More Honor Air pics

More pictures from the recent Honor Air flight featuring several area WWII veterans

NBC video

Video of the recent Honor Air trip featuring North Buncombe WWII veterans was featured on NBC this past weekend. Here's the clip.

Need mulch?

Woodfin residents can call town hall at 253-4887 for more information about how the Town of Woodfin will deliver free mulch to its residents.

More Relay for Life images

More pics of new Lowe's

New project for Weaverville P&Z

The Weaverville Town Council passed along a new project for the town's planning and zoning board. Councilman Gene Knoefel asked for review, and possibly revisions, of the town's commericial zoning district uses. P&Z chairman Doug Dearth proposed such review to his board earlier this year and did not receive much feedback.

Old Buncombe Genealogical Meeting

The Old Buncombe County Genealogical Society will meet at 2 pm on Saturday, May 23 in the society library at 128 Bingham Road, Suite 700. The speaker will be Darryl Norton of Mars Hill, who will speak on "Genealogy, Oh the Places It Has Taken Me and the Things that I Have Found!" The public is invited to attend. There is no charge and light refreshments will be served. For more information or directions to the society library, call 828-253-1894.

Relay for Life moved

Relay for Life has been moved. It will be held inside North Buncombe High School to account for the pending weather. It will still begin at 6 pm tonight.

People of Woodfin invited

The Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority are meeting again at 5:30 this afternoon at the Asheville Visitor Center on Montford Avenue. Woodfin residents are invited. The same group met with about two dozen local business owners and interested citizens last week in Weaverville. Discussions will include BCTDA's plans for the future as well as comments from the public about the impact of tourism on the county.

Piles of papers

The offices of the Weaverville Police Department in the basement of Weaverville Town Hall has files and files of paperwork. When Councilman Gene Knoefel asked Weaverville Police Chief Greg Stephens about whether the town could electronically scan in the papers, Stephens said the department keeps the orginial copies of records for court proceedings that require them. Sometimes, evidence is needed from several years ago; thus, the department has to keep the papers piling up until the courts allow printouts.

Public review

Woodfin Water Board is asking for public feedback at 7 tonight on its water conservation plan. The plan has been gestating for some time now, and if passed in its current form, it will enact a new rate system for customers using copius amounts of water. Woodfin residents interested should stop by and review it.

New businesses trickle in

The Tribune always tries to do a story when a new business moves into the area. Since Fall 2008, those stories have becoming scarce in our paper, likely because the obvious economic reasons have kept many potential business owners at bay.

But, just as spring has sprung, so too has many new businesses in the North Buncombe area. There's the big names like the Neighborhood YMCA in Woodfin and the soon-to-be-opening Lowe's and Wal-Mart in Weaverville.

But, there are other smaller businesses such as Main Street Flooring and Renovation and Pistil and Stamen in Weaverville now open. In Woodfin, stylist Glenda Kay has returned to the area to open a new shop that will be featured in next week's edition. It seems some business owners are again taking the leap back into the market.

New Web site for Optix

Optix Eye Care in Weaverville recently received a Web site makeover, as well as new print materials, thanks to Asheville-based group Jaymunda, Inc. Read about the new Web site here.

Race on

MyWeaverville.com posted this morning that the North Buncombe Kiwanis Club has agreed to move the Firecracker 5K to a route at North Buncombe High School, following the Weaverville Town Council's decision to not host the race for the first time in 16 years. More on this in our next edition...