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Recently, children from kindergarten through sixth grade learned about what life was like during the year 29 A.D. They met Jesus and discovered for themselves who He is and how He lived when he was on earth.

Recently, children from kindergarten through sixth grade learned about what life was like during the year 29 A.D. They met Jesus and discovered for themselves who He is and how He lived when he was on earth.

When Wendell Begley first joined the Buncombe County School Board, it was with the determination to make sure that Black Mountain didn't have to settle for less than other schools in the county when it came to ...

Class of 1978 The Charles D. Owen Class of 1978 will hold its 30th reunion on Friday, September 26, and Saturday, September 27.

The Valley will celebrate the nation's birthday, July 4, again this year marking the day America declared her freedom from England in 1776.

MONTREAT, N.C., July 4 NC-Jesse-Helms-death MONTREAT, N.C. , /PRNewswire/ -- Jesse Helms , my friend and long-time senator from my home state of North Carolina , was a man of consistent conviction to ...

Alan Hetzel grows award-winning dahlias, and he brought his love of gardening with him to Highland Farms Retirement Community.

Robert Mugabe has taken the oath for his sixth term as president of Zimbabwe after winning a widely discredited runoff election.

John McCain met Sunday with evangelist Billy Graham and his son, Franklin, at the family's mountaintop retreat.

The Republican presidential candidate, who is actively courting religious voters and trying to reassure skeptical conservatives, visited privately with the Grahams on the grounds of Little Piney Cove in the Blue Ridge Mountains in western North Carolina.

'We had a very excellent conversation. I appreciated the opportunity to visit with them,' McCain said after the 45-minute meeting.

Jac Whatley has been named the new executive director of the Coosa Valley Chapter of the American Red Cross.

The Rev. Byron Wade, pastor of the Davie Street Presbyterian Church of Raleigh, NC, was confirmed as vice moderator of the 218th General Assembly on Wednesday.

Comments on Topix forums : Former Reynolds High standout Samantha Haddock has decided to play her college softball at Montreat.

A pair of area softball players recently signed to play college softball for Montreat.

Eddie Ferenczi talks about the high gas prices as his children and his children's friends look on.

Asheville native Bob Hinkle, his wife, Kimberly Hughes, and the Dowden Sisters will be featured performers in a benefit concert 6-7:30 p.m. today at Swannanoa United Methodist Church, 216 Whitson Ave.

BLACK MOUNTAIN - Black Mountain, Swannanoa, Ridgecrest and Montreat seniors can now call or sign up at the Lakeview Senior Center to request young adults to work for as many as three hours doing yard work, ...

When the Presbyterian Historical Foundation was moved from here to Philadelphia in 2006, a lot of people in this small town were angry at the loss.

One thing most of this area's top baseball prospects and their coaches agree on is that there's no predicting what will happen when the MLB first-year player draft begins this afternoon.

Art quilt exhibit opens at FCUCC ASHEVILLE - The opening reception for "Woven Together in Spirit," an exhibit of art quilts by Black Mountain artist Martha Jane Petersen, will be at 11 a.m. Sunday, following ...

Recently, the Women in Ministry at Montreat Presbyterian Church that meets at Gaither Chapel sponsored its first Ruth Bell Graham Awards for Poetry and Literature.