You don’t have to go far to see early spring wildflowers blooming on the sun-drenched forest floor.

The inaugural Say I Do to Hendersonville Bridal Show will be held on Saturday, March 23, in the Blue Ridge Community College Conference Hall from 10 a.m. — 4 p.m.

UNC Asheville will host Junior Preview Day on Saturday, March 23, welcoming high school juniors and their families to explore UNC Asheville’s campus and academic programs, and learn more about admissions procedures and financial aid.

Scholars in philosophy from around the U.S. as well as Canada, England and Russia, will gather at UNC Asheville to explore Philosophical Engagements with Trauma at a March 22-23 conference.

The Flat Rock Playhouse audience will enjoy a historic Homecoming season this year thanks to significant theatre upgrades to the Leiman Mainstage. These include brand new seating, floor lighting, new carpet and a state-of-the-art hearing loop.

North Carolina Restaurant & Lodging Association (NCRLA) recognized General Manager Robert Foster of DoubleTree Asheville Biltmore (a Biltmore Farms Hotels property) as the 2019 Lodging Manager of the Year.

Laughter is the best medicine for the winter chill. Enjoy evening headliners Keith Alberstadt from Last Comic Standing and the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Zoltan Kaszas, cat vs. dog social media sensation and Emcee Kristin Lindner on Saturday, March 16.

After working together as fitness coaches at a local gym, Dan Hartley and Scott Mirkin decided to pool their resources and open South Slope CrossFit in downtown Asheville a year and a half ago.

Each winter, The Omni Grove Park Inn hosts the National Gingerbread House Competition, and half of each parking charge collected during the holiday season is returned to the community in support of various local not-for-profits.

The Asheville Area Arts Council is now accepting applications for North Carolina Arts Council Grassroots Arts Program sub-grants through May 31 by 5 p.m.

The Blue Banner, UNC Asheville’s student newspaper, earned seven awards at the annual statewide College Media Association’s conference held last month at North Carolina A&T State University.

The South College School of Business & Technology has earned accreditation candidate status from the International Accreditation Council for Business Education (IACBE), which determined that the college’s business programs are eligible for review.

This spring, Venture Asheville will award a total of $25,000 in grants to five early stage startups through the community-funded Asheville Impact Micro Grant.

With spring break looming and the weather playing havoc on the schedule the Asheville Christian Academy spring sports season has been come to a grinding halt. Both the girls soccer team and baseball teams have had limited games over the last two weeks but last week the ACA track team compete…

The upper level of Asheville Habitat’s ReStore is regularly abuzz every other Wednesday around 2 p.m. when the bi-monthly Silent Auction closes. But the level of excitement will be anything but typical on March 20, when auction proceeds reach the $1 million mark.

Barbecue as a verb refers to a style of preparation for various meats, but as a noun it can refer to the social activity where the meat is prepared and consumed, the apparatus used to hold the meat over the fire, or the cooked meat itself. Of the myriad styles and sides, which is best?

Looking for something fun to do with your kids for St. Patrick’s Day? Get into the spirit of the occasion with these four fun activities.

Not quite a year old, the Weed Patch Mountain Trail connecting Chimney Rock State Park to Buffalo Creek near the town of Lake Lure offers hikers an 8.6 mile, one way adventure replete with views of the lake below, and staggering scenes of the surrounding Blue Ridge Mountains and Hickory Nut …

On March 10, 1948, Zelda Fitzgerald died in a fire at Asheville's Highland Hospital — which will be 71 years ago this Sunday.

CANDLER — N.C. Superintendent of Public Instruction Mark Johnson has rolled out an education plan to make North Carolina the “best place to learn and best place to teach in America by 2030.”

UNC Asheville will host two math-related events in March – the annual Pi(e) Day Fun Run and the Parsons Lecture – both of which should appeal to everyone, regardless of math background. The Pi(e) Day Fun Run will begin at 3:14 p.m., Sunday, March 17 on UNC Asheville’s Karl Straus Track. The …

CANDLER — When the Asheville and Haywood chambers of commerce hosted N.C. Superintendent of Public Instruction last week, two businesses were honored as part of the brief business meeting.

The French Broad River Garden Club Foundation announces its 2019 Annual Plant Sale, held April 27 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Walking through Ambiente Modern Furniture, Manager Jasper Haugaard talks about the quality of home furnishings in his Biltmore Village shop — and their eclectic origins, which range from Europe, Scandinavia and Indonesia to regions of this country.

Congratulations to Mac Copenhaver, a Carolina Day School student, class of '26, who has been invited to participate in the 2019 North Carolina State Geographic Bee, which will take place on Friday, March 29 in Charlotte.

The Asheville Christian Academy baseball team traveled to High Point over the weekend to take on fellow NCISAA 3A member High Point Christian Academy.

Business executives, entrepreneurs, climate scientists, and students from across the country will converge in Asheville this spring for Climate City Expo 2019, a conference that explores innovative climate solutions and business opportunities.

No one questioned Bob Turner when he showed his fourth-graders a special kind of tree growing on his land.

A long respected tradition holds that to keep the peace at family gatherings there are three topics of conversation to be avoided at all costs; politics, religion and barbecue.

Women in Construction; While it is no longer an anomaly, it is far from the norm.

Asheville’s vibrant culinary community is hiring!

As an owner of residential properties, Matthew Rooks knows the anxiety of leaving a home vacant while traveling, or living in another area for an extended period of time.

Asheville School freshman Patrick Sleater (Asheville, N.C.) earned outstanding times at the North Carolina Swimming Premier Age Group Championship held in Cary, Feb. 14-17.

Carolina Day School seniors D'Angelo Elliott and Devin Elliott were recently chosen as members of the 2018-19 Carolinas Athletic Association All-Conference Boys Basketball Team. The Elliott brothers were two of 10 young men selected from throughout the conference for this honor.

Save the date for the Gather ‘Round the Blue Ridge meeting Tuesday, Aug. 6, at the Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College Conference Center in Asheville.

On Feb. 11, the Blues boys and girls varsity swim teams both took home NCISAA Division II state championship titles – the first in program history for the girls team and the first since 2001 for the boys team.

Asheville’s First Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine has joined the Board of the North Carolina Society for Acupuncture and Asian Medicine.

The Asheville Christian Academy boys basketball team picked up two wins in the opening rounds of the NCISAA 3A State Tournament but fell to the #2 seed, Concord First Assembly, in the quarterfinals by a score of 55-44. The eleven point margin proved to be the largest lead of the game. Both t…

UNC Asheville to Celebrate Homecoming Feb. 22-23 with a Bulldog Superhero Parade, Basketball Doubleheader and Alumni Awards Banquet

Everybody’s favorite valentines at the WNC Nature Center this year were Phoenix and Leafa. The pair of Red Pandas is the WNC Nature Center’s newest attraction, and quite possibly its cutest. They came to Asheville from the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago.

Archetype Brewing, established in 2017 on Beacham’s Curve in West Asheville, will be joining Asheville’s vibrant downtown scene, with a second taproom the recently vacated space at 174 Broadway.

On a busy morning Printville Manager Dee Cromer and her co-worker are helping a steady stream of customers coming into the shop at Biltmore Park Town Square.

Our VOICE, Buncombe County’s rape crisis and prevention center, will welcome Me Too Movement founder Tarana Burke on March 14, for the Symmetry Financial, AdventHealth and Native Kitchen Break the Silence Speaker Series, Our VOICE’s largest fundraising event of the year. Burke’s movement, wh…

Newly elected Sheriff Quentin Miller was the guest speaker for the first Leadership Asheville Forum critical issues luncheon of 2019.

Last week, high school athletes across the United States signed with college athletics programs during National Signing Day 2019. At Asheville School, Major Eason and Reagan Bednar both officially committed to play at the next level.

The Key Learning Center will host its 11th Annual Best Practices Symposium in Multisensory Teaching and Learning on Saturday, Feb. 23 from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Asheville Habitat is again following it’s tithe and heading to Guatemala in April (6-14) to build a house and install five smokeless stoves in partnership with Habitat for Humanity Guatemala.

The Asheville Christian Academy girls basketball team collected a new trophy over the weekend.  In the finals of the CAA tournament the Lions upended Rabun Gap in a game that came down to the closing minutes.  The championship match was the rubber match between the two squads as each team wo…

The Collider will host the second in its two-part panel series focusing on the fourth National Climate Assessment on Thursday, Feb. 21, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. The discussion will identify some of the impacts climate change is having on cities and highlight the importance of conservancy in creat…

Neal Hanks, Jr., President of Beverly-Hanks, REALTORS, recently delivered the company’s end-of-year 2018 Real Estate Market Report. The Beverly-Hanks market report highlights four key metrics of the Western North Carolina real estate market: sales pace, homes for sale, home prices, and the a…