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Henderson County Opinion

LIGHTNING EDITORIAL: Mills River should face housing issue

The Mills River Town Board last week accepted a recommendation on affordable housing like it was a hot potato.   Read Story »

Hendersonville Opinion

LIGHTNING EDITORIAL: Leaders strike a blow against mediocrity

In praise of the joint medical education building and cancer center on the Pardee Hospital campus, an architect, the new tenants and county leaders used words like transformative (twice), state of the art (many times), legacy, once in a lifetime  and even "magic."   Read Story »

Hendersonville Opinion

LIGHTNING EDITORIAL: Three who made their mark

In the span of less than a week, we learned that Ruth Birge was retiring as executive director of the United Way, Paul Morse was leaving as general manager of G.E. Lighting Systems and Hillary Hart had accepted a new theater job in Minneapolis.   Read Story »

Hendersonville Opinion

Don't miss this week's Hendersonville Lightning (20)

Don't miss this week's issue of Hendersonville Lightning, 40 pages of news, features and exclusives plus the TV book.   Read Story »

Henderson County Opinion

LIGHTNING EDITORIAL: Ecusta Trail video hits the mark

Don Schjeldahl has plenty of credibility when it comes to industrial development.     Read Story »

Henderson County Opinion

LIGHTNING EDITORIAL: Elected leaders ignore farmers' biggest concern

By most accounts, Henderson County's 2014 apple crop is high in quality and lower in quantity.     Read Story »

Mills River Opinion

LIGHTNING EDITORIAL: Ag recruiters land a big prize

The announcement that Henderson County's agriculture development office had landed a global partnership that uses advanced plant science to make better vegetable plants was important on a variety of levels.   Read Story »

Hendersonville Opinion

MossColumn: Make the Apple Festival hoppier

It's too late for this year, which is fine. I'm guessing it will take more than one year of advocacy for my idea to take hold. It will have to gain traction inch by inch before it reaches critical mass, and that might still be a long way off.   Read Story »

Flat Rock Opinion

MossColumn: Vagabonds do Vietnam

Trying to coax a grin out of Jerry Seago and Larry Pigg, I said, "Act like you made it home from Vietnam."   Read Story »

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