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Baby Girl gets a bath

Mike and Mary Cervini, who caught the "town dog" Baby Girl five weeks ago and arranged for surgery to remove a large tumor from her belly, reported new progress for their celebrity rescue. She had a bath, is getting more sociable and is switching from a nocturnal to a daytime schedule.   Read Story »

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'Prairie Home Companion' farewell tour coming to Brevard

A Prairie Home Companion, the long-running National Public Radio show hosted by Garrison Keillor, is coming to Brevard for its farewell tour.   Read Story »

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LIGHTNING EDITORIAL: Conservancy gets important win

A horse farm owner and the Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy wisely settled a bitter two-year-old fight in a way that satisfies both sides and preserves the land conservancy’s power to enforce conservation easements.   Read Story »

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Edney rips DSS's record in reuniting kids, parents

Michael Edney wants to know why Henderson County does a poor job reuniting children and their biological parents after social workers remove a child from the home.   Read Story »

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Property owners getting tax bills

Property owners in Henderson County will start getting their tax bills in the mail as early as Saturday.   Read Story »

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Jones urges 'younger generation' to write history

Dr. George A. Jones wants the younger generation to step up and take on the work of researching and chronicling local history.   Read Story »

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Kleenex spotlights Special Needs Baseball

The story of Donnie Jones and his Special Needs Baseball League is highlighted in a 2-minute film made by Kleenex that went live on Facebook Friday.   Read Story »

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Fletcher man sentenced for Dollar General robbery

A 31-year-old Fletcher man was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in prison for his role in the 2013 armed robbery of a Dollar General store in Woodfin.   Read Story »

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Meadows move to depose speaker fractures N.C. delegation

RALEIGH — U.S. Rep. Walter Jones, R-3rd District, is a staunch supporter of the efforts of fellow North Carolinian Mark Meadows (11th District) to unseat House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio. Jones says Boehner is out of touch with Republican Party principles, rules by strong-arming members and parceling out campaign funds to favorites from his political action committee and is afflicted with pettiness. But the rest of North Carolina's congressional delegation is far from united on the second-term representative's tactical maneuver to depose the speaker this week.   Read Story »

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