Henderson County (Feb 29, 2024) - Interfaith Assistance Ministry celebrates 40 years of serving needy families through its food pantry, clothing closet and crisis services at 6 o clock tonight with its "Leaping into the Next 40 Years" concert by the Hendersonville Swing Band at Bo Thomas Auditorium at Blue Ridge Community College.
Henderson County (Feb 7, 2022) - Interfaith Assistance Ministry recently welcomed aboard six new members who are volunteering their time and expertise to serve on the Board of Directors of Henderson County’s largest nonprofit provider of crisis services.
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Local radio station WTZQ 95.3 FM and AM 1600 has been purchased by Mark Warwick and Paige Posey and their company, Flat Rock Multimedia LLC.
“It’s a dream come true,” Warwick, long-time general manager, said in a news release. “This has been part of the strategic plan for many years and this February the purchase of the station was finalized.”
Business partners and former owners J. Ardell and Remelle Sink have built their radio stations, WKYK in Burnsville and WTOE in Spruce Pine, with an emphasis on being hyper-local. Embracing and employing that philosophy is how Paige and I have made WTZQ our Q-Munity radio station, Warwick said in the release. With the finalization of the sale, sponsors, advertisers and supporters can be sure that every dollar spent promoting their products and services on WTZQ will remain right here in Henderson County.”
A divided nation made its choices in the elections. A long-running zoning dispute over housing on the Tap Root Dairy property finally came to an end while the land-use fight over an asphalt plant in East Flat Rock fizzled to an uncertain resolution. Downtown could be transformed by hotel and parking deck plans that neared the dirt-turning stage as the year drew to a close. Cloaked over every hour of every day from March 3 on was the coronavirus and its wide-ranging impacts. Covid-19 cases devastated long-term care facilities as the virus swept in. The pandemic claimed the Flat Rock Playhouse and Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra seasons, the North Carolina Apple Festival, prep football and more. Here is the Lightning’s annual Top 10 news stories from an unforgettable year.