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Laurel Park thanks Ball, welcomes Melnikova

LAUREL PARK — Lee Galloway recalled Alison Melnikova's arrival at Waynesville City Hall as a young college intern. She had a gift for government management that he began to cultivate from the start.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

Dana wins another national award

Kelly Schofield, principal of Dana Elementary, is one of 20 elementary and middle school principals from across the nation selected by Crayola and the National Association of Elementary School Principals to receive a "Champion Creatively Alive Children" school grant.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

It's 11-12-13: It might snow

The area could see a little snow by mid-afternoon and early evening. Although that's not a certainty, this is: It's going to get cold tonight and Wednesday will feel like a winter day. If the cold coincides with an expected shower, we could see a little early November snow by sundown.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

Council OKs first phase of Park at Flat Rock

FLAT ROCK — A new entrance from Highland Lake Road, restrooms and a sheltered picnic pavilion are among the first improvements residents will see at the new Park at Flat Rock.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

Snow or no? Speranza makes winter prediction

WTZQ weather forecaster Paul Speranza predicts a warmer than normal December and January, meaning less chance of a big snow this winter. During his annual winter weather forecast on WTZQ radio station on Oct. 17, Speranza predicted a milder winter than the Old Farmers Almanac and some other forecasters have projected. The almanac is projecting a cold winter in the East with a lot of snow.After record rain this spring and summer, the southern mountains have seen a dry spell, with below normal rainfall in August and September."If you don't have the Southern jet bringing up this moisture, you can have all the cold you want, you may end up with no snow because you've got to have moisture to work with the snow," he said.A high pressure ridge, he said, will block the cold for most of the winter."I think we'll be about a degree below normal in November and precipitation above," he said. "Then we get into December and January I think we're going to see the Southeast ridge developing across the Southeast United States. December should be at least two to three degrees above normal, January at least two degrees above normal, and once again precipitation during that time is going to be below normal."If the ridge breaks up, the mountains could get snow."If we get the cold, if you get one storm to come out of the Gulf, it's just like the blizzard of '93," he said, recalling a mild winter before the biggest snowstorm in a generation. "You had nothing all year but then you had 18-plus inches depending on where you were in the county. Further west they had two to three feet, the Smokies had three to five feet. It's just a matter of how everything unfolds."Speranza acknowledged that other models show colder weather and heavy snow. But the European model was right last year, he added, when it called for a mild winter that did come to pass. Speranza called for a colder winter last year, missing the forecast, but he noted that he got it right predicting a pattern of heavy rain throughout the spring and summer."I'm putting a lot of eggs in that basket" by predicting the pattern that blocks cold air from the west, he said. "I could have jumped in with everyone else and say we're going to have a very cold winter but that keeps coming on the European models that shows we're going to have this ridge develop, and last year if people had looked at that model, we would not have talked about December being cold. ... If that (blocking ridge) does not materialize, we could have quite a winter."     Read Story »

Hendersonville News

HonorAir donates $40,000 for homeless veterans

More than 200 homeless veterans will have shelter from the cold, job training and a chance to set foot on a career ladder thanks to $40,000 donation HonorAir presented on Veterans Day.     Read Story »

Henderson County News

Ask Matt ... about Kellogg, fiberglass bears and auto parts

Matt answers your questions.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

City scraps ineffective Christmas parking promotion

Hendersonville City Council members said "bah, humbug" to free parking for Christmas shoppers. Except they weren't being Scrooge. Free parking didn't work.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

Local schools rank 12th in new NC assessment

Students in Henderson County public schools scored the 12th highest overall performance on the new state assessments out of the 115 school districts across the state.   Read Story »

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