Weaverville News

It's been 20 years since Teddi Segal last saw the AIDS Memorial Quilt panel she and her family made for her two sons, Doug and Scott, who died of AIDS six months apart in 1988.

N.C. Highway Patrol troopers on Monday arrested an Asheville man on a fugitive warrant from Florida charging him with grand theft.

The book to be discussed is "Rebecca" by Daphne Du Maurier. All interested readers are welcome to attend.

It may take some time to positively identify the person killed in a fiery traffic accident late Tuesday.

Authorities say a Weaverville woman assaulted a deputy with her Jeep. Krystle Ann Becton, 24, of Reems Creek Road, was charged with assault with a deadly weapon on a government official, according to a warrant served today.

An officer from the North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement Agency went undercover for the Madison County Sheriff's Department to make drug and gun buys, Sheriff Buddy Harwood said last week.

Hearts With Hands is holding their third annual Harvest of the Heart program from 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday.

A prearranged fight escalated into a shooting that left a Buncombe County man critically injured early this morning.

Police on Wednesday arrested an Asheville man charged with trying to run down a police officer with his truck.

Rick Parker's existence is baffling. He credits part of it to a miracle and the other part to state-of-the-art treatment given to him by McDowell County Emergency Services paramedics.

Buncombe Soil and Water Conservation District and Cooperative Extension are hosting a workshop entitled "Keeping Your Farm." Topics to be covered include: Get updates on issues affecting farm and landowners.

Press release from the city of Asheville: "Asheville Transit would like to remind riders that Saturday, Nov.

AvL Technologies , a real success story on the Asheville manufacturing scene, plans to consolidate its offices and facilities in the Reynolds Village development in Woodfin, the Weaverville Tribune is reporting.

Hundreds of couples said their wedding vows outside the sprawling Claxton Farm tobacco barn with its 360-degree views of rolling hills.

A fire completely destroyed the Event Barn at Claxton Farm on Upper Flat Creek Road in Weaverville, about 10 miles north of Asheville.

Michael Taylor of Weaverville joined a line of about 300 people when he arrived around 8:30 a.m. Monday at the Eblen-Kimmel Charities offices, hoping for help with his electric bill.

A five-day sesshin, or silent meditation retreat, will be held Nov. 6-11 at Great Tree Zen Temple near Weaverville, led by Abbess Teijo Munnich.

Effie Fisher had begun doubting God. Her daughter, back in the late '60s and early '70s, was acting out, and the prayers she sent upward seemed to do no good.

The North Buncombe High School Blackhawk Band Boosters and the Town of Weaverville will hold the Fifth Annual John L. Perko Classic Marching Band Competition at 4 p.m. Saturday at North Buncombe High, 890 Clark's Chapel Road.

New home starts were down substantially in Western North Carolina during the third quarter, but the head of the company that compiles the data said he sees signs of a turnaround.