Biltmore Forest News

The WNC Woodland Steward Series will hold a "Native Landscaping and Water Management" workshop 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. July 24 and 9 a.m. - noon July 25 at the North Carolina Arboretum.

The scholarship is in honor of a past member of the club, Buzz Tennet, and is based on financial need as well as academic merit.

Many of today's homebuyers wish for less square footage but are not willing to sacrifice lifestyle.

Fierce afternoon storms took out power on Patton Avenue and Haywood Road in West Asheville.

There's Bobby Jones posing with fellow club member Jess Sweetser, the man who gave him his worst drubbing as an amateur.

When Andie MacDowell decided she wanted to build a house in Biltmore Forest, architect Robert Griffin gave her a book of various style homes.

Carl Alwin Schenck founded the Biltmore Forest School in 1898 to assist in managing the vast holdings of George Vanderbilt.

An Asheville man apparently suffered a fatal heart attack Saturday, causing him to crash his bicycle in Biltmore Forest, according to police.

The following transfers were filed in the Register of Deeds office May 25-29: Arden * Lot 73 Lake Julian Trails, $136,000, Lake Julian Trails LLC to Melanie L. Clark * 606 Olde Covington Way , $137,000, Melissa R. Lindsey to Maria Iliadora Martinez * Lot 58 Waightstill Mountain, $322,500, Windsor Aughtry Co.

June is a great time to be outdoors in Western North Carolina. And what better way for a gardener to spend the day than touring gardens? Two wonderful opportunities come up this month.

In the past two months, I have been pulled over four times in the Haywood Road vicinity in West Asheville, and I'm wondering: What is the deal?! I drive a Nissan Sentra - no weird bumper stickers , tail and brake lights work; this is my neighborhood, so I don't speed through it; and no traffic violations.

Harry Martin, Bill Griffin and Dick Griffin were young men - some might say boys - when World War II broke out.

The Ramble Biltmore Forest, conceived by Vanderbilt's descendants, masterfully incorporates the three elements that his famed architect Frederick Law Olmsted envisioned - preserved natural surroundings, vibrant parks and picturesque streets.

State budget cuts are putting the Bent Creek Institute at risk, legislators say.

The last workshop in the Biltmore Forest School Piedmont Woodland Steward series will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 29, and from 9 to 11 a.m. May 30 at Montgomery Community College.

The following transfers were filed in the Register of Deeds office April 20-24: Arden * Lot 31 of Hadley Park, $222,000, National Transfer Services LLC to James T. Amburgey and Janet K. Haney.

Buncombe counties through 3:15 p.m., according to the National Weather Service. At 2:32 p.m., the weather service indicated a strong thunderstorm near Avery's Creek moving east at 30 mph.

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RALEIGH A perennial debate at the General Assembly was revived Tuesday when lawmakers unveiled a proposal for raising the age at which youths are prosecuted as adults.

The first in a series of four workshops in the Biltmore Forest School Piedmont Woodland Steward series will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday at the Davidson County Agricultural Center, 301 E. Center St.