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Inflation, rising interest rates haven’t slowed home building

Hendersonville News

City Council's next 'Gen H' forum focuses on housing

Hendersonville City Council members continue to offer interactive engagement opportunities regarding the Gen H Comprehensive Plan and Parks & Greenspace Master Plan updates.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

Values Coalition thanks Balkcom for 'Fairness in Women’s Sports Act'

NC Values Coalition named state Rep. Jennifer Balkcom as a Legislator of the Year 2023 for her sponsorship of a bill that requires sports teams in middle school, high school and college to be designated by biological sex as male, female or coed and bans male students from playing on female sports teams.   Read Story »

Fletcher News

'Extremely toxic' pesticides pollute Hoopers Creek

State environmental regulators notified the Henderson County Department of Public Health on Monday that a pesticide release resulting in an unknown amount of Bravo and Baythroid pesticides had occurred near a two-mile section of Hoopers Creek between Souther Road and Jackson Road on or about Oct. 3, the county said in a news release Wednesday.   Read Story »

Hendersonville News

Consent order bars Edney from working in trusts

Saying that it had received information that he mishandled trust accounts, the North Carolina State Bar won an order in Wake County Superior Court last spring blocking Hendersonville attorney J. Michael Edney from receiving or disbursing money to clients or other people and from serving in any fiduciary capacity until the bar completes an audit of the trust accounts.   Read Story »

Hendersonville News

Shooter 'was in direct violation' of company rules, restaurant owner says

U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards, who owns the McDonald's where a fatal shooting took place on Monday, issued a statement expressing sympathy for the victim's family and declaring that the employee now charged with second-degree murder "was in direct violation of our organization’s rules" prohibiting firearms on company property.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

Armed McDonald's employee charged with murder in shooting; victim identified

The strange sequence of events that led to a deadly shooting at a McDonald’s Monday originated when two women had an argument at a nearby bus stop and one fled into the restaurant to get away, the city said in a news release.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

LOCAL BRIEFS: Camera Club exhibit, Women Farm Too!, take a hike

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North Carolina News

JOHN HOOD: To fix our politics, try conversation

At the start of each North Carolina Leadership Forum, we ask our participants to introduce themselves by telling a story about a person or experience that helped make them who they are today.   Read Story »

Henderson County News

City input sessions focus on green space, housing (2)

The city of Hendersonville is offering interactive engagement opportunities over the next two weeks regarding the Gen H Comprehensive Plan and Parks & Greenspace Master Plan updates.   Read Story »

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