Home Asheville & Western North Carolina
Advanced Search

Blogwire is a compilation of local news and information gathered by area citizens and Xpress staff. The Blogwire news aggregator includes press releases, stories from other news outlets, opinion pieces and updates from area blogs

Posting to Blogwire is open to any resident interested in participating. We welcome you to post what you see as important local news and information. Contact us to join.

Sort by...
Jim Westbrook, former Asheville city manager, killed in car wreck, Citizen-Times reports
The Asheville Citizen-Times reports that Jim Westbrook, Asheville's city manager from 1995-2005, has been killed in a car wreck outside Vass, N.C.

Westbrook, 68, was the interim county manager for Moore County and lived in Vass, according to the Fayetteville Observer. He had also recently served as the assistant city manager in Fayetteville.

A decorated Vietnam veteran and former colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves, Westbrook was city manager in Asheville from 1995-2005. ...
Comments
Please keep your comments relevant to blog entry.
Commenters email addresses are never displayed. Please do not insert HTML code.
To create a live link, simply type the URL (without http://) and it will be active.

There are no comments for this entry.

You are not logged-in. Do you have an account?: Login here.
Would you like to Register?: Click here to create a new account.
Or you may use the form below without registering. Your comment will be moderated before going online.

Name:
Email:
Type your comment in the field below:

Remember my personal information
Notify me of follow-up comments?

Retype the word you see below: