Buncombe County officials scheduled a discussion about the controversial multi-million dollar hotel tax, then pulled it while declining to given an explanation.
But it wasn t a candidate for condemnation at that time. Then when the complaint resurfaced (this year), we went back out, Stone said. The solarium over the pool had been destroyed, and the house was wide open. That’s when we moved forward with the condemnation.”
The property owners could have chosen to secure the property and fill in the pool, Stone said, but they moved ahead to demolition.
“I don’t know – maybe they just felt the property was more valuable to just remove it at that point,” Stone said. “It is a big chunk of land.”
County tax records show the property has an assessed tax value of $1,079,400, although the building has a value of $0. It sits on 9.95 acres.
Fabiola Patricio wants everyone to succeed in school.
For that to happen, The Nesbitt Discovery Academy junior said, more students need to speak up about the educational experience they re having. And more adults need to listen. The education system that we have is the education system we are taught by, she said. We are the future of this country, so I really feel that for us to succeed not that we can t with what we have right now we need to make the best out of it and ensure that we have an education system that is best at what it does, and that is really pushing students to graduate, to have a career.
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Asheville PEAK Academy, the city s newest charter school, announced its new director: Sherry Whitesides Poole, who is director of career & technical education with Asheville City Schools and daughter of Buncombe County Commissioner Al Whitesides.
Poole will finish her current position in June and start at PEAK Academy, which is slated to open for the 2021-22 school year.
Shortly after, the PEAK Academy board of directors began the search for a new leader, who will serve as the principal and vice principal for the school’s first few years, Foulke said.
The board announced Poole’s hire May 19.
Poole has worked for ACS since 2016, starting as Asheville High School assistant principal before moving to positions in career development and technical education.