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Agents were never far from Princess Martha and her children during their time in Maryland.

But it wasnt a candidate for condemnation at that time. "Then when the complaint resurfaced (this year), we went back out," Stone said. "The solarium over the pool had been destroyed, and the house was wide open. That’s when we moved forward with the condemnation.” The property owners could have chosen to secure the property and fill in the pool, Stone said, but they moved ahead to demolition. “I don’t know – maybe they just felt the property was more valuable to just remove it at tha...

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Memorial Day weekend weather: Whats in store for your cookouts and pool celebrations Mackensy Lunsford, Asheville Citizen Times © Angeli Wright/awright@citizen-times.com A scene from downtown Asheville Memorial Day celebrations in 2019. The weather for 2021 looks cool and pleasant. ASHEVILLE - After a period of warmer-than-usual weather comes some good news: The Western North Carolina mountains are looking at a cooldown, just in time for Memorial Day weekend. Thats perfect f...

Friday night is likely to bring showers and thunderstorms, but inclement weather should move out of the area by Saturday morning, Lane said.  Saturday will be breezy as a cool front moves in, with 10-15 mile per hour winds and potentially higher gusts. Temperatures for the mountains will top out in the lower 70s. The chance of rain Saturday will only be about 30%, with that chance decreasing to less than 20% on Sunday, which will be even cooler, Lane said. Sundays high should only reach abou...

But ACS didnt tell teachers about the switch from a holiday to a work day until May 12, just two and a half weeks before Memorial Day. “Dr. Dickerson informed employees about our school calendar issue once it was brought to his attention by our legal counsel,” ACS spokeswoman Ashley-Michelle Thublin said. Mark Dickerson is the ACS assistant superintendent of administration The "calendar issue" Thublin is referring to was a miscalculation of holidays that Dickerson informed staff about via e...

View Comments As the weather warms and folks spend more time outside across Western North Carolina, more people will start finding wild animals that look like theyve been abandoned. The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, which fields thousands of calls each spring about animals believed to be in danger or abandoned, is urging folks to leave those animals alone, as most often, well-meaning people do more harm than good, biologists say. When people see fawns or baby rabbits that have a...

As a side note, I served on a committee in 2015 that received public input and decided what to put in the capsule, a stainless steel box specially made to fit in the spot under the monuments base. The capsule was maybe the size of a shoebox, so its not like you could put a six-pack of Highland Ale and an Asheville Tourists bat in there. Plus, I drank the six-pack and lost the bat. I kid... The 2115 Asheville Buncombe Time Capsule replaced one work crews found in 2015 while repairing the monumen...

Today’s batch of burning questions, my smart-aleck answers and the real deal: Question: With the Duke Energy plant at Lake Julian, they switched over to natural gas, which is a good thing, but now they are dependent on a pipeline to bring that gas in. In the old days they probably had 30 days’ worth of coal stockpiled on site there. What kind of surplus of natural gas, if any, do they keep on site at Lake Julian now? Do they have tanks on site? How long would they last? If not, what happens...

Whats up with the new paint job on Rochester Police Department squads? I hear the Rochester Police Department is changing the color of its new squad cars to all black, rather than black and white. Why? Written By: Answer Man | × One of the new Rochester Police Department vehicles Wednesday, May 12, 2021, in Rochester. (Joe Ahlquist / jahlquist@postbulletin.com) I hear the Rochester Police Department is changing the color of its new squad cars to all black, rather than black and w...