College Street Parking Is Open

Finally, parking is available downtown.

Test Your Home for Radon - FREE!

Get a FREE Radon Test Kit during the month of January!

Getting Back OnTrack: A New Year’s Resolution that Makes Cents!

OnTrack, a non-profit credit counseling service, provides you with workable ways to jump start your financial new year for the better.

2009 National Girls & Women in Sports Day

Women and girls (ages 6 and up): here is your chance to try a new sport or fitness class, or build skills in a sport of interest.

Focus on Health: MRSA

MRSA is a type of staph germ that is hard to treat with some commonly used antibiotics.

Winter is Not a Wonderland for Pets

Asheville Humane Society would like to remind families with pets to take a few precautions during the cold weather months to ensure the safety and well-being of your furry companion.

Pet Pictures of the Week - Best Friends Available

Can you give a dog a home? Maybe a cat? How about a kitten? These animals need your help.

Recipe of the Week - "Alice Springs Chicken"

Congratulations to Tamera Henson for her Alice Springs Chicken" recipe!

Like going a couple of rounds with Tyson, high blood sugar can do a number on your vital organs. But eating this may give it a one-two punch right back: broccoli.

The tasty green florets are ripped with sulforaphane, a compound that seems to help keep high blood sugar goons on their best behavior, so they do less damage.

Pass the Antioxidants, Please

When your blood sugar is chronically high, it can damage the cells of your heart, eyes, kidneys, and nerves. But in a recent Petri dish study, adding sulforaphane to a mix of blood vessel cells and glucose cut oxidation (damage) by as much as 73 percent. More research is needed to see if sulforaphane in the diet is as protective. But we already know that the compound is a super cancer fighter. So down the hatch -- make this EatingWell.com broccoli dish tonight for extra sulforaphane: Corn and Broccoli Calzones.

Source: RealAge.com

Join Extension Master Gardeners for this program on January 13 at 10am at the North Carolina Arboretum. Tuesday is free admission day at the Arboretum - no registration required.

For more information, call Buncombe County Cooperative Extension at 255-5522.

What can you do about colds and flu? The FDA offers tips for prevention and treatment.

Have you visited a County department or talked to someone with Buncombe County by phone lately? How'd we do? We want to improve and we'd love to hear what you think.

You can give feedback anytime by selecting "feedback" under quick links on the left side of the buncombecounty.org home page.

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