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• Appalachian football tickets offered for six home games

  Created: Wednesday, 22 August 2007 03:34

  BOONE ó Tickets for Appalachian Stateís six home football games went on sale Aug. 7. With ASU on pace for a record number of season tickets sold, single-game tickets were expected to be at a premium when they went on sale. Tickets may be purchase...

• ëSuperbadí is foul-mouthed, but intelligent nonetheless

  Created: Wednesday, 22 August 2007 03:32

  Roger Ebert ìSuperbadî is a four-letter raunch-a-rama with a heart, and an inordinate interest in other key organs. It is autobiographical, I suspect, inspired not just by the lives of the co-writers, Seth Rogen a...

• Billy Graham in fair condition following hospitalization

  Created: Wednesday, 22 August 2007 03:28

    Rev. Billy Graham The Rev. Billy Graham was hospitalized last Saturday with intestinal bleeding, but appears to be improving. Graham, 88, was admitted to Mission Hospitals for observation about 2:...

• Ali Baba gets support from public petition

  Created: Wednesday, 22 August 2007 03:26

  More than 300 people have signed a petition calling for Ali Baba Middle Eastern Restaurant to be allowed to remain at its Grove Arcade location. The restaurant was told last month that its lease would be terminated by the downtown shopping center, ...

• Vick chew toy? It seems only fair

  Created: Wednesday, 22 August 2007 03:25

  Call it poetic justice. Michael Vick, whose career in professional football is likely over after he admitted that he participated in an illegal dogfighting operation, will now be chewed to pieces by dogs. Well, an effigy of him will be, at any rate...

• Coachís ëprosperityí priorities strike me as impoverished

  Created: Wednesday, 22 August 2007 03:23

  John North Editor & Publisher I shook my head in dismay recently when I read an article in the Asheville Citizen-Times headlined ìProsperity coach wins $200,000 lottery prize.î The story told of a l...

• History is primarily made by the will of individuals

  Created: Wednesday, 22 August 2007 03:22

    Mark West One of the peculiarities of history is that it is driven by the insight and will of individuals, more than by the grand currents of economic flux or class struggle. Those vast tendencies may matte...

• Letters to the Editor: August 22, 2007

  Created: Wednesday, 22 August 2007 03:11

  Advice columnist criticized for comments about meat The recent column about a woman being unhappy with her boyfriendís desire for her to stop eating animals was titled ìVegetarian boyfriend needs to live, let live.î† Thatís exactly what heí...

• Advice Goddess: Self-awareness is much better than self-pity

  Created: Wednesday, 22 August 2007 03:04

  The Advice Goddess Amy Alkon Seven years ago, my wife of 11 years left me and married my moneybags boss. Next, my girlfriend dumped me for my wealthy friend. Then, a different girlfriend left me to marry my be...

• Several recent Civil War novels explore interracial love themes

  Created: Wednesday, 22 August 2007 03:01

  by DG MARTIN Are you ready for another novel that is set in the Carolinas during Civil War times and deals with themes of love across racial lines? Last year, three of North Carolinaís most important writers published important books in this ...

• Stigma about mental illness keeps us all truly in the dark

  Created: Wednesday, 22 August 2007 03:00

    Janese Johnson Mental illness is more common than we know. The ignorance of many has hidden it and shoved it aside as though it were a rare situation that only happens in the most extreme cases. But ac...

• The Beach Boys aim to send out good vibrations at Canton concert

  Created: Tuesday, 21 August 2007 17:30

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• 15 candidates file for council seats

  Created: Tuesday, 21 August 2007 17:24

  Fifteen candidates filed by the noon Monday deadline to run for Asheville City Council this fall. Three of six council seats will be contested. All council members serve four-year terms. The candidates include the following: ï Donna Bateman ï Steve B...

• Environmental protest forces closure of downtown bank

  Created: Tuesday, 14 August 2007 16:39

  By JIM GENARO About 50 environmental protestors, many of them dressed like canaries and polar bears, converged on the Bank of America on Patton Avenue downtown last Monday afternoon, forcing the bank to close for about two hours. Police in rio...

• ëPiratesí hoist sails

  Created: Tuesday, 14 August 2007 16:37

  Rafters flying a Jolly Roger flag and a sign calling for the impeachment of President Bush take part in the Anything That Floats Parade at the Rockiní River Festival on the French Broad River last Saturday. Thousands attended the daylong festiva...

• Students expected to return to WNC colleges this week

  Created: Tuesday, 14 August 2007 16:36

  At college campuses throughout Western North Carolina, summer vacation will officially come to an end starting this week. UNC Asheville will welcome new students this Friday morning. Returning students are expected to move back in on Saturday. ...

• Black Mountain board debates gated housing, zoning

  Created: Tuesday, 14 August 2007 16:34

  By Jim Genaro BLACK MOUNTAIN ó Disputes over gated communities and height limits of buildings dominated discussion at the Black Mountain Board of Aldermen last Monday night, as the board unanimously voted to annex a third phase of The Settings and...

• Police Blotter: August 18, 2007

  Created: Tuesday, 14 August 2007 16:30

  Police arrest two fugitives on warrants in other states Two men were arrested last weekend on fugitive warrants in Alabama and South Carolina. Calvin Antonio Camp, 52, of 516 Reems Creek Road in Weaverville was arrested last Saturday on a fug...

• Deadline for City Council candidates to file extended

  Created: Tuesday, 14 August 2007 16:28

  The state Board of Elections has set a new filing period for candidates for Asheville City Council in the wake of a successful petition drive that challenged councilís decision to make municipal elections partisan. Those seeking to run for council...

• A-B Tech appoints 1st woman president

  Created: Tuesday, 14 August 2007 16:27

    Young Dr. Betty Young, president of Northwest State Community College in Archbold, Ohio, was unanimously elected to be the fourth president of Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College by the scho...