Enka News

In the spring of 2000, members of the Buncombe County Board of Education were locked in a conference room on the 11th floor of the BB&T Building.

On the agenda for the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners' June 16 meeting, the matter was simply labeled "Resolution Rescinding Resolution 06-08-06," but what it meant was far more complex, as the commissioners decided to postpone the county's next property-tax revaluation until 2014.

After building Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College's small business incubator from the ground up, Russ Yelton is heading west for bigger entrepreneurial frontiers.

Lisa Horak had just completed her first year of teaching when the Buncombe County Schools notified her that, due to proposed state budget cuts, her contract wouldn't be renewed.

Editor's note: This story first appeared in the Aug. 7, 2003, edition of the Citizen-Times. The sleek, narrow T-6 Texas II airplane swooped down the runway.

Nearly 1,700 Asheville-area residents lost power in Thursday's violent storms, and city crews were busy Friday morning clearing downed trees out of roadways.

An aerosol device intended to kill fleas likely sparked a fire inside a home in Buncombe County on Friday.

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

Out there somewhere, lost for 146 years, there really is the head of a great Apache leader, taken in the most violent and ignominious means imaginable.

On Monday, the Boston Newspaper Guild rejected the Times Co.'s latest contract offer, paving the way for a protracted legal fight.

Tim Rayburn, retired fire chief of the Black Mountain Fire Department, is the first to announce his candidacy for the Town of Black Mountain Board of Aldermen November election.

Fire destroyed an abandoned house in the Leicester area early this morning. No one was hurt in the blaze at 346 Hookers Gap Road, said a dispatcher with the Buncombe County Emergency Operations Center.

Well over 1,000 teachers, parents and students packed the gymnasium of Enka High School on Monday evening to rally against state education cuts.

A piece of debris punctured a diesel fuel tank on a tractor trailer, closing one lane of Interstate 40 for about 45 minutes.

JBOATWRIGHT@CITIZEN-TIMES.COM A popular business program and the entrepreneurs who depend upon it remain optimistic about the future, despite the prospect of state budget cuts.

Residents of western Buncombe County could get another way to get on and off Interstate 40 later this decade.

PTO members at Candler, Sand Hill-Venable and Hominy Valley Elementary schools will hold a meeting at 6 p.m. Monday at Enka High to discuss how budget cuts are affecting teacher and assistant jobs.

The Enka-Candler area may get a new option to get on and off of I-40. Monday, June 1, 2009 The DOT is planning a new exit 2.5 miles west of the current Enka-Candler exit, which is exit 44.

That was the feeling that pervaded the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners' May 19 meeting, as both members of the public and some commissioners weighed in on the proposed budget for the next fiscal year, which begins July 1. Reflecting an uncertain economy, the budget projects declining tax revenues, balanced by $5.9 million in spending cuts.

Like most businesses, those run by women have taken a hit during the recession. But regionally and locally, women-owned enterprises seem to be hurting less, and some have even expanded, business experts and others said Thursday at the fifth annual Women's Business Conference.