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Henderson County could get a hotel convention center across from the Asheville Regional Airport. The Asheville Regional Airport Authority took the first step recently to attract a developer to build a hotel-convention center at Broadmoor Links, the golf course the airport authority bought from a bankrupt golf course chain last year. “We publicly put out a request for information,” Lew Bleiweis, executive director of the airport, told the Henderson County Board of Commissioners last week. “We put it out for a hotel, conference center and managing the golf course. We received one proposal...

Cigar Groups, FDA Meet Again in Federal Appeals Court Earlier this morning, the two sides of a cigar industry lawsuit against the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) met once again, this time in the virtual courtroom for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. It’s the latest in the nearly five-year-old legal fight waged by three cigar industry trade groups against FDA. At stake this time was whether the agency acted in a manner that was arbitrary and capricious when enacting the substantial equivalence process—and grandfathering—for cigars and pipes. Today’s hearing...

The board's effort to clarify the regulation comes after a Zoning Board of Adjustment showed that the county's land-use ordinance was ambiguous in how it defined private shooting ranges and commercial shooting ranges. The proposed text amendments recommended that indoor and outdoor commercial ranges be a permitted use in all zones except for office-institutional, including the county's four residential categories. Commissioner Rebecca McCall made a motion to require a special-use permit for ranges in three residential zones and to reduce the hours from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. instead of 8 p.m. "just...

“Although the definition of a shooting range is vague in the LDC, it is not Henderson County’s position to regulate small backyard shooting ranges as if they were public businesses,” Toby Linville told an attorney representing homeowners opposed to a shooting range in Edneyville last September. Commissioner Michael Edney brought up the matter during the regular meeting of the Board of Commissioners Wednesday morning. "We need to amend the ordinance to better define what we're talking about and what our intentions are," he said. Edney and County Attorney Russ Burrell drafted a fix for th...

Warwick Smith/Stuff Five ManawatÅ« people have taken the St John motto of Here For Life to heart as they receive medals for 50 years of service. He has taken on numerous roles at St John, and was previously recognised in 1990 for rescuing people from a head-on collision in Manawatū Gorge. “You do everything to the best of your ability. There has been the odd difficulty, but you're trained for the job. “You get a lot of satisfaction out of helping people." WARWICK SMITH/Stuff Michael Edney will continue to serve St John in any way he can throughout his retirement.