Skyland News

The Asheville area got some sorely needed good economic news Tuesday: A local manufacturing plant, Thermo Fisher Scientific, will add 104 good-paying jobs.

The forums will be Wednesday, Dec. 16 from 10 a.m. to noon and Thursday, Dec. 17 from noon to 2 p.m. at the bus garage on 360 W. Haywood St.

The Skyland Volvo plant will shut down on March 31, 2010, according to a press release from the Stockholm-based company.

Published: Sunday, December 6, 2009 at 4:30 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, December 5, 2009 at 11:47 p.m. With Christmas less than three weeks away, boxes for Western North Carolina Toys For Tots remain either empty or half full.

Here's what you need to know about how to deal with yours. More Find out what a sputtering economy and an increasingly difficult to crack job market means to you.

Ken Ploch didn't serve in the military, but he said he appreciates the vital role veterans have played in United States history.

Published: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 4:30 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 8:10 p.m. Flamenco, fiddles, swing and a full symphony orchestra are among the performance options that hit the mountain music scene this weekend.

Local beer lovers, rejoice! Yes, Highland Brewing's Cold Mountain Winter Ale is out and about.

Two men face charges in a hit-and-run accident Sunday that injured a 9-year-old child, according to police.

Published: Friday, October 23, 2009 at 7:29 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, October 23, 2009 at 7:29 p.m. An accident on I-26 west at the Fletcher/Skyland line closed one lane of the interstate at about 7:20 p.m. No one was injured and no further details were immediately available.

Mr. Joe Connolly, Buncombe County attorney, informed the attendees at the Aug. 5 commissioner's meeting that North Carolina has a law prohibiting residents from voting on the zoning issue.

The following transfers were filed in the Register of Deeds office Sept. 28-Oct. 2: Arden 508 of Carrington Place, $127,000, Mary F. Dobler to Rolf E. and Phyllis L. Culver Asheville * 197 Michigan Ave.

Published: Friday, October 2, 2009 at 5:00 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, October 2, 2009 at 5:00 p.m. "Dear Zelda," a short dramatic production, will be performed Saturday night and Sunday afternoon in downtown Hendersonville.

Lisa Ryan has recently joined Skyland Behavioral Health Associates. Ryan is a psychiatric nurse practitioner who sees teens and adults for psychiatric assessment and medication management.

The City of Asheville is seeking public input through Sept. 29 on its draft transit master plan.

The Environmental Protection Agency is working to gain access to private wells near the former CTS of Asheville site on Mills Gap Road after a well northeast of the plant was found to be contaminated.

An fire overnight Sunday destroyed a barn on the campus of Reynolds High School.

Buncombe County Sheriff's investigators are looking for a 35-year-old man wanted on child pornography charges.

New Year's Eve falls on Sept. 19 this year - at least for alumni of the Lee Edwards Class of 1959, who come together for Days of Auld Lang Syne, a nostalgic party.

Cookie Mills remembers a time not long ago when drug dealers ran rampant in the Ducker Road community.