If you were filming a show and wanted to represent a small town in the Blue Ridge mountains, Hendersonville, to name a town, where would you go? A production crew is in town filming a reality television show. What we … Continue reading →

We have a hole in our heart today. Our friend Chat Jones died Friday night of accidental carbon-monoxide poisoning while he was working in his garage at his car dealership. Funeral arrangements are incomplete but friends of Chat Jones were … Continue reading →

Resolved (I’m fairly sure, correct me if I’m wrong): No sitting North Carolina governor has visited the North Carolina Apple Festival since Gov. Jim Martin accompanied President George H.W. Bush during Bush’s re-election campaign exactly 20 years ago. (Bush the … Continue reading →

Mark Meadows, the Republican nominee for the NC 11th Congressional District, will speak during the Republican National Convention on Monday. The campaign now has an approximate time: between 3:30 and 4 p.m. Meadows is among more than a dozen candidates … Continue reading →

Who could pass up a chance to meet on Bearwallow Road? The Romney campaign wouldn’t. OK, no Romney; he’s probably relieved to be on a plane home by now, after his widely panned European swing to prove his foreign policy … Continue reading →

Marini says the Myrtle Beach proposal is selling of shows or performing FRP shows at a venue there. No Playhouse money would be at stake. It would make money, he said. He cannot believe, he says, the level of vitriol … Continue reading →

Duke beat Carolina, in new U.S. News and World Report ranking of hospitals. Duke University Medical Center made the top 10 nationally and was ranked as the best in North Carolina. The survey also boosts UNC Hospitals, which has a … Continue reading →