Jason Sandford
Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.
There wasn’t a lot of news from this weekend: The North Carolina Apple Festival in Henderson County, the last Shindig on the Green of the year, somebody stealing copper wire from someplace. The usual.
Here’s a little to catch you up from last week:
Damn that traffic jam
Traffic sucked on Friday as people hit the highways. A construction project to fix a loose slab on concrete on I-26 had people stuck in traffic for hours. Holly Headache talked to people who were frustrated.
Gas prices don’t suck so bad
Gas prices dropped over the weekend. So guess that means we won’t see WLOSers standing out at that gas station near Biltmore Park and interviewing people driving big SUVs.
Rain
It rained a lot at the end of last week. That delayed a football game in Haywood County. That was about it. O, it might have caused some erosion in Weaverville, where Cherub Charu, sounding like she’s getting over a cold, reported a story about people being pissed off about development.
Troubles for Trevi
The owner of Trevi restaurant announced on Friday that he’s closing the restaurant and delcaring bankruptcy. Employees didn’t even get paid on Friday, their payday.
The problem started when a restaurant worker tested positive for hepatitis A and the Buncombe County health department told people to get an immune globulin shot to prevent the virus from making them sick. That pretty much killed business for the week, and the owner said it would take four to six months for business to get back to normal. So he decided to throw in the towel. He’s had a rough time since he bought the business two years ago, right around the time of the massive September flooding of 2004 that also set him back.
Other local restaurants have come back from hepatitis scares, but this guy said he just didn’t want to deal.
Enka booster club cooling its jets
The band boosters at Enka High are pissed off because they’re playing in a brand new stadium that only has two concession stands.
In the old stadium, there were three concession stands, and the band boosters operated one to make money to help fund the band. In the new place, the band boosters got stuck with a concession “cart,” something that won’t make them near the $6,000 they used to make. Despite all the hoopla, “the band will play on,” Michelle Boudin assured us.
