The city has been offering public ice-skating since the days of the Asheville Smoke, the city’s professional ice-hockey team that played at the Civic Center from 1998 to 2002. Bass, who started ...

ASHEVILLE — For all the years Dianna Reed has lived away from Asheville, she still remembers her first real concert at the Civic Center ... and two hockey clubs: the Asheville Smoke and ...

ASHEVILLE – It’s been more ... pun to those who remember the minor league hockey team, the Asheville Smoke), when the then-Asheville Civic Center closed its ice rink in 2009.

The newly formed Asheville ... basketball, hockey, "Arena Racing USA," etc., but also could be geared for recreational sports as filler to keep the building active year-round. This would be a regional ...