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Food & Drink
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NC Wine Winners Pass offers tastings at award-winning North Carolina wineries

A new tasting pass lets wine, cider and mead enthusiasts explore six award-winning North Carolina producers of their choice through March 2027.

George Masa on Shining Rock, Pisgah National Forest, N.C., Archive credit: Buncombe County Special Collections, Pack Memorial Library, Asheville, North Carolina
Asheville History
22 hours ago
George Masa documentary to screen in Asheville

Free Nov. 14 event includes book signing and Q&A with filmmaker Paul Bonesteel

Crime & Safety
24 hours ago
Asheville domestic violence shelter doubles capacity

Helpmate’s new Joy’s House will provide 43 beds for survivors and children, more than twice its current capacity

Entertainment
1 day ago
November 2026 concert calendar: Live music in Asheville and WNC

From national touring acts to local and emerging artists, November’s concert calendar offers plenty of ways for Asheville and Western North Carolina communities to gather around live music.

Asheville History
2 days ago
10 creepy North Carolina superstitions for Halloween

From howling dogs to restless spirits, old folklore offers some spooky warnings

High school football playoff pairings released
High School
2 days ago
Prep football playoff pairings: Asheville earns No. 1 seed

Asheville High is only area team to earn a No. 1 seed

Asheville History
2 days ago
Dark stories from Asheville’s Riverside Cemetery: Murder, mystery and tragedy

Behind the gravestones of one of Asheville’s oldest cemeteries are stories of violent crimes, a deadly railroad accident, literary scandal and lives cut short.

Edward Walton Pearson Sr., who helped establish West Asheville's Burton Street neighborhood, is buried alongside family members at Violet Hill Cemetery in Asheville. His wife, Annis, and daughter Iola Pearson Byers are also memorialized on the headstone.
Asheville History
2 days ago
Tombstone Tales: E.W. Pearson’s lasting Asheville legacy

The Buffalo Soldier helped build Asheville’s Burton Street neighborhood, but a father’s sacrifice reveals another side of his story

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