Jason Sandford
Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.
Here’s what i saw on the teevee box Friday:
Missing hiker in Georgia mountains
A young woman went missing in the north Georgia mountains on Tuesday, but it started making news Friday. Cops were looking for an older man that she was last seen talking to on a trail. So here’s the possible local connection – the man on the trail was wearing a yellow jacket. A man who used a credit card from a missing couple in Transylvania County a month or so ago was also last seen wearing a yellow jacket. In our case, an older woman was found dead and her husband is still missing. The Tranylvania County sheriff was sharing information with Georgia officials, WLOSers said.
Local reaction to the Iowa caucuses
Charu hit the streets to get local reaction to the results of Thursday night’s Iowa caucuses. Obama won for the Dems, and Huckabee won for the Repubs. Charu said she found a lot of support locally for Obama and for John Edwards, who finished a strong second. She talked to somebody concerned about the war in Iraq, somebody who didn’t like Hillary, a woman who said the results didn’t matter to her at all and a guy who said it’s too early to tell.
Charu ended by saying there are a lot of “undecideds” out there. Then WLOSers plugged their election page on their Web site, which they call campaignplus. The other night during one of the newscasts, Russ Bowen essentially did an in-house commercial for the web site, which looks like almost all wire-type content.
In other news…
People are still buying cold-weather products like ice melt… The weather’s going to warm up, then probably get cold again. The low Friday was 12 degrees, two degrees off the 1978 record low of 10 degrees.
River district’s hot again
Russ said a new development in the River Arts District, called Chesterfield Mills, will bring some new residential and retail space, as well as space for an artists co-op. Russ added a lot of fluff to this report by telling it through a glass artist and tossing in a bunch of crap about how she molds stuff and “the world is being molded as well.” Whatever. All i got out of it was that there’s a new development coming that could give the riverside area a boost of new life. The proposal goes before the city’s technical review committee on Monday.
