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Canton bids to be WNC’s next boom town – Asheville Citizen
Seth Hendler-Voss has been on the job as Canton Town Manager for 14 months, hoping to improve the town’s image. The Evergreen Packaging plant remains the town’s mainstay industry, but Canton hopes to recruit more businesses and working class families.(Photo:…
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While others dream of beaches, Floridians seek higher ground
Labor Day weekend marks the traditional end of America’s summer, a season when Floridians for decades have sought respite from our hot, soggy weather in the high country of western North Carolina. As I write this, I’m returning from such…
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Asheville private sector necessary to solve housing crisis – Asheville Citizen
Weavercook construction workers are nearly finished with a 55-unit apartment complex located off Fallen Spruce Dr, off of Old Leicester Hwy Thursday morning.(Photo: William Woody / wwoody@citizen-times.com) This report is one in an occasional series on Asheville’s shortage of affordable…
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Asheville tourism bureau doesn’t report how it spends money
The agency that promotes tourism in Asheville has a $9 million budget of public money, but doesn’t have to reveal how it spends a lot of that money. Asheville Convention and Visitors Bureau Executive Director Stephanie Brown told the Asheville…
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Asheville tourism bureau doesn’t report how it spends money
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — The agency that promotes tourism in Asheville has a $9 million budget of public money, but doesn’t have to reveal how it spends a lot of that money. Asheville Convention and Visitors Bureau Executive Director Stephanie Brown…
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Lower gas prices, rising Polk tourism
“Motor traffic is the biggest generator of tourism in our county,” said Mark Jackson, director of Visit Central Florida, Polk’s tourism promotion agency. “More than 50 percent of the tourists who come to Polk Country drive here.” That’s because the…
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Public can’t see bonuses, salaries paid by room tax – Asheville Citizen
Hotel Indigo(Photo: Citizen-Times) ASHEVILLE – The area’s most important tourism promoter, the Asheville Convention and Visitors Bureau, is run on public money. But details on how the bureau spends a large part of that cash is kept private. The bureau…
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56TH ANNUAL "ART ON MAIN" FESTIVAL SET FOR OCTOBER 3 AND 4
Print Email 56TH ANNUAL “ART ON MAIN” FESTIVAL SET FOR OCTOBER 3 AND 4 The Arts Council of Henderson County is proud to present the 56th annual Art on Main fine art/fine craft festival along Hendersonville’s historic Main Street, October…
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Everyone agrees: WNC air quality is getting better – Asheville Citizen
Tougher state and federal rules on pollution mean Western North Carolina now has far more days with clean air, as seen in this view from the Blue Ridge Parkway outside Asheville Monday.(Photo: Angeli Wright/awright@citizen-times.com) ASHEVILLE – In the late 1990s,…
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