Weaverville News

The mother of Weaverville toddler run down in a parking lot traveled to Georgia on Thursday to protest at the funeral of her daughter's killer.

Yes, runners, there really is a Firecracker 5K in Weaverville. Organizers of the 16th annual Kiwanis Firecracker 5K have been desperately working to get the word out to local runners that even though the town of Weaverville called off its official July 4 festivities, the race is still on.

Deputies arrested a Weaverville man in connection with the theft of tools belonging to the Buncombe County Sheriff's Office.

The advantages of staying in small independent hotels or B & Bs for women business travelers.

Agnes Pauline Dalton Reese, of Swannanoa, entered into eternal rest on Tuesday, June 16, 2009.

The Fletcher Police Department filed the following charges: * Justin Adam Varnes, 27, 165 Baldwin Road, Arden, was charged June 2 with misdemeanor resist, obstruct and delay.

The fishing was fine and weather not too bad at the Great Smoky Mountain Trout Festival over the weekend.

Officials say a North Carolina vacationer has died after falling from the third floor of a Myrtle Beach hotel.

'Just Cooking, Just Sitting: Food for Body, Mind and Breath' will be the subject of a retreat June 26-28 at Great Tree Zen Temple neat Weaverville.

Jonathon Brown has been named by the Rotary Club of Weaverville as North Buncombe High School's Student of the Month for May.

Work at White Oak to start this week Thalle Construction will begin work on a $4.5 million project at the White Oak landfill this week.

The area's newest Wal-Mart will open its doors at 8 a.m. Wednesday in Weaverville's Northridge Commons shopping center.

It's easy to get into a jam while, well, making jam. Just ask Luann Street, a Weaverville resident who participated in a strawberry jam workshop Thursday at the N.C. Cooperative Extension Service's Buncombe County Center.

At 5-foot-4 and approximately 120 pounds, Ken Miller is a man of unflinching determination, the product of no-nonsense German/English parents who produced a brood of seven children, five of whom survive to this day.

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ASHEVILLE Multiple Western North Carolina residents face drug charges Sunday, according to warrants in Buncombe County.

Fire damaged a mobile home north of Weaverville this morning. Weaverville firefighters responded to the blaze around 10 a.m., said a dispatcher with the Buncombe County Emergency Operations Center.

Authorities captured a city man who deputies say broke into a residence along with another suspect who later took his own life during a chase.

* Tammy Zannette Caldwell, 35, 458 Georgia Ave., Waynesville, was charged May 25 with misdemeanor harboring a fugitive.

City Councilwoman Robin Cape, an outspoken proponent of Asheville's green movement, said Tuesday she won't run for a second term this year.