A foraging school, an art therapy program, a food bank warehouse and more: how Buncombe County might spend $52 million in federal pandemic relief funding

Buncombe commissioners have already awarded $12 million and plan to award another $14 million in the next couple of weeks

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What could $52 million in federal Covid-19 relief cash buy for Buncombe County?

The answer, found in the 140 or so applications that Buncombe County commissioners have received in reply to their public call for proposals on how to use the federal American Rescue Act fundin…