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• Police Blotter: Feb. 28, 2007

  Created: Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:22

  Fletcher police chief clearedof assaults on two officersFLETCHER ó Landgon Raymond went back to work last Monday as Fletcherís chief of police after a special prosecutor dropped charges against him that he had assaulted two of his officers.Former office...

• No-holds-barred entertainment offered by No Shame Theatre

  Created: Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:17

  By KRISTIN ERHARDAt No Shame Theatre, five-minute acts run the gamut of quality and themes.In the skit, ìTom Waits for Childrenî a man with a rumpled hat and baritone voice, sings the Muffin Man while playing the keyboard as the audience keels over in l...

• UNCA needs to respect its staff

  Created: Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:16

  When UNC Ashevilleís new chancellor, Anne Ponder, took the helm of the school in October 2005, she undoubtedly knew that the position would require hard work and dilligent efforts to mediate the various competing desires, visions and intentions the colle...

• Holmes, with his eccentricities, retains popularity

  Created: Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:13

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• Democratic primary changes offer good news for America

  Created: Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:11

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• Letters: Feb. 28, 2007

  Created: Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:09

  Reader challenges profon Iranís nuclear capabilityYour paper gave an excellent accounting of Prof. Tom Sandersí lecture on the Middle East at UNC Asheville.This is a subject on which almost everyone has an opinion, but an invited lecturer at UNCA ought ...

• Letís improve on Bush plan

  Created: Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:04

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• Advanced cities likely doomed in near future

  Created: Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:01

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• True American Originals, Part 2: Molly Ivins

  Created: Wednesday, 28 February 2007 15:59

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• Advice Goddess: She really Mrs. the point

  Created: Wednesday, 28 February 2007 15:52

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• Restless mind? Try these tips to tame it

  Created: Wednesday, 28 February 2007 15:47

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• Council postpones action on 162-home gated development

  Created: Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:58

  By DAVID FORBESCiting concerns about traffic, stormwater runoff and how it would fit into the surrounding community, Asheville City Council voted 4-3 to postpone action ó indefinitely ó on a request for approval of plans for a controversial gated commun...

• Black Asheville given focus

  Created: Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:55

  Etta Patterson (seated center) laughs with Dr. Don Locke, Mayor Terry Bellamy and Dr. Dwight Mullen at the State of Black Asheville conference in UNC Ashevilleís Highsmith University Union last Saturday.  Patterson was the first African-American&nbs...

• Weaverville council gives go-ahead to alcohol referendum

  Created: Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:53

  By DAVID FORBESWEAVERVILLE ñ Residents of this North Buncombe town will get a chance to vote on allowing liquor by the drink and ABC stores in their community, following a unanimous vote by Weaverville Town Council to proceed with a referendum last Monda...

• No easy answers in the Middle East, ex-prof tells forum

  Created: Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:51

  By JIM GENAROThere are no easy answers to the problems of the Middle East, but some of the solutions offered by the Bush administration are fundamentally flawed, according to retired professor Tom Sanders, who addressed a forum on ìRethinking Middle East...

• Police Blotter: Feb. 21, 2007

  Created: Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:48

  DHSS officers still lookingfor youth prison escapeeSWANNANOA ó An escaped 15-year-old prisoner from the Swannanoa Valley Youth Develolpment Center who stole a car after running away from an off-campus program at Swannanoa Valley Christian Ministry in Bla...

• Conservation could negate need for new power planet, speaker says

  Created: Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:45

  By JIM GENAROA controversial proposed power plant in Woodfin could be unnecessary if Buncombe County residents and officials begin a campaign to promote energy conservation over the next two years, speaker Ned Ryan Doyle told a group of about 100 concerne...

• Forum participants offer solutions, questions on Middle East policy

  Created: Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:41

  By JIM GENAROAfter outlining the various conflicts in the Middle East and the Bush administrationís policies towards those conflicts at UNC Ashevilleís Humanities Lecture Hall on Feb. 13, lecturer Tom Sanders facilitated a dialogue among audience member...

• Panthers sink 3-pointer to unravel Bulldogs 69-67

  Created: Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:40

  After trailing most of the game, High Point University hit a 3-pointer with 4.8 seconds left to sink UNC Asheville 69-67 in menís basketball last Wednesday night at the Justice Center.Eugene Harris, a freshman guard, nailed the 20-foot shot for the Panth...

• UNCA snaps losing streak by ripping Radford 78-68

  Created: Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:39

  UNC Asheville sank its free throws in the final 30 seconds to snap a four-game losing streak and defeat Radford University 78-68 in menís basketball during Homecoming Day last Saturday at the Justice Center.UNCA (9-18, 4-8) fell behind early, but junior ...