Filling a Need
Almost 200 Henderson County children have been identified by administrators at their schools as being “food insecure,” i.e., lacking consistent quality nutrition at home….
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A Prodigy and a Delicacy
There are teens out there who’ve never heard of a truffle, much less have the desire to grow the fungal delicacy. They have something…
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Brewing Ahead of the Boom
Students looking to get their feet wet within the brewing industry don’t have to venture outside the south-mountain region thanks to the Brewing, Distillation…
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Embroidering on a Theme
Since 1996, the number of North Carolina textile and apparel plants has decreased by 40 percent, per a Duke University study. Made in WNC,…
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Baseball Bat Company Branches Out
Baseball and beer go hand in hand, so it only makes sense to drink your next cold one from the barrel of a wooden…
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The Raspberry Beret Effect
The abrupt death of Prince two years ago had fans of all ages in deep mourning. But now might be the time to break…
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Shedding Light on the Dark Corner
Dean Campbell is the world’s leading authority on the history of a region that, for more than 175 years, no visitor was actually able…
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Fairy gardens can make you feel warm year round
The flowering crocus, daffodils, and Bradford pear trees seem to promise that this unusually cold winter is finally over. But then again, Western North…
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Field recorder carries his vast collection to a local stage
Lee Knight isn’t a direct heir of the late Lomaxes — John and his son Alan, whose ethnomusicology prompted the folk revival beginning in…
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Mountaineering film fest honors the extreme
It’s not like we don’t have plenty of our own adventurers in these parts. After all, the Canada-based Banff Mountain Film Festival travels all…
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Americana bigwigs Gillian Welch and David Rawlings wrote “Acony Bell,” one of their earliest songs, and titled their recording company — Acony Records —…
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Nonprofit puts a warm-fuzzy face on a local law enforcement
There’s a saying in show business often misattributed to the classic Hollywood actor W. C. Fields: “Never work with children or animals.” Those universally…
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