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Post Reporter Pleaded Guilty Tuesday to December 2014 DWI in Salisbury, N.C....
RFP Staff ♦ This afternoon it came to our attention that Salisbury Post reporter Josh Bergeron pleaded guilty to a DWI before Judge James D. Randolph. Judge Randolph found a DWI level 5 (The lowest...
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Appeals Court Hears Arguments in Alamance Records Case. School Board Wants to...
CarolinaJournal.com/Dan Way ♦ Sound Familiar? Appeals Court Hears Arguments in Alamance Records Case. School Board Wants to Keep Details of Superintendent’s Severance Secret. “A three-judge panel of...
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Lane Bailey Sworn in as Salisbury’s City Manager at Tuesday’s City Council...
RFP Staff ♦ Lane Bailey, 51, was sworn in as Salisbury’s City Manager at Tuesday’s City Council Meeting. The new City Manager was accompanied by his wife Ruth and two children Brennan and Katherine....
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Homeless Man Busted for Alleged Crack Possession While Roosting on a West...
RFP Staff ♦ Rodney Allen “Cadillac” Shannon, 35, a homeless man with a mile long criminal record, was roused from his slumbers early Monday morning by the Salisbury Police. Shannon was passed out on a...
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Letter-to-the Editor: Listening to Ralph Wager Confessed Salisbury, N.C....
Jonathon Morris, U.S. Army Ranger, Ret. and Rowan County Rescue Rancher ♦ I read several online news accounts where Ralph Wager, the former men’s soccer coach at Catawba College in Salisbury, was...
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Photographic Essay: The Civil War in Color
Lindy Powers/Getty Images ♦ Photographic Essay: The Civil War in Color. 30 colorized photographs from the War Between the States....
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Rebecca Bailey Dye of Salisbury, N.C. Charged with Making Harassing Phone...
RFP Staff ♦ “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me…but not 28 years of it!” Rebecca Baily Dye, 63, of the 100 block of Stanley Street in Salisbury was charged at 1 a.m....
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Sheriff’s Office and SBI Shut Down Major Meth Lab Near Rockwell. Highly...
RFP Staff ♦ On Thursday the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office in tandem with the N.C. SBI shut down a major meth lab at 2675 Lower Stone Church Road in the Rockwell area. Arrested in the raid were David...
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Time Warner Cable Starting Maxx Upgrades in the Charlotte Area! Salisbury and...
Btreport.net ♦ Time Warner Cable Starting Maxx Upgrades in the Charlotte Area! Salisbury and Rowan County Go TWC Maxx!...
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Abandoned Salisbury, N.C.: Turning Blight into Dyn-A-Mite
RFP Staff ♦ In the Rowan Free Press’s latest project to haul blighted and vacant Salisbury up by its bootstraps and clean up its neighborhoods without gentrification meant to displace the poor or...
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The North Charleston, S.C. Gun Down and the Heat It Created
Kenneth L. Hardin, Salisbury, N.C. ♦ With the release of the most recent video of another police officer gunning down an unarmed Black man, Black folk are tired, angry, upset and frustrated. This video...
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N.C. Sen. Tom McInnis Appointed to Serve on the Yadkin/Pee Dee River Basin...
Press Release ♦ Raleigh, N.C. – The office of Sen. Tom McInnis (R-Richmond) announced Tuesday that he has been appointed to serve on the Yadkin/Pee Dee River Basin Advisory Commission by Senate...
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Ground Breaking Ceremony for the Rowan-Salisbury School’s Central Office will...
Public Announcement ♦ The Rowan Salisbury School System announced the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Central Office, known as the Wallace Forum, will take place at 3 p.m. at 500 North Main in...
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Local Delegation Chilly to Reviving Historic Preservation Tax Credits. Brock...
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ In recent weeks we were heartened to learn the State Senate tossed bill SB 287 into a committee known as a graveyard for unwanted bills. The State Senate has almost no interest...
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Amidst Downtown Salisbury, N.C.’s Sea of Vacancies and Blight Stands a Beacon...
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ Amidst Downtown Salisbury’s sea of vacancies and blight stands a beacon for the way back: Hap’s Grill, the Chili Dog King of North Carolina. Hap’s Grill stands as the most...
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Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education Meeting at 4 P.M. on Monday April 13th at...
RFP Staff ♦ Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education Meeting at 4 P.M. on Monday April 13th at 110 S. Long St. in East Spencer, N.C. School Board Meeting Agenda:...
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Today Sunday April 12th is the 150th Anniversary of Stoneman’s Raid on...
RFP Staff ♦ Today Sunday April 12th is the 150th Anniversary of Stoneman’s Raid on Salisbury, N.C. Gathered here are accounts of Stoneman’s Raid on April 12th 1865:...
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How Does Salisbury, N.C. Measure Up to “Entrepreneurs Test”? Does Salisbury...
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ Back in December we pulled together what numerous studies and surveys tell us about what attracts entrepreneurs to a city or small municipality. Well its time to put Salisbury,...
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Erica Kristen McCarter, 23, Charged with DWI and Aggravated Felony Death by...
RFP Staff ♦ Erica Kristen McCarter, 23, of Field Crest Drive in Statesville was charged with driving while impaired and aggravated felony death by vehicle in a Sunday morning crash on Mount Tabor...
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So Many Promises–So Many Broken Dreams in Salisbury’s Consolidated Plan for...
RFP Staff ♦ So Many Promises–So Many Broken Dreams in Salisbury’s 2010-2014 Consolidated Plan for Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization. One more reason why Maggie Blackwell, Paul Woodson, Brian...
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