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State Rep. Tim Moffitt stepped in on Wednesday to help bar owners who had their ABC licenses revoked because of overdue fees during pandemic restrictions that had forced the businesses to close altogether or greatly reduce their hours and capacity. Read Story »
Tags: coronavirus economy
Through a new joint venture between HCA Healthcare and A Plus International Inc., and support from the HCA Healthcare Mission Innovation Fund, production of personal protective equipment will be brought to North Carolina through a new manufacturing center. Read Story »
Tags: coronavirus economy | PPE
Downtown Hendersonville continues the LoveHendo-Shop Local promotion with open-air activity on Main Street the first Saturday. Read Story »
Downtown Hendersonville is ramping up activities for the once-a-month Open Streets weekend with sidewalk sales, free yoga, sprinklers to cool off and more outdoor seating. Read Story »
About two dozen local business owners and politicians gathered at Hannah Flanagan’s Pub on Tuesday morning in a Republican Party-orchestrated event to air grievances about the state’s business restrictions in the coronavirus pandemic. Read Story »
Tags: coronavirus economy | covid-19 Cooper
One thing that is clear about the mandatory face mask order that Gov. Roy Cooper imposed on June 26: Nothing is clear. Read Story »
RALEIGH — A bill reopening gyms and bars and expanding seating in restaurants has cleared the General Assembly. Again. Read Story »
A partnership of business organizations will soon launch a marketing campaign to boost local restaurants and shops as the economy struggles to ramp up from the coronavirus shutdown. Read Story »
The first "Open Streets Weekend" was popular enough to keep going, Hendersonville City Council members said Thursday night as they agreed to close Main Street to motor vehicles at least four more times over the next 10 weeks. Read Story »
Tags: coronavirus economy
The summer camp industry was already teetering on the edge of collapse last week when state Rep. Chuck McGrady pressed the Cooper administration for answers on how camps could open. Read Story »
Three popular destinations, the Biltmore Estate and the North Carolina Arboretum, announced they will permit limited access to outdoor areas on Saturday, the first day of the phase 1 reopening plan Gov. Roy Cooper laid out this week. The Blue Ridge Parkway, meanwhile, announced it would reopen to motor vehicles on Saturday. Read Story »
Tags: North Carolina Arboretum | Biltmore Estate | coronavirus economy | Covid-19 arts cancellations
In a major blow to the arts offerings of the community, the Flat Rock Playhouse announced Tuesday that it is canceling the rest of its 2020 season and shifting the Mainstage series to next year. Read Story »
Henderson County commissioners on Monday called on Gov. Roy Cooper to give them the authority to implement their own economic reopening plan so that county residents may "pursue life, liberty and the fruits of their labor." Read Story »
Tags: coronavirus economy | coronavirus government | covid-19 Cooper
In their third meeting on reopening the county for business post-coronavirus, business owners pushed back on a phased plan they said was too rigid and time-consuming. Read Story »
Tags: coronavirus economy | COVID-19 | post-covid plan
AdventHealth Hendersonville on Friday announced plans to resume surgical services and dianostic exams that it had suspended weeks ago in the expectation of a coronavirus surge. Read Story »
Tags: AdventHealth | coronavirus economy
Count broad-based public input meetings as another casualty of the coronavirus shutdown. Read Story »
Tags: coronavirus economy
One marker of how hard the coronavirus has whacked Henderson County's economy comes from the work of the small business center at Blue Ridge Community College. Read Story »
Tags: coronavirus economy
Henderson County has seen success limiting community spread of the coronavirus and preventing a surge of patients that would overwhelm its two hospitals, AdventHealth’s chief medical officer told community leaders Thursday. Read Story »
Tags: coronavirus economy | coronavirus government | COVID-19 Pardee
Dolph Diamond woke up one night this week with an idea. Read Story »
Tags: Interfaith Assistance Ministry | coronavirus economy | coronavirus charity
The brand of downtown historic Hendersonville is small town, friendly and personal. Read Story »
Tags: downtown Hendersonville | coronavirus economy | coronavirus restaurants
With 28.4 percent of its workforce operating in the retail, leisure and hospitality sectors, the Asheville area is the ninth most severely impacted mid-size metro by the coronavirus shutdown, a study showed. Read Story »
Tags: coronavirus economy
Dave Noyes, president of the Hendersonville Board of Realtors, emphasizes that real estate sales are among the businesses declared essential, even if it isn’t business as usual. Read Story »
Tags: coronavirus economy | COVID-19
A task force studying how to reopen the county for business when the coronavirus lockdown is modified or lifted goes to work on Monday. Read Story »
Reflecting their constituents' anxiety about "extraordinarily gloomy employment futures" and "real fear over the likelihood of a slow and painful economic 'recovery' from which they will not personally recover," Henderson County commissioners asked Gov. Roy Cooper for the flexibility to begin reopening the local economy. Read Story »
Tags: coronavirus economy | coronavirus government | coronavirus unemployment
State Rep. Jake Johnson is endorsing requests by the Henderson County Board of Commissioners and other local government bodies for the authority to decide how to reopen businesses at the end of the month. Read Story »
Henderson County will delay maintenance and repair projects that are not yet under way as it confronts a dramatic drop in sales tax revenue and a potential decline in other tax sources. Read Story »
Tags: Henderson County Board of Commissioners | coronavirus economy
The owners of North Carolina’s nearly 900,000 small businesses received conflicting messages over the past week about the SBA Paycheck Protection Program, the new federal program designed to help cover payroll and other expenses during the new coronavirus pandemic, Carolina Public Press reports. Read Story »
Tags: coronavirus economy | coronavirus government | corona PPP
Ashley Arthur, a Raleigh resident and former software company employee, was laid off in January — before the coronavirus pandemic buried the N.C. Division of Employment Security in new claims from laid-off workers. Read Story »
It seems like ages ago when physicians, hospital administrators, first responders and county administrators filled a training room at the Thomas H. Thompson Emergency Services Center to talk about the coronavirus. Read Story »
Tags: coronavirus economy | COVID-19 Pardee | covid-19 Carolina Village
RALEIGH — A recession is coming, if it’s not already here, the state budget director at the N.C. Office of State Budget and Management told lawmakers in a meeting of the House Select Committee on COVID-19. Read Story »
Facing reduced patient revenue despite unprecedented activity in response to Covid-19, Pardee UNC Health Care is reducing pay for top executives and putting front-line workers on a schedule that will flex with demand. Read Story »
Tags: coronavirus economy | COVID-19 Pardee
N.C. Sen. Rick Gunn, R-Alamance, and the N.C. Association of ABC Boards want to allow bars and restaurants to sell alcohol back to N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Commission stores. Read Story »
Tags: ABC stores | coronavirus economy | coronavirus restaurants
The first payments for unemployment claims related to coronavirus will begin going out this week, Gov. Roy Cooper announced Sunday. Read Story »
The Henderson County Board of Commissioners has called a special meeting for 10 a.m. Friday to consider modification of the county's emergency declaration and special procedures for electronic meetings. Read Story »
Gas prices in Hendersonville dropped below $2 a gallon this week as the price of crude oil continued to fall and demand plunged. Read Story »
Tags: coronavirus economy
Five cities in Henderson County announced new restrictions on park activities on Monday, closing some features where people would be closer to one another. Read Story »
Tags: coronavirus | coronavirus economy