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ASHEVILLE : The Asheville Guide AshevilleNC.com has introduced two new sections this week. The press section has archived local copies off all ashevillenc press releases and they now offer an Asheville News section as well...

Officer says drunk driver ran over his foot
Wednesday Nov 22. Asheville Citizen Times
ASHEVILLE - A sheriff's deputy whose foot was run over Tuesday charged a Canton man with assault with a deadly weapon on a government official. . .

A tale of the tree that got away
Yakima Herald-Republic - Yakima,WA,USA
.. The moment had finally come as the Joneses arrived in the mountains
and began their ... folks at the ranger station are making a day of it, with
Smokey Bear -- or ..

Central Elementary PTA Announces Reflections Winners
Rockbridge Weekly - Lexington,VA,USA
.. In fifth grade, Lacey Ruff, “The Beach,” 1st place; Cathy Kesler, “Great Smokey Mountains,” 2nd place; and Rachel Morris, “The Prince William County ...

Man charged with BB gun robbery
Wednesday Nov 22. Asheville Citizen-Times
ASHEVILLE - He is said to have used a BB gun and made away with $33, but Christopher Jordan Mattox still is charged with armed robbery.

Key to fly fishing is the fly
Mission City Record - B.C., Canada
Last week we established that you don't have to use a fly rod to fish with flies and that fly fishing encompasses every possible method of presentation from ...

A Day In The Life Of A Fly Fishing Guide
Reuters - USA
By Ed Stoddard - Ken Cole, 54, is a Dallas-based angling guide and fly fishing instructor. His favored ...

Giving Tree returns to mall
Wednesday Nov 22. Asheville Citizen-Times
ASHEVILLE - What is 22 feet high, and benefits hundreds of needy families and individuals in our region? It's the Ingles Giving Tree.

22-year-old dies in Northeast Kingdom camp fire
Boston Globe - United States
. . The blaze broke out late Wednesday in a wooden cabin on Town Line Road and had fully engulfed the building by the time Craftsbury Fire Department members . . .

Man dies in cabin fire
KTVA - Anchorage,AK,USA
AP. A man died Wednesday night in Fairbanks after his rented cabin caught fire. Fire officials say they received a call from the ...

Canadian cabin owners sued over deaths of 3 American tourists
Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
CANTON, Ohio (AP) - An Ohio woman whose husband and son
died in a remote fishing cabin in northern Ontario blames
their deaths on carbon monoxide that leaked ...

Tourists flock to Kaziranga despite unrest
Telugu Portal - Hyderabad,Andhra Pradesh,India
... Apart from several government-run accommodations, a number
of resorts and decent lodging facilities have come up in recent
years, managed by local entrepreneurs

NC Supreme Court says closed meeting not a violation
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte, NC, USA
ASHEVILLE NC - Two local governments have won a 2 1/2 year dispute over water negotiations that shut out the public. The Nc

Asheville to slow growth
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC, USA
ASHEVILLE — The city will scale back its annexation policy for 2007, working more to fill in holes and not including manufacturers in immediate plans to ...

SAVING SCENIC SLOPES: Buncombe approves $1.9 million for ...
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC, USA
ASHEVILLE — Buncombe County commissioners stepped into uncharted territory Tuesday with a unanimous vote to spend nearly $2 million to help buy conservation ...

BRIEFS: Staples draws protest
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC, USA
by Compiled by Mark Barrett. A group protested Asheville’s application of its zoning rules Tuesday outside the Merrimon Avenue Staples office supply store. ...

DOT needs to get I-26 right
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC, USA
The impact the Interstate 26 connector will have on the city of Asheville could be greatly enhanced by the attention the road’s design is getting from a ...

Buncombe Sheriff Duncan names his staff
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC, USA
... COM. ASHEVILLE — Buncombe County sheriff’s deputies got letters Tuesday telling them whether they would have a job Dec. 4. There

Many Sylva building owners support downtown tax
Waynesville Smoky Mountain News - Waynesville, NC, USA
... about 7:40 pm, Rudd said. The 14. grand marshals are the Smoky Mountain Pee Wee Cracker Bowl Champs. “We just felt because of their ...

Cook dominating the links for WCU
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC, USA
... His competitiveness drove Cook to four Smoky Mountain Conference Player of the Year honors and the NCHSAA Class 1-A title as a junior at Murphy High.

Art briefs
Waynesville Smoky Mountain News - Waynesville, NC, USA
... The shop, located just west of Waynesville on the Great Smoky Mountain Expressway, features the locally produced pottery of six members of the John Dodson

Aspen and Snowmass Mountains Open for the Winter Season on ...
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
... season. ResortQuest offers Aspen vacation rentals for visitors. ... logos. Every fifth cabin is red and every other red cabin allows pets.

Food bank started 25 years ago
Clarke Times Courier - Berryville,VA,USA
Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Network, with warehouse operations in Winchester, Lynchburg, Charlottesville and Verona and 400 food relief members serving more than ...

Blue Ridge Celebrates 36th Birthday
ISRIA (subscription) - Washington,DC,USA
Blue Ridge Celebrates 36th Birthday Navy NewsStand Story Number: NNS061121-17 Release Date: 11/21/2006 5:01:00 PM By Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class ...

A Holiday Turkey At Blue Ridge (Landfill Controversy Brewing)
FortBendNow - Richmond,TX,USA
... Development Corp. in Pedro Ruiz’s courtroom, but of the brewing controversy at the BFI Blue Ridge Landfill. Recently several local . . .

Book excerpt: The Law of Dreams
Montreal Gazette - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
... Carmichael’s subtenants lived in cabins on the mountain, each family with their cabin, their pig, their allotment of potato ground. ...

Deer season wait nearly over
Chambersburg Public Opinion - Chambersburg,PA,USA
... and new orange, according to Tim Alleman, archery manager at Gander Mountain, Chambersburg . . ... State Forest district forester James Smith said the cabins leased year ...

Planning a holiday reunion
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
... Norwegian Cruise Line’s newest ships have cabins that can be configured to create a ... are held at the YMCA Estes Park Center and at Snow Mountain Ranch near ...

The Out Traveler: Finding gay Vietnam
PlanetOut - San Francisco,CA,USA
... hillside overlooking Xuan Huong Lake in the heart of this charming mountain village. ... Hanoi, 011-84-4-934-0888) is a replica steamer with 39 cabins designed to ...

A revelation: Sensational beaches on Anguilla
News & Star - Carlisle,Cumbria,UK
... embellished with polished wood and brass, echoed in the cosy cabins where every ... The perfect tropical island, Virgin Gorda has lush mountain forests rising from ...

Renovating recess
Columbia Missourian - Columbia,MO,USA
Kristofer Larson has some changes in mind for the kindergarten playground at Blue Ridge Elementary School. “I want a bigger slide,” the 5-year-old said.

Two more robberies linked to suspect
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC. USA
ASHEVILLE – Authorities have charged Dale Henry Hooper with two armed robberies in Leicester and Candler, bringing the number of robberies he's charged with ...

Anthony Lapham, 70; was CIA's top lawyer
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... died of a heart attack Nov. 11 while trout fishing on the Cane River near Asheville, NC He was 70. Lapham was the third general ...

Face it folks: We're pretty darn irregular out here in Asheville
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC, USA
by John Boyle, Columnist. Maybe this is what's wrong with Asheville: We're all just seriously clogged up. The Asheville-Greenville ...

Blue Ridge Entrepreneurial Council Executive Director leaves ...
TechJournal South (press release) - Research Triangle Park,NC,USA
The Blue Ridge Entrepreneurial Council is an organization created to help facilitate entrepreneurship in Western North Carolina. ...

Weather Delays School Openings In Western NC
WXii - Winston-Salem, NC, USA
ASHEVILLE, NC -- Weather is delaying the start of a short school week in portions of western North Carolina. Watauga County Schools ...

Death row inmate wants to fire attorneys, expedite execution
Wilmington Morning Star - Wilmington,NC,USA
ASHEVILLE. NC | A death row inmate who wants to fire his attorneys and expedite his execution must undergo a psychiatric evaluation before a judge will make a ...

NC gas prices lower, air travel costs higher for Thanksgiving
WHNS - USA
... weekend. That's up 3 percent from last year. Currently, motorists in Asheville are paying the most on average at 2.25 a gallon. The ...

County seeks to preserve views, land with conservation easements
Myrtle Beach Sun News - Myrtle Beach,SC,USA
... to approve spending almost $2 million to help pay for conservation easements on 1,212 acres of land, mostly in the rugged Sandy Mush area southeast of Asheville ...

Top court will not hear Citizen-Times open meetings lawsuit ...
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC, USA
ASHEVILLE – The NC Supreme Court has denied a petition from the Asheville Citizen-Times over an open meetings case against the city and Buncombe County. ...

Planning board: The Cliffs' Swannanoa project not required to meet ...
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC, USA
ASHEVILLE – The Cliffs will not have to follow new steep-slope requirements for a Swannanoa development proposed on nearly 1,300 acres, according to today's ...

A&T takes first victory with a Rush
Greensboro News Record - Greensboro,NC,USA
... taking shots. Rush, who transferred from UNC Asheville to NC A&T, had to sit out last season to comply with NCAA rules. Once he ...

Business briefs
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC .USA
ASHEVILLE — Tom Hunnicutt Jr., general manager of Gasperson Moving and Storage, was honored as the North Carolina Mover of the Year this weekend during the ...

Behind the scenes, a zoning plan is forming once again
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC. USA
by Peggy Bennett. Way back in 1998, when Buncombe County commissioners were trying to get a land use plan implemented for the county ...

First NC case of rabies in a ferret found in Buncombe County
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC. USA
... County ferret was found with the disease, the first ever documented in North Carolina. ... check back on the Asheville Citizen-Times.

NC gas prices lower, air travel costs higher for Thanksgiving
Myrtle Beach Sun News - Myrtle Beach,SC,USA
... The highest gas prices in North Carolina were found in Asheville at $2.25 per gallon, while the cheapest price of $2.16 was found in Winston-Salem. ...

Gasperson honored as Mover of the Year
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC, USA
ASHEVILLE - Gasperson Moving and Storage was honored as the North Carolina Mover of the Year this weekend during the 52nd fall conference of the North Carolina ...

NC Gas Prices Lower, Flight Costs Higher
WXii 12.com - Winston-Salem, NC. USA
RALEIGH, NC -- Holiday gasoline prices mean you can go over the river and through ... Currently, motorists in Asheville are paying the most on average at $2.25 a ...

Little adds can have big effect on feast
South Bend Tribune - South Bend,IN,USA
The trip down to the gingerbread house contest in Asheville, NC. is all but done, and I didn't get arrested for knocking over the winning entry. ...

Former CIA counsel dies of heart attack
United Press International - USA
20 (UPI) -- A former general counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency, Anthony Abbot Lapham, has died of a heart attack while fishing near Asheville, NC. ...

NC Death Row Wants To Expedite Execution
WXii 12.com - Winston-Salem, NC, USA
ASHEVILLE, NC -- A death row inmate in Asheville wants to fire his attorneys and expedite his execution. But a judge won't grant ...

Blue Ridge Entrepreneurial Council Executive Director leaves ...
TechJournal South: NC, USA
The Blue Ridge Entrepreneurial Council is an organization created to help facilitate entrepreneurship in Western North Carolina. ...

Weather Delays School Openings In Western NC
WXii 12.com - Winston-Salem, NC, USA
ASHEVILLE, NC -- Weather is delaying the start of a short school week in portions of western North Carolina. Watauga County Schools ...

WNC soccer players named to all-state team
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC, USA
by STAFF REPORTS. RALEIGH – Five high school players from Western North Carolina have been named to the NC Soccer Coaches Association all-state team. ...

Louisville joins women's basketball poll
Houston Chronicle - United States
... North Carolina (3-0) routed Elon 90-36 in its only game and received one ... Santa Barbara on Friday, then have games against Xavier, Kentucky and Western Kentucky ...

Rematch Awaits Texas A&M
ESPN - USA
... Florida State even knocked off North Carolina in the quarterfinals after surviving a barrage of 31 ... road trip, which is starting to do to the western half of ...

Norwegian Coastal Voyage Makes More Cabins On Antarctica Sailings ...
TravelVideo.tv (press release) - USA
... Antarctica, South Georgia and the Falkland Islands" expedition cruises just got easier to book with the company's decision to make more cabins available for ...

Flying in comfort: Top of the classes
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom
... actually making money, a fact acknowledged by British Airways' chief executive Willie Walsh last week when he said that the airline's premium cabins "are our ...

Dukes Face North. Ill. in 1st of 2 This Week
Broncos Illustrated - USA
... The NIU game is the second of three games in six days for the Dukes who defeated UNC Asheville, 77-76, at home on Saturday night. ... UNC Asheville (23-18). ...

Water, baby supplies among needs after tornado
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC,US
ASHEVILLE – Hearts with Hands took two truckloads of supplies to a tornado-stricken part of eastern North Carolina, and the Asheville relief group isn't ...

Men's Basketball: Jackson gives Dukes some staying power
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... Duquesne: Coming off a 77-76 victory against North Carolina-Asheville in which Scott Grote made two free throws with 1.3 seconds remaining. ... ...

Little, Rams agree to contract terms
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC,US
... The Asheville native said Sunday he has agreed to a three-year contract extension that could be worth more than $28 million. The ...

Extra Point - Playoff Selections: Treasures for Montana
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
... After losing the season opener at North Carolina State, the Mountaineers won their final ... well and finished the year with 236 yards against Western Kentucky in ...

Flood relief in limbo
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC,USA
... The change means the rate of buyouts in the county — the hardest hit area in Western North Carolina — will drop from an average of eight a month to two ...

Snow eases into the mountains
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC,USA
Snow slipped into Western North Carolina Sunday night, delivering some areas a dusting and higher elevations enough to pack a snowball. ...

Hampton-Garland helps bring College for Everyone to Greene County ...
Kinston Free Press - Kinston,NC,USA
... After one successful three-day trek through colleges in western North Carolina, word of mouth has spread and Hampton-Garland no longer senses hesitation among ...

The long way home
Barre Montpelier Times Argus - Barre,VT,USA
... Henry David Thoreau’s diary of simple living, “Walden.” The next night, he announced he had quit his job so the family could move north to a cabin in the ...

Log cabin to become focal point of project
South Bend Tribune - South Bend,IN,USA
(AP) -- A 150-year-old log cabin was moved last weekend to the grounds of an old state hospital, where it will become the focal point of a new garden project. ...

Historic relics abound in cabin
Aiken Standard (subscription) - Aiken,SC,USA
.. right behind his home. He has built from scratch a log cabin, barn, sugar cane mill and a Confederate museum. With lots of added ...

Woman's string of bad luck in the air continues
WHDH-TV - Boston,MA,USA
... her workplace from the air and ended up in a cemetery when the pilot had to make an emergency landing around 2:30 am when a puff of blue smoke filled the cabin ...

found dead in hunting cabin
The Reporter - Fond du Lac,WI,USA
TOWN OF HARDING -- The Lincoln County Sheriff's Department is investgating the deaths of two men at a town of Harding cabin Friday, the eve of the gun deer ...

Property transfers
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA
... $260,000. Smoky Mountain Drive, 3421, Amy O. and Christopher J. Lunsford et al. to David L. and Suzanne V. Stewart, $101,000. Somersly ...

Canadian, Japanese planes hit turbulence in separate incidents; 6 ...
International Herald Tribune - France
... Four of the 11 cabin attendants, all Canadians, were injured when the Boeing 767 hit turbulence about an hour after leaving Shanghai, said airport police ...

The show must grow on
Providence Journal - Providence,RI,USA
... With the card, you can get a room at the Providence Biltmore for $129, a significant discount. ... Those have been attracting about half the house. ...

Arts Calendar
Winston-Salem Journal (subscription) - Winston-Salem,NC,USA
... REYNOLDA HOUSE MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, 2250 Reynolda Road: Through Dec. ... ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL, 11 Biltmore Ave., Asheville: In the Boardroom Gallery ...

A Halloween spent collecting for others
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
... 12 with its annual open house sponsored by the Merchants' Association.Sixteen businesses ... Next on the itinerary is a one-night trip to the Biltmore Estate in ...

Is Williams watching for Dems' `corruption'?
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
... Mr. Hastings, then a federal judge, was impeached by the (Democratic) House and removed ... the population has gotten out of control, such as Biltmore Forest, such ...

Curbing illegal immigration
The State - Columbia,SC,USA
... Cromer represents Newberry and Saluda counties, which have seen an influx of thousands of immigrants coming to work in the poultry industry. ...

Police think ring stolen from body during viewing at funeral home
The Times and Democrat - Orangeburg,SC,USA
SALUDA, SC - Police think someone slipped a class ring off the body of a prominent doctor during a funeral home viewing Sunday. ...

Dinner a la Dickens on a mountaintop
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
The Thompsons, proprietors of the Orchard Inn on a mountaintop in Saluda, are sharing a family holiday tradition with guests. They ...

Five Points visitors enjoy free parking
The State - Columbia,SC,USA
... “It’s working like we thought it would,” said Randy Dennis, manager of 2G’s Clothing Co. on Saluda Avenue. “Traffic has been good.”. ...

Touted task force has some critics
Roanoke Times - Roanoke,VA,USA
... Undercover officers with the federally funded Blue Ridge Thunder unit often pose online as young girls, casting a wide net for men who see the Internet as a ...

A fine line
Sunday Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
and one of them is fly fishing. Here are some of the best places to go. ... The Arundell Arms has been teaching fly-fishing for more than 60 years. ...

A hard day's fishing on the Cumberland
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
... regular. Lord is a Louisville native who now lives in Maine, where he's the head instructor for the LL Bean Fly Fishing School. He ...

Which fly should you use?
Kamloops This Week - BC, Canada
... their wings on the surface. Dry fly fishing with adult mayfly patterns is an ethereal art form unto itself. I could watch a good ...

HFTP installs new executive commmittee and board
Hotel & Motel Management Magazine - Cleveland,OH,USA
... executive IT Manager for The Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa in Asheville, NC Price ... Director Karl A. Munster, CPA, CHAE is director of finance for HRI Lodging, Inc ...

What's new on the slopes in the best of the West
Chicago Tribune - United States
... Breckenridge initiates gondola service from parking to Peak 7 and 8 bases, Snowmass opens a new Elk Camp Gondola, and Aspen Mountain features new cabins on the ...

A hostage to the seasons
Vancouver Sun (subscription) - British Columbia, Canada
... deep against the walls, welcomed as insulation that kept the cabins snug -- so ... of 1806, the cold was intense, so bitter that at Rocky Mountain Portage House ...

If You Go
Hartford Courant - United States
Rates per person for 2007 season: Cabin, Sunday through Friday: Appalachian Mountain Club members, $100 for adults ... Cabins supplied with firewood and jug water. ...

Splendidly Snowbound
Hartford Courant - United States
... From the cabins it is about 1.4 miles to Laurie's Lookout, a vantage point part way up the mountain where there are views of North Little Lyford Pond, South ...

No visitors means businesses suffer A first look at storm-tossed ...
TheNewsTribune.com (subscription) - Tacoma,WA,USA
... She has five cabins, and they usually are booked on weekends with romantic-getaway ... Kennard said melting glaciers on the mountain made the 17.9 inches of rain ...

Inside Halong Bay's lost world
NEWS.com.au - Australia
... Its 10 cabins resemble the inside of a very good hotel, with king-sized beds ... inside makes you feel you are walking into the inside of a mountain – it's huge. ...

ALL ABOARD FOR AN AMAZING MOUNTAIN RAIL TRIP IN CANADA
Sunday Mirror - UK
... You stay in the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge that has luxurious lakeside cabins in a mountain setting that has been visited by everyone from the Queen to the ...

Three drilling rigs go after spill near Crystal Mountain
TheNewsTribune.com (subscription) - Tacoma,WA,USA
... occupants of at least four vacation cabins in the area, he said. So far, no damage to salmon has been documented. For updates on the Crystal Mountain oil spill ...

Corn growers face tough lodging problems
Palladium-Item - Richmond,IN,USA
With more than 30 percent of Ohio's corn crop not yet harvested, some growers across the state may face significant lodging problems. ...

Other Tahoe resorts also unveil new lifts, lodging, terrain
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
A new high-speed, six-passenger Doppelmayr chair lift that will open up new and improved ski runs will be the most tangible evidence this winter of Northstar-at ...

White Lodging Services celebrates renovation award for its ...
Hotel & Motel Management Magazine - Cleveland,OH,USA
CHICAGO, IL - November 14, 2006 -The Marriott Chicago Midway Airport's management company, White Lodging Services, was recently honored with Marriott ...