Answer: Black Mountain Police Chief Steve Parker said he sees as a sinking ship the public safety building in town that normally houses both the police and fire departments. “We’re on a ship,” Parker ...

people need only consider her own experience, she said. Up until Sept. 27, Schmid lived in what she fondly calls her “shanty” — a one-room log cabin in Black Mountain built by family members ...

When she arrived in the Swannanoa Valley last year, Hyde said she established the Black Mountain Business Club. She had ...