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| Apple crop OK after low temps |
Blue Ridge Now reports: Low temperatures Saturday night did no damage to Henderson County’s apple crop, growers said Sunday, but prolonged freezing weather might be a different story. Several apple growers reported Sunday that their crops suffered no ill effects from Saturday night’s cold temperatures. “There was absolutely no damage,”… |
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10/19/09 |
| Waren Wilson Alumni Wins Bard Fiction Prize for 2010 |
Novelist Samantha Hunt has received the annual Bard Fiction Prize for 2010. The prize, established in 2001 by Bard College to encourage and support promising young fiction writers, consists of a $30,000 cash award and appointment as writer in residence at the college for one semester. Hunt’s first novel, “The… |
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10/16/09 |
| Veterans Nursing Home to be Built in Western North Carolina |
From Goblueridge.net: $14.6 million in federal stimulus money was awarded to North Carolina to build a 100-bed veterans’ rest home in Western North Carolina. According to Governor Bev Perdue, the project will be built just outside of Asheville in Black Mountain. Director of the North Carolina Division of Veterans Affairs,… |
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10/15/09 |
| Tellico River Watershed Closed to Off-Road Traffic |
From Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility: The Forest Service will close most trails in the Tellico area and invest substantial resources to restore those lands, and convert the remaining ORV trails to forest roads for public access for other types of recreation. ORV use will no longer be allowed anywhere… |
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10/15/09 |
| Hendersonville mayor to challenge Rep. Shuler |
Republicans have a candidate to face Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) in 2010, and it’s Hendersonville Mayor Greg Newman. Newman annnounced his intentions Monday, just days after businessman Jeff Miller announced he would not challenge Shuler. Shuler won 62 percent of the vote in 2008 against an opponent who was easily… |
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10/13/09 |
| Texas trucker jailed for 1,758 ibs. of marijuana. |
A Mission, TX trucker is facing drug trafficking charges in North Carolina after authorities allegedly found 1,758 pounds of marijuana hidden in a shipment of limes headed to New York. North Carolina state troopers arrested 53-year-old Heriberto Flores, Jr. on marijuana charges last week. The Asheville Citizen-Times reported that Flores… |
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10/12/09 |
