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June 25, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Welcome to our new Asheville community website! We at SouthernCommunityGuide.com have created this regionally focused web space to help share anything and everything Asheville with you, our readers, and to give you a place to share your Asheville story. Thank you for visiting! If you have a story to tell about your experience with Asheville, we would love to hear from you. Please, email us! Thank you again for visiting, and stay tuned for more exciting updates. Cheers! -The SouthernCommunityGuide.com team Read More →

Real Estate

High-minded: Developers set lofty standards at Mountain Air

July 8, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Unique airstrip grounds pilots (happily) in mountain community Mountain Air is just 45 minutes from Asheville, NC, but about as private as a golf community gets. Sure, many communities are cloistered behind imposingly high gates, but how many of those communities are nearly 5,000 feet high, a good 15-minute winding drive up from a state road, and with a landing strip at the top of the mountain? Mountain Air, located near the town of Burnsville, is different in a number of ways. Not only does its 2,900-foot runway span... [Read the full story]

November 4, 2008

November 7, 2008 · Leave a Comment

3 days ago, the U.S. elected Barack Obama President. Since then, there has been lots of talk and gossip in the news and amongst friends and enemies. North Carolina went “blue,” as did Virginia, the first time in a very long time. I found an interesting website involving the election, a teacher and her students. Read this and make your own conclusions. http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008811070349 If you’re interested about election results in NC, check out these websites: http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NC/1875/4822/en/summary.html# Obama:... [Read the full story]

November 4, 2008

November 7, 2008 · Leave a Comment

3 days ago, the U.S. elected Barack Obama President. Since then, there has been lots of talk and gossip in the news and amongst friends and enemies. North Carolina went “blue,” as did Virginia, the first time in a very long time. I found an interesting website involving the election, a teacher and her students. Read this and make your own conclusions. http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008811070349 If you’re interested about election results in NC, check out these websites: http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NC/1875/4822/en/summary.html# Obama:... [Read the full story]

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November 4, 2008

November 7, 2008 · Leave a Comment

3 days ago, the U.S. elected Barack Obama President. Since then, there has been lots of talk and gossip in the news and amongst friends and enemies. North Carolina went “blue,” as did Virginia, the first time in a very long time. I found an interesting website involving the election, a teacher and her students. Read this and make your own conclusions. http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008811070349 If you’re interested about election results in NC, check out these websites: http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/NC/1875/4822/en/summary.html# Obama:... [Read more]

Outdoors

Waterfall Tours

August 15, 2008 · Leave a Comment

WNC: Mountain Living in Western North Carolina is a great publication to learn more about the area. I just read an article about Lydia Odell. She’s a tour guide for Western NC cascades. I’m not a huge outdoor person, and the article convinced me to take a walk outside. Just through the few quotes from Odell, you can feel her passion for waterfalls, and it will infect you. She researched everything possible–books, internet, local brains–and discovered 80 waterfalls on her own, some that are relatively... [Read the full story]