STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA BUNCOMBE COUNTY   GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION 25CV006993-100   DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION,  Plaintiff,  v.  LINDA NEWTON-LASSITER, ET VIR, ET AL,  Defendants.   NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION   TO: UNKNOWN HEIRS OF DONNIE MAE DAVIS   Take notice that pleadings seeking relief against you have been filed in the above-entitled civil action. The nature of the relief being sought is the condemnation and appropriation, for highway purposes, of a certain interests or estates in that certain parcel of land lying and being in Asheville Township, Buncombe County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows:   Being that land described in an Indenture (Deed) dated August 28, 1961 to Donnie Mae Davis, and recorded August 30, 1961 in Book 849, Page 603, Buncombe County Registry. The property description contained in said deed is hereby incorporated by reference. Reference is made to a portion of Lots 47, 48 and 49 as is shown on Book of Maps 154, Page 94, Buncombe County Registry. Also, being that vacant land identified as Tax Parcel ID No. 9638-57-6518-00000 containing approximately 0.080 acre and located off of I-240, north of Vandalia Avenue, in Asheville, NC, as is shown in the Buncombe County Tax Office.   You are hereby required to make defense to such pleadings not later than the 14th day of April 2027, and upon your failure to do so, the party seeking service against you will apply to the Court for the relief sought.    This 4th day of March 2026.   JEFF JACKSON Attorney General /s/Lisa B. Finkelstein Lisa B. Finkelstein Assistant Attorney General North Carolina Department of Justice Transportation Division 1505 Mail Service Center Raleigh, N.C. 27699-1505 Phone: (919) 707-4480 March 4, 11, 18, 2026 #