Racing to make children's lives better
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville,NC,USA
In the early-morning hours next weekend, Orr will bolt from the start line at the eighth annual Biltmore Estate 5K/15K Classic. ...

Bevins is mother to many
Coalfield Progress - Norton,VA,USA
... She's been there three times, and has also visited Greece, Rome, Amsterdam, New Orleans, California, Washington DC and the Biltmore estate in Asheville, NC. ...

McKibbens/Roper
Scott County Times - Forest,MS,USA
... Following the ceremony, a reception was held on the South Terrace of the Biltmore Estate, where a sunset buffet was enjoyed by guests. ...

Blue Ridge mayor, others charged in cockfighting
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - GA,USA
The GBI Thursday charged five people, including the mayor of the North Georgia town of Blue Ridge, in connection with an illegal cockfighting operation in ...

Ponder ousts Blue Ridge for postseason
Sherman Denison Herald Democrat - Sherman/Denison,TX,USA
DENTON - A five-run sixth inning put Blue Ridge back in the game, but Ponder held on for an 8-5 win over the Lady Tigers Tuesday night in a Class 2A Region II ...

Kennedy Funding Rescues Blue Ridge Mountains' Developer
mysan.de (Pressemitteilung) - Heidelberg,Germany
... The Blue Ridge Group of North Carolina, LLC, needed funds to continue construction and marketing of undeveloped land in a scenic area of North Carolina. ...

Blue Ridge Energy, Inc. Announces New President and CEO
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
HOUSTON, May 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Blue Ridge Energy, Inc. ("Blue Ridge" or the "Company") (OTC Bulletin Board: BREY) announces ...

Pisgah Inn closed following vandalism to water system
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville,NC,USA
... closed while authorities try to find out who broke into the water reservoir that serves both the popular inn and a nearby campground on the Blue Ridge Parkway. ...

Lobo Golfers Win Regional, Gear Up For State Tourney
AzJournal.com - Holbrook,AZ,USA
... The Show Low Cougars came in second with a 705, followed by the Blue Ridge Yellowjackets and the Winslow Bulldogs in third and fourth places. ...

Hixon House is on the mend
LaCrosse Tribune - LaCrosse,WI,USA
... Ewer, whose past experience includes being a theater seamstress and chief conservator at the Biltmore House for 17 years, said the Hixon work is not a ...

Summer Vacation Rentals Still Available, According to Vacation ...
ArriveNet (press release) - Castle Rock,CO,USA
... In addition, there is more inventory of vacation rentals as more ... in many locations, including popular Florida, California, North Carolina and overseas. ...

Weekend Fishing Report
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... Mary's County side of the Wicomico has boat rentals, snacks, bait -- you name it. ... Close to North Carolina, the offshore boats find tuna action. ...

All about Chris
Miami Herald - FL,USA
... ``I had the pleasure of first meeting Chris and Tammy Sytch (Sunny) several years ago, when I began wrestling for Smokey Mountain Wrestling. ...

State briefs: May 6
Knoxville News Sentinel (subscription) - Knoxville,TN,USA
... The group will perform during a "Cinco de Mayo" cruise presented by the Smoky Mountain Parrot Head Club on Saturday, May 7, on the Star of Knoxville Riverboat. ...

Alex Marvez's weekly look at professional wrestling
Vero Beach Press-Journal (subscription) - Vero Beach,FL,USA
... "Chris' problems have been well documented," said Mantel, who first met Candito while both worked for Smoky Mountain Wrestling in the early 1990s. ...

The Sona MedSpa's of Charlotte, North Carolina Join ...
PR Leap (press release) - Chula Vista,CA,USA
(PRLEAP.COM) The Sona MedSpa & Laser Center of Charlotte in Cotswold and the Sona MedSpa & Laser Center of Charlotte in Ballantyne offer the latest technology ...

Film festival kicks off at Battleship North Carolina
Myrtle Beach Sun News - Myrtle Beach,SC,USA
The Battleship North Carolina's sixth annual Fabulous Fantail Film Festival, "Mysteries With a Smile," including movies from the 1930s, '40s and '50s shown on ...

NextCare Acquires 9 North Carolina Area Urgent Care Centers
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
MESA, Ariz., May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- NextCare Urgent Care has expanded its national group practice with its acquisition of North Carolina based, Doctor's Urgent ...

North Carolina Receives Bid To NCAA Tournament For Sixth Straight ...
TarHeelBlue.com - USA
INDIANAPOLIS, IND. - The University of North Carolina men's tennis team has received a bid to play in the NCAA Men's Tennis Tournament for the sixth successive ...

Bi-Lo Sells Stores In North Carolina
WFMY News 2 - Greensboro,NC,USA
Bi-Lo announced a deal to sell 47 stores in North Carolina, including all of the Greensboro locations. Greenville, SC -- The parent ...

Asheville police seek bank robber
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville,NC,USA
ASHEVILLE -- Police are still searching for a man who robbed First Citizens Bank at 768 Hendersonville Road Thursday afternoon. ...

Three high-tech firms from Asheville get turn in spotlight at ...
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville,NC,USA
ASHEVILLE -- Western North Carolina is winning attention outside the mountains as a home for new technology. Three of four new ...

USS Asheville returns to US after 6-month deployment
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville,NC,USA
ASHEVILLE -- Friends, family members and fellow submariners this month welcomed the submarine USS Asheville (SSN 758) back to San Diego. ...

SOLICITOR'S DWI ARREST
The State - Columbia,SC,USA
... said Myers had called him Thursday and volunteered to turn in the Lincoln Town Car he was driving last Friday when he was pulled over by Asheville, NC, police. ...

I liked downtown Asheville when it was just piles and piles of ...
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville,NC,USA
Downtown is officially dead. I know - according to some it's never been more alive. A gallery on every block, an espresso around ...

Citizen-Times requests city, county documents
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville,NC,USA
ASHEVILLE -- Using e-mail is Asheville and Buncombe County's latest effort to exclude the public in the debate over the dissolution of the 1981 Regional ...

Suns fall to Tourists in 10, 8-7
OurSports Central (press release) - Marshfield,WI,USA
Asheville, NC:The Hagerstown Suns went to Asheville for the first time in two years and lost a heartbreaker, 8-7, in 10 innings. ...

Running for fitness and fried foods
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville,NC,USA
ASHEVILLE -- Jair Reyes ran in the Mission Hospitals Sunset Stampede four-mile race through Asheville last week. ... It'sa fun one. I love running in Asheville. ...

Asheville City Schools might lose big if state approves new budget
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville,NC,USA
RALEIGH - Asheville City Schools could lose more than $800,000 for programs to help academically and socially at risk children if the Senate budget proposal ...

State awards contract to widen stretch of I-40
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville,NC,USA
ASHEVILLE -- The state Board of Transportation today awarded a $42.9 million contract to a local company to widen a stretch of Interstate 40 on the west side ...

Out There: News and briefs from around the region
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville,NC,USA
... Thomas, disappeared in July 1998 on the way to their Waushara County, Wis., cabin. ... to widen a stretch of Interstate 40 on the west side of Asheville to eight ...

Two Charter Buses Carrying Children Collide On I-59
NBC13.com - Birmingham,AL,USA
ASHVILLE, Ala. ... The accident occurred in the southbound lanes four miles after the Oneonta-Ashville Exit 166 at mile marker 162. ...

Fishing Line
Buffalo News - Buffalo,NY,USA
... Lonny Stebbins at Happy Hooker Bait & Tackle in Ashville noted many had seen good spawning runs up Dewittville Creek but, considering the poor 'eye numbers ...

Cockfight night halted in N. Georgia town
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - GA,USA
... northwest of Atlanta, near the North Carolina border, Blue Ridge has become a retreat for affluent metro Atlantans, who flock to mountain cabins to escape the ...

Lives Capsized in River
Los Angeles Times (subscription) - CA,USA
TV rescue of firefighter, mother and baby from raging mountain creek transfixed viewers. ... had cut off the only road out of their remote cluster of cabins in San ...

Woman recounts oceanic horror
Chester Observer Tribune - Chester,NJ,USA
... horrible vacation nightmare for the Logan family who live on Schooley's Mountain Road ... People had to leave to go back to their cabins and change because drinks ...

Wildcat Gondolas Open for 6th Season on Memorial Day Weekend
AlpineZone News - Oakville,CT,USA
... Wildcat's location in the White Mountain National Forest offers unparalleled views of ... spring months is converted to transport 4-passenger gondola cabins to the ...

On the Fly: Top Spots for Trout Fishing Across the Country
Frommers - USA
... sage. Accommodations take the form of cabins, log homes, and a mountain chalet; many units have wood-burning fireplaces. The ranch ...

Larry's Backyard: Fun Vacations Right In Your Own Backyard
KFMB - San Diego,CA,USA
... here in 1887 and built the original township of Palomar Mountain, which pretty ... For $125 a night, the dozen rustic cabins, built in the 1920s, provide all the ...

Council fights all way for cabins
Wisbech Standard - Wisbech,England,UK
IT should have been a formality but Fenland District Council had to fight all the way to win a battle with its own planning committee. ...

Countdown to cast election votes
BBC News - UK
... The remote nature of some parts of the country mean pubs, caravans and temporary cabins have served as polling stations for the day. ...

Open house for Mozingo cabins
Maryville Daily Forum - Maryville,MO,USA
On May 13 and 14, the City of Maryville will host an open house for the public to view the newly completed cabins at Mozingo Lake Park. ...

Dill doesn't want levy on cabins; wants talks in conference
Mesabi Daily News - Virginia,MN,USA
... His provision would allow counties to generate money by putting a levy on cabins, non-commercial forest lands and other seasonal recreational properties. ...

Outdoor museums offer visitors glimpse of past
Boston Herald - Boston,MA,USA
... Sixty-eight fully furnished buildings, from log cabins to Victorian mansions, re-create a 19th century village complete with villagers in traditional costume. ...

Kenai refuge taking cabin reservations
Kenai Peninsula Online - Kenai,AK,USA
The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge has instituted a reservation system for public-use cabins on the 2 million-acre refuge. The new ...

Lives Capsized in River
Los Angeles Times (subscription) - CA,USA
... It had been raining for days, and the rising waters had cut off the only road out of their remote cluster of cabins in San Dimas Canyon. ...

Great Smoky Mountains Railroad
Hospitality 1st (press release) - Cape Coral,FL,USA
The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper, the evergreen children's classic published by Penguin Young Readers Group, continues to be an inspirational and ...

Smokies Rich Mountain Rd. closed for repairs next week
WATE.com - Knoxville,TN,USA
GATLINBURG (AP) -- A primitive road in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park will be closed most of next week for repairs. The ...

Focus On Wildlife
Boothbay Register - Boothbay Harbor,ME,USA
... finalizing the driving travel itinerary for a trip to Alabama, I discovered that it brought me reasonably close to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in ...

Sunset cabin is a cottager's retreat
Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
... of flat ground where the owners positioned their Muskoka chairs to watch the sun go down became the inspiration and setting for a "sunset cabin" that's just ...

MUSKOKA LOG CABIN
Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
... cottage dollar. This cottage was built in the 1920s in traditional log-cabin style, and its charm is its period atmosphere. It's ...

Kenai refuge taking cabin reservations
Kenai Peninsula Online - Kenai,AK,USA
"The new reservation process is one result of an environmental assessment and the resulting Cabin Management Plan developed last year as a product of ...

Rural slave cabin will become subdivision community center
Business Gazette - Gaithersburg,MD,USA
A ceremony will be held on the history lesson and outline for the future of a slave cabin at 11 am Monday at 12510 Molly Berry Road, Upper Marlboro. ...

Lives Capsized in River
Los Angeles Times (subscription) - CA,USA
... to pass up. They eventually moved to the cabin full time and earned money through a Web design business from home. "Down the hill ...

Getting away from it - almost
Chicago Tribune (subscription) - Chicago,IL,USA
Three months to write a novel. Four weeks to escape city life in a secluded cabin. ... She decided to spend a month in a cabin in the woods. ...

Man sentenced to life in prison for 1993 murder
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer - Columbus,GA,USA
Nearly 14 years after retired Southern Bell executive Doyle P. Butler of Columbus was murdered in his Harris County cabin, his assailant pleaded guilty to ...

Expert: Plane valve failed
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
... of the charter jet, Sommer determined that a failed valve adapter left a three-inch breach near the front of the plane, causing its cabin to depressurize ...

Blaze destroys 2 boats stored at Point Place Value of gutted cabin ...
Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA
... large crowd of onlookers. The two boats that were destroyed were SeaRay cabin cruisers, between 35 and 40 feet long. They were on ...

Boeing Awards Additional 787 Contracts to JAMCO
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
... 787 is a family of three super-efficient airplanes that will provide passengers with a better flying experience, including an improved cabin environment with ...

Blue Ridge Mayor Arrested
WTVC - Chattanooga,TN,USA
... while attending the weekly events. The feds say the fights were held every Saturday night in Blue Ridge. Agent John Cagle of the ...

For a good cause
Anderson Independent Mail (subscription) - Anderson,SC,USA
... the community. The Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative realizes this, so it started the Blue Ridge Festival as a way to give back. Now ...

Pisgah Inn evacuated over fears of water supply contamination
Dateline Alabama - Birmingham,AL,USA
The scenic Pisgah Inn on the Blue Ridge Parkway won't be open for Mother's Day weekend because authorities evacuated it after someone broke into its water ...

Snowflake And Winslow Win Regional Golf Titles
AzJournal.com - Holbrook,AZ,USA
... As the North Region has only two teams, Winslow and Window Rock, and the East has only four, Holbrook, Snowflake, Show Low and Blue Ridge, officials of the two ...

Outdoors Calendar
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville,NC,USA
... Any woman residing in North Carolina or South Carolina who has ... Includes free touring kayak (sea kayak) lessons as well as free rentals out of our personal ...

Candito's death ends TNA star's long comeback struggle
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
... "Chris' problems have been well-documented," said Mantel, who first met Candito while both worked for Smoky Mountain Wrestling in the early 1990s. ...

Focus On Wildlife
Boothbay Register - Boothbay Harbor,ME,USA
... One shot makes the difference. It was the end of the third day, and time to pack up and leave the Smoky Mountain National Park. I ...

Chemical spill closes westbound lanes of Interstate 40 in ...
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville,NC,USA
ASHEVILLE - Westbound Interstate 40 between exits 55 and 53 in Asheville is closed while a Haz-Mat unit cleans up a chemical spill. ...

Prosecutor to Turn in County Car After Arrest
WLTX.com - Columbia,SC,USA
... called him yesterday and volunteered to turn in the Lincoln Town Car he was driving last week when he was pulled over by police in Asheville, North Carolina. ...

Lode again a musical mecca?
Union Democrat - Sonora,CA,USA
... and were both drawn to Angels Camp because of its well-known Mountain Aire festivals ... the RV resort, said all 44 RV spaces, 14 camping sites, five cabins and two ...

Rockin' at State Bridge
Vail Daily News - Vail,CO,USA
... their feet from the front porch hammocks and cars pull in the parking lot from nearby mountain towns to ... The lodge also rents nine cabins, 10 yurts and camping. ...

Chancellor visits Goldsboro on 'Carolina Connects' tour
Goldsboro News Argus - Goldsboro,NC,USA
The chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, James Moeser, was in Goldsboro on Thursday as part of a campaign to strengthen connections ...