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weaverville WEEKLY
COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
June 24 - June 30, 2010 Vol. 8 • No. 25 Woodfin • Weaverville • Barnardsville Fifty Cents Wrong way driver wreaks havoc
By Clint Parker A momentary lapse in judgment
led to a wreck Tuesday night (June 22) on the future Interstate 26, caus- ing hours of traffic delays and poten- tially years of legal trouble for the reckless driver. Authorities arrested and charged
Georgia resident Jon Frederick Coo- per, 31, with reckless driving, driv- ing while intoxicated and felony hit and run after he drove his Mitsubi- shi Montero into oncoming traffic in the eastbound lanes near Flat Creek, forcing a tractor-trailer to swerve and turn onto its side. Cooper had a blood alcohol content level of .23, nearly three times the legal limit. According to N.C. Highway Pa- trol Trooper R.E. Baker, Cooper en-
An overturned tractor-trailer blocks interstate traffic after swerving to avoid an collision.
tered the interstate around 7:15 pm from the Flat Creek exit and headed toward Mars Hill in the wrong lanes, causing the driver of an oncom-
ing tractor-trailer to sideswipe the Montero and overturn. Te injured driver, whose name was not immedi-
Continued on page 20 Versant water tank remains dry
By Matt Tate Te wait for a new rush of water
for some Woodfin water customers continues. A water tank near Baird Cove Road
is still dry, and Woodfin Sanitary Water and Sewer District Director Joe Martin now hopes for the tank to
be ready by the end of the year. All that remains to be completed
is the instillation of a system linking the tank to the primary storage unit at Reynolds Mountain, control wire and valve work, Martin said. Te tank’s construction has been
mired by the bankruptcy of the Ver- sant development, the high-end Eu- ropean community it was designed to
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service, thus slowing its completion. Current Woodfin water custom-
ers in the area would also receive the benefits of the new tank, and several have been waiting on its completion for more than a year. Dennis Murphy of the Sunny
Ridge development said a new tank cannot come fast enough. Sunny
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HELPING OUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS!
Decision on concrete plant permit set
By Matt Tate An air quality agency will make
a decision Tursday (June 24) on whether to grant a permit for a controversial concrete plant in Flat Creek. Te WNC Regional Air Quality
Agency is set to determine whether Blue Ridge Concrete will receive an
air quality permit, the last permit the company needs to begin mixing concrete at its site on Murphy Hill Road. Some grading is already under way.
Te plant and its owners have
drawn the ire of many area residents as well as county officials. A May 26 public hearing on the permit prompted more than 30 indi-
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Phone 645-6300 • Fax 645-0065 •
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