Old Fort News

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Marion will celebrate Independence Day with the traditional parade, a street dance and fireworks.

Location: Buncombe County, South of Asheville NC-146 , Both Directions Near I-26 Lane Closed - One of two lanes closed.

Furniture maker Ethan Allen says it is consolidating operations of three manufacturing plants in New England but that operations at Old Fort will continue.

Road projects that could slow some commuters this morning include those on Interstate 26 south of Asheville, as well as near Hendersonville, and on I-40 near Old Fort and Marion, as well as near Asheville between mile markers 36 and 51.

A Gaston County man's statewide check scam recently came to a halt when local authorities got on his trail.

He has the porch swing and love of the homegrown bluegrass from Cleveland County.

Friday, June 19 I would be remiss if I didn't start this list with Downtown After Five , Asheville's free monthly street festival .

More rain is likely in the Asheville area today in the wake of some scattered heavy showers Wednesday evening that created flooding in parts of Western North Carolina.

All westbound lanes have reopened on Interstate 40 following a traffic accident on Old Fort Mountain in McDowell County this afternoon.

Representatives from Davidson's Fort Historic Park asked the county for more money to help them pay off the land and focus more attention on getting the replica fort built.

For over a year now, McDowell County's Omar McCourry has been digging into the history of Old Fort industry and of environmental protection in the community.

At age 16, Colten Ellingwood knows what he wants to do with his life: farming. More specifically, he's sold on organic agriculture.

Michael Fields is well known in Old Fort. At age 52, he is retired from Ethan Allen, where he worked as a supervisor for 13 years.

The McDowell Department of Social Service's Food and Nutrition program will begin a countywide outreach effort for senior citizens starting in the greater Old Fort area.

A man died after his truck slammed into the back of a tractor-trailer on an entrance ramp to Interstate 40 near Old Fort, according to the N.C. Highway Patrol.

The sky was the shade of blue that elicits warm feelings for fans of the University of North Carolina while inducing nausea in followers of Duke.

County Manager Chuck Abernathy gave the commissioners a proposed $34.4 million budget that doesn't call for a property tax rate hike.

We need to inform the governor of North Carolina that there is a Western North Carolina.

If you have memories of how things used to be around here, the folks from the McDowell County Tourism Development Authority would like to hear them and record them for future generations.