Hendersonville News
Jeff Golliher, a home brewer from Weaverville, was looking at sites for a new brewery on Seventh Avenue — including a space a couple of doors from what would become Triskelion, and another across the street. Then he crossed town to see another space.
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Mills River News
MILLS RIVER — Like most craft beer entrepreneurs, Mills River Brewing Co. founders Joey Soukup and Patrick McCarthy can tell you exactly where they were when they hatched idea of starting a brewery.
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Henderson County News
Guidon Brewing Co.
Necessity was the mother of invention for Mike Baer and his new brewery in the Historic Seventh Avenue District.
“I needed a job when I left the service,” he says. Reconnaissance, his Army specialty, “didn’t translate” into the jobs he hoped to land. “Nobody wanted to hire me in management.”Discharged as a sergeant first class, he’s a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. And although he did end up with a fulltime job, he’s still pursuing the dream. He and his wife, Connie, who also works fulltime, have been working nights and weekends getting the brewery ready.Named for a flag designating a military unit, Guidon Brewing Co. will have indoor seating with a loft, a 1,000-square-foot deck and a stage. His own Guidon flag features an image of hops, a B for Baer and the numeral 4 signifying Baer plans to open with 12 taps and, until a kitchen is finished, a food truck. He plans to specialize in doner kebobs, a Turkish specialty made of seasoned rotisserie-grilled meats.“I’m a big fan of them myself,” Baer says. “It’s a great beer-drinking snack.”He’s hired Dustin Griffin from One World Brewery in Asheville as brewmaster.Baer and Griffin say they don’t worry that adding two more breweries — another brewer plans to open Bearwallow Brewing Co. on Seventh Avenue at Locust Street — will oversaturate the neighborhood.“It’s only going to cause a problem if people decide they want to stop drinking beer,” Baer says. “They don’t want to just show up at one.”“It’s all in walking distance,” adds Griffin.Working in the brewhouse on Tuesday, Griffin was hoping that a control panel for his fermenters would arrive this week.“We’re hoping we’re going to be able to open this year,” he says. “The tasting room’s coming along. We’re getting the tap lines in this week or next week.”On a recent Saturday, artist Monica Tucker was working on a mural that showed a languid scene of a mountain man strumming a banjo by a river. That represents what Baer calls “a comfortable environment, very inviting.”“Everybody is comfortable and happy and having a good time,” he says. “It’s welcoming and fun.”
Bearwallow Brewing Co.
Around the corner from Hendersonville’s first brewery and Guidon Brewing Co. could be yet another taproom. Matt Noell said the brewery is still in the planning stages and he’s a ways off from having a projected opening date. Noell incorporated his Bearwallow Brewing Co. in September 2017.Lew Holloway, the city’s downtown development coordinator, said in conversations he’s had Noell has talked about adding an inside taproom and using an outside space on the northwest corner of Locust and Seventh.Built around 1905, the three-story structure is considered the oldest brick building in the Historic Seventh Avenue District. It housed Hyder’s Grocery and a restaurant before the Henderson County Bank opened there in 1920, organized by John P. “Dock” Hyder. It was later American Bank & Trust. Smiley T. McCall operated Depot Salvage in the building from 1937 until 1975.
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Hendersonville News
Gov. Roy Cooper on Thursday appointed District Court Judge Peter Knight to the Superior Court vacancy created by the retirement of Senior Resident Superior Court Judge Mark Powell.
Knight brings nearly 10 years of experience as a District Court Judge in District 29B to his new appointment. He previously served as an attorney in private practice in Henderson County and surrounding areas for nearly three decades. Judge Knight has also volunteered his time to various nonprofit and faith-based community organizations, including the YMCA of Henderson County and Grace Lutheran Church. He holds undergraduate and law degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Knight's move up to the Superior Court bench creates a second vacancy this year in Judicial District 29B covering Transylvania, Polk and Henderson counties. Last month Cooper appointed C.W. "Mack" McKeller to fill a vacancy created by the governor's appointment of Chief District Court Judge Athena Fox Brooks as a Special Superior Court judge. Cooper will now fill the Knight vacancy after considering nominations from the District 29B Bar Association.
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Henderson County News
You won't want to miss this week’s Hendersonville Lightning.
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Henderson County News
Although the NCDOT has made a series of concessions to lessen the impact of the Kanuga Road widening project, the slimmed down version still drew opposition from many homeowners who turned out for the public unveiling on Tuesday.
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Hendersonville News
With 3½ days of early voting left, Henderson County has already recorded more voters than four years ago in the last mid-term election.
As of 5 p.m. Tuesday, the Board of Elections had counted 18,964 voters, exceeding the total in 2014 of 16,997. Henderson County followed the state trend of higher early voting totals thanks to longer hours and more days than ever. Polls were open three hours longer per day and one day of Sunday voting was offered for the first time in Henderson County.
Statewide, ballots cast so far in the 2018 general election exceeded all ballots cast early during the 2014 midterm election on Monday. As of 3:30 p.m. Monday, 1,225,892 North Carolinians had voted early, up 4.4 percent from 1,174,184 in 2014. The 2014 number was surpassed with six days remaining in this year’s in-person early voting period, which ends Saturday (November 3). Also, by-mail absentee ballots are still being accepted by county boards of elections across the state. However, with more than 7 million registered voters in North Carolina, nearly 6 million people still have not cast ballots in this important election season. “We hope millions of voters who have not yet made their voices heard will do so, either during early voting or on Election Day,” Kim Westbrook Strach, executive director of the State Board of Elections & Ethics Enforcement, said in a news release. In the 2014 midterms, final statewide voter turnout was 44 percent, or more than 2.9 million votes. Through 3:30 p.m. Monday, 17.3 percent of registered voters had cast ballots in 2018. In 2014, the in-person early voting period was 10 days. This year, the early voting period spans 18 days. Early voting schedules and locations vary by county. Voters can find their county’s early voting schedules here: https://vt.ncsbe.gov/ossite/. In North Carolina, early voting includes in-person absentee voting, also called “one-stop” voting, as well as absentee by-mail voting.
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Hendersonville News
The most eagerly awaited new restaurant in downtown Hendersonville finally has a name and the promise of an opening, the owners say.
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Etowah News
ETOWAH — Two men face charges and a third remains at large after an armed robbery early Saturday that resulted in an exchange of gunfire.
The suspects knocked on the door of a house at 28 H S Dalton Road and forced their way in when resident opened the door. At least two of the suspects pushed their way into the residence attempting to rob the resident. There was an exchange of gunfire within the home and the suspects fled the area. Both the resident and one suspect were injured by gunfire, requiring treatment. During the course of the investigation three suspects were identified.
Miguel Raymundo Perez, 21 of Hendersonville, has been charged with conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon, first degree burglary, assault with a deadly weapon causing serious injury and discharging a weapon inside an occupied dwelling. He remains in custody on a secured bond of $170,000. Jacob Wayne Smith, 18, of Horse Shoe, has been charged with conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon. He is in custody on a $40,000 secured bond. Deputies obtained warrants charging Zachary Lee Young, 24, whose last known address is 1026 Brooklyn Avenue. Assistance from the community is requested in locating Zachary Young. If you have any information on Young’s whereabouts, please contact the Henderson County Sheriff's Office at 828-697-4911. Read Story »
