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Flood waters ruin more than homes in devastated PlymouthSaturday, July 9, 2011 @ 9:26PMPLYMOUTH - Almost everything Gavin Ayers, 13, and Gabriella Napersky, 11, had left of their father who died 10 years ago was in boxes in the basement of their Coal Street home. Gavin hoped to one day wear his old sweaters and loved to read notes written

This WeekTuesday, June 21, 2011 @ 11:27PMThe 2011 Swannanoa Valley Fine Arts League 44th Annual Juried Exhibit will be held at Tyson Library (Black Mountain Public Library), July 31-August 15. Please visit www.svfal.org for more information and to download the prospectus. Entries are due July 25.

This WeekTuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 11:23PMOwen High School Class of 1981 will hold their 30-year reunion this September 2-4.

Keith Irvine, 82, Eclectic Interior DesignerThursday, June 9, 2011 @ 12:26AMMr. Irvine brought a sense of wit and unpredictability to the English country-house style that won the allegiance of clients like Jacqueline Onassis, Cary Grant and Diana Ross.

Memorial Gay with MondoHomoTuesday, May 24, 2011 @ 4:57AMQueer fest's 'Mondo Posse' chats about Sissy Bounce, analog tweets, embroidery hoops and more by Curt Holman "What if people came to a radical event not because they're trying to join the club or get their politics in place, but because it's the coolest, funnest thing to do?" MondoHomo co-founder Kiki Carr asked herself in 2007.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

more newsSunday, May 22, 2011 @ 2:40AMReba Banta Sewall, 95, passed away peacefully May 15, 2011, at Prospect Park Living Center in Estes Park. She was born in Medina, Texas, on July 9, 1915, to Emma Mayfield Banta and Ernest John Banta. Reba was a member of the First United Church of Crockett, Texas, where she lived much of her life.

Vignettes recall Mount Washington Tavern historySunday, May 22, 2011 @ 1:13AMFARMINGTON — Tony Keefer and Job Miller attempted to play a game of checkers in the bar at Mount Washington Tavern Saturday but stories of the National Road got in the way.

Museums & galleriesFriday, May 20, 2011 @ 3:35AMAgnes Bugera Gallery Storytelling by Sheila Norgate and Meghan Hildebrand. Opens Saturday and runs through June 4. Information: 12310 Jasper Ave., 780-482-2854.

Molly Peacock’s ‘Paper Garden’ is a celebration of creativitySaturday, April 30, 2011 @ 8:01PMWhen prominent poet and memoirist Molly Peacock returns to artist Mary Delany’s “paper garden,” nothing less than a harmonic convergence occurs, uniting two kindred spirits.