The Lightning

• Copies of Helene special edition available today April 3, 2025
  We underestimated the demand for Unimaginable, our six-months-later look back on Hurricane Helene. We ordered a new press run. About half of those sold on Wednesday.
• New commissioners block latest effort to outlaw city annexations April 2, 2025
  Henderson County and the city of Hendersonville are either edging toward a new escalation in their decades-long war over water and sewer service or tilting instead toward settlement negotiations.
• Disaster crop loss program open for applications April 2, 2025
  North Carolina Agricultural Disaster Crop Loss Program is accepting online applications through May 4 from farmers who suffered crop losses from Hurricane Helene, Tropical Storm Debby and drought and other weather-related conditions in 2024, Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler announced Wednesday.
• MPO seeks input transportation plans, highway safety April 2, 2025
  The French Broad River MPO is hosting public meetings next week to gather input on two important regional planning initiatives. A drop-in meeting is scheduled from 3 to 6 p.m. Monday, April 7, at the Henderson Public Library, 301 N. Washington St.
• Tickets available for Pardee's Spring Soiree April 2, 2025
  Tickets are now available for Pardee Hospital Foundation’s Spring Soiree, on Friday, April 11, at Kenmure Country Club.
• Pardee lifts visitor restrictions as infectious ailments fall April 2, 2025
  Due to decreasing cases of flu and other respiratory illnesses, UNC Health Pardee lifted temporary age-based visitor restrictions, effective Wednesday, April 2.