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Live Music This Weekend: New musicians, venues in Henderson County for Cider, Wine & Dine Steve Wong, Times-News correspondent This is a strange but plentiful weekend for live music in Hendersonville and the surrounding area.  It is strange because I’m seeing some new names - venues and musicians - which is really good. You can never have too many places to see and hear live music, and new venues and musicians means more diversity, which in this day and age is a cultural plus. It’s plentiful because, well, this is Cider, Wine & Dine Weekend, a tourism event with an extensive agenda of p...

  PRINCE ALBERT -- A Prince Albert business owner says posting surveillance photos of alleged shoplifters has deterred crime. Samir Samnani owns two convenience stores in Prince Albert and says since he started posting the photos, there’s been less theft from his store. “It’s helped big time for us and we’ve seen lots of improvements, and it spreads the word in society so everyone in the neighbourhood knows,” said Samir Samnani, owner and operator of Sylken Confectionary and Quick Stop. Samnani said his convenience store in Prince Albert’s East Flat neighbourhood was losing ...

Controversial asphalt plant gets another rejection from county leaders     ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — A controversial asphalt plant proposal for East Flat Rock got a vote of disapproval from the Henderson County Planning Board on Thursday. The board voted 5-2 to recommend the Henderson County Board of Commissioners deny the request to conditionally rezone the land from community commercial to industrial to allow for the plant’s construction. This is the second time developer Jeff Shipman, of Southeastern Asphalt, has tried to get the plant built off Spartanburg Highway. The p...

Plans revived for asphalt plant in East Flat Rock; Compatibility meeting scheduled The applicant is listed as HS Shipman, and the owner as Jeffrey B. Shipman Enterprises Inc. Several neighbors and community members were against the project when it was proposed last year. An online petition, Facebook group and website were created to speak out against construction of the plant. The county’s planning board passed an unfavorable recommendation for the rezoning last August. Jeff Shipman of SE Asphalt soon after pulled the application before it could be brought before the Henderson County Boar...

The things you don't hear Weary and sore they came upon a small copse of Loblolly pines swaying high above a sea of softly undulating golden broomsedge just as the first light of dawn faded in from the east.  For weeks, they’d slept during the balmy spring days and walked mostly by moonlight, never by road. At times they’d take to the train tracks, ducking into the underbrush when one of them would sense the coming of the iron horse. Other times they strode along soaring tree lines edging fallow fields, damp spongy soil radiating the last of the day’s heat to their bare feet,...