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Wayfinding signs guide visitors to our attractions

Visitors and local motorists alike can more easily find attractions, public parking, government offices, parks and other destinations thanks to the countywide wayfinding project the Tourism Development Authority has now completed.   Read Story »

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TDA awards grants to festivals

The Henderson County Tourism Development Authority awarded $20,000 in grants for festivals, art shows and other events that draw visitors to town. A total of 10 applicants requested grant funding totaling $24,817. The TDA invites non-profit organizations to apply for advertising and promotional funding through the 2018-2019 grant program. These reimbursable grants are awarded annually to Henderson County non-profit organizations for the purpose of promoting events, attractions and festivals that draw visitors from more than 40 miles outside Henderson County and encourage overnight stays, stimulating spending and boosting the local economy. The funding is available for the new fiscal year starting July 1. For more information contact the Henderson County Tourism Development Authority during regular business hours.   Read Story »

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Hendersonville native to talk about debut novel

lHendersonville native Heather Bell Adams will talk about her award-winning debut novel Maranatha Road and sign books at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 2, at the Historic Courthouse. Set in the fictional town of Garnet patterned after her hometown, Maranatha Road tells the story of a young woman and an older woman whose lives converge in trauma and ultimately wind to redemption. The book has won the James Still Fiction Prize, the Carrie McCray Literary Award and a Gold Award in the 2018 Independent Publisher Regional and Ebook Awards as the best fiction work in the Southeast. Southern Literary Review called Maranatha Road “an exquisite story with characters so real they could step off the pages into your living room.”A graduate of Hendersonville High School, Adams earned her undergraduate and law degrees from Duke University. She’s married with a 14-year-old son, works fulltime as senior counsel for First Citizens Bank and shoehorns in her fiction writing while waiting in airports or in the school pickup line. A second book, a dual timeline story set in present day Savannah and in the Pacific in World War II, is expected to come out later this year.Her reading is in the County Commission meeting room on the second floor followed by a reception and book-signing in the Community Room next door.   Read Story »

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Flooding causes WNC Air Museum to cancel air show

The annual Air Fair at the Western North Carolina Air Museum this weekend has been canceled due to flooding from the recent storms. The WNC Air Museum will be operate on their regular schedule. For more information visit http://www.westernnorthcarolinaairmuseum.com/.     Read Story »

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Old-time music starts Saturday night

An old-time music event is coming to the Historic Courthouse plaza 6-8 on Saturday nights in June. The family friendly mountain music event is free and open to the public. It’s a nostalgic return to the days of fiddles, old timey banjo, mountain songs, solo flat footers and the native big circle dance of the region.A collaborative effort of the French Broad Valley Music Association, the City of Hendersonville and Henderson County Parks & Recreation, the event is emceed by Carol Rifkin, an award winning musician and WNCW radio host. The French Broad Valley Music Association is a non-profit organization formed to celebrate local musical heritage. It hosts a mountain music jam session weekly 6-8:30 p.m. Wednesdays at Sanctuary Brewing Co. downtown.   Read Story »

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Congressional candidate speaks to Democratic Party

Phillip Price, the Democratic nominee for the 11th Congressional District, will speak at 10:30 a.m. at Democratic Party headquarters, 905 Greenville Highway, during the party’s monthly breakfast on Saturday, June 1. All you can eat buffet is $9 for adults $4.50 for children under 10. First time attendees eat for free. Parking is available at headquarters and next door at Chadwick Square. For more information call 692-6424 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday-Saturday.   Read Story »

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Pardee to open urgent care clinic in Mills River (2)

MILLS RIVER — Pardee UNC Health Care will open its newest Urgent Care location at 3334 Boylston Highway, Suite 10, in Mills River, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10 a.m. Friday, June 1. Pardee Chief Executive Officer James M. Kirby II, Pardee Chief Administrative Officer Johnna Reed and Camp Highlander owner Karl Alexander will attend. Following the ceremony, attendees will have an opportunity to tour the facility. Pardee Urgent Care Mills River will open its doors for business at noon that day. For more information visit www.pardeehospital.org/care-treatment/urgent/.   Read Story »

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Stroupe trial delayed until next year

A Superior Court judge on Tuesday denied a request by murder defendant Phillip Michael Stroupe II to move his trial out of Henderson County but granted his attorneys' motion to delay the trial from July until next year.  Lawyers for Stroupe argued that excessive pre-trial publicity makes it all but impossible for Stroupe to receive a fair trial locally.  District Attorney Greg Newman responded by telling the court that moving the trial is premature and that he believes we can seat an impartial jury in this case.  “There is no requirement that prospective jurors come to court uninformed about the things taking place in their community,”  said Mr. Newman. “The question is whether they can set aside the things they have read, seen, or heard about the case and base a decision of guilt or innocence on the evidence presented in the trial.  Some will be able to do that while others may not.  We will not know, however, until we bring in the prospective jurors into court and ask them these questions." The defense lawyers offered results from a telephone poll of 407 Henderson County residents to measure knowledge of the case facts.  Only 17 percent of persons polled knew anything about the case.  Sixty-one percent knew nothing about the case.  In an affidavit in support of his motion to move the trail from Henderson County and delays its start, Public Defender Paul B. Welch III cited "the sheer geographic and durational scope of the criminal offenses alleged ... the volume and intensity of pretrail publicity ... and the unusual dispatch with which the matter has reached a trial calendar." The manhunt for Stroupe and the trail of crime the state alleges covered "seven counties in two states over a period of more than a week at the height of the summer tourism season in western North Carolina," Welch said. "Vitrually every law enforcement agency with territorial jurisdiction in western North Carolina was involved in the manhunt which ultimately resulted in the capture of Mr. Stroupe. At leaast four other individuals have been charged with being accessories after the fact to his alleged crimes and placed in pretrial detention based on evidence of actual guilt which is less than overwhelming." Holding the trial in the District 29B would prejudice Stroupe's right "to be tried by a jury whose verdict is uninfluenced by the local notoriety of his alleged crimes or the intensely prejudicial pretrial publicity about them," Welch argued. Scheduling a trial less than a year after the crimes gives the defense inadequate time to prepare, he added. "Unless these problems are relieved by judicial action, the trial is virtually certain to be unfair, and counsel is likewise virtually certain to be constitutionally ineffective," he said. Judge Robert Bell of Charlotte denied the motion to move the trial but granted a defense motion to delay the trial from July 23 to Jan. 28 or later. Defense lawyers argued for additional time of anywhere from 18-24 months, saying they needed more time to prepare and that the district attorney is moving too fast for a capital murder case.  The judge allowed the continuance and directed the district attorney to reschedule the trial for Jan. 28 or later. Newman said he would announce a new trial date in the next few days.      Read Story »

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Manager of historic Jersey herd named to Ag Hall of Fame

MILLS RIVER —Michael R. "Mike" Corn, who manages the historic Jersey dairy herd that Biltmore Estate owner George Vanderbilt brought to Asheville from New York in the late 19th century, was inducted into the Western North Carolina Agricultural Hall of Fame during the WNC Communities' 28th annual ceremony at the Mountain Horticulture Crops Research & Extension Center.   Read Story »

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