Longtime advertising leader James Fisher is leaving the Mountain Xpress. Since joining the paper in 1995, he has been an ad rep, sales manager, ad director and most recently, director of business development.

“Xpress has been an incredible resource for the local business community,” he says. “I feel that we have helped many businesses grow and establish roots.”

It is not clear what Fisher’s next move will be, though on Twitter he promises it will be “good stuff.”

UPDATE, April 21 at 9 am: Ashvegas has the news that Fisher is joining WNC magazine as a senior account executive.