The 2012 Southeast Regional Qualifier will be held February 17th – 19th on and around the fabled waters of the Davidson River near Brevard, NC. This year’s regional will feature 32 anglers from 10 states, some travelling to the event from as far away as Wyoming!
Venue Information
Please note: All competition water will be closed to competitors as of December 20th, 2011.
Competition Headquarters
Davidson River Outfitters, the Hampton Inn, and the old Ecusta Parking area will serve as competition headquarters for the event. View these locations in relationship to one another here.
Catch and Release Waters of the Davidson River
Eight beats placed between the confluences of Looking Glass Creek and Avery Creek. Wild brown and rainbow trout inhabit these waters, many exceeding 20 inches. This venue is located within the boundaries of the Pisgah National Forest. (Approx. GPS 35.17528,-82.46267 to 35.17271, -82.44214). View the map here.
Practice waters include all water above the confluence with Looking Glass Creek.
Private Water of Davidson River Outfitters
Competitors at the 2011 Winter Stonefly Classicwill have an opportunity to fish some of the best private water in the state, courtesy of Kevin Howell and Davidson River Outfitters! This private stretch of the Davidson is inhabited by large rainbow and brown trout and is fishable only by appointment. Contact DRO at (828) 877-4181 or visit http://www.davidsonflyfishing.com/ for details.
Practice waters include the hatchery supported waters above DRO, extending to the confluence with Avery Creek.
East Fork of the French Broad
Eight beats placed within the boundaries of the Delayed Harvest waters of the East Fork. This venue is located within the boundaries of the Pisgah National Forest. Both wild trout and stocked trout (managed by the North Carolina Wildlife Resource Commission) inhabit these waters. (Approx. GPS 35.132852,-82.792121 to 35.135023,-82.776232) View the map here.
Practice waters include the Delayed Harvest waters above the competition waters (Richard’s Corner and above). See map above for visual reference.
Tanassee Creek Reservoir
This venue is located within the boundaries of the Pisgah National Forest, with a public boat dock provided courtesy of Duke Energy. Stocked rainbow and brown trout, managed by the North Carolina Wildlife Resource Commission, inhabit this lake. View the map here.
Practice waters include Wolf Creek Lake, located just a short drive past Tanassee.
Airport, Accomodations, and Tournament Headquarters
The town of Brevard, NC is excited to host the 2012 SE Qualifier! Just a short 20 minute drive south of the Asheville airport, Brevard and Transylvania County are known as the ”Land of Waterfalls”…with good reason. Visit http://www.visitwaterfalls.com/ for more information on this great North Carolina town!
Discounted hotel rates of $49.00 per night (10 rooms 2/15 through 2/16, 40 rooms 2/17 through 2/18) have been provided by the Hampton Inn – Brevard. This hotel is 2 minutes from competition headquarters and will house the final award ceremonies. E-mail Casey Austin at casey.austin@hilton.com to make your reservation.
Davidson River Outfitters will serve as the competition headquarters for the qualifier. Visit http://www.davidsonflyfishing.com/ for more information.
Controllers and Sector Judges
Controllers and sector judges are needed for the tournament. If you are interested in volunteering, please complete the contact form included below.
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Friday, January 27, 2012
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Sierra Nevada to bring brewery to Mills River near Asheville Airport
Written by Tony Kiss
MILLS RIVER — It’s finally official. Sierra Nevada Brewing of Chico, Calif., will build its long anticipated east coast expansion brewery in Mills River, Gov. Beverly Perdue and state and local officials announced today.
The brewery will employ 90 full-time workers and offer 80 part-time jobs. The plant represents a $100 million dollar investment, officials said.
The brewery, which will become Western North Carolina’s largest beer-maker, will be built at the Ferncliff Industrial Park near the Asheville Regional Airport. Next-door Buncombe County is currently home to 10 craft breweries, and others are located around the mountains, including Southern Appalachian in downtown Hendersonville.
“This is a fantastic day for the beer community and for Asheville and Western North Carolina,” said Asheville Brewing president Mike Rangel, who has long sold Sierra Nevada beers at his pizzeria and brewpub. “It really establishes us as more of a craft brewing mecca.”
Another major American craft brewery, New Belgium of Fort Collins, Colo., has said Asheville is on its “short list” for its East Coast expansion, but has said it won’t made a decision until February.
The announcement ends months of speculation on where Sierra Nevada would set up shop. In October, it appeared that Black Mountain was in the running for the brewery, when the board of alderman asked the state to fast-track a new Interstate 40 interchange for an unnamed West Coast brewery that was looking to expand. But the request was denied by the N.C. Department of Transportation.
Sierra Nevada also considered a location in Blount County, Tenn., near Alcoa, but ultimately bypassed that area too.
America’s sixth largest craft brewery, Sierra Nevada was founded in 1979 and delivered its first beers in 1980 in the earliest days of the American craft brewing movement. It’s popular Pale Ale is the nation’s second best-selling craft beer. The Chico brewery operation employees about 450 people.
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MILLS RIVER — It’s finally official. Sierra Nevada Brewing of Chico, Calif., will build its long anticipated east coast expansion brewery in Mills River, Gov. Beverly Perdue and state and local officials announced today.
The brewery will employ 90 full-time workers and offer 80 part-time jobs. The plant represents a $100 million dollar investment, officials said.
The brewery, which will become Western North Carolina’s largest beer-maker, will be built at the Ferncliff Industrial Park near the Asheville Regional Airport. Next-door Buncombe County is currently home to 10 craft breweries, and others are located around the mountains, including Southern Appalachian in downtown Hendersonville.
“This is a fantastic day for the beer community and for Asheville and Western North Carolina,” said Asheville Brewing president Mike Rangel, who has long sold Sierra Nevada beers at his pizzeria and brewpub. “It really establishes us as more of a craft brewing mecca.”
Another major American craft brewery, New Belgium of Fort Collins, Colo., has said Asheville is on its “short list” for its East Coast expansion, but has said it won’t made a decision until February.
The announcement ends months of speculation on where Sierra Nevada would set up shop. In October, it appeared that Black Mountain was in the running for the brewery, when the board of alderman asked the state to fast-track a new Interstate 40 interchange for an unnamed West Coast brewery that was looking to expand. But the request was denied by the N.C. Department of Transportation.
Sierra Nevada also considered a location in Blount County, Tenn., near Alcoa, but ultimately bypassed that area too.
America’s sixth largest craft brewery, Sierra Nevada was founded in 1979 and delivered its first beers in 1980 in the earliest days of the American craft brewing movement. It’s popular Pale Ale is the nation’s second best-selling craft beer. The Chico brewery operation employees about 450 people.
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
From City Council to the Brevard Chamber
City Council has embarked upon a process to develop a Community Development Strategy for the City of Brevard. The primary purpose of this process is to identify strategies to best position the City of Brevard to serve as an economic engine for Transylvania County and to find success in the changing regional and global economy. The staff respectfully invites the Chamber membership to participate in a public input session on January 31, 2012, 8:00 AM at the Rogow Room of the Transylvania County Library, 212 South Gaston Street, Brevard, NC. Visit the link above for further details.
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Monday, January 16, 2012
Brewery tapping perfect site in Brevard
By Gary GlancyTimes-News Staff Writer
Published: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:57 p.m.
By the time the wildflowers are in full bloom next year in Pisgah National Forest, outdoor enthusiasts might be able to emerge from a day in the woods and enjoy a cold, hand-crafted, hometown beer.
Kyle Williams, owner of Brevard Brewing Company, stands outside his new location on Main Street in Brevard Monday.Patrick Sullivan/TimesNews
The Brevard Brewing Co., expected to open downtown sometime next spring, will become the city's — and Transylvania County's — only commercial brewery. It will be on 63 E. Main St., between Kiwi Gelato and a future deli in the space formerly occupied by Jason's Main Street Grill and then Docks restaurant.
The initial business plan for owner and brewer Kyle Williams, 28, is to produce mainly lagers — German and American-style — to be distributed to draft-only accounts in Brevard, Hendersonville and possibly Asheville, with a tasting room in the adjoining former Docks bar area. Patrons also will be able to buy take-home growlers of Williams' beer.
Construction on the space is expected to begin this week.
"I had considered a couple of locations — Asheville being one of them — but there were too many breweries in Asheville and then I found this place," said Williams, who lives in Erwin, Tenn. "The building, in particular, is perfectly suited for what I need and there are, obviously, no breweries in Brevard. Everything with this location just worked out better than anything else, so that's why I ended up choosing Brevard."
The owner of the building, Micah Ansley, said he's spent the past year trying to recruit a microbrewery that also would serve as a music venue since Docks closed. It would be an ideal fit, he said, for a town known for the arts but lacking many places to hear live music.
"Brevard, during these tough economic times, has lost some businesses downtown and in the area, as well as most of our major manufacturing like most of Western North Carolina has experienced," Ansley said. "And due to the fact that we're kind of a tourism place — Land of Waterfalls — we rely on creating goods and services that tourists can enjoy, with the locals being able to enjoy it as well."
Ansley also was impressed with Williams' brewing experience, work ethic and passion. Williams recently spent two years as a brewer at popular Pisgah Brewing in Black Mountain, and he thinks Brevard is ready for a place to call its own.
"You've got a heavy tourist demographic, so there's always going to be people rolling through here, and then there's the outdoor crowd, which is also a demographic that tends to like craft brew," Williams said.
"Then you've got the locals. Everybody I've talked to, all the shop owners, business owners downtown, are all super excited. So there's a pretty good, solid customer base here."
Madrid Zimmerman, executive director of nonprofit Heart of Brevard, which focuses on downtown economic development, said that last fall the organization's business recruitment committee met to identify some of the new businesses it wanted to see in downtown Brevard, and a microbrewery was the No. 1 choice.
"I think when you think of brewery, it's a craft, and we're all about promoting local craftsmanship," Zimmerman said. "When you combine that with our incredible natural resources, it's a perfect fit."
She added that attractions such as Sliding Rock, Looking Glass Falls and a slew of hiking and biking trails in Pisgah are a "true magnet for a lot of people to come here, and adding the local craftsmanship of brew is just another element that showcases what this region is all about."
Williams — who will be a one-man business operation aside from bartenders for the tasting room — can find encouragement from the success of Southern Appalachian Brewery, which in late April became Hendersonville's first brewery.
SAB, which local law at the time required to open as a private club, had about 3,000 members in its first three months and currently stands at more than 4,300 members.
"We've had a tremendous outpouring of support from the community, even before we opened," SAB co-owner Kelly Cubbin said.
"We had people stopping by pretty much every day we were working. We'd have dry wall and paint all over us and people coming by just to say, ‘Hey, we're excited ... congratulations ...' It was pretty incredible, and I feel it's continued on a daily basis."
Williams already has purchased a 3.5-barrel brewing system that will give him an annual production capacity of about 1,000 barrels — or about 31,000 gallons. A
bout 75 percent of what he brews will be lagers such as pilsners, amber and black lagers, and Oktoberfests.
"It's something that's lacking in not just the immediate area but in the craft-brewing industry in general," Williams said. "Lagers take twice as long to make — you have to be more patient with them — so it's more profitable to do all ales. But nobody does lagers ... which are smoother and a little easier to drink."
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Published: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 10:57 p.m.
By the time the wildflowers are in full bloom next year in Pisgah National Forest, outdoor enthusiasts might be able to emerge from a day in the woods and enjoy a cold, hand-crafted, hometown beer.
Kyle Williams, owner of Brevard Brewing Company, stands outside his new location on Main Street in Brevard Monday.Patrick Sullivan/TimesNews
The Brevard Brewing Co., expected to open downtown sometime next spring, will become the city's — and Transylvania County's — only commercial brewery. It will be on 63 E. Main St., between Kiwi Gelato and a future deli in the space formerly occupied by Jason's Main Street Grill and then Docks restaurant.
The initial business plan for owner and brewer Kyle Williams, 28, is to produce mainly lagers — German and American-style — to be distributed to draft-only accounts in Brevard, Hendersonville and possibly Asheville, with a tasting room in the adjoining former Docks bar area. Patrons also will be able to buy take-home growlers of Williams' beer.
Construction on the space is expected to begin this week.
"I had considered a couple of locations — Asheville being one of them — but there were too many breweries in Asheville and then I found this place," said Williams, who lives in Erwin, Tenn. "The building, in particular, is perfectly suited for what I need and there are, obviously, no breweries in Brevard. Everything with this location just worked out better than anything else, so that's why I ended up choosing Brevard."
The owner of the building, Micah Ansley, said he's spent the past year trying to recruit a microbrewery that also would serve as a music venue since Docks closed. It would be an ideal fit, he said, for a town known for the arts but lacking many places to hear live music.
"Brevard, during these tough economic times, has lost some businesses downtown and in the area, as well as most of our major manufacturing like most of Western North Carolina has experienced," Ansley said. "And due to the fact that we're kind of a tourism place — Land of Waterfalls — we rely on creating goods and services that tourists can enjoy, with the locals being able to enjoy it as well."
Ansley also was impressed with Williams' brewing experience, work ethic and passion. Williams recently spent two years as a brewer at popular Pisgah Brewing in Black Mountain, and he thinks Brevard is ready for a place to call its own.
"You've got a heavy tourist demographic, so there's always going to be people rolling through here, and then there's the outdoor crowd, which is also a demographic that tends to like craft brew," Williams said.
"Then you've got the locals. Everybody I've talked to, all the shop owners, business owners downtown, are all super excited. So there's a pretty good, solid customer base here."
Madrid Zimmerman, executive director of nonprofit Heart of Brevard, which focuses on downtown economic development, said that last fall the organization's business recruitment committee met to identify some of the new businesses it wanted to see in downtown Brevard, and a microbrewery was the No. 1 choice.
"I think when you think of brewery, it's a craft, and we're all about promoting local craftsmanship," Zimmerman said. "When you combine that with our incredible natural resources, it's a perfect fit."
She added that attractions such as Sliding Rock, Looking Glass Falls and a slew of hiking and biking trails in Pisgah are a "true magnet for a lot of people to come here, and adding the local craftsmanship of brew is just another element that showcases what this region is all about."
Williams — who will be a one-man business operation aside from bartenders for the tasting room — can find encouragement from the success of Southern Appalachian Brewery, which in late April became Hendersonville's first brewery.
SAB, which local law at the time required to open as a private club, had about 3,000 members in its first three months and currently stands at more than 4,300 members.
"We've had a tremendous outpouring of support from the community, even before we opened," SAB co-owner Kelly Cubbin said.
"We had people stopping by pretty much every day we were working. We'd have dry wall and paint all over us and people coming by just to say, ‘Hey, we're excited ... congratulations ...' It was pretty incredible, and I feel it's continued on a daily basis."
Williams already has purchased a 3.5-barrel brewing system that will give him an annual production capacity of about 1,000 barrels — or about 31,000 gallons. A
bout 75 percent of what he brews will be lagers such as pilsners, amber and black lagers, and Oktoberfests.
"It's something that's lacking in not just the immediate area but in the craft-brewing industry in general," Williams said. "Lagers take twice as long to make — you have to be more patient with them — so it's more profitable to do all ales. But nobody does lagers ... which are smoother and a little easier to drink."
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
Asheville and Buncombe County Bank Owned Properties
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Asheville Bank Owned Properties
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Asheville Bank Owned Properties
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Bank Owned Properties in Transylvania and Brevard
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Bank Owned Properties for Transylvania
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Bank Owned Properties for Transylvania
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