Sullivan County leaders are hoping to bring tourists in by stirring the echoes of a Civil War skirmish. The Battle of Blountville Civil War Memorial Park Executive Committee unveiled some designs and plans for a park that would basically encompass…

Asheville tourism officials are counting on the cuteness of cats to help promote the town as a holiday tourism destination this year. They released a video Dec. 4 urging viewers on YouTube to “watch as festive felines travel to Asheville,…

WANT TO GO: WHAT: Storytime with Mrs. Claus WHEN: 4 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 9 WHERE: H. Odell Weeks Activities Center, 1700 Whiskey Road AGE: Ages 8 and older, accompanied by an adult COST: Free Aiken-area children are invited to sit…

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New and smiling faces populated the crowd at the Buncombe County Commissioners meeting on Dec. 1, as four winners of the Nov. 4 elections took their oaths of office and commissioners elected a new vice chair. Buncombe County Commissioners Ellen…

Adrian O’Neal(Photo: Special to the Citizen-Times) North Carolina’s state parks system now has a new operations chief, with a specialty in environmental education. The N.C. Division of Parks and Recreation announced in a statement on Monday that James Adrian O’Neal,…

NEW YORK — For more than a century, cities around the world have compared themselves to Paris. Many claim to be the Paris of the East: Bucharest, Prague, Istanbul, Beirut and Shanghai to name a few. There’s also the Paris…