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Hot Springs venue to bring theater camp for adults with special needs to Black Mountain
HOT SPRINGS - Hot Springs and Black Mountain are teaming up to offer a theater camp for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. When Rare Bird Farm founder Farrah Hoffmire and her husband Mitchell Davis came to Madison County, one of Hoffmire's top priorities was to continue her work with adults with...
Court records: Madison Board of Elections director's blood alcohol was .14; limit is .08
MARSHALL - Court records have revealed new information in Madison County Board of Elections Director Jacob Ray's DWI arrest. Ray, 30, of Marshall, was arrested by North Carolina State Highway Patrol shortly after 10:45 p.m. July 13 after he ran off the side of the road and down an embankment along Walnut...
Incumbent in toss-up district condemns and endorses Kamala Harris
(The Center Square) – One day after U.S. Rep. Don Davis was the only Democrat in North Carolina to vote for a resolution condemning Vice President Kamala Harris’ handling of her border assignment from the president, he gave her an endorsement. And suggested Harris pick North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper as a running mate. Only six of 202 Democrats favored House Resolution 1371, and Davis stood out among North Carolinians because he was the only one of 14 to not toe the party line and...
PTI Airport Megasite And Merry Old England Tighten Economic Development Bonds
This week, a contingent of Greensboro and North Carolina economic development leaders traveled across the pond to jolly old England in order to strengthen ties and learn more about the UK headquarters and operations of a big economic player at the aviation megasite at Piedmont Triad International Airport. The group...
Thank You for a Wonderful Summer at Montreat Conference Center
As the summer draws to a close and I contemplate one more This Week in Montreat, here are some notes and musings that I thought would make for a good write-up if I could just make the summer last a little bit longer:. Lake Susan is getting a makeover, a...
Western North Carolina shifts to eCourts to expand access; local attorney reacts
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — Eleven Western North Carolina counties made the transition to eCourts this week, with the purpose of shifting to digital court records being to expand access to justice. There are different elements of eCourts, including eFiling, which allows attorneys to file court documents online to the...
Traffic stop results in cocaine trafficking charge
A Johnson City man was arrested by Unicoi County Sheriff’s Department deputies on Friday, ,July 26, on a charge of trafficking cocaine. Yire Aguilera Alvarado, 34, 6 Trivette Concourse, Johnson City, was pulled over for a traffic violation at the intersection of Harris Hollow Road and North Main in Erwin.
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