Black Mountain News

The biannual Lake Eden Arts Festival in Black Mountain, NC, was this weekend. Attending LEAF is a 15-year tradition in this family I married into.

Here's the press release. Congratulations! Date: 11/14/2009 Time: 8am until 8pm Andy Gibbon and Josh Gibbs, co-owners of Dynamite Roasting Co.

A professional touch is obvious at White Horse Black Mountain. The one-time car dealership now has a concert stage, top-notch sound and lights, comfortable tables for 225 and a friendly bar in the back, reflecting the hard work of owners Bob Hinkle and Kimberly Hughes.

Useful Plants Nursery, based in Black Mountain, will help students and teachers at Old Fort Elementary plant edible gardens on Friday, Nov.

Police Wednesday arrested a Fletcher man charged with robbing a woman of her car.

After weeks of arguments that have pitted neighbor against neighbor, Swannanoa voters will have their say Tuesday on whether their community should be incorporated into a town.

Wednesday, Oct. 28 Make your own entertainment: Homeward Bound's Community Performance Project offers a free weekly Wednesday night Community Acting Workshop at the Central United Methodist Church .

Do you love Black Mountain's Lake Tomahawk? in Environment 5 hours, 49 minutes ago This video shows some of Lake Tomahawk's history and turns to its current problems with silt, erosion and runoff.

Getting a yearly mammogram was not as common 40 years ago as it is today, but Pat Duncan always made a point of getting one.

The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center has been awarded a $10,000 grant from the North Carolina Arts Council for the upcoming exhibition "From BMC to NYC: The Tutelary Years of Ray Johnson ." The exhibition will open on Feb.

Two important moments in WNC history are nominated for highway historical markers: * Andre Michaux, commissioned by King Louis XVI to find plants to revive French forests and gardens, found himself, on June 15, 1787, crossing Wildcat Gap in Highlands.

After all the yelling, block throwing, assault and multitudes of signs cluttering our highways, I still haven't heard what all the fanaticism is about.

The talented musical duo Al Petteway and Amy White play at 8 tonight at White Horse Black Mountain, 105 Montreat Road in Black Mountain.

Police here arrested two Tennessee men charged with breaking into a car wash and stealing money.

Beginning Friday, all state facilities will actively screen all staff and visitors to identify people exhibiting signs of respiratory infections in an effort to limit the spread of swine, or H1N1, flu.

Buncombe County Emergency Services dispatch reported an accident involving a tractor trailer at the eastbound Exit 59 on Interstate 40 at 9:09 Monday night.

The following transfers were filed in the Register of Deeds office Sept. 28-Oct. 2: Arden * 18 Muirfield Drive, $200,000, Jason D. and Elizabeth A. Ference to Monika Mayr Asheville * Unit 204 of Merritt Park Condominiums, $126,000, Estate of EV B. Freed, Timothy and Sherry Arrington, Michael Dennis Arrington and Cherrye R. Wilson, Mark David ...

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Gov. Bev Perdue today announced that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has conditionally approved the state's application for federal assistance to build a 100-bed State Veterans Home in Black Mountain.

Applauds the president's new trophy on the shelf Oct 13, 2009 The Nobel Committee's choice of Barack Obama for the Nobel Peace prize was brilliant.