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LIGHTNING EDITORIAL: Board uses codebook it wants to weaken

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 »

Henderson County News

Flight sale would produce no money for Neill victim

A bankruptcy court ruling improved prospects for a new restaurant in the former Flight Wood Grill property and may have dashed restitution hopes for a victim of attorney Sam Neill's trust embezzlements.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

ABC board members decline pay offer

Henderson County ABC board members on Wednesday said they would decline to take a $150 a meeting payment that the county commissioners authorized two days ago.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

Legislators file bill to merge water-sewer utilities

Hendersonville Republican Chuck McGrady on Friday joined two Asheville legislators in filing a bill that would dramatically change the control of water and sewer service in Buncombe and parts of Henderson County.   Read Story »

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