  —  With the publication of “Varina” in early April, Charles Frazier’s many fans celebrated the end of a long wait. Frazier refuses to work fast. Every word of every chapter of ev...

• Oh, can’t you see the morning after?

  Created: Friday, 04 May 2018 14:47

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet   My wife doesn’t complain when I sing around the house. In fact, I think she gauges my mood by my songs. For a few days now, I’ve been singing Maureen McGovern’s powerful #1 hit from 1973:   ...

• ‘Ain’t it funny how the night moves, When you just don’t seem to have as much to lose....’

  Created: Friday, 04 May 2018 14:41

  ‘Like a Rock,’ Bob Seger’s music given a solid salute   By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com FLAT ROCK —  Steve Kelly and his band The Tribute Kings exuded the passionate, welcomi...

• Midtown Men excel with soaring harmonies, stellar choreography

  Created: Friday, 04 May 2018 14:39

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com FRANKLIN  — The Midtown Men — singing songs from the 1960s and featuring lush harmonies and a near-perfect blend of precision choreography with a dash of fun mixed in — performed a 90-minute set w...

• Downtown After 5 to begin May 18 with AVL All-Stars

  Created: Friday, 04 May 2018 14:38

  From Staff Reports The Asheville All-Stars will begin performing about 5 p.m. May 18 for the opening of the 30th anniversary season of  Asheville’s Downtown After 5 outdoor concert series. The shows run until 9 p.m. The concerts, — on the third...

• Holocaust survivor and scholar Walter Ziffer to speak April 18 at UNCA

  Created: Wednesday, 04 April 2018 22:41

  From Staff Reports Walter Ziffer, Holocaust survivor, author and educator, will present a talk, Holocaust: When Law and Righteousness Clashed, at 6 p.m. April 18 in UNC Asheville’s Humanities Lecture Hall. The talk is free and open to everyon...

• Mission seeks to be acquired by HCA

  Created: Wednesday, 04 April 2018 22:34

  From Staff Reports   Asheville-based nonprofit Mission Health, the largest health care provider in Western North Carolina, has signed a letter of intent to be acquired by a for-profit health care system, Mission announced in a news release in late ...

• Natural gas, solar panels termed tops for buildings

  Created: Wednesday, 04 April 2018 22:32

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com   Based on his energy-sector expertise and a quest for maximum efficiency, Asheville entrepreneur Stuart Weidie told the Council of Independent Business Owners on March 2 that the most cost-efficient pat...

• The Advice Goddess: April 2018

  Created: Wednesday, 04 April 2018 22:23

  Flee bitten For three months, things were going really well with this man I was dating. He’d introduced me to his daughter. We’d even planned a trip together. And then he just disappeared. I eventually texted him to find out what happened, but h...

• ‘Enough is enough,’ protest crowd chants

  Created: Wednesday, 04 April 2018 22:22

  From Staff Reports  More than a dozen people — including a student who survived the Feb. 14 rampage by a shooter at a Florida High School — addresed a crowd that Asheville police estimated at more than 6,000 in Martin Luther King Jr. Park during...

• Press probe digs up more Greene issues

  Created: Wednesday, 04 April 2018 22:20

  From Staff Reports While authorities are not at liberty to discuss details, investigative reporters at the Asheville Citizen-Times continued efforts in March to uncover why former County Manager Dr. Wanda Greene is under federal investigation.  The...

• Correction

  Created: Wednesday, 04 April 2018 22:19

  A story (“‘I’m a Recovering Racist’ talk triggers discussion”) in the March edition of the Daily Planet incorrectly stated that author and essayist Bruce Mulkey is on the board of  Evergreen Community Charter School. It should have said th...

• Fresco grant request tabled, then withdrawn

  Created: Wednesday, 04 April 2018 22:18

  From Staff Reports  The Haywood Street Congregation has withdrawn its application for $72,500 in Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority funding for a church fresco. The BCTDA had agreed to the grant. However, following several months of lega...

• GQ rates Asheville as ‘coolest city you’ve never been to’

  Created: Wednesday, 04 April 2018 22:16

  From Staff Reports GQ magazine recently named Asheville “the coolest city you’ve never been to” and commissioned author Charles Frazier to explain why. First, Frazier praised the clean air and the mountains, and all the opportunities for...