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Hendersonville Life

Work under way on Sullivan Park upgrade

Crews began work Monday on a new playground at Sullivan Park in the Green Meadows community. After part of the current playground is removed start a new playground will be installed.   Read Story »

Flat Rock Life

Veteran cast of 'Separate Beds' like 'family coming home'

Flat Rock Playhouse is cooling off this summer with Separate Beds, a playful romantic comedy.   Read Story »

Hendersonville Life

MossColumn: Mourning two men who made us better

We take for granted today that the Historic Courthouse is a steadfast presence on Main Street — a majestic reminder of our past and a functional servant to our present as the seat of county government.   Read Story »

Hendersonville Life

Carolina Blue opens Music by the Lake at BRCC

Brevard-based Band Carolina Blue will perform at 7 p.m. Sunday, July 21, at Blue Ridge Community College to kick off the annual Music by the Lake summertime concert series.Formed in 2007 after the release of the album “Nothing So Blue” by Bobby Powell and Tim Jones, Carolina Blue won the South Carolina state bluegrass championship at RenoFest in 2011. Band members received their first Vocal Group of the Year Nomination at the 2018 SPBGMA Awards Show. They have appeared on the PBS TV show “Song of The Mountains” as well as “The Bluegrass Trail” series on RFDTV. The band’s repertoire consists of original songs, bluegrass favorites, and gospel.Band members are Bobby Powell on guitar and vocals, Timmy Jones on mandolin and vocals, Reese Combs on upright bass and vocals, James McDowell on banjo and vocals, as well as American and Canadian Grand Master Fiddle Champion, and fiddler Aynsley Porchak, winner of the 2018 International Bluegrass Music Association’s Momentum Instrumentalist Award.The concert is free and open to the public. The public is invited to bring lawn chairs to enjoy the music by the lake. In the event of inclement weather, the concert will be held in the Patton Building. Music by the Lake will continue with Carburetors on Aug. 4.   Read Story »

Hendersonville Life

LIGHTNING PHOTOS: Fourth of July parade celebrates America's birthday

Hundreds of people lined Main Street on Thursday for the annual Fourth of July parade, a flag-draped celebration of America's birthday.   Read Story »

Hendersonville Life

Here's the Fourth of July parade lineup

Parade-goers are invited to wear red, white and blue, wave flags and celebrate America's birthday at the Fourth of July parade at 11 a.m. Thursday on Main Street.   Read Story »

Hendersonville Life

Robin Tolleson, drummer, music journalist and mentor, dies suddenly

Robin Tolleson, a drummer, music journalist and generous sharer of his musical gifts through his church and programs to nurture young talent, died suddenly on Friday after collapsing on stage during a performance at Asheville's Downtown After Five concert series. He was 62.   Read Story »

Henderson County Life

Film profiles mountain river guardians

What if we could smell our local rivers long before we could see them? What if our legacy was dead streams, poisonous water and a dying ecosystem? This was the story of our community not very long ago. Mark Twain remarked that our rivers were “too thin to plow but too thick to drink” and that describes the French Broad River, the Pigeon, the Swannanoa, the Mills and the Green and many other regional waterways just a couple of decades ago. Industry brought better paying jobs to our community but they also brought pollution so toxic that it killed the fish, the cows and in some cases, the community where cancer rates were off the charts. Many people grew up believing that all rivers were supposed to be brown and smelly and distasteful. But enter the River Heroes who said no to the destruction. People like Wilma Dykeman in Western North Carolina and East Tennessee, Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Florida, the Upper French Broad Defense Association in North Carolina and the Dead Pigeon River Council in Tennessee.Their passion, their activism and their call to save our waterways awoke our communities to the need for river stewardship. The Center for Cultural Preservation, a History and Documentary Film Center, will release director David Weintraub’s new film on the ordinary people who did extraordinary things to protect southern rivers and streams. “Guardians of Our Troubled Waters,” the center’s sixth feature film that connects people to their rich cultural and natural history, will premiere at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 20, at Thomas Auditorium at Blue Ridge Community College, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 22, at the North Carolina Arboretum and 7:30 p.m. Sunday, June 23, at White Horse Black Mountain. Tickets are $15 and advanced reservations are strongly recommended by registering online at www.saveculture.org or calling the Center at (828) 692-8062. Music by Cherokee performer Matthew Tooni will open each screening and a Q&A with the director will follow the show.   Read Story »

Hendersonville Life

Don't miss this week's Hendersonville Lightning (211)

The Lightning is on the street.   Read Story »

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