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Henderson County Sheriff Lowell Griffin called on the SBI to investigate a shooting in the Valley Hill community after it was determined that someone involved was a relative of a sheriff’s office employee.

The 2021 Rhythm & Brews Concert Series closes out the season tonight with The Broadcast as headliner and opener Human Ladder.

Sections of Interstate 26 in Henderson County will be closed three nights this week and three nights next week for the removal of the old Naples Road bridge over I-26. Motorists will be detoured onto roads where traffic signals will be modified to handle the increased traffic.

Western Carolina Community Action was recently awarded a $25,000 grant by the Perry N. Rudnick Endowment Fund of the Community Foundation of Henderson County.

A crowd of more than 120 people gathered at the Historic Courthouse plaza Saturday to listen to former students, friends, a fellow faculty member, a renowned author and others praise Thomas E. “Tom” Orr as a mentor and teacher of hundreds, an inspiring and creative theater director and a keeper of the community’s history.

Updated coronavirus information from state health officials. https://www.ncdhhs.gov/divisions/public-health/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-response-north-carolina Updated coronavirus information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html Updated coronavirus information from Johns Hopkins https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

On October 21, 1861, Union troops suffer a devastating defeat in the second major engagement of the Civil War. The Battle of Ball’s Bluff in Virginia produced the war’s first martyr and led to the creation of a Congressional committee to monitor the conduct of the war. After the Battle of Bull ...

On the morning of October 21, 1966, a landslide of coal waste crashes into a small Welsh mining village, killing 116 children and 28 adults. The accident left just five survivors and wiped out half the town’s youth. The Aberfan disaster became one of the UK’s worst coal mining accidents. The ...