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COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER


November 11 - November 17, 2010 Vol. 8 • No. 45


Woodfin • Weaverville • Barnardsville Leicester • Erwin Hills • Alexander • West Buncombe • Newfound


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Driver of fatal accident charged


By Clint Parker Te driver of a fatal accident


Oct. 19 on New Stock Road that killed an Arden teen has been charged and arraigned on a misdemeanor death by vehicle


charge. Weaverville resident Jonathan


Mayfield faces up to 60 days in jail if found guilty of the Class A1 misdemeanor, according to state statutes. N.C. Highway Patrol troop- ers say Mayfield was traveling 75


Bomb threat suspect located


By Matt Tate A temporary Termo Fisher


Scientific employee is charged with calling in a false bomb report at the Weaverville plant. Det. Alan Wyatt with the


Weaverville Police Department arrested John Gregory Ollis of Candler on Tursday (Nov. 4) without incident. Weaverville police responded


to the bomb threat in the early- morning hours of Oct. 26 after re- ceiving a call about a bomb being in the building. Tey conducted


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John Gregory Ollis faces one felony charge.


Local reflects on Appalachian Trail hike


See story on page 6 “Where Customers Send Their Friends”


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miles per hour in a 45 miles per hour section of New Stock Road when he ran off the right side of the road and overcorrected, send- ing the vehicle airborne and down a 25-foot embankment on the left side of the road. Te vehicle struck a tree on the passenger side, kill- ing passenger Danielle Melrose. Witnesses at the scene said an- other car was closely following


the Pontiac Firebird that Mayfield was driving. Sgt. Pat Staggs with the N.C.


Highway Patrol said Wednesday (Nov. 10) they had not located the driver of the other vehicle and “believe the driver of the vehicle was a possible witness to the ac- cident” and that the other car was not involved in the incident. Staggs said he could not speak


as to whether Mayfield, 20, has any recollection of the accident. “I can’t really, at this point, get


into the evidence without permis- sion of the district attorney,” he said. He then reiterated his previous


statement, saying, “It was a one- vehicle accident, and the driver has been charged with misde- meanor death by vehicle.”


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