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The once-in-a-century flooding has caused untold hardship and unprecedented destruction in and around Henderson County. If you have pictures please share them with the Lightning. You may email them to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or text them to 828-674-0942. Please tell us the location, a little about the situation and your name so we can give you credit. Add a phone number if you're willing to be interviewed. Thank you, and stay safe.
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Special Needs Sports founder Donnie Jones and the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office are partnering to raffle off a ‘like-new’ 1994 Chevrolet Corvette with only 21,005 miles.
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Hendersonville City Council members, the public, fire administrators and firefighters celebrated the grand opening of Fire Station 1 with a ribbon-cutting and a traditional push-in of rolling stock.
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Something clicked in School Resource Officer Shawn Metcalf’s mind while on the job at Edneyville Elementary School last October.
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The Leon Levine Foundation has awarded a $50,000 grant to The Free Clinics to support ongoing operations and help the nonprofit continue meeting the healthcare needs of our community.
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If you wanted to profile the good fortune and hard luck of the 2024 apple crop, you could do worse than the Creasman farm and the orchards grown by Jeff and Jerred Nix.
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Hendersonville High School opened its gates to all Bearcats last week for the first annual Bearcat Bash. Students and their families from Hendersonville and Bruce Drysdale elementary schools, Hendersonville Middle School, and Hendersonville High School itself were invited to the courtyard to kick off the beginning of the school year.
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The Hendersonville Welcome Center reopens this week following a $1.9 million renovation that has added high-tech screens and a social media wall to the "old-school" offerings of rack cards and paper maps.
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