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Culture

20 birds to look and listen for this season

From the American Goldfinch to the Carolina Wren — these avians can be found all around the area.

April 23, 2024

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Brook Bolen

Flowers in risers with a statue in the background. A close-up of a large purple flower. A person taking a photo of a rising bed of flowers.

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Frolic among flowers at Bloom with a View

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A high shot overlooking green farmland, trees, and in the distance, mountains of Warren Wilson College campus.

Travel and Outdoors

Warren Wilson College votes to establish four conservation easements

The easements, in partnership with the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy, will cover 600 acres of the campus.

April 23, 2024

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Molly Wilson

A group of artists poses for a photo in front of a mural.

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How craft improves community well-being

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Exterior of the Story Parlor building with the Memory Quilt event on the marquee

Arts

Story Parlor celebrates two years as a sanctuary for the arts

The creative space is a home for partners like Asheville Fringe Arts Festival, Bilingual Birdies, The Campfireball, and many more.

April 22, 2024

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Grace Powers

Rows of plants at a booth from Bluff Mountain Nursery as people walk around tables.

Culture

Growing a community at the 34th Annual Asheville Herb Festival

For decades, this annual festival has celebrated the farmers and gardeners and growers who call WNC home.

April 19, 2024

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Molly Wilson

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🚴‍♂️ 3 reasons Columbia is an outdoor enthusiast’s playground

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Roberto Carlos Lange (known as Helado Negro) in a yellow shirt with black dots and lines, putting on round sunglasses with white rims.

Music

Helado Negro’s homage to Asheville’s great outdoors

The Asheville-based singer-songwriter is set to take the stage at Eulogy this weekend, performing tracks from his latest release, “PHASOR.”

April 18, 2024

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Grace Powers

Five rotating images of Highland beer, the owners, and crowds enjoying the brewery.

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Celebrate Highland Brewing’s 30th with a week-long party

This week-long community celebration features a little bit of everything — and a whole lot of beer.

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A scrapbook page with eight old photos of people in the 1930s and 1940s

History

Preservation progress with the Black Asheville History Project

Five years after the project began, the Buncombe County Special Collections team is continuing its work of safeguarding the history of African American Ashevillians.

April 17, 2024

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Molly Wilson