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• UNCA board recommends requiring health insurance for students

  Created: Tuesday, 18 December 2007 15:29

  Trustees back fee boosts, including 9% for housing; maximum of 2.8% for tuition The UNC Asheville Board of Trustees last Saturday unanimously approved a proposal to require full-time UNCA students to carry health insurance, beginning with the fal...

• UNCA confers degrees on 220 grads

  Created: Tuesday, 18 December 2007 15:28

    † Ray Bailey† About 220 students received bachelorís and Master of Liberal Arts degrees during Winter Commencement ceremonies last Saturday at UNC Ashevilleís Justice Center. The commencement addr...

• Biltmore Forest board OKs requiring boat-trailers, RVs to be hidden from view

  Created: Tuesday, 18 December 2007 15:27

  BILTMORE FOREST ó Residents of Biltmore Forest will no longer be allowed to park their campers or boat trailers in plain view in the town. Town Board of Commissioners on Dec. 11 unanimously approved a change to zoning ordinances requiring that cam...

• Woodfin residents vent concerns over impact of development on townís affordable housing

  Created: Tuesday, 18 December 2007 15:26

  WOODFIN ó The potential impact of development on Woodfinís supply of affordable housing topped concerns addressed by town residents at a public forum on Dec. 11. The meeting was called to solicit comment on a comprehensive plan for the town, whic...

• Police Blotter: Dec. 19, 2007

  Created: Tuesday, 18 December 2007 15:20

  Police rule out homicide in death outside pool hall Police have ruled out murder as the cause of death of a man who died after a struggle in an Asheville pool hall on Nov. 27, despite conflicting reports about the incident. However, they have...

• ASU drubs Delaware to snare 3rd-straight national football title

  Created: Tuesday, 18 December 2007 15:17

  Head coach Jerry Moore lifts the national championship hardware following ASUís 49-21 rout over Delaware. Photo courtesy of TIM DAVIN/ASU CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. ó For the third-consecutive season, the Appalachian S...

• Fueled by blocked shot, Bulldogs nip Camels

  Created: Tuesday, 18 December 2007 15:14

  UNC Ashevilleís John Williams blocked a potential game-winning shot with eight seconds left to enable the Bulldogs to edge Campbell University 79-76 in menís basketball last Thursday night at the Justice Center. After Williams disrupted what appe...

• ëAtonementí sure to please, win nomination for best film

  Created: Tuesday, 18 December 2007 15:13

  Roger Ebert By ROGER EBERT ìAtonementî begins on joyous gossamer wings and descends into an abyss of tragedy and loss. Its opening scenes in an English country house between the wars are like a dream of ele...

• Advice Goddess: All he is saying is, ëGive fleece a chanceí

  Created: Tuesday, 18 December 2007 15:11

  The Advice Goddess Amy Alkon As a single male, I find something extremely repulsive. More and more, women are making as much or more money than men. Yet, on dates, when the check comes, these career women conv...

• ë.... hear that (passenger) train a-comin?í

  Created: Tuesday, 18 December 2007 15:09

  Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy hammered the spike on the head recently when she said the city needs rail service, even if it canít support the kind of local trains that started running Nov. 24 in Charlotte. ìWe canít get a light rail in Asheville...

• Putinís protÈgÈ: Is he secretly a rock ëní roll rebel?

  Created: Tuesday, 18 December 2007 15:08

  John North Editor & Publisher My imagination ran wild after I read where Dmitry Medvedev, Vladimir Putinís protÈgÈ and choice for next president of Russia, said last week that, if elected, he would ask ...

• As Americans, how free are we really?

  Created: Tuesday, 18 December 2007 15:03

  Selwyn Duke WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. ó We Americans take great pride in our freedom. We call ourselves ìthe land of the free, home of the brave,î have Lady Liberty in New York Harbor and the Liberty Bell in Phil...

• Transcend ethnocentrism to achieve holiday spirit

  Created: Tuesday, 18 December 2007 14:50

    Janese Johnson Growing up in a small town in the Midwest did not help lessen my ethnocentrism because everyone lived a similar life, ate similar foods, and celebrated the same holidays. Other cult...

• Globalization of market-based economics brings utility, but not fairness, prof claims

  Created: Tuesday, 11 December 2007 18:57

  By JIM GENARO Globalization has many positive and desirable effects on the worldís economies, such as increasing standards of living and bringing greater access to products from around the globe. However, the benefits of globalization are not en...

• Santa mob ëinvadesí Asheville

  Created: Tuesday, 11 December 2007 18:55

  Thirty people dressed like Santa Claus staged a mini-invasion of Pritchard Park in downtown Asheville last Saturday afternoon. The group was† participating in ìSantaCon,î traveling around in a large bus, staging a snowball fight with manufact...

• Black Mtn. board reviews new maps of floodplain risks

  Created: Tuesday, 11 December 2007 18:54

  By JIM GENARO BLACK MOUNTAIN ó If Western North Carolina is hit by a 100-year flood, much of† the Town of Black Mountain will be under water. That was one of the findings revealed by a set of maps drawn from new geographic-information-sys...

• County approves deal to protect 852 acres of rugged mountain land

  Created: Tuesday, 11 December 2007 18:41

  From Staff Reports The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners on Dec. 3 moved to protect 852 acres of rugged mountaintop land in the county from being developed. Commissioners unanimously approved spending $1.6 million to purchase conservati...

• Pulitzer Prize-winner Gene Roberts to address MHC grads Friday

  Created: Tuesday, 11 December 2007 18:41

  † Gene Roberts MARS HILL ó Gene Roberts, winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for History, will give the commencement address at Mars Hill Collegeís winter graduation exercises 5 p.m. Friday in Moore Auditorium. R...

• Winter commencement set Saturday; A-B Tech chief to address UNCA grads

  Created: Tuesday, 11 December 2007 18:39

  † Ray Bailey† UNC Asheville will hold its Winter Commencement Ceremony at 10 a.m. Saturday in UNCAís Justice Center. Some 220 students are candidates for bachelorís and Master of Liberal Arts degrees. A rece...

• UNCA to shut down Monday for break, next semesterís classes to start Jan. 14

  Created: Tuesday, 11 December 2007 18:38

  †UNC Asheville will be closed for winter break next Monday through Jan. 1, 2008. Some offices will be open on a limited basis December 17-19 and December 27-31. †UNCAís Ramsey Library will be closed Dec. 20 through Jan. 1, 2008. A complete lis...