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Four candidates are running for two seats on the Hendersonville City Council. Terms are four years.
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In Fletcher, incumbent Amber McKinney faces challenger John Brandon Olsen for the District 1 Town Council seat. Mayor Preston Blakely and District 4 council member Trevor C. Lance are running unopposed.
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In state House District 113, the smaller of the two House districts in Henderson County, Democrat John Morgan of Saluda is challenging four-term incumbent Rep. Jake Johnson, who lives in Columbus. Johnson did not respond to the Lightning’s candidate survey.
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On the whole Democrats did a poor job fielding candidates for local offices in 2026, ceding nine Henderson County and judicial district offices to the Republican Party without a fight, including two judgeships, three Board of Commissioners seats, district attorney, clerk of superior court, register of deeds and sheriff.
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Paramedics took four people to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries Saturday after a car crashed into the M&M Meat Market on Asheville Highway.
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Bullington Gardens and the Blood Connection will host a community Blood Drive from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, at the gardens, 95 Upper Red Oak Lane.
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The remains of U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Charles R. Smith returned home Friday, 83 years after he went missing while flying aboard a B-24D Liberator during a bombing mission over Italy in 1943.
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Lunch hour is busy at the Haywood Public Library, where people from Canton and surrounding areas have come to cast their early-voting ballots.
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