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![Options to serve the small base of Etowah sewer customers include a new treatment plant or sending the effluent to existing plants operated by the Buncombe-based Metropolitan Sewer District or the city of Hendersonville. [HENDERSON COUNTY ENGINEER]](/images/stories/2026/07/EtowahOptions.jpeg)
News
County faces wide funding gap in addressing Etowah sewer service
Henderson County’s decision to buy the Etowah Sewer Co. is looking less and less like a sound financial deal. Read Story »
Four Seasons Politics
Trump pardons local mechanic who sold devices to evade clean-air law
Just before the Fourth of July weekend, President Donald Trump issued a presidential pardon to a Hendersonville mechanic who was convicted in 2022 of violating the Clean Air Act. The pardon came alongside 10 others, most of them also Clean Air Act violators around the country. Read Story »
![Beachgoers returned last month to Lake Lure, which was refilled earlier this year for the first time since Hurricane Helene in September 2024. This is its first season open to tourists since then. [WALKER LIVINGSTON/Carolina Public Press]](/images/stories/2026/07/IMG_8634-scaled.jpg)
Business
Lake Lure celebrates return of tourism
Driving into town from the west on the steep and winding U.S. 64, signs appear in Chimney Rock Village that read “Raise the Rock.” Then, around the bend when the road reaches Lake Lure, the lake is full for the first time since Tropical Storm Helene, 21 months ago. Read Story »
News
City holds line on property tax, orders pay study
The city of Hendersonville is holding off on a property tax increase this year while signaling that the rate is likely go up a year from now. Read Story »
Your Town
NHHS graduate headlines Rhythm & Brews next week
Country music artist Canaan Cox will headline Rhythm & Brews on Thursday, July 16, in downtown Hendersonville with local band Highway 52 opening the show. Read Story »
Four Seasons Politics
Trump pardons local mechanic who sold devices to evade clean-air law
Bar again sanctions Edney, six-term county commissioner, for ethics violations
Community News
NHHS graduate headlines Rhythm & Brews next week
LOCAL BRIEFS: BRCC leaders, railroad club Fourth of July event, SkillsUSA winners, cadet honored
News
State regulators OK city GO bonds, Carolina Village borrowing
The state Local Government Commission on Tuesday authorized the $10 million road improvement bond issue Hendersonville city voters approved on March 3 and gave the green light to Carolina Village's plan to issue $50 million in revenue bonds. Read Story »
News
Parade celebrates America’s 250th birthday and small-town life
Hendersonville celebrated America’s 250th birthday Saturday with a bustling red, white and blue parade down Main Street. Read Story »
Flat Rock News
Flat Rock receives FEMA funding for creek repair
The Village of Flat Rock recently received $356,810 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to cover village expenses for damage repair at King Creek alongside The Park at Flat Rock. Read Story »
Work under way to rebuild catastrophically damaged Green River Cove Road
Roundabout work to close parts of Ecusta Trail starting today
BROADLY SPEAKING: County has rich history of duels
LOCAL BRIEFS: American Story, Trackside Treasures, Positive Parenting grant
FIRECRACKER HOT: Dangerous heat here for the holiday
New Main Street fountain ‘up and running’ in time for America 250 celebration
Sheriff’s deputies charge man with first-degree murder in Corn Mountain Road shooting
Victim, 15, in stable condition after shooting at Cook Out
