Three-Season Secret
Polk County native Dawn Jordan is her home region’s Agricultural Economic Development Director. The local government’s ag office and nonprofits such as Growing Rural…
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In the Moment, for the Past
Saluda’s Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration, with its distinctive square steeple and Carpenter Gothic details, has been a local landmark since the building was…
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Purring Door Prizes and Rabid Groupies
Flat Rock resident Georgia Bonesteel has written 10 books on quilting, was the founding president of the Western North Carolina Quilters Guild, and has…
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Come as You Are
“We needed a place just to sing,” says Laura Miklowitz. Her love of music rivals her passion for the outreach efforts of the Hendersonville…
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Opening Arguments
When the golden-domed Historic Henderson County Courthouse on Main Street opened in 1905, the North Carolina Supreme Court had been convening in Raleigh for…
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“The Reward of a Living Wage” — 100 Years Later
“If a country is justified in rewarding its heroic pioneers,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumna Ellen Swallow Richards wrote in her 1907 report, Desirable…
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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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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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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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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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