Henderson County, NC

The Saluda Grade Trail project has received its first major grant toward the purchase of the trail corridor and development in North Carolina.   The Polk County Community Foundation has pledged $250,000 toward the project, which is a proposed 31-mile trail stretching from South Carolina to North Carolina.   ...

High COVID-19 community levels have put the Great Smoky Mountains National Park under a strict mask mandate once again. The park announced in a brief its website's alerts page that it would require masks in public facilities everywhere, citing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guidelines. ...

Here's a list of new books at the Henderson County Public Library FICTION TITLES  The Omega Factor by Steve Berry  By The Book by Jasmine Guillory  Insomnia by Sarah Pinborough  Girls Of Flight City by Lorraine Heath  The Sign For Home by Blair Fell  The Last White Rose by Alison Weir  The Fervor by Alma Katsu  Nobody But Us by Laure...

A North Carolina native assigned to a guided missile destroyer is presumed dead according to the U.S. Navy.

HENDERSON COUNTY, N.C. — The U.S. Navy says that a North Carolina native assigned to a guided missile destroyer was lost overboard and presumed dead in the Baltic Sea. Seaman Recruit David L. Spearman went overboard Monday from the USS Arleigh Burke, according to a news release. A search effort near Helsinki, Finland, was called off earlier in the week.

The Navy said that he had reported to the ship in April after training in Illinois.

Granny talked a lot about her grandpa, Dr. Levi Jones (1836-1929). He was my great-great grandfather, and I always enjoyed hearing stories about family history. She said back before the Civil War, he had several slaves right here in Henderson County. They were brought into his 1856 marriage by his well-to-do wife, but as head of the new household, he freed them. As the Civil War progressed, he joined the Northern army because their values were more aligned to his own personal beliefs.  ...

ASHEVILLE - In 2021, after eight years as district attorney for Henderson, Transylvania and Polk counties, Greg Newman was removed from office for what a Superior Court judge said was "willful misconduct" and "conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice." But one thing Newman was not disqualified from was a state pension. According to...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — The U.S. Navy on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022, officially identified the sailor who fell overboard just days prior while operating in the Baltic Sea as Seaman Recruit David L. Spearman. The Navy also issued a statement from the commanding officer of the USS Arleigh Burke,...

WLOS — A young U.S. Navy sailor from the Etowah community of Henderson County fell overboard a Navy ship on Monday, Aug. 1 in the Baltic Sea, and the search and rescue efforts have been called off. The family of David "Dee" Spearman confirmed Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022, that he was the man who fell overboard Monday near Helsinki, Finland. Spearman was 19 years old.

A “bright, young” sailor from North Carolina was lost after going overboard in a European sea, Navy officials said. David L. Spearman is believed to have died after he disappeared from the USS Arleigh Burke on Monday, Aug. 1. As of Aug. 4, the Navy hadn’t recovered Spearman’s...