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Henderson County News

Litter Sweep offers prize for 'unusual trash'

Litter Sweep, the North Carolina Department of Transportation's (NCDOT) annual statewide roadside litter cleanup event, is an opportunity for local government agencies, community leaders, civic and community organizations, businesses, churches, schools, families and individual citizens to demonstrate support for a clean Henderson County and a cleaner North Carolina.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

LIGHTNING REVIEW: Loyal patrons appreciate predictable 'Odd Couple'

Given the quality of the stars that played the role before them on stage, film and television — Walter Matthau and Jack Klugman as Oscar, Jack Lemmon and Tony Randall as Felix — Scott Treadway and Charlie Flynn-McIver face a high standard to match in "The Odd Couple," which opened Saturday night at the Flat Rock Playhouse.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

LIGHTNING EDITORIAL: Board uses codebook it wants to weaken

A landowner asked the Henderson County Board of Commissioners on April 1 to change the zoning of his 1.7-acre vacant tract on U.S. 64 in Horse Shoe to allow a Dollar General store.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

HSO tops list of things to do this weekend

Classical music, classic theater and good old rock 'n' roll top the list of things to do this weekend in Hendersonville.   Read Story »

Flat Rock News

Parkway chief to keynote annual Sandburg meeting

Phil Francis, the Superintendent of the National Park Service's Blue Ridge Parkway, will be guest speaker when the Friends of Carl Sandburg at Connemara holds its annual meeting on Friday, April 12, at 2 p.m. at the Flat Rock Village Hall in Flat Rock. The public is welcome to attend.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

Farm labor solution has 'genesis' in Henderson County, Meadows says

MILLS RIVER — A carpet of red, yellow, purple, blue, pink and green spread in every direction as far as Mark Meadows could see. A cold rain pelted the roof but in a few weeks' time, the plants and flowers under 37 acres of greenhouse roof  will be in big stores and smaller nurseries up to 350 miles from their Mills River birthplace.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

Waste-to-energy plant proposed in Penrose

PENROSE — A New York company plans a waste-to-energy plant next to the Transylvania County Airport in Penrose on a tree farm beside the Norfolk Southern railroad tracks.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

Pool chlorine may have caused fish kill, city says

The city of Hendersonville said it may have inadvertently caused the pollution that killed fish in Britain Creek at Patton Park.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

LIGHTNING EDITORIAL: Keep public notices public

We would assume that our new state Legislature, firmly in control of Republicans who claim to be for the people over government and for private sector solutions over public ones, would cast a skeptical eye on an effort to whittle away at the people's right to know.   Read Story »

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