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1 week ago | mountainx.com | Brent Brown |Greg Parlier |Edwin Arnaudin

Paved paradise Categories Humor, Opinion City shuts down unique North Asheville vending machine Since February, Angie Fornof has been selling toys, art, jewelry, candy and DVDs in the vending machine that she’s enclosed in a wooden phone booth replica outside her home on Madison Avenue. But its time on the street may be limited. Categories Arts, Visual Art Tags art vending, The Mad Phone Booth From CPP: Last-ditch legal effort tries to halt NC regional library system breakup over LGBTQ+...

1 week ago | mountainx.com | Greg Parlier

It may not be Superman flying forth, but what does come out of a homemade phone booth in a North Asheville neighborhood still brings a smile to people’s faces. Since February, Angie Fornof has been offering toys, art, jewelry, candy and DVDs in the vending machine that she’s enclosed in a wooden phone booth replica outside her home on Madison Avenue. “I like how happy it makes everyone who comes by,” she notes.

2 weeks ago | mountainx.com | Edwin Arnaudin |Gina Smith |Christopher Arbor |Greg Parlier

- by Blue Ridge Public RadioA pioneering Medicaid program that has delivered food, housing support, and transportation to nearly 30,000 low-income North Carolinians is set to end July 1.

3 weeks ago | mountainx.com | Brionna Dallara |Brent Brown |Greg Parlier |Hannah Epperson

Local leaders discuss taxes, housing and UNCA’s urban forest at town hall meeting What matters to our community? That was the focus of discussion for a town hall held June 5 at the West Asheville Public Library.

3 weeks ago | mountainx.com | Greg Parlier

The Buncombe County Board of Education is concerned about how an increasing population in southern Buncombe County is affecting its schools, and the board is starting to plan for how it can pay to expand its campuses to accommodate this growth. Despite a decline in overall enrollment numbers in area public schools since 2020, the population in Buncombe County Schools’ (BCS) largest district (which feeds its largest high school, T.C. Roberson), has remained relatively flat.