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• Council endorses plan for high-speed Internet

  Created: Tuesday, 01 April 2008 13:23

  City leaders signed off on a plan that could make high-speed wireless Internet access available throughout Asheville on March 25. City Council voted 5-0 to endorse the plan presented by the Mountain Area Information Network, which would allow peopl...

• City Council delays action on endorsing Swannanoa incorporation

  Created: Tuesday, 01 April 2008 13:22

  Advocates for Swannanoa to incorporate as a separate town from Asheville did not get the boost they were hoping for from Ashville City Council on March 25. Council voted 5-0 to hold off endorsing incorporation, pending a closer look at boundaries a...

• Asheville Board of Adjustments approves Staples changes

  Created: Tuesday, 01 April 2008 13:21

  Officials with office-supply store Staples said they hope to complete alterations to the company’s Merrimon Avenue store by June, following the city Board of Adjustment’s approval of a compromise agreement over the building’s signs. ...

• Beaverdam residents sue developer over mudflow onto property

  Created: Tuesday, 01 April 2008 13:21

  An Asheville couple has filed a lawsuit against a developer over alleged violations of federal clean-water rules, saying the builders caused muddy water to flow into their Beaverdam-area property. Glenn and Katherine Metheny, of Spooks Branch Road,...

• County commission candidate drops out of race

  Created: Tuesday, 01 April 2008 13:21

  J. Ray Elingburg announced last week that he is withdrawing his bid for a seat on the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners. The Weaverville resident and former county clerk of court said a family illness prompted his decision to drop out of the D...

• Staples: 1, Asheville citizens: 0 (again)

  Created: Tuesday, 01 April 2008 13:20

  The Staples debacle appears to be over — for now, anyway. The office-supply store reached a compromise last week with the city’s Board of Adjustments under which the signs on its Merrimon Avenue store will be reduced in size, but will still ...

• Vaticanís new sin list tempts me to tweak it

  Created: Tuesday, 01 April 2008 13:18

    John North Editor & Publisher I confess that I was taken aback when the Vatican recently announced that it has updated its sin list. For centuries, the so-called seven deadly sins included lus...

• Letters: April 2, 2008

  Created: Tuesday, 01 April 2008 13:17

  Religious intolerance, bigotry triggered writing of books, speaker-author says In response to Wayne Burgess’ letter (in the April 23 edition of the Daily Planet) regarding my talk to the Ethical Society (of Asheville), I would like to state t...

• ëDrillbit Taylorí gives preteens their own off-color Apatow flop

  Created: Tuesday, 01 April 2008 13:15

  From left, Wade (Nate Hartley), Drillbit Taylor (Owen Wilson), Emmit (David Dorfman) and Ryan (Troy Gentile) discuss a plan to defeat a bully in “Drillbit Taylor.” By DAREL JEVENS For middle-sch...

• Advice Goddess: Not communicating well with deadbeat husband? Try leaving him

  Created: Tuesday, 01 April 2008 13:13

  The Advice Goddess Amy Alkon Two years ago, my husband had an affair. He apologized profusely, but since he ended it, he’s been on his worst behavior. He quit his job, saying that working for someone is ...

• In honor of those impacted by this unnecessary war

  Created: Tuesday, 01 April 2008 13:11

    Janese Johnson While I was waiting anxiously for my son to call from Iraq and tell me he was back at base safe, I really understood, at a level that I have not understood previously, the suffering that...

• Weaverville family bids farewell to soldier, father killed by bomb in Iraq

  Created: Tuesday, 01 April 2008 13:10

  WEAVERVILLE — The family of a National Guardsman and father from Weaverville who was killed in Iraq on March 22 marked his passing at a private ceremony inside an airport hangar last Saturday. Sgt. Thomas Ray was killed, along with two other ...

• Haywood Regional Medical Center unveils plan to get federal funding restored

  Created: Tuesday, 01 April 2008 13:09

  CLYDE — The interim CEO of Haywood Regional Medical Center last Thursday announced new measures aimed at getting federal funding restored to the hospital soon. Al Beyers said the hospital would be ready within days to submit paperwork to the ...

• Police Blotter: April 2, 2008

  Created: Tuesday, 01 April 2008 13:08

  Tasering did not kill man, medical examiner reports A man who was repeatedly Tasered by deputies at the Henderson County jail did not die from the electrical shocks, but from cocaine and alcohol in his system, a state pathologist announced last Fr...

• Mumpower accuses 3 projects in city of using illegal labor

  Created: Tuesday, 25 March 2008 18:27

  From Staff Reports Asheville City Councilman Carl Mumpower wants state law-enforcement officers to crack down on what he claims are illegal immigrants working at three downtown Asheville construction projects. In an e-mail dated last Thursd...

• Dancers herald Spring

  Created: Tuesday, 25 March 2008 18:25

  The Munirah Dancers, a group of belly dancers from UNC Asheville, call in the spring during the Earth Celebrations Vernal Equinox celebration at the Botanical Gardens at Asheville last Thursday afternoon. Earth Celebrations has been holding publi...

• Rap culture blamed for boosting cityís gang activity

  Created: Tuesday, 25 March 2008 18:24

    APD Det. Louis Tomasetti By JOHN NORTH The gang culture in the United States, including in Asheville, moves to the beat of rap music, with its often hostile and misogynistic messages, according to D...

• Police Blotter: March 26, 2008

  Created: Tuesday, 25 March 2008 18:21

  Female student reports assault, robbery at UNCA A female student at UNC Asheville reported being assaulted and robbed about 3:30 a.m. last Sunday at the parking lot outside of the Founders Hall dormitory. The victim reported that two African...

• Buncombe Health officials seek information about rabid house cat discovered in Candler

  Created: Tuesday, 25 March 2008 18:17

  Buncombe County health officials are seeking information about a rabid cat in Candler. The gray, medium-size cat was found wearing a red leather collar with a bell in the Spencer’s Place neighborhood on Justice Ridge Road last week. Stev...

• BC students protest ban of campus publication

  Created: Tuesday, 25 March 2008 18:16

  BREVARD — Students at Brevard College gathered outside the campus March 13 to protest what they said was censorship of a student-run newspaper by the school’s administration. Administrators banned the new publication, the Pupil’s ...