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| Unplug your kids and explore unique mountain attractions Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT There's no need to travel far to vacation this summer. |
| Get your art gallery fix this week with these shows Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT These art shows open in the Asheville area this week. |
| Mostly cloudy, high near 88 today Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT ASHEVILLE - The overnight forecast calls for partly cloudy skies, with a low around 63. Winds will be calm. |
| Arrests: Second person charged in church break-ins Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT ASHEVILLE - Authorities charged a second person in connection with break-ins last month at three Buncombe County churches. |
| Standoff ends without incident Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:42:00 EDT LEICESTER -- A nearly three-hour standoff ended peacefully Friday night after a man shot into a vehicle and retreated into a mobile home. |
| Leavitt touts health effort Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT ASHEVILLE -- Consumers could shop around for health care services and compare costs, providers and quality under an initiative touted locally Friday by Mike Leavitt |
| A-B Tech grants degrees to 184 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT ASHEVILLE -- Crompton was one of 184 students awarded degrees and diplomas from Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College. |
| School board filing period ends Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT ASHEVILLE -- The filing period for Buncombe County school board candidates closed Friday. |
| Mater Fest continues today Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT CANTON -- The annual Mountain Mater Fest will continue today and Sunday in downtown Canton, along Park Street and the Pigeon River. |
| Swain sheriff sues over pay Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT BRYSON CITY -- Swain County Sheriff Curtis Cochran is suing the Board of Commissioners over a decision two years ago to stop paying the sheriff personally to feed inmates. |
| Crews fight fire near Lake Lure Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT LAKE LURE -- Fire crews in Rutherford County continued Friday to fight a fire that started Tuesday on a mountaintop near Lake Lure. |
| Mountain State Fair tickets on sale Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT FLETCHER -- Discount admission and ride tickets for the N.C. Mountain State Fair are now on sale at all WNC Ingles supermarkets and other locations. |
| Police: Painkiller thefts from hospitals may be linked Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT MARION -- Recent thefts of pain medications at three small Western North Carolina hospitals could be connected, police said Friday. |
| Top Story: Shoppers hunt tax-free bargains Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT Robert Stubbs helps Mars Hill College students, Cece Mangena and her brother, Boyen Mangena, shop for computers at the Best Buy in Asheville. |
| Ingles reports higher quarterly sales, lower profits Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT BLACK MOUNTAIN -- Sales grew 13.1 percent in the most recent quarter at regional grocery chain Ingles Markets, but a one-time gain a year ago meant lower quarterly profits, the company said today. |
| Painkiller thefts may be linked Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:25:00 EDT MARION -- Recent thefts of pain medications at three small Western North Carolina hospitals could be connected, police investigators said Friday. |
| Wildfire burning near Lake Lure Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:57:00 EDT LAKE LURE -- Fire crews in Rutherford County were still working today to contain a fire that started three days ago on a mountaintop near Lake Lure. |
| Gunman opens fire on swimmers in Wisconsin; 3 dead Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:16:00 EDT NIAGARA, Wis. -- A man wearing camouflage clothing and carrying an assault rifle walked out of the woods and shot four young people who had gathered at a river to go swimming, killing three of them and wounding one. |
| Wagner aims to create winning culture at WCU Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:34:00 EDT Dennis Wagner, in his first year as coach at Western Carolina, oversees a spring practice. |
| Rockets return 10 starters on defense Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:33:00 EDT Reynolds High players participate in conditioning drills Friday. |
| Football: Appalachian St. has holes to fill Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:29:00 EDT Former Erwin High standout John Holt is among 13 starters gone from Appalachian State's 2007 football team, which won a third straight FCS national title. Holt is now part of the ASU coaching staff. |
| HS Football: Black Hawks like their chances for title Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:16:00 EDT North Buncombe High starting quarterback Randy Pressley practices Friday. |
| NFL: Panthers' Smith slugs teammate Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT Carolina's Jon Beason holds back teammate Steve Smith after Smith's altercation with Ken Lucas during the morning session of training camp Friday. |
| Tourists sweep doubleheader Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT CHARLESTON, S.C. -- The Asheville Tourists took two games from the RiverDogs on Friday, winning both 4-2. |
| Brevard College hires Reid Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT BREVARD -- Shannon Reid has been hired to coach women's basketball at Brevard College, school officials announced Friday. |
| Mountaineers promote Ealy Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT BOONE -- Josh Ealy has been promoted to assistant men's basketball coach at Appalachian State, coach Houston Fancher said Friday. |
| UNCA player honored Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT KAUAI, Hawaii -- UNC Asheville sophomore pitcher Taylor Wohlwend played the summer season with the Kauai Menehunes of the Hawaii Collegiate Baseball League. He made the All-Star team and helped Kauai capture the tournament championship. |
| Shooting the breeze Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT Thoughts on a few questions as WNC colleges begin fall football workouts: |
| Top Sports: Black Hawks like their chances for MAC title Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:06:00 EDT North Buncombe players participate in a drill Friday. |
| top sports: Steve Smith sent home from Panthers camp after fight Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:01:00 EDT Carolina Panthers' Steve Smith )is restrained by Jon Beason after an altercation with Ken Lucas during the morning session of training camp at Wofford College on Friday, Aug. 1, 2008 in Spartanburg, SC. Coach John Fox said Smith and Lucas returned to Charlotte after the incident, with the team providing no update on the extent of Lucas' injuries. Team officials declined to say if the volatile Smith, the team's top receiver, would be suspended. |
| No typical day for outdoor educator Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT Eli Strull is the education program specialist at the Western North Carolina Nature Center. |
| Mall shoppers stretch dollars Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:36:00 EDT ASHEVILLE -- Andrew Bryson, a rising senior at Smoky Mountain High in Sylva, drove to Asheville Mall Friday to get a break on sales tax. |
| Quiet start to tax-free weekend Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:31:00 EDT ASHEVILLE -- All was quiet during the first hour of tax-free weekend at Asheville Mall Friday, and that was fine with Patti Brown of Bethel. |
| Learn entertainment, mountain-style Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT |
| MCC Motorcycle Poker Run Cancer Society fundraiser Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT SPRUCE PINE -- The Mayland Community College Motorcycle Poker Run will take place at 11 a.m. today at the college's Main Campus. |
| Weekend Planner: Things to do today and Sunday Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT Kristin and Luke Stafford celebrate as they finish with the fastest time during a raft race last year at the Rockin' RiverFest at the French Broad River Park in Asheville. Today, the RiverFest will once again award prizes for the raft race. Entrants will compete for titles like "Funniest," "Fastest," "Most Creative," and "That Floats?" and so on. |
| InstaLetters for August 2 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT Regarding Kathleen Parker's "Obama hasn't paid his dues," (AC-T, July 31): Is that not a euphemism for "stay in your place"? After four columns bashing Barack Obama and hanging on the one poll John McCain is ahead in, we get to her basic philosophy -- it... |
| Felt isolated by parking incident at recent Shindig Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT Asheville truly is a city of song. We went last week to hear my neighbors at Shindig on the Green. |
| Suggesting a move for writer tired of Asheville Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT The author of "Tired of the three-ring circus that is Asheville" (AC-T, July 23), needs to move to a nice bland place where there are no gay people to hate and no 100-year-old trees to vandalize. May I suggest Mars? |
| Bringing up road rules most drivers have forgotten Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT The letter, "Observing the speed limit is the patriotic thing to do," (AC-T, July 16), encouraging drivers to obey the speed limits on our roads and highways as the "patriotic" thing to do, misses a vital point, to wit: the speed limits are the maximum... |
| Thoughts on various news items of the times Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT The editorial, "Halt Parkside project; find a fair way out for all parties," (AC-T, July 20), brought a thought I have not heard in all the letters. |
| Price of oil, price of gas not that connected Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT Earlier this year when gas prices immediately went up every time a barrel of oil increased in price we were told stations priced their gas daily based on what it would cost to replace that fuel in the future. |
| Quotes show importance of voting for the GOP Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT 'If we could get rid of all the rich people, then we'd be left with lots of poor people." -- Mark W. Smith, author of "The Official Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy" |
| The more to do, the better the groove Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT Today I am an adult. I completed a rite of passage continuing a chain begun long ago. |
| Things to consider before heading to the polls Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT To exercise the right to vote, you need to intelligently and prayerfully consider the candidates. It is a duty of national importance. |
| We need to get out of denial and face our problems Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT When things are not going well, we all seem to deny personal responsibility and find someone to blame. Our ineffective House of Representatives leader blames President Bush for her own inabilities. Fat people blame fast food. |
| Shaping up our fat kids Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT Ah, summer. We all know what that means: our kids are getting even fatter. |
| Bush should strip sanctuary cities of federal funds Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT Three good men are dead thanks largely to San Francisco's outrageous sanctuary-city policy, which forbids city authorities from notifying federal immigration authorities when they arrest illegal aliens for crimes they commit, and it's time for President... |
| Tips on packing for dorm life Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT Veronica Greene, a UNC Asheville student, looks over her homework in her campus dorm room. Though a relatively small space, Greene has learned to be creative in arranging her furniture and storage. |
| Bricks, concrete pavers enhance any deck or driveway Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:15:00 EDT Laying individual bricks with built-in design can spark curb appeal. Mix and match paver styles for an eye-catching landscape. Low-maintenance perennials add a colorful touch. |
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