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- The Artisan Coffee & Wine Bar opens in Black Mountain
BLACK MOUNTAIN The Artisan Coffee & Wine Bar has opened off Highway 9 in Black Mountain.
- Community benefits and fundraisers: BakPak fundraiser to help feed kids
The Mountain Shag Club is hosting a second fundraiser for the Hearts with Hands BakPak Program at 7 p.m. Saturday.
- Arrests: Sex offender charged with failing to verify address
Sheriff's deputies charged a convicted sex offender with failing to return an address verification notice.
- Aldermen angry over Sobol letter
Four members of the Town of Black Mountain Board of Aldermen criticized their counterpart, alderman Mike Sobol, at Monday's meeting for writing a letter they believe might jeopardize the town's chances of obtaining a grant to pay for new firefighters.
- NC Bank Directors Assembly Liveblog
The N.C. Bankers Association is hosting its annual Bank Directors Assembly at the airport Marriott in Greensboro this week.
- Sewell Sillman: A new wave artist
Sewell Sillman in 1963, installing a mural based on his "wave drawings" in Paul Rudolph's Art and Architecture Building at Yale University.
- Sunday, March 7th at 1 p.m. at the Town Pump Tavern in Black Mountain, NC
Though her prognosis is good, she still has a long road ahead to complete recovery.
- Blues great Mac Arnold plays tonight in Black Mountain.
Mac Arnold plays blues the old-school way - right from the heart. Arnold and his band Plate Full of Blues do it right tonight at White Horse Black Mountain, 105 Montreat Road.
- Philanthropist Gene Lummus dies
Gene Lummus, one of the driving forces behind an annual motorcycle run that collected thousands of toys for needy children, died Friday after a battle with cancer.
- The snowstorm has begun
A winter storm that could drop 2-4 inches of snow across much of Western North Carolina began earlier than expected.
- Geology students get look at I-40 rock slide
JD Jorgesen was ready to go to work as he looked up at the towering rock slide on Interstate 40.
- Acoustic concert set for Saturday in Black Mountain
STAFF REPORTS * communitynews@citizen-times.com * published February 26, 2010 7:30 am BLACK MOUNTAIN At 7:30 p.m. Saturday, the Black Mountain Center for the Arts will present in concert Red June, an acoustic Americana band with Will Straughan, Natalya Weinstein and John Cloyd Miller.
- Black Mountain woman arrested on fugitive warrant
Deputies arrested a Black Mountain woman wanted in South Carolina on drug charges.
- This weekend on a shoestring
Thursday, Feb. 25 Mixed media artist and sculptor Loren Schwerd gives a lecture as part of The UNC Asheville Craft Studies Program 's Meet the Maker series.
- Arrests: Swannanoa man charged with statutory rape
Police charged a Swannanoa man with statutory rape. Steven Gray Reece, 21, of Summer Street, was charged by Black Mountain police with statutory rape of a minor between 13-15 years old, according to the arrest warrant served Tuesday.
- Black Mountain man charged with intimidating witness
Deputies say a Black Mountain man threatened a witness in a court case. Jackie Alan Maynor, 25, of Sunset Drive, was charged with intimidating a witness, according to a warrant served this morning.
- Pisgah pours wide variety of stouts
Most breweries are happy to have one good stout. Pisgah Brewing in Black Mountain has upped the ante with five, count 'em, five house stouts now on tap, sharing space with a nice selection from other breweries.
- WNCAP looking for volunteers for fundraiser
The Western North Carolina AIDS Project is seeking volunteers to serve as 'ambassadors' for this year's Dining Out for Life event on April 29.
- Masa film is next to screen at White Horse Black Mountain
A standing room only crowd of over 250 people enjoyed the documentary about moonshiner Popcorn Sutton.
City DescriptionBlack Mountain is a town in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 7,511 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town is named for the Black Mountain range of the Blue Ridge range in the Southern Appalachians.
The downtown area has many eclectic shops that attract seasonal tourists which is a main staple of its local economy. There are also many quaint bed and breakfasts. The town is near several Christian retreat areas including Ridgecrest and Montreat Conference Center. Singer Roberta Flack, former basketball player Brad Daugherty, and NFL quarterback Brad Johnson, and Roy Williams hail from Black Mountain.
Black Mountain College was formerly located near the town. While the Black Mountain College and Arts Center is now located thirty minutes west in Asheville, North Carolina . Black Mountain is home of the Swannanoa Valley Museum {}. The Black Mountain Center for the Arts is located down the street from the Museum. In 2002 this small community raised 1.2 million dollars to buy the old Town Hall and convert it the Art Center. {}
Black Mountain is the setting for the 2009 novel One Second After, which was ... Read MoreCity Contained By:- Buncombe County
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