The Montford Park Players, North Carolina’s longest running Shakespeare Festival opens Troilus and Cressida (a story of the Trojan War) on Friday, July 30. Troilus and Cressida is set during the later years of the Trojan War, faithfully following [... click heading to read more]

Asheville, NC – The Asheville Masonic Temple Co. and The Montford Park Players, North Carolina’s Longest Running Shakespeare Festival, have finalized an arrangement where the third-floor theatre of The Asheville Masonic Temple, designed by Richard Sharp Smith and constructed [... click heading to read more]

Many thanks to all the wonderful neighbors and friends who helped make the Montford Music and Arts Festival a great success again this year. Even the weather was on our side on a beautiful Saturday, May 22. [... click heading to read more]

With three alternate routes on the table, it’s time for frank discussion and hard decisions. The Montford I-26 Working Group met on May 30 to look at updated maps that were recently provided by the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT). These maps show the final versions of the three alternates (Alternate 3, Alternate 4, and Alternate 4B) that are still under consideration for the I-26 connector. [... click heading to read more]

In May the Montford Neighborhood Association sent a letter to Paige Dickens, CEO of The Health Adventure, requesting a meeting between leaders of the two organizations to reestablish regular and substantive communication. A recent article by Ms. Dickens in the Asheville Citizen-Times cited an indefinite time frame for completing the Momentum project. [... click heading to read more]

We had another fabulous day of music at this year’s Montford Music and Arts Festival, courtesy of the neighborhood association and many generous sponsors. I appreciate this opportunity to recap the performances of that very special day. [... click heading to read more]

The Planning Committee of the Montford Music and Art Festival would like to thank the following sponsors and donors whose support was key to the success of our seventh annual festival. These businesses and individuals, and others equally generous, are the best hope that we’ll be able to have an eighth festival in 2011. [... click heading to read more]

The Montford Music and Arts Festival could not have been the success that it was without the help of so many neighbors who gave generously of their time to help. With some showing up as early as 7:00 a.m., they got right down to business staffing the MNA booth, greeting people at the street barricades, selling merchandise, emptying trash, and doing the ever-important work of setting up and breaking down. [... click heading to read more]

The Preservation Society of Asheville and Buncombe County presented the highly prized Griffin Award to Barbara Benisch and Jacque Allen, owners of 156 Cumberland Avenue, at a ceremony held in the Asheville Masonic Temple on May 18.

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by Joe Newman

The list serve can keep you up to date on all things Montford, from the seriously important to the kinda silly. Take a look at two of the biggest items from the month of May.

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They say you can tell a lot about a person from his hands, and Sean Perry, your Montford neighbor on Cumberland Avenue, is now nationally recognized for his. Perry’s company, The Hands of Sean Perry Co., a licensed building contractor, has been awarded both Remodeling magazine’s Big50 award for excellence in the construction industry and the prestigious Guildmaster 2010 Award with Distinction for exceptional customer satisfaction. [... click heading to read more]

The FLEX program brings high school students, ages 15 to 18, from the former Soviet republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Ukraine to the U.S. for a full academic year exchange. [... click heading to read more]