Asheville Police, including bike patrols, are checking inside vacant buildings, under bridges, and through parks and remote areas to urge the homeless to seek inside shelter. While the long-lived Arctic blast has dipped low across the country plunging our temperatures to single digits, people in Western North Carolina are trying to remember when they’ve experienced such a long and gripping cold.
Our TownPitts to Speak, Sign BooksFriday, 15 January 2010by Moe White
The breakfast attracts more than one thousand guests every January and will include music by the Celebration Choir, from Glade Creek Baptist Church in Hendersonville, and the presentation of the 2010 Martin Luther King Award. The breakfast is scheduled for... + Full Story
Arts & Entertainment Leonard Pitts, Jr.Friday, 15 January 2010Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Leonard Pitts, Jr. will be the keynote speaker for Asheville’s 29th annual Martin Luther King Prayer Breakfast.
Leonard Pitts began writing professionally as a college student, doing freelance reviews and... + Full Story
Generation NOWChild Care Center Serves as God’s 'Stand In'Friday, 15 January 2010By Wallace Bohanan
Beacon Child Development Center in Hendersonville, NC, is hosted by the Union Grove Missionary Baptist Church. Not surprisingly, Beacon’s goal is to serve as God’s “stand-in” by nurturing and loving the children entrusted to its care; its... + Full Story
Generation NOWYale Makes HistoryFriday, 15 January 2010Kenny, Martina, Ray, and Carol Crouch, quadruplets, have all been admitted to Yale University.
Ray, Kenny, and Carol Crouch, seniors at Danbury High School, logged onto the family’s computer and entered the Web site of the Yale admissions... + Full Story
