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Eight months later, restaurants and stores starting to reopen

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Post-Helene road repair projected to cost $5 billion

With the support of other state transportation agencies, federal agencies and private sector organizations, the North Carolina Department of Transportation has embarked on its largest ever reconstruction program as it works to restore WNC’s transportation system.   Read Story »

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UNIMAGINABLE, our Hurricane Helene edition, available on Thursday

By popular demand, the Lightning ordered a third printing of UNIMAGINABLE, our Hurricane Helene edition, which sold out on the street on March 26, then sold out our 600-issue second printing in two days.   Read Story »

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Don't miss this week's Hendersonville Lightning

This week's Lightning has an extended feature on how many businesses many have recovered from the catastrophic flooding of Hurricane Helene and reopened and some have not.   Read Story »

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Edwards announces debris removal accountability agreement

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City Council honors historic preservation award winners

The city Historic Preservation Commission recognized homeowners and a developer for restoring historic properties and honored the life of a preservation activist during a Hendersonville City Council meeting last week.   Read Story »

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Mother charged after newborn tests positive for fentanyl

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Deputies arrest four in drive-by shooting in River Stone

The Henderson County sheriff’s deputies charged four people after a county grand jury indicted them in a drive-by shooting on March 19 in the River Stone community in Fletcher.   Read Story »

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A ‘Godsend for recipients,’ HOP may lose funding

More than 11,000 at-risk households in Henderson, Transylvania, Polk, Rutherford counties and throughout the rest of Western North Carolina are growing healthier from North Carolina’s Healthy Opportunities Pilot, say HOP providers, who express concern that federal and state funding cuts may jeopardize the pilot.   Read Story »

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Cancer physicist named Pardee Teammate of the Month

Tom Dellinger, a medical physicist in Pardee Cancer Center’s radiation oncology department, has been named the hospital's Teammate of the Month, UNC Health Pardee announced.   Read Story »

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