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1 day ago · The lives we lost: George Dixon, renowned blacksmith; Michael and Nora Drye, and their grandson, Micah. Asheville Watchdog is bringing you the stories behind the staggering loss of life from Helene, the children, parents, grandparents, multiple generations of a single family, all gone in one of the worst natural disasters to hit the mountains ...
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Asheville Watchdog is a free, local, not-for-profit, nonpartisan news organization. It was founded in 2020 as a public service by veteran professional journalists and media executives living in and around Asheville, North Carolina. Most members of the staff are volunteers. Our operations are supported entirely by contributions from the community. We …
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Aug 15, 2023 · Past Events. July 24, 2024 … a night that will live in brewery. Now an annual event, Boyle & Beer this year attracted more than 150 fans of Watchdog reporter and columnist John Boyle to the Highland Brewing Company. In true Answer Man form, Asheville’s Favorite Journalist ™️ answered questions from Watchdog Managing Editor Keith Campbell and members of the audience.
Buncombe’s blackout: Severed fiber lines made it impossible to …
Sep 30, 2024 · Nearly 70 percent of western North Carolina’s cell phone towers and equipment are out of service, leaving hundreds of thousands with limited or no cell phone signal, according to federal communications data. Almost all of the towers withstood the damaging winds from Hurricane Helene, but fiber optic lines severed primarily by fallen trees caused a […]
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Oct 8, 2024 · To Dr. Ruchi Moore and her colleagues at Asheville’s Laurel OB/GYN, Hurricane Helene’s onslaught felt like a rerun of the COVID-19 pandemic “plus just an insane snowstorm.”. The storm shuttered the practice, leaving patients in crisis, and destroyed one employee’s home. But Moore and her staff plan to reopen today, even though they ...
City of Asheville’s updates on Helene’s aftermath
Sep 30, 2024 · The following are the city of Asheville’s updates on the aftermath of Hurricane Helene since Sunday afternoon. You can find updates here. Find recovery resources here. Updates by local radio: Public officials are holding news briefings each day at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. The briefings are streamed live on the Buncombe County Facebook Page and have ...
North Carolina AG threatens HCA with litigation
Jun 20, 2023 · The North Carolina Department of Justice today expressed “serious concerns” about HCA Healthcare’s compliance with the commitments it made as a condition of acquiring Asheville’s nonprofit Mission Hospital system in 2019. In a June 20 letter to Greg Lowe, CEO of HCA’s North Carolina Division, the North Carolina Attorney General’s ...
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Oct 7, 2024 · Faced with a continuing water outage and uncertainty over when full sanitation will be restored, the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office has transferred 129 inmates to five other jails across the state and to a mental hospital, Asheville Watchdog has learned — and attorneys for many of the inmates who remain say their clients should be […]
Conditions at Asheville's Mission Hospital pose ... - Asheville …
Jan 12, 2024 · Mission Hospital risks losing Medicare and Medicaid funding because of deficiencies in care that were so severe, state inspectors concluded last month, that they “posed immediate jeopardy to patients’ health and safety,” Asheville Watchdog has learned. “Immediate jeopardy” is the most serious deficiency possible for a hospital. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human […]
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