Swannanoa News

Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Jon Vezner performs at Saturday's new Green Swan Festival at Warren Wilson College.

Dennis Ray Dixon, 25, of Swannanoa, entered a Black Mountain residence on Flat Creek Road with the intent to commit a felony on May 13, according to an arrest warrant.

Art by Sally Sweetland of Swannanoa. The Black Mountain Ale House will host a reception for Sweetland on at 6 p.m. Thursday with beer, wine, and hors d'oeuvres tastings.

A Marion man died Friday afternoon after his motorcycle crossed the center line on Patton Cove Road and struck a car, authorities said.

Just past a Swannanoa quarry in a nondescript industrial building is a gem of the local brewing scene, Pisgah Brewing Company.

Sean Patrick Regan, 24, of Garren Creek Road, entered the residence of a Swannanoa woman on May 2 and robbed her of prescription medication, grabbing her arm and hand and breaking a bone, according to arrest warrants.

A Swannanoa teen was charged Monday with five counts of felony larceny and six counts of obtaining property by false pretense.

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Deputies say they arrested an Asheville woman for breaking into a house in Swannanoa and stealing jewelry worth $21,350. Robin Renee Wentz Mutter, 32, of Rock Hill Circle, was charged with breaking and entering and larceny, according to a warrant served Thursday.

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Deputies have arrested a student from Community High School in Swannanoa and charge him with stealing money meant to help a coach from Erwin High who has cancer.

Buncombe county sheriff's deputies arrest a Swannanoa man on charges of stealing metal from a local fabrication plant and selling it to scrap metal dealers.

Warrants served Thursday also allege that Steven Elwood Marketto, 28, of Wray Avenue, sold the steel to scrap metal dealers.