Happy Feet
Clogging has been as much a part of Appalachian culture as bluegrass music and family feuding, but for the Orr family of Mills River…
Read MoreClogging has been as much a part of Appalachian culture as bluegrass music and family feuding, but for the Orr family of Mills River…
Read MoreWherever we live, there are birds. From the pigeons roosting on New York skyscrapers to the cardinals and sparrows that visit backyard feeders, birds…
Read MoreBill Stokes considers himself to be a champion for underdogs. On June 19, some of those underdogs will say thank you in a big…
Read More“You always start something hoping it will last,” says Jennifer Pickering, “but you don’t really know if it will.” Pickering organized the first Lake…
Read MoreFor a town that already hosts the Brewgrass Festival, The Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands and The Asheville Gun Show, it’s hard to…
Read MoreStudents stand in stillness as the teachers welcome them. Following the instructors’ lead, they begin moving together in a graceful and fluid motion, breathing…
Read MoreWhen U.S. Marine and Henderson County resident Jessie Cassada lost his life in Afghanistan, the care packages his family and friends sent to him…
Read MoreBefore her 19th birthday, Gwynn Kellar performed ballet for U.S. troops throughout much of Europe, exchanged pleasantries with diminutive actor Mickey Rooney, and had…
Read MoreFor 27 years, she used a notebook as a Times-News reporter to record the stories of the county and its people. Today, Jenny Jones…
Read MoreIf you were an American kid in the early ’60s, Christmas went one of two ways: you either had a super-sparkly aluminum Christmas tree…
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