False alarm

A fire alarm was accidently set off around 9:30 am this morning at Weaverville Elementary School. WES employees and responders from the Weaverville Fire Department reported no signs of smoke.

Preparing for the holidays

The offices of the Weaverville Tribune will be closed from Wednesday, Dec. 24 through Sunday, January 4. We will still be able to be reached by email at wteditor@weavervilletribune.com. If you come across any good holiday pics, don't hestitate to send them our way.

Update on printing schedule

Just to clarify....

While we will be mailing on next edition to our subscribers on Dec. 23, the issue will not hit stands until Dec. 24. Sorry for the confusion.

An update on last night's breaking news

In today's edition of The Weaverville Tribune, we reported authorities were still searching for Jackie Elizabeth Rice in connection with a marijuana bust on Salem Acres Road on Wednesday afternoon.
After Alberto Wallace was placed into custody, authorities arrested Rice later Wednesday evening. She is charged with charged with one count of possession with intent to manufacture, sell and deliver a controlled substance, two counts of trafficking marijuana and one count of maintaining a dwelling, vehicle or place to use or store drugs.
Wallace is charged with two counts of trafficking marijuana, one count of possession with intent to manufacture, sell and deliver a controlled substance and one count of possession of drug paraphernalia.

Leftover Woodfin town notes

* The town's police department will soon be fully intergrated with a Buncombe County computer system designed to provide more information on homes, cars or persons police are investigating. For instance, if the police arrive at address, they will be able to type in that address to see if any offenses had occured at the property previously.

* Woodfin Town Administrator Jason Young expects the town's liqour store to sell in excess of $300,000 in December.

Upcoming paper schedule

Our printing schedule is going to alter slightly in the next several weeks because of the holidays. Here's when each of the next four issues will be hitting the stands:

Thursday, Dec. 18
Tuesday, Dec. 23
Wednesday, Dec. 31 (our annual year-in-review edition)
Thursday, Jan. 8

Afterward, we'll be back to printing every Thursday. With Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day all falling on Thursdays this year, this has been the perfect storm for wreaking havoc on our printing schedules!

Leftover Weaverville Town Meeting notes

* The town will consider adopting the future CVS site at the corner of Monitcello Road and U.S. Hwy. 25/70 into town limits at the January meeting;

* The Weaverville Tree Board planted 79 trees in 2008;

* A Dec. 1 blood drive at the Weaverville Fire Department generated 25 units of blood;

* Two hundred and fifty Weaverville senior citizens are expected at the annual senior lunch at noon on Wednesday (Dec. 17) at Weaverville Town Hall;

* The town will revisit in February a proposal to install gas storage tanks for emergency vehicles. The proposal began to gain traction in last summer's fuel shortage in the area. Weaverville Town Manager Mike Morgan said a quote on the construction listed the price as $68,000, but that quote expired Dec. 31. The council agreed it was important to install the tanks, which tanks about four-to-six weeks for construction, before next year's hurricane season.

Somewhere over....

A brief rainbow decorated the gloomy sky yesterday north of Weaverville. Today's skies are much clearer, but the temperatures are much cooler as well.

Back to business

Sorry we haven't posted in a while! We were off for the Thanksgiving holidays and then I left last week for a trip to Arizona. Now, we're back and promise to post with more frequency as we near the Christmas holidays.