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• UNCA coach, three players win Big South recognition

  Created: Tuesday, 11 March 2008 14:32

  UNC Asheville collected the most awards in men’s basketball as the Big South Conference gave out postseason honors on March 3. Winning BSC coach of the year was the Bulldogs’ Eddie Biedenbach, while junior center Kenny George was named ...

• Advice Goddess: 11-month rule? No, there is no set formula for getting over your ex

  Created: Tuesday, 11 March 2008 14:31

  The Advice Goddess Amy Alkon After a breakup, people say you have to wait one month for every year of the broken relationship (in my case, 11 months) before you’re ready to date. Are they making this up?...

• Drug-laced water supplies spark concern

  Created: Tuesday, 11 March 2008 14:29

  In what sounds like some radical hippie plot from the 1960s, America’s water supply is laced — the nation has just learned —with a veritable medicine cabinet of drugs. Lurking in that apparently pristine glass of water you are sip...

• DST: a sinister plot or just annoying?

  Created: Tuesday, 11 March 2008 14:27

    John North Editor & Publisher Daylight saving time began at 2 a.m. last Sunday and I feel robbed of one hour’s sleep by congressional fiat. DST now covers almost two-thirds of the ye...

• Real change requires more than a shell-game

  Created: Tuesday, 11 March 2008 14:26

  Bill Walz This is the season of change according to the Presidential candidates and the braying pundits. The people seem to realize we are being led over a cliff and are calling for a leader who will turn us from ...

• Letters: Citizen-Times faulted for its hyper-local coverage, small size

  Created: Tuesday, 11 March 2008 14:24

  EDITOR’S NOTE: The following letter to the editor is in reference to a story headlined “Print newspapers’ future? New publisher gloomy, but sees AC-T morphing into digital info provider” that appeared in the Feb. 27 edition of th...

• Letter: The passing of the consummate gentleman

  Created: Tuesday, 11 March 2008 14:21

  EDITOR’S NOTE: Bill Fishburne, a prominent Asheville conservative, offered the following tribute to William F. Buckley Jr., who died Feb. 27. Buckley was considered in some circles as the spark who ignited the modern conservative movement in the U...

• Congregation approves unusual response to tax rebate

  Created: Tuesday, 11 March 2008 14:19

  Members of an Asheville congregation have taken the unusual step of voting to give away the anticipated tax rebates recently approved by Congress and signed into law by President George Bush as an economic stimulus package. In a special business me...

• Politics of fear wielded to blind us to our ëgutí feelings

  Created: Tuesday, 11 March 2008 14:18

    Janese Johnson Are we a culture big on change or a culture based on fear? It seems in recent times we can see that the more a candidate uses fear and hate tactics to scare people in voting for them, th...

• Finally, in ëDefinitely, Maybe,í Ryan Reynolds hits the mark

  Created: Tuesday, 11 March 2008 14:12

  With her parents about to get divorced, 10-year-old Maya (Abigail Breslin) questions her dad Will (Ryan Reynolds) about how he and her mother met and fell and love in “Definitely, Maybe.” By MARY HOULI...

• Rabbi Robert Ratner, local Jewish hero, retires after years of service

  Created: Tuesday, 11 March 2008 14:09

  Marc Mullinax “It is not incumbent upon you to complete the work, but neither are you permitted to desist from (beginning) it.” — Rabbi Tarfon • Robert Ratner, now Rabbi Emeritus at Asheville&...

• Asheville approves citywide network for bicycle access

  Created: Tuesday, 04 March 2008 17:20

  Asheville moved closer to being a more bicycle-friendly city on Feb. 26, as City Council voted 5-1 to approve the city’s first comprehensive bike plan. The plan will establish a connected network of bicycle access throughout Asheville’s...

• Goats, pigeons, mystery liquid found during eviction at West Asheville manís compound

  Created: Tuesday, 04 March 2008 17:19

  The City of Asheville evicted Gabriel Ferrari, owner of a property (above) at Sulphur Springs Road in West Asheville, last Wednesday. Police and sheriff’s deputies found 10 goats, 48 pigeons and an unidentified liquid on the premises. Th...

• Americaís foreign policy needs to open up to talking with enemies, ex-ambassador claims

  Created: Tuesday, 04 March 2008 17:16

  By JOHN NORTH The United States should change course in its foreign policy from pre-emptive strikes and pre-emptive wars to negotiation and diplomacy, according to retired U.S. Ambassador Marshall McCallie. He noted that taking hard-line sta...

• Spring forward Sunday with daylight-saving time

  Created: Tuesday, 04 March 2008 17:14

  Daylight-saving time will begin at 2 a.m. Sunday in most parts of the United States, including Western North Carolina. At that time, clocks should be advanced one hour forward. Therefore, first light Sunday will arrive an hour later and darkness wi...

• Police Blotter: March 5, 2008

  Created: Tuesday, 04 March 2008 17:13

  63-year-old woman raped by intruder in her apartment A man entered a 63-year-old woman’s home and raped her on Feb. 24, according to police. Investigators have sent DNA evidence collected at the Oakview Road apartment to a state lab in ...

• HRMC, with 900 workers, faces possible shutdown

  Created: Tuesday, 04 March 2008 17:11

  CLYDE — Officials with Haywood Regional Medical Center are weighing their options after the federal government cut the hospital’s Medicare and Medicaid funding last week and two major health-insurance providers terminated their coverage ther...

• Beaver Lake in city to be drained again for repairs

  Created: Tuesday, 04 March 2008 17:10

  Beaver Lake in North Asheville is once again being drained for repairs. Workers will replace a valve on its control tower and install a new toe drain on the dam, according to Lakeview Park Commission Chairman Hugh Lamb. The draining began last...

• UNCA rips Winthrop 63-50 to win BSC title, clinches top seed in tourney

  Created: Tuesday, 04 March 2008 17:10

  ROCK HILL, S.C. — UNC Asheville got 25 points from Bryan Smithson and used suffocating defense to upset Winthrop University 63-50 before a sellout crowd of 6,043 at Winthrop Coliseum last Saturday afternoon. The win gave the Bulldogs a share ...

• ëSpiderwickí delights, thrills, but leave small kids at home

  Created: Tuesday, 04 March 2008 17:06

  Roger Ebert “The Spiderwick Chronicles” is a terrific entertainment for the whole family, except those below a certain age, who are likely to be scared out of their wits. What is that age? I dunno; they&...