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• Soulful sounds

  Created: Tuesday, 30 October 2007 17:32

  The musical ìSmokey Joeís CafÈ: The Songs of Leiber and Stollerî is being performed through Sunday at the Flat Rock Playhouse, Greenville Highway, Flat Rock. Admission is $25 for adults and $15 for students. For more information, call 693-073...

• Seeing red in Turkey

  Created: Tuesday, 23 October 2007 18:07

  † Turkish demonstrators wave banners and shout anti-terrorism slogans during a protest Monday in Kadikoy public square in Istanbul, Turkey. Twelve Turkish soldiers died in a confrontation with Kurdish rebels near the border with Iraq on Su...

• Asheville City Council candidates square off on development, gangs, cityís future growth

  Created: Tuesday, 23 October 2007 18:06

  By JIM GENARO Differing opinions about development and the impact of growth on Ashevilleís future clashed last Wednesday as the six remaining candidates for City Council participated in a debate at UNC Ashevilleís Reuter Center. About 150 pe...

• County OKs mobile homes in more areas

  Created: Tuesday, 23 October 2007 18:02

  By JIM GENARO Residents of Buncombe County will now be allowed to erect mobile homes in much more of the county, as the Board of Commissioners voted 4-1 on Oct. 16 to allow manufactured homes in the R-1 and R-2 zoning districts. The board had p...

• Bush lauded for honoring Dalai Lama

  Created: Tuesday, 23 October 2007 18:01

  President Bush deserves praise for showing the integrity and chutzpah to honor the Dalai Lama in Washington, D.C., recently, much to Chinaís dismay. What will the Chinese do to retaliate ó send us more toxic products? The exiled spiritual le...

• ëDonít worry, be happyí ó OK, if you prefer tyranny

  Created: Tuesday, 23 October 2007 18:00

    John North Editor & Publisher While attending a recent function at an Asheville-area school, I saw a bumper sticker on a locker with the slogan, ìDonít worry, be happy.î My gut reaction...

• Letters: Oct. 24, 2007

  Created: Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:55

  Indie editor, who founded Traveling Bonfires, bids farewell to Asheville after seven years In behalf of all the beautiful bodies and wonderful spirits that comprise the Traveling Bonfires and Loved by the Buffalo Publications (publisher of The Ind...

• Council OKís plans for 23-story Ellington building

  Created: Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:53

  † The 23-story Ellington building will be Ashevilleís tallest structure. From Staff Reports Asheville City Council gave the go-ahead to plans for a 23-story luxury hotel, voting 6-1 on Oct. 16 to approve what wi...

• Woodfin Board of Aldermen passes resolution honoring deceased member

  Created: Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:48

  WOODFIN ó The Board of Aldermen passed a resolution on Oct. 16 honoring the life and service of board member Virgil Hollifield, who died Oct. 9 at his residence. Hollifield, 63, was the former owner of Virgilís Delivery Service and had worked at ...

• Bartramís Walk developer penalized for runoff at Beaverdam site

  Created: Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:45

  The developer of a controversial property in Beaverdam was cited by Buncombe County recently for what officials say was a failure to prevent erosion at its Bartramís Walk housing development. Inspectors say mud had washed away following grading at...

• Charity gets $1.6 million grant to improve vet services

  Created: Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:44

  Asheville-Buncombe Community Christian Ministries announced last Monday that it has been awarded a $1.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to provide 100 new beds for homeless veterans in Buncombe County. The charity current...

• Death of a loved one reminds us of changeís constancy

  Created: Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:43

  Janese Johnson With the crispness in the air and the autumn colors showing their beauty, it is clear that change from summer to autumn is inevitable. We have come to accept and appreciate this change in our lives as...

• GSU stuns No. 5 ASU 38-35, snaps home streak

  Created: Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:41

  BOONE, N.C. ñ Despite 557 yards of total offense and a furious fourth-quarter rally, Appalachian State Universityís 30-game home winning streak came to an end with a heartbreaking 38-35 loss to Georgia Southern last Saturday afternoon at Kidd Brewer S...

• Citadel hands WCU its 12th-straight SoCon game; coachís fate termed ëtenuousí

  Created: Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:39

  CULLOWHEE ó The Citadel beat Western Carolina 37-31 during homecoming as more than half the crowd of 7,804 left the game before it was over last Saturday. The loss was the 12th in a row in Southern Conference play for the Catamounts, who committed...

• Sports Briefs: Oct. 24, 2007

  Created: Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:38

  Collins Fired? Resigned? BC mum on Collinsí departure as AD BREVARD ó Tom Collins is no longer the athletic director at Brevard College, school officials announced last Thursday. BCís announcement did n...

• Police Blotter: Oct. 24, 2007

  Created: Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:37

  Man charged with murder, setting fire to victimís home SWANNANOA ó Buncombe County Sheriffís deputies have arrested a man who they say murdered† another man with a blunt object and then set his mobile home on fire last Monday. Donald F...

• Buncombe County schools hit by third case of ësuperbugí infection

  Created: Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:33

  From Staff Reports Buncombe County school officials announced last Thursday that they have discovered a third case of an antibiotic-resistant ìsuperbug.î An unidentified middle school student reportedly contracted Methicillin-resistant Stap...

• Conservative group may not have broken campaign law with television ad

  Created: Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:32

  From Staff Reports RALEIGH ó A television ad by the conservative group Carolina Stompers mocking City Council candidate Elaine Liteís participation in a Wiccan ritual may not have violated North Carolina campaign laws, officials with the state el...

• Advice Goddess: Burden of roof? Donít succumb to girlfriendís needy demands

  Created: Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:29

  The Advice Goddess Amy Alkon I love my girlfriend of four years; sheís awesome. Weíre in our 30s, both divorced. Neither of us wants to remarry, and she doesnít need my money. Yet, sheís given me an ultima...

• ëInto the Wildí chronicles manís plunge into a perilous Eden

  Created: Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:26

    Roger Ebert For those who have read Thoreauís ìWalden,î there comes a time, maybe lasting only a few hours or a day, when the notion of living alone in a tiny cabin beside a pond and planting some b...