Black Mountain News

He was the founder of Livingstone College. He was also the college's first president.

Ellen Frost says she will run in the new District two - which covers the western parts of the county.

Journal photo by Monte Mitchell -- 2/6/12 -- Wilson Creek, seen here near its headwaters, runs through the Grandather Ranger District.

Ride the Bar Hopper Now for the cost of a pint of beer, you can catch a shuttle ride from bar to bar throughout downtown and West Asheville .

ASHEVILLE, NC Four Asheville School students recently received numerous awards for their artwork in the Regional Scholastics Art Competition in Western North Carolina.

Join an afternoon of sharing and receiving love through hands-on art making for all ages, 2-5 p.m. Blues great Taj Mahal will perform at the 2012 spring LEAF festival in Black Mountain.

Covington is blessed with conscientious youth who look for ways to improve the world by improving their community.

Visit CITIZEN-TIMES.com/beerguy to read past columns and to explore the Asheville beer engine, a data base of brews made in Asheville and Buncombe County.

'Around the Bend' by Paul Hastings, oil on canvas, 30 inches by 40 inches. See this in color at CITIZEN-TIMES.com/Living. / Special to the Citizen-Times Artist Gayle Ray will host an opening reception for her painting exhibit 4-6 p.m. Friday at Woolworth Walk, 25 Haywood St.

Kristen Bell is such a fan of 'Homeland' that she just had to tell the cast of the hit Showtime... 300,000 to 600,000: Barrels of beer that the Mills River brewery could produce.

Jerry Pope gives Robert Randolph his change last week at Town Hardware in Black Mountain.

Here's the press release from UNCA: From Asheville's Basilica of St. Lawrence to New York City's Grand Central Station - Tile Work by Guastavino is Subject of Lecture at UNC Asheville The Rafael Guastavino family - responsible for remarkable tile work at architectural landmarks in Asheville and across the nation - will be the subject of a lecture ... (more)

Emily Williamson of Hildebran and Gregory Gangi of Carrboro, were united in marriage on October 15, 2011, at five o'clock in the evening at Chapel of the Prodigal, on the campus of Montreat College.

The N.C. House Metropolitan Sewerage/Water System Committee will meet Monday to begin deciding whether to take Asheville's water system and give it to an independent body.

Tickets are $10 adult, $5 children 12 and under. Tickets available at the Black Mountain-Swannanoa Chamber of Commerce or by calling Tom Cannon at 778 7166.

I am an old lady, and I am so tired of trying to keep up with each new weekly 'National Fear... Bud Hall sits in the front office of Hall's Towing and Recovery in Black Mountain.

Bud Hall sits in the front office of Hall's Towing and Recovery in Black Mountain.

Lot 25 of Ashley Woods phase 1A, $320,000, Claude L. and Julie A. Bumgardner to Gabriel and Jennifer Negrea Lot 5 block Z of Ramble Biltmore Forest, $1,100,000, Andrew J. and Karen C. Light to Debra L. and Gary A. Foss 20 Jeff Drive , $217,500, Gabriel and Jennifer Negrea to Douglas and Terry E. Wood, Unit P2 of Pine Cliff Condominiums, $137,000, ... (more)

The Black Mountain Inn inaugurates David Madden's 'Black Mountain Novel Workshop,' Feb.

An inmate who failed to return after an approved weekend leave in Asheville was captured Friday morning in Georgia.