'Creating Calm after Chaos' sessions offered free this summer

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BRCC announces Music by the Lake bands

A favorite local summer music series returns to Blue Ridge Community College this summer when four public Music by the Lake performances take place.   Read Story »

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LOCAL BRIEFS: Paramedics certified, Born Learning Trail, Postcard Party, AAUW

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Traffic ticket text is a scam, N.C. attorney general warns

Attorney General Jeff Jackson is warning North Carolinians to be on the lookout for text scams impersonating the North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles and demanding that people pay an outstanding traffic ticket or face severe actions.   Read Story »

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D-Day veteran George Sarros remains an eyewitness to history

EDITOR'S NOTE: We've moved Bruce Holliday's profile of George Sarros back onto the home page to commemorate the 81st anniversary of D-Day. The story first appeared in Flat Rock Together, Bruce's weekly 'Good News blog', in honor of George's 100th birthday on April 17.   Read Story »

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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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• City Council honors historic preservation award winners       Comments
• Mother charged after newborn tests positive for fentanyl       Comments
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• A ‘Godsend for recipients,’ HOP may lose funding       Comments
• Cancer physicist named Pardee Teammate of the Month       Comments
• East High’s Ryah McDonald named Apple Ambassador       Comments
• Oscar Wong, trailblazer of Asheville craft beer, dies at age 84       Comments
• Don't miss this week's Hendersonville Lightning       Comments
• New documentary highlights black education before desegregation       Comments
• Hendersonville Theatre hosts DRAG 101 on June 13       Comments
• RootStock Festival at Saint Paul Mountain Vineyards       Comments
• Car crash damaged gravestones at Etowah cemetery       Comments
• Blue Ridge Roots Revival features free concerts       Comments
• $465M Helene recovery bill includes farm relief, private road repair       Comments
• Riddle drops proposed shooting range       Comments
• Fentanyl, meth dealer sentenced to 28½ years in federal prison       Comments
• Project 'Sweet Tater' would add 34 jobs paying $59,147/year       Comments
• Flat Rock's Ice Cream Social happens Saturday, June 7       Comments
• 68 Top Scholars honored at banquet       Comments
• Order copies now for Helene edition, coming May 28     Comments
• 18-year-old charged with stabbing woman at Mills River residence       Comments
• Commissioners seek to force city to provide sewer to cider company       Comments
• Although electrical issue paused work, Fairmont-Cedars development is on track, owners say       Comments
• Advent names DeLaina Lewkowicz director of community benefit and health       Comments
• Wolfe takes new leadership role at BRCC       Comments
• Ask Matt ... What owner 'can do, will do' at historic Gudger Building       Comments
• City seeks input on next generation of Patton Pool, Whitmire Activity Center       Comments
• More than 5,000 remain without power after overnight thunderstorm       Comments