Asheville, North Carolina

• Wrong-way driver in NC faces driving-while-impaired, other charges
  

  State troopers say a man drove at least 15 miles in the wrong direction on an interstate in western North Carolina before they stopped him and charged him with driving while impaired.

• Asheville Affiliates name beneficiaries for 2010
  

  Four lucky nonprofits will receive fundraising and event-planning assistance from the Asheville Affiliates, a volunteer group of young professionals.

• Barron's: Bring your money to Asheville
  

  People encouraged by firmer stock prices or Wall Street executives looking for somewhere to stash their big bonuses should consider buying a luxury second home in the area.

• New downtown Asheville Rotary Club seeking members
  

  Want to meet others in the early evening in downtown Asheville for business networking, socializing and the opportunity to participate in humanitarian public service opportunities in Western North Carolina and abroad? Then come find out more about a newly forming Rotary International club for downtown Asheville at an inaugural meeting at 5:30 p.m., ...

• Warm weather also start of air quality alerts for Asheville area
  

  Sunny skies and warm temperatures are a welcome sight after a cold, snowy winter, but they also signal the start of poor air quality days in the mountains.

• Two new Mexican restaurants now open in Asheville
  

  Two new Mexican restaurants have opened in Asheville. A South Asheville Papa's and Beer location has opened, joining three other locations in Western North Carolina of this local, family-owned and operated chain.

• Visit the Colburn Earth Science Museum in Asheville, NC for Something Different to Do
  

  It's a really fun and affordable thing to take the kids and do, or you yourself! Admission is only $6 for adults, $5 for students and kids between 4 and 17, and free for kids under 4 years of age.

• Backpacker Magazine: Asheville, Brevard among best places in U.S. to raise an outdoor kid
  

  Back in August 2009, Backpacker Magazine ranked Asheville #11 and Brevard #20 in the U.S. for best places to raise an outdoor kid.

• Kickin' Solutions in Asheville, NC
  

  As communications director for Summer of Solutions , I'm featuring every program to paint a picture of the diversity of solutions young people are building across the country.

• Asheville area children unite against hunger
  

  Like a well-oiled machine, the assembly line of kids and adults at Mission Children's Hospital set about the work of saving lives.

• Time notes growth of kidsa film fests in unlikely places, like Asheville
  

  Like Sundance for squirts, they exist to promote and cultivate the entertainment version of beets: vitamin-rich sustenance kids are not quite sure they want to consume, no matter how delicious their parents say it is.

• Sultry Diva Cabaret takes the stage at Asheville Community Theatre Friday
  

  From sultry to silly, from contemporary to classic, the performances in Diva Cabaret will be top notch at the Asheville Community Theatre.

• Veterans for Peace to hold open house March 14
  

  Full announcement below: On Sunday, March 14, from noon to 6:00pm, the Western North Carolina Chapter of Veterans For Peace will host an open house with entertainment, refreshments, and information at their new downtown Asheville headquarters at the Courtyard Gallery, 9 Walnut, 1-D . Chapter president Kim Carlyle explains, "Since President Obama's ...

• Fire at Turtle Creek Apartments in Asheville
  

  Firefighters responded to a fire this afternoon at Turtle Creek Apartments on Hendersonville Road.

• Orphan explorers: Kids take the stage in Asheville Community Theatre's 'The Boxcar Children'
  

  Lori Hilliard will be making her Asheville Community Theatre directorial debut this week with an especially young cast.

• GOP candidates spar at Asheville Tea Party debate
  

  With a clock tracking the U.S. national debt and 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' booming through speakers, about 300 members of the Asheville Tea Party gathered Friday to watch six Republican congressional hopefuls debate.

• 'Porgy & Bess' to close Asheville Bravo Concerts season
  

  Porgy & Bess, George and Ira Gershwin's powerful story set in a community of Gullah people outside Charleston, SC, is considered by many to be America's greatest achievement in musical theatre, and this year the show is celebrating its 75th Anniversary with an extraordinarily acclaimed touring production that will visit Asheville on Saturday, March ...

• Illegal drugs fuel school crime increase in Asheville, Buncombe schools
  

  Buncombe County and Asheville schools have seen an increase in school crime, fueled in part by persistent problems with illegal drugs, according to state figures released Thursday.

• Arrests: Asheville man charged with child sex crimes
  

  Police here charged an Asheville man with sexual offenses involving a child. John Leonard Davis, 39, of Brookdale Road, was charged with three counts of indecent liberties with a child, one count of first-degree sex offense with a child and attempted first-degree sex offense with a child.

City Description

Asheville is a city in and the county seat of Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. It is the largest city in Western North Carolina, and continues to grow. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that Asheville's population in 2008 was 78,543. Asheville is a part of the four-county Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area, the population of which was estimated by the Census Bureau in 2008 to be 408,436. Before the arrival of Europeans, the land where Asheville now exists lay within the boundaries of the Cherokee Nation. In 1540, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto came to the area, bringing the first European visitors in addition to European diseases which seriously depleted the native population. The area was used as an open hunting ground until the middle of the 19th century. The history of Asheville, as a town, begins in 1784. In that year, Colonel Samuel Davidson and his family settled in the Swannanoa Valley, redeeming a soldier's land grant from the state of North Carolina. Soon after building a log cabin at the bank of Christian Creek, Davidson was lured into the woods by a band of Cherokee hunters and killed. Davidson's wife, child and female slave fled on foot to

City Contained By:

• Buncombe County
• North Carolina

City Contains:

• Biltmore Estate
• Warren Wilson College
• Asheville High School
• Montford Area Historic District
• Asheville School
• McCormick Field
• Thomas Wolfe House
• Center for Jewish Studies at University of North Carolina
• Ravenscroft School
• Grove Park Inn
• Clarence Barker Memorial Hospital
• Biltmore Shoe Store
• Biltmore-Oteen Bank Building
• McGeahy Building
• Samuel Harrison Reed House
• Biltmore Estate Office
• Biltmore Village Commercial Buildings
• Biltmore Village Cottage District
• Biltmore Village Cottages
• Southern Railway Passenger Depot
• All Souls Episcopal Church and Parish House
• Richmond Hill House
• Dr. Carl V. Reynolds House
• Buncombe County Courthouse
• B & B Motor Company Building
• Inc. Biltmore Industries
• Building at 140 Biltmore Avenue
• Building at 134-136 1/2 Biltmore Avenue
• Building at 130-132 Biltmore Avenue
• Conabeer Chrysler Building
• E. D. Latta Nurses' Residence
• George A. Mears House
• Manor and Cottages
• Arcade Building
• Sawyer Motor Company Building
• Schoenberger Hall
• Young Men's Institute Building
• St. Matthias Episcopal Church
• Zealandia
• Church of St. Lawrence
• Richbourg Motors Building
• Overlook
• Smith-McDowell House
• Douglas Ellington House
• Downtown Asheville Historic District
• Downtown Asheville Historic District
• Eliada Home
• William Jennings Bryan House
• Battery Park Hotel
• St. Luke's Episcopal Church
• Kenilworth Inn
• Azkona Corporate HQ
• T.C. Roberson High School
• St. Mary's Episcopal Church

Timezones:

• North American Eastern Time Zone

Size:

• 106.966508957 km squared

Sports Teams:

• Asheville Aces
• Asheville Smoke

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