About the front page pictures, from left to right…


• Aabani Salon and Spa owner Jim Kitchens and stylist Brandi Bailey took the Weaverville Tribune with them to London while attending the 2010 Salon International Hair Show.


• Weaverville resident Doug Theroux reunited with an old Navy friend, Jack Chiocca, for the first time in 43 years.


• Workers for Craggy Mountain Line repaired portions of a track in Woodfin in hopes of opening the a stretch of the railway for tourists in the coming years.


• President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama are greeted while hiking near Ox Creek. Official White House photo courtesy of Pete Souza.


• Weaverville resident Scott Litton looked on the Appalachian Trail during his six-month hike this year.


• Savannah, Ga., resident Eric Beba passed through Weaverville on foot on his way to Chicago in hopes of meeting Oprah Winfrey to spread a message of peace to his native Africa.


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