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• Thereís gold in them thar hills? Experts offer an intimate look

  Created: Friday, 10 June 2011 18:40

  Local prospector Doug Emerson demonstrates panning for gold in a creek at Old Fort during the annual North Carolina Gold Festival on June 4. Daily Planet Staff Photo By JOHN NORTH OLD FORT —  Und...

• Museum researchers debunk Walt Disneyís Asheville connection

  Created: Friday, 10 June 2011 18:28

  Museum Chief Historian Vance Pollock explains the Disney exhibit. From Staff Reports Contrary to a popular urban legend, there is no evidence that Walt Disney ever lived and worked in Asheville, local historian...

• ëSitting on Top of the Worldí for the end time

  Created: Friday, 10 June 2011 18:22

  The 8th Annual Montford Music and Arts Festival drew hundreds of people on May 21 in the Montford neighborhood, adjoining and just to the west of North Asheville. Features included live music, crafts, food and fun. Above, the popular local band David ...

• Dancer wins Grand National competition

  Created: Friday, 10 June 2011 18:19

  Karen Workman (right), a West Coast swing dance instructor from Hendersonville, won the Jack and Jill swing dance competition (where the partner is assigned on the spot) at the Grand National Dance on Memorial Day weekend in Atlanta, Ga. Dancers from ...

• The Planet's Opinion: The Rapture? Reset for Oct. 21

  Created: Friday, 10 June 2011 18:17

  The Rapture, which was supposed to happen at 6 p.m. May 21, was a no-show and more evidence of the dumbing down of America. In the aftermath, several humanist groups have demanded an investigation into Harold Camping — for fraud and deceit &m...

• An aerotropolis in North Carolina?

  Created: Friday, 10 June 2011 18:16

    D.G. Martin CHAPEL HILL —  But what about North Carolina airports? How do our major airports and associated metropolitan areas fit into the concepts for the future of the world’s mega ...

• The Candid Conservative: The Bible made your world

  Created: Friday, 10 June 2011 18:14

    Carl Mumpower Most religions are political movements having more to do with the things of man than the things of God. Mysticism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islamism, and socialism offer navigational tools fo...

• Letters to the Editor: June, 2011

  Created: Friday, 10 June 2011 18:11

    Cecil Bothwell Councilman asks for city to build park’s restrooms I request that the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority rescind its grant to the Pack Square Conservancy, made for...

• Taking it to the limit, one more time

  Created: Friday, 10 June 2011 18:05

  Bothwell backed in slamming Ayn Rand’s viewpoint Regarding the Cecil Bothwell versus Ayn Rand letters that this paper has posted, I’m a liberal-leaning fellow who has carefully read his Ayn Rand, and I would like to make a couple of poi...

• When you wish upon a Ringo Starr

  Created: Friday, 10 June 2011 17:34

  The Advice Goddess Amy Alkon I’m 25, a singer in a band, and extremely motivated to make a career out of my music. In fact, I’m moving to L.A. this week for that purpose. I’ve been casua...

• Insider tells about ëArab Awakeningí

  Created: Wednesday, 11 May 2011 16:50

  Dr. Larry Wilson From Staff Reports It likely will take a number of tries before any of the countries involved in the so-called “Arab Awakening” will come up with a fair and functional government,...

• A whopper of a tax bill

  Created: Wednesday, 11 May 2011 16:47

  Emily Bernstein shows her $3.95 billion tax bill for Bank of America during MoveOn Asheville’s “Tax Day — Make Them Pay” speak-out protest on April 17 in downtown Asheville’s Pritchard Park. The oversized mock tax bill wa...

• ëNaked runí author touts joy of athleticism

  Created: Wednesday, 11 May 2011 16:46

  Christopher McDougall From Staff Reports Christopher McDougall, known as the “Naked Run” author, and several of his ultrarunner friends informed and entertained an audience of running enthusiasts ...

• Asheville wins BeerCity USA 2011 title for 3rd year in row

  Created: Wednesday, 11 May 2011 16:43

  After tying Portland, Ore., for the title in 2009, Asheville skyrocketed to the top of the BeerCity USA 2011 poll to claim the crown exclusively for the second consecutive year, according to results released May 10. The BeerCity USA poll is conside...

• Steady economic, job growth predicted

  Created: Wednesday, 11 May 2011 16:41

  David Berson James Smith From Staff Reports The economic recovery in the United States will continue to gain traction with a 3.5 percent increase in the next 12 months, but job growth will continue t...

• SlutWalk rally focues on respect

  Created: Wednesday, 11 May 2011 16:38

  About 60 people, mostly scantily clad young women, gathered at the Vance Monument in downtown Asheville on April 22 for a SlutWalk Asheville rally that organizers said was intended to reclaim positive sexual thinking. “It doesn’t matter ho...

• Local angler catches big one in Panama

  Created: Wednesday, 11 May 2011 16:35

  David Dunn of Asheville recently caught a 55-lb. yellow fin tuna during a fishing expedition in Panama. He and some friends were fishing from a boat, about 40 miles of the coast, near David, Panama, about two weeks ago, when Dunn caught the fish using p...

• Cloggers kick up their heels at BBQ gala

  Created: Wednesday, 11 May 2011 16:35

  Bobby Wood and Louis Patton, both of Canton, members of the Green Valley Cloggers, kick up their heels during an April 30 performance by the group at the Henderson County Boyd BBQ Expo in the football stadium at Hendersonville High School in Hendersonvi...

• Advice Goddess: So, his wild oats ....

  Created: Wednesday, 11 May 2011 16:27

  The Advice Goddess Amy Alkon I offhandedly mentioned to a friend that I thought her married brother was really cute. She revealed that his divorce (from a 10-year marriage) would soon be final. (It will b...

• Dollarís plunge poses threat to Americansí property rights

  Created: Wednesday, 11 May 2011 16:23

  The most important measure of property for Americans is the dollar — and we let it float. The creation of the dollar, and the status of the dollar as legal tender, is a matter of fiat. Its value is adjusted by the mandarins at the Federa...