Free Day at Asheville Art Museum, Dam Removal & More
The Asheville Art Museum hosts a free community day, Black Mountain's golf course secures restoration funds, and Asheville plans the Lake Craig Dam removal. Across Western North Carolina, Canton plans new Pigeon River access, Working Wheels delivers its final replacement car, and Graveyard Fields opens a new connector trail.
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Episode transcript
Maggie: This is Good News Asheville, your daily dose of good, for Saturday, October 10, 2026. Hi, I'm Maggie.
Ben: And I'm Ben. Let's jump right into the good news.
Maggie: Good News Asheville is made possible by Dylan Lennon, Realtor with Unique: A Real Estate Collective, helping neighbors buy and sell homes all across Western North Carolina.
Ben: If you're looking for Saturday plans, the Asheville Art Museum is offering free admission today from eleven to five for a Community Day celebrating The Art of Paper, complete with live music, performances, and paperweaving.
Maggie: Out in Black Mountain, the municipal golf course received over one point two million dollars in county tourism tax funds to launch the first phases of major restorations.
Ben: Along the Swannanoa River, Asheville plans to use FEMA funds to remove the storm-damaged Lake Craig Dam, which will reduce flooding and reopen the river to fish.
Maggie: In Canton, a seventy-three-acre property near Pisgah High School was turned over to the town for a new public river access point on the Pigeon River as early as next summer.
Ben: Out in Bethel, Haywood Christian Ministry is planning a commercial kitchen so local growers and the food pantry can turn surplus produce into usable food instead of letting it go to waste.
Maggie: And in Asheville, Working Wheels just distributed its forty-sixth and final vehicle, officially concluding its Helene replacement car program.
Ben: For a few quick microdoses: on the Blue Ridge Parkway, a new one-mile trail opened linking John Rock Overlook to the Graveyard Fields valley floor.
Maggie: Haywood Community College joined a regional partnership to train twelve hundred workers, and also received grant funding to expand daytime commercial driving classes.
Ben: Plus, Haywood County has now seen over eighty million dollars in FEMA commitments for recovery and rebuilding.
Maggie: You can get your daily dose of good sent right to your inbox with the free newsletter at good news asheville dot com.
Ben: Have a wonderful weekend, Asheville!
Adapted from Good News Asheville - October 10, 2026 - Issue #142.
Good News Asheville is made possible by Dylan Lennon, REALTOR® with Unique: A Real Estate Collective, helping neighbors buy and sell homes across Western North Carolina. dylanlennon.com