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Will Hofmann

Asheville

Growth and Development Reporter at Asheville Citizen Times

growth and development reporter @asheville | formerly @theappalachian

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  • NC's 1st marijuana dispensary to celebrate 4/20 anniversary. What to know

    6 days ago | yahoo.com | Will Hofmann

    While illegal in North Carolina, marijuana has one refuge in the state: the Qualla Boundary. In Cherokee, North Carolina, the Great Smoky Cannabis Co. brands itself as the only legal cannabis dispensary in North Carolina and is the product of a full "seed to sale" operation launched by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Cannabis is grown on a farm roughly 9 miles away from the over 10,000-square-foot dispensary where it is processed and sold.

  • Swannanoa residents 'miserable' as post-Helene Ingles closure spurs food insecurity

    1 week ago | yahoo.com | Will Hofmann |Karrigan Monk

    SWANNANOA - “Miserable," "aggravation" and a sense the community “deserves better” and "deserves answers." These are some of the feelings Swannanoa residents have since the community's only grocery store closed in late September after Tropical Storm Helene. The store's closure means some trips to get fresh produce and food can now take well over an hour in travel time, residents told the Citizen Times, while local nonprofits and the county government have been working to fill in the gap.

  • Henderson Co. side of $531 million I-26 widening project 'functionally complete,' NCDOT says

    2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Will Hofmann

    New permanent lanes along Interstate 26 in South Asheville opened April 9, marking a major milestone in the the I-26 widening project as the project in Henderson County is "functionally complete," the N.C. Department of Transportation announced April 9.

  • 4.2 million cubic yards of Helene debris has been removed. What to know about debris deadlines

    2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Will Hofmann

    Most programs for debris removal in the Asheville-area will be wrapping up in the coming months as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has removed more than 4.12 million cubic yards of debris generated by Tropical Storm Helene across Western North Carolina.

  • Environmental legal group plans to fight Trump plan to increase national forest logging

    2 weeks ago | citizen-times.com | Will Hofmann

    ASHEVILLE - The U.S. Forest Service will soon have to release plans to increase timber production in national forests, including Western North Carolina's wide and expansive Nantahala-Pisgah National Forests and other forests across the south. While a Forest Service administrator described the effort as a "new era" in public land management, legal organizations are already teeing up possible litigation against the plans.

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4 Apr 25

RT @ryleyober: In Charlene and Russell Wilber’s East Tennessee home, the wall calendar still displayed September 2024. Six months after t…

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1 Apr 25

RT @ryleyober: 6 months since Helene, several Swannanoa families are still without permanent housing, after widespread destruction to mobil…

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Will Hofmann @will_hofmann
27 Mar 25

The Table Rock Fire in S.C. has officially crossed the border into N.C., Scott Justus, Transylvania County’s fire marshal, told @asheville @jacobbiba. Hundreds have been evacuated in Transylvania Co. as the fire has grown to over 4,200 acres. https://t.co/5NpSRe5ZcR