Balsam
Balsam, NC · Municipal
Asheville Citizen-Times
Canton lost its mill. Now the clock is ticking on its future
CANTON - First came the flood. Then the mill went silent. Then another flood. In August 2021, Tropical Storm Fred devastated Canton, swamping homes, businesses and municipal buildings. In June 2023, the paper mill that had sustained the Haywood County town for 115 years closed. Tropical Storm Helene brought another round of destructive flooding in September 2024. Now, after three devastating blows in four years, Canton is trying to do something more ambitious than recover. It is trying to decide what it wants to become. A sweeping new comprehensive plan puts the former mill property at the center of that transformation, envisioning a district of manufacturing, housing, commerce and recreation connected to downtown and the Pigeon River . But with a moratorium on data centers expiring in February and new development regulations on the horizon, the town faces growing pressure to turn its aspirations into policy before others decide the property's future. “This isn’t our plan,” Canton Mayor Zeb Smathers said during a Nov. 10 meeting. “It's the citizens’.” The 95-page Canton 2050 Comprehensive Plan, dated Oct. 20 and labeled a final draft, is the product of months of public workshops, surveys and conversations about what should replace the industrial
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Medicaid Work Rules Don’t Apply to Native Americans. They Could Still Lose Coverage.
CHEROKEE, N.C. — Two months before the deadline to implement new Medicaid work requirements, states had yet to receive detailed guidance from federal health officials on how to exclude Native Americans from those rules, leading to a patchwork of eligibility checks that pose challenges for qualified enrollees trying to keep their health insurance.
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Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary begins $100K restoration
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828newsNOW) — Work is underway at Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary in North Asheville, where crews are replacing sections of an aging boardwalk as part of a $100,000 restoration project. Blue Ridge Audubon announced that construction has begun on the first phase of the project, which includes replacing...
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Asheville radio station preserves broadcasting history with museum
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — Radio Asheville 103.7 FM first hit the airwaves back in 2003. By 2014, they had suffered financial difficulties to the point where they were going to have to shut down. That's when Davyne Dial stepped in and convinced the station's board to transfer the FCC...
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Best Craft Beer Road Trips: Asheville, NC
Asheville, North Carolina, has earned its place on the craft beer map. With pioneering breweries, walkable taproom neighborhoods and the Blue Ridge Mountains as a backdrop, it’s an easy city to build a beer trip around. And with local businesses continuing their recovery from Hurricane Helene, there’s good reason...
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Code Purple in effect for Buncombe County and Asheville for Nov. 13-14
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828NewsNow) — With temperatures expected to drop into the low 30s on the night of Nov. 13 and then below freezing on the night of Nov. 14, the Asheville-Buncombe Continuum of Care, in partnership with Buncombe County Gorvernment and the City of Asheville, has declared both days as Code Purple days.