Weaverville News

Rick Parker's existence is baffling. He credits part of it to a miracle and the other part to state-of-the-art treatment given to him by McDowell County Emergency Services paramedics.

Buncombe Soil and Water Conservation District and Cooperative Extension are hosting a workshop entitled "Keeping Your Farm." Topics to be covered include: Get updates on issues affecting farm and landowners.

Press release from the city of Asheville: "Asheville Transit would like to remind riders that Saturday, Nov.

AvL Technologies , a real success story on the Asheville manufacturing scene, plans to consolidate its offices and facilities in the Reynolds Village development in Woodfin, the Weaverville Tribune is reporting.

Hundreds of couples said their wedding vows outside the sprawling Claxton Farm tobacco barn with its 360-degree views of rolling hills.

A fire completely destroyed the Event Barn at Claxton Farm on Upper Flat Creek Road in Weaverville, about 10 miles north of Asheville.

Michael Taylor of Weaverville joined a line of about 300 people when he arrived around 8:30 a.m. Monday at the Eblen-Kimmel Charities offices, hoping for help with his electric bill.

A five-day sesshin, or silent meditation retreat, will be held Nov. 6-11 at Great Tree Zen Temple near Weaverville, led by Abbess Teijo Munnich.

Effie Fisher had begun doubting God. Her daughter, back in the late '60s and early '70s, was acting out, and the prayers she sent upward seemed to do no good.

The North Buncombe High School Blackhawk Band Boosters and the Town of Weaverville will hold the Fifth Annual John L. Perko Classic Marching Band Competition at 4 p.m. Saturday at North Buncombe High, 890 Clark's Chapel Road.

New home starts were down substantially in Western North Carolina during the third quarter, but the head of the company that compiles the data said he sees signs of a turnaround.

Following pleas from riders who depend on public transportation to get to jobs and classes, City Council members will consider ways to keep an Asheville-Weaverville bus route operating.

Once a week Rosana Sullivan's North Asheville home turns into a day care center.

The shutdown of an Asheville-Weaverville bus route following the loss of federal funding will snip a lifeline for some workers and students.

Police arrested a convenience store employee with stealing $150 cash from her employer.

The town's new alcoholic beverage control store opens Wednesday at 7 Northridge Commons Parkway and features a reminder of an older way people have bought hard liquor in the mountains.

Despite protests from some residents over tax increases and lack of representation, Weaverville Town Council voted unanimously Monday night to annex 279 pieces of property to the south, growing the town by 612 people.

The Report Card issues grades A through F, and incompletes where necessary, to a variety of news items in this space.

Police Friday charged a Weaverville woman with trying to buy precious metals online without a permit.

Twelve schools across the Carolinas have been selected as finalists in the Progress Energy SunSenseSM schools program - among them are three Buncombe schools.