A modest proposal for reviving Ghost Town in the Sky Cory Vaillancourt photo
By Case Brown • Guest Columnist | The on-and-off again investment deals for the embattled Ghost Town amusement park are familiar to anyone who reads these pages. Multiple meandering deals and their abrupt course corrections feel remarkably like the Black Widow ride that used to jerkily sling mountain ilk around to the soothing sounds of raging death metal picked by the latest pimpled carnie operator.
Puke-inducing memories aside, I have a modest proposal for the beleaguered beast atop Maggie’s Buck Mountain. We have the unique opportunity here to increase renewable energy storage and resolve the overtourism problem burgeoning in the mountain region.
Biden’s American Rescue Plan means millions for NC local governments President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan (ARP) on March 11. whitehouse.gov photo
While most Americans are looking forward to receiving the $1,400 payments included in President Joe Biden’s $1.88 trillion American Rescue Plan (ARP) passed by Congress on March 6, counties and towns across the country are also eagerly awaiting a stimulus package of their own.
“A major part of this package is related to direct help to local municipal governments,” said Canton Mayor Zeb Smathers, who is also chair of the Southwestern Commission, a consortium of local governments in North Carolina’s seven westernmost counties. “I’ve never known a time where there would be such a direct payment. With that comes a lot of excitement, but a lot of unknowns, and this is going to kickstart dynamic conversations on how to spend that money.”
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March 23, 2021
Imagine if Jesus stood before you with a golden envelope. The envelope contains an invitation to know and experience Jesus like never before. To discover Christ in His breathtaking beauty, His staggering strength, His wondrous power, and the depths of His relentless love for you.
Would you take the envelope?
Or would you say,
Eh, I’m good. I don’t like the packaging. Not for me.
To be honest, for most of my life, that’s how I’ve thought of Revelation.
Maybe you have, too.
For me, my aversion comes from childhood. I was raised by free-spirited parents who became believers during the Jesus movement of the 1970s.