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The 46-year-old man fell from a “very large outcropping” adjacent to Big Falls on the Thompson River, located in Pisgah National Forest south of N.C. Highway 281 South, around 5:15 p.m. Sunday, said Chief Bobby Cooper of the Lake Toxaway Fire Rescue.

It took his female hiking companion several hours to reach the Bad Creek Hydroelectric Plant via the Foothills Trail and call 911, Cooper said.

Emergency responders were dispatched around 10 p.m. Sunday and searched until 2 a.m. Monday, he said. They resumed searching around 9 a.m., with North Carolina teams working south from Highway 281 toward the remote accident site and South Carolina rescuers working north from Bad Creek.

A search team finally reached remote Big Falls, the last of four waterfalls along the Thompson’s rugged course, around 3:30 p.m., Cooper said. Rescuers could see the man’s body at the lower end of Big Falls, wedged between two rocks.

“It’s such a remote area, we’re going to need ropes to set up (a) technical rescue to get the body out, and we’re not going to do that at night,” Cooper said, adding the body recovery would resume at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday.

Relatives of the man were at the rescue scene

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The Asheville Downtown Association will meet with city of Asheville staff and elected officials Oct. 21 to discuss a number of issues that “can no longer be overlooked,” according to an email to its members. The issues include trash, recycling, street sweeping, panhandling, transients, drugs and topless women.

“We wanted to make you aware of some work we have been doing behind the scenes to keep our Downtown vibrant, clean and safe,” the email from ADA President Adrian Vassallo reads, noting an Oct. 11 meeting between Vassallo, ADA issues

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In announcing the lawmakers’ meeting with Obama, the White House said the president would repeat a vow he has made consistently in recent weeks: “We will not pay a ransom for Congress reopening the government and raising the debt limit.”

The prospect of a default and the possibility of a follow-on recession largely overshadowed the partial government shutdown that has furloughed 350,000 federal workers. Government research labs have been affected, veterans’ services curtailed and much of the Occupational Safety and Health Organization shuttered.

With federal parks off-limits to visitors, the impact on tourism prompted several governors to petition Interior Secretary Sally Jewell successfully to permit the states to finance some reopenings.

The shutdown began on Oct. 1, at the beginning of the budget year, after the House adopted a strategy of conditioning broad federal spending legislation to a proposal to starve the three-year-old health care law of funding.

The president and Democrats refused, and the long struggle began, merging quickly with the fast-approaching deadline for a debt limit increase.

In the two weeks since, public opinion polls have charted a steady decline in Republican approval ratings, and an increase in the

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I’m no fan of Obamacare, either, mainly because its rules and regulations resulted from a grand bargain between the Democrats and lobbyists for the pharmaceutical and insurance industries. It’s not difficult to imagine the many millions of dollars going into the Democratic campaign coffers in exchange for a seat at the health care law design table.

However, as reprehensible as the process was, it was done within the laws of our nation by those who were legally elected to represent us during the 2008 campaign.

The Republicans’ strategy to defund Obamacare has resulted in the government shutdown, which is causing harm to millions of innocent Americans. They could have chosen to take a legal path to change the law — by winning the next couple of elections and returning to majority power in both houses and the presidency. Clearly they rightfully aren’t optimistic about their chances.

The current GOP strategy nearly guarantees it will never happen. By following the lead of their tea party loyalist members, the Republicans have deeply offended the majority of moderate voters whether registered as Democrats, Republicans or independents. Along with the steadily declining voting power of white Americans and the complete failure of the GOP to attract minority

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West Asheville’s newest concert venue The Mothlight held its grand opening this weekend, selling out its first Saturday-night show and giving music lovers a fresh hangout on Haywood Road.

About 250 people came to check out the airy, newly renovated space Saturday, Oct. 12. Exposed rafters, brick walls and lighting dim enough for an Outback Steakhouse set the mood for an upbeat crowd of Ashevilleans. As a private club, first-time visitors had to sign up and sign in at the door before getting their wrist stamped.

Local musician Jaye Bartell warmed up the crowd before Chicago-turned-Asheville indie-folk singer Angel Olsen took the stage. Her rich

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Howard Neufeld is known as the Fall Color Guy. It’s his Facebook page – facebook.com/fallcolorguy – his twitter handle (@fallcolorguy) and it’s the role he’s adopted. This biology professor at Appalachian State is one of the few scientists worldwide to study the hows and why of fall color. His color forecasts are as accurate as they get, and he’s worked with everyone from the N.C. Division of Tourism to Explore Asheville to get the word out about Western North Carolina’s fall leaves. Why? Because he loves fall, has a passion for the science behind the beauty, and because he wants you to get out and enjoy nature in all its glory.

Q. What gave you the passion for leaves and the science behind why they change colors?