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• UNC edges WCU 6-5 in tournament to end remarkable Catamountsí run

  Created: Tuesday, 05 June 2007 17:01

  From Staff Reports CHAPEL HILL ó North Carolina scored two runs with two outs in the top of the ninth inning to nip Western Carolina 6-5 and win the Chapel Hill Regional in the NCAA baseball tournament on Monday at Boshamer Stadium. The los...

• Predictably, ëPiratesí III serves up bountiful action, lacks substance

  Created: Tuesday, 05 June 2007 16:56

  By ANNA FREEMAN While it begins beautifully, draws on timeless and fascinating pirate and mythic folklore and features an intriguing cast, ìPirates of the Caribbean: At Worldís Endî ultimately degenerates into an endless sequence of swashbucklin...

• Ex-Roberson star named to Fla. league all-star game

  Created: Tuesday, 05 June 2007 16:54

  LAKELAND, Fla. ó Cameron Maybin is one of four players chosen to represent the Lakeland Flying Tigers in the Florida State League All-Star Game on June 16 in Daytona Beach. A former star at Roberson High in Asheville, N.C., Maybin† ó as of last...

• Volleyball standout named UNCA Woman of the Year

  Created: Tuesday, 05 June 2007 16:53

    Elif Unlu CHARLOTTE ó The Big South Conference recently named Elif Unlu, a senior volleyball player, as UNC Ashevilleís Woman of the Year. Unlu, a three-time volleyball all-conference standout w...

• Womanís basketball coach gets raise to stay at UNCA

  Created: Tuesday, 05 June 2007 16:52

    Besty Blose UNC Asheville womenís basketball coach Besty Blose recently agreed to a four-year contract extension that includes a 10 percent pay increase to remain at the school. Blose, who led th...

• WWC commitment commended

  Created: Tuesday, 05 June 2007 16:50

  Warren Wilson College has once again shown itself to be a local leader in environmental causes. The schoolís president, Sandy Pfeiffer, recently became one of only two college presidents in the state to sign the American College and University Pre...

• Power of negative thinking? It has its moments

  Created: Tuesday, 05 June 2007 16:47

    John North Editor & Publisher An article I read recently, headlined ìThe power of negative thinking,î piqued my interest because it so blatantly flies in the face of a cherished ideal that we...

• Ignorance is strength? Giuliani struts his stuff

  Created: Tuesday, 05 June 2007 16:46

  At the Republican presidential debate in South Carolina, we had a bit of high drama. Outsider candidate Ron Paul had the temerity to suggest that the U.S. was attacked on 9/11 not because we are rich and free, but ìbecause we are there.î He then dare...

• Forget the hype ó ëWantedí proves to be seriously wanting

  Created: Tuesday, 05 June 2007 16:43

  I had heard that Mark Millar and J.G. Jonesí ìWanted,î (Image/Top Cow, 192 pp., $19.99) a story focused on supervillains, was edgy, smart and brutal. David Forbes   Iíd even heard it cal...

• Advice Goddess: Answer your exís calls from space, the hospital, jail

  Created: Tuesday, 05 June 2007 16:40

  The Advice Goddess Amy Alkon I love my girlfriend of eight years very much, but Iím at witsí end over her (non-romantic) relationship with her ex-boyfriend, who lives in another state. To her, heís a helple...

• Does Your God hate? What possible good can come of that?

  Created: Tuesday, 05 June 2007 16:36

  Marc Mullinax ìWe need you God, for Heaven. Hell we can make for ourselves.î ó Margaret Atwood ï MARS HILL ó Can you enjoy the love of God if you know that God does not love others? Does the faith you practic...

• Media reliance on ads perverts democracy, critic claims

  Created: Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:55

  By JIM GENARO The way that media evolved in the U.S. was neither inevitable nor natural, according to Wally Bowen, executive director of the Mountain Area Information Network. Bowen outlined the historical development of media and its consequences durin...

• Star Wars stamps unveiled

  Created: Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:53

  Actors dressed like characters from the movie ìStar Warsî unveil a poster of the new stamps issued by the U.S. Postal Service to commemorate the filmís 30th anniversary at the downtown Asheville post office last Saturday morning. About 25 peop...

• City honors fallen soldiers who gave ëultimate sacrificeí

  Created: Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:52

  Selfless acts of heroism by Americaís fighting men and women have made the country safe and protected the basic freedoms enjoyed by those back home, Rep. Heath Shuler, D-Waynesville, told the audience at a Memorial Day ceremony last Monday afternoon. ...

• Master plan touted as key to Ashevilleís development

  Created: Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:49

  By JIM GENARO Through a group process that brings together people of diverse and conflicting interests, the City of Asheville could develop and implement a master plan that would promote vitality and economic growth while improving quality of lif...

• Police Blotter: May 30, 2007

  Created: Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:47

  Ex-Nature Center manager charged with fundsí misuse A former City of Asheville employee was charged last Thursday with obtaining property by false pretenses in using funds intended for the Western North Carolina Nature Center. Former Nature C...

• Asheville council OKs ëliving wageí for city government workers

  Created: Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:45

  From Staff Reports Asheville City Council on May 22 voted 5-2 to approve a so-called ìliving wageî plan for all city full-time and part-time employees. The largely symbolic move will have no budget impact because city workers already are p...

• Progress Energy decides not to contest Woodfin boardís denial of power plant

  Created: Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:45

  From Staff Reports WOODFIN ó Progress Energy announced last Wednesday that it will not appeal a Woodfin town-board decision rejecting the construction of a $72 million power plan. Instead, the company said it plans to get the public involve...

• High-school legend Poss fired as BC football coach; interim replacement named

  Created: Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:43

  BREVARD ó† Brevard College football coach Bobby Poss was fired after one season last Wednesday morning for what the school cited as irreconcilable differences. In the aftermath, assistant coach Willis Burkett was named to interim coach last Frid...

• Liberty rallies for 12-8 win to end UNCAís tourney run

  Created: Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:41

  ROCK HILL, S.C. ó Liberty University topped UNCA ó the error-prone defending champion ó 12-8, ending the Bulldogsí season in an elimination game of the Big South Conference baseball tournament last Friday afternoon. UNCA (22-38) led 5-4 in the ...