Mother of four named Mediation Center coordinator

Henderson County News

Special Needs Baseball adding basketball and cheerleading

Henderson County Special Needs Baseball, which has attracted more than 100 handicapped children and adults to games at Jackson Park, is adding a basketball season complete with cheerleaders next month.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

Employee plans 2,633-mile hike for Thrive

A staff member of the Thrive mental health agency plans to hike the Pacific Crest Trail in April and raise money for Thrive Clubhouse with every mile walked, Thrive Executive Director Kristen Martin announced.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

Sheriff's job fair attracts new candidates

Adam Merrill finished a tour of the Henderson County's Sheriff's Department and headed out to meet his wife and children, hopeful that the steel-barred warren of the Grove Street complex might be his next workplace and the start of a stable career. He applied for a job as a detention officer.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

Don't miss this week's Lightning

Don't miss this week's issue of Hendersonville Lightning.   Read Story »

Hendersonville News

Dr. Strickland, who practiced here for 50 years, dies at age 84

Dr. William H. "Bill" Strickland Jr., who practiced family medicine in Hendersonville for more than 50 years, delivering hundreds of babies and then doctoring them through the years, died on Saturday, which was his 84th birthday.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

Community remembers Martin Luther King Jr.

Before World War II, Bert Miller and a friend, Singleton Williams, raised a garden together. When they went downtown to sell their produce, Miller did better than Williams, Bert's son Jeff Miller said.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

Sheriff reacts to arrest of school officer

Investigators arrested a Balfour Education Center school resource officer on three felony charges of having sex with a 16-year-old student after the Sheriff's Department received allegations of inappropriate conduct, the Henderson County Sheriff's Department said in a news release.   Read Story »

News Archive

• East Flat Rock man charged with indecent liberties       Comments
• Mills River to seek grant for ballfields, parking       Comments
• Ask Matt ... about bike lanes, alarms, road work       Comments
• New prosecutor sworn in for District 29B       Comments
• County OKs Boyd garage for Rescue Squad       Comments
• Board signals support for tax cut; pay raise possible       Comments
• NC A&T professor to speak at MLK event       Comments
• Sandburg trail section closed for repairs       Comments
• Council grants Miller impact fee refund       Comments
• Council eases terms of $25,000 recycling grant       Comments
• High school senior alert: 70 scholarships available       Comments
• Village opens bids for park work       Comments
• Recycling company owner reneges on grant pledge       Comments
• Council to take up Miller's $10,875 water fee refund       Comments
• Utility crews restore power to nearly all homes       Comments
• Transitions: Towns welcome new leaders       Comments
• In 2013, county mourned friends and colorful figures       Comments
• Five schools fall short, 12 exceed new NC standard       Comments
• Mary Fitzpatrick dies unexpectedly at age 64       Comments
• Year in Review: Voters re-elect Volk       Comments
• 2013 rainfall beat average by 2½ feet       Comments
• Storm knocks out power for 1,097, closes schools       Comments
• Best idea to help kids will win $10,000       Comments
• Tree recycling volunteers will take bad light strands, too       Comments
• Sheriff names new chief deputy       Comments
• Vocational Solutions opens 'clean room' for sterile packing       Comments
• Ask Matt ... about the best and worst of '13       Comments
• Students learn essentials of pet ownership       Comments
• Ask Matt ... about Main Street mosaic       Comments
• DON'T WAIT FOR CHRISTMAS: Lightning in homes on Tuesday       Comments