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Serial tax evader sent to prison, ordered to pay IRS $2.2 million

Legislative Four Seasons Politics

Edwards rips Cooper's veto of ICE bill

The political squabble continues in Raleigh over the Legislature's bill forcing sheriffs statewide to comply with federal with customs enforcement agents' detainer request.

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Mills River News

UPDATE: Searchers find missing 88-year-old

Law officers and rescue personnel staged at Mills River Fire & Rescue Thursday morning to organize a search for an 88-year-old man who walked away from an assisted living center. They located him less than an hour later.

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Hall and Sonja Waddell were honored as 2019 Sauer Award winners.

Henderson County News

Foundation honors Waddells with Sauer Award

FLAT ROCK — The Community Foundation of Henderson County honored a couple who have been leaders in business and generous donors to charities with the annual Richard C. and Vina L. Sauer Charitable Leadership Award.

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Henderson County News

Don't miss this week's Hendersonville Lightning

You won't want to miss this week's Lightning.

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Henderson County News

County OKs $23 million building plan at BRCC

The Henderson County Board of Commissioners on Wednesday authorized a $23 million capital plan that will result in a 50,000-square-foot classroom building, police training facility, Patton Building renovations and other repairs on the Blue Ridge Community College campus.

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Four Seasons Politics

Edwards rips Cooper's veto of ICE bill

Politics heats up in once tranquil Flat Rock

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Community News

Buddy K, classic rock, Zac Brown tribute headline Apple Festival stage

LIGHTNING PHOTOS: Playhouse fetes patrons at Backstage Ball

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Henderson County News

Health care for neediest faces a ‘tidal wave on horizon’

Henderson County social workers are bracing for a wave of confusion and anxiety from Medicaid recipients who are scheduled to choose managed care plans starting Oct. 1 in place of traditional fee-for-service health coverage. And even if the county weathers the transition, those patients may then confront a severe shortage of doctors willing to treat them, county officials say.

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20 Ride, a Zac Brown tribute band, will perform at the NC Apple Festival on Sunday, Sept. 1.

Hendersonville Your Town

Buddy K, classic rock, Zac Brown tribute headline Apple Festival stage

Big band sound, classic rock, beach music and a Zac Brown tribute band headline the entertainment for the 73rd North Carolina Apple Festival on Labor Day weekend, the festival announced.

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Marché Tucker and Jennifer White are named to Great 100 Nurses in North Carolina.

Henderson County News

Pardee veterans named to list of Great 100 Nurses

Marché Tucker, Joint Center patient representative and a pre-anesthesia department nurse, and Jennifer White, a clinical education specialist for Service Excellence and Organizational Development, have been named Great 100 Nurses in North Carolina by The Great 100 Inc., Pardee UNC Health Care announced.

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