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Henderson County News

Playhouse drops vax mandate, makes masks optional

The Flat Rock Playhouse has dropped its proof-of-vaccination or negative Covid-19 test requirement for admission to performances and made masks optional. Read Story »

Tags: Covid-19 arts cancellations | COVID-19 facemasks | Covid-19 vaccination | anti-vaxxers | Covid misinformation

Flat Rock Four Seasons Politics

LIGHTNING EDITORIAL: Anti-vaxxers deliver another load of baloney

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Speakers who appear before the Henderson County Board of Commissioners have been spinning fantastic tales of conspiracies, criminal behavior and bad motives for going on two years as they express their views on the coronavirus and the government’s handling of it. Read Story »

Tags: Flat Rock Playhouse | Covid-19 arts cancellations | anti-vaxxers | Covid misinformation

Henderson County News

Speakers demand county defund Playhouse over vaccination 'passport'

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Speakers who compare vaccine mandates to Nazi Germany in the 1930s trained their sights on the Flat Rock Playhouse last week, urging the Board of Commissioners to defund the theater because it requires patrons to show proof of a vaccination or negative Covid test. Read Story »

Henderson County Four Seasons Politics

PHOTOS: Crowd rallies against masks and vax, chants 'Let's go, Brandon'

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A crowd of more than 200 people gathered at Martin Luther King Jr. Park on North Grove Street then marched through downtown Saturday in a rally against Covid-19 mask and vaccination mandates and a variety of other right-leaning grievances. Read Story »

Tags: anti-vaxxers | Covid misinformation

Henderson County News

FEMA vaccine center offering free Covid shots at Asheville Outlets

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FEMA's mobile vaccine center will offer free Covid-19 vaccinations at the Asheville Outlets behind Sportsman’s Warehouse, 800 Brevard Road, for five weeks starting Monday. Read Story »

Tags: vaccination rollout | anti-vaxxers | vaccination incentives | vaccine Covid

Henderson County News

FEMA unit offering free vaccines through Sunday at Asheville Outlets

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Asheville Outlets will host free Covid-19 vaccinations 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and noon-8 p.m. Sunday behind Sportsman’s Warehouse. Read Story »

Tags: vaccination rollout | anti-vaxxers | vaccination incentives | Covid misinformation

Asheville Four Seasons Politics

Cooper visits plant that makes super-cold freezers that store Covid vax

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Gov. Roy Cooper visited Thermo Fisher Scientific in Asheville Friday, where the company set up an on-site vaccine clinic for employees to receive their ovid-19 shot in partnership with the Buncombe County Department of Health and Human Services. Read Story »

Tags: COVID-19 | vaccination rollout | anti-vaxxers | vaccination incentives