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City Council proclaims November Homeless Youth Awareness Month.

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Hendersonville News

Jeff Miller appointed to City Council

Hendersonville’s City Council on Thursday appointed former council member Jeff Miller to fill a seat on council left vacant when member Jerry Smith resigned in October.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

Don’t miss this week’s Hendersonville Lightning

Don’t miss this week’s Hendersonville Lightning.   Read Story »

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Hendersonville News

Treat Street draws a crowd to Main Street for Halloween (2)

Children and their parents dressed up for Halloween Tuesday and roamed Hendersonville’s Main Street in search of treats and a good time.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

NC Writers Network "In the Company of Writers"

Wed 11/2 - 7-9 PM - North Carolina Writers Network & The Brandy Bar + Cocktails present MEAGAN LUCAS as their next author in their series “In the Company of Writers.” The program offers a series of personal and conversational dialogues featuring guest writers/poets followed by an open mic forum. These inspirational gatherings will elucidate and entertain those attending. The guest author speaks from 7-8 PM with an open mic from 8 -9 PM. The Chicago blues music of “Hollywood Johnny Cosgrove” welcomes you, continues during intermission, and closes the evening. Sign-ups for the open mic visit: https://thebrandybar.com/writers-open-mic/ Author of the award-winning novel, Songbirds and Stray Dogs and the collection, Here in the Dark, Meagan Lucas is also Editor-in-Chief of Reckon Review. Her short stories are Pushcart, Best of the Net, Derringer, and Canadian Crime Writers’ Award of Excellence nominated, and she won the 2017 Scythe Prize for Fiction. Her short story “The MonstMeer Beneath” was noted as Distinguished in 2023 Best American Mystery and Suspense. Songbirds and Stray Dogs was North Carolina’s selection for the Library of Congress Center for the Book’s 2022 Route 1 Reads program. Meagan teaches Creative Writing at Robert Morris University and in the Great Smokies Writing Program at UNC-A. Born and raised on a small island in Northern Ontario, she now lives in Flat Rock, NC.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

Balkcom announces re-election campaign

State Rep. Jennifer Balkcom on Tuesday announced her candidacy for re-election to the state Legislature representing North Carolina’s House District 117.   Read Story »

Brevard News

No longer a question of 'if,' trail is a question of 'when'

HORSE SHOE — In all 365 days of North Carolina’s “Year of the Trail” it would be hard to imagine a more exemplary day of celebration than Saturday, when more than 500 people gathered in a farm field to mark the start of the Ecusta Trail, the 19-mile Hendersonville-to-Brevard greenway that a stubborn band of dreamers first envisioned 15 years ago.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

Deadline is Friday for USDA land conservation grants

The deadline is Nov. 3 to apply for Environmental Quality Incentives Program grants that offer technical and financial assistance for working lands, including field crops, specialty crops, organic, confined livestock and grazing and non-industrial private forest land, USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service announced Tuesday.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

Nonprofits endorse rebirth of Opp House as center to help homeless

A potential new life for the old Opportunity House property is in the hands of a judge after a hearing last week in which numerous nonprofit leaders endorsed rebirth of the space as a one-stop center to serve homeless people and help those in crisis.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

Fatal hit and run accident on U.S. 176

A Hendersonville man died early Monday morning after a hit and run accident on U.S. 176 near the Cason Builders Supply Co., the State Highway Patrol said.   Read Story »

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