Bill Moss

The forecast for snow and ice starting on Friday afternoon and sticking around a while is growing more certain by the hour. Our area could see snow starting around 1 p.m. Friday and continuing into mid-morning Saturday — 80 percent chance Friday and 30 percent Saturday.

After Helene it was clear every storm threat to follow would seem like a piker.

Causing nearly $170 million worth of agriculture damage, Hurricane Helene left many farms teetering on the edge of extinction, Henderson County commissioners were told last week.

Soccer players will get high-quality fields and Hendersonville High School’s tennis and softball teams will have a home in the new Berkeley Park sports complex.

A 33-year-old tree company owner who faces four DWI charges in two counties told a state trooper that he “could drink all day and never feel it,” boasted that he had once consumed “five times the limit and never felt anything” and declared that as a “very high functioning” alcoholic he was fine to drive on the afternoon when he T-boned an SUV carrying a family of four, court records said.

An overnight fire on Friday destroyed Mills Fire Station 2 and everything inside, including a brush truck that Mills River firefighters planned to deploy in a mutual aid mission to help fight the California wildfires, Henderson County Fire Marshal Kevin Waldrup said.

A four-story justice center, medical office buildings and recreational amenities will change the face of Hendersonville in the coming months and years courtesy of county, state and federal taxpayers, private donors and medical patients and insurers.

A full plate of capital projects — saying nothing of the high-priority Hurricane Helene recovery and rebuild — did not prevent Henderson County commissioners from announcing their wish list.

A 47-year-old man pleaded guilty last week to voluntary manslaughter in the death of a pedestrian struck and killed on Spartanburg Highway in October 2023, District Attorney R. Andrew Murray announced.

The final resting place of the Shepherd family funeral business, one of the most respected Hendersonville services for more than 100 years, is likely to be the steps of the Henderson County Courthouse.