New Salisbury City Codes for Vacant, Neglected, and Abandoned Houses in a...
RFP Staff ♦ Salisbury City Council, in an attempt to keep the city’s head above water with the city’s estimated 700 to 800 vacant, neglected, and abandoned houses creating blight throughout Salisbury,...
View ArticleSound Familiar: A Housing Crisis Amid Tens of Thousands of Abandoned Homes
theAtlantic.com/Gillian B. White ♦ Sound Familiar: A Housing Crisis Amid Tens of Thousands of Abandoned Homes:...
View ArticleN.C. Ranks 9th in Jobs Creation
CarolinaJournal.com/John Hood ♦ N.C. Ranks 9th in Jobs Creation: http://www.carolinajournal.com/daily_journal/index.html
View ArticleEven though the Telephone Systems are Down at Both RSSS Administrative...
RFP Staff ♦ While the telephone systems are down at both the Ellis Street and Long Street administrative offices since Sunday, today’s board of education “business meeting” is on for today (Monday) at...
View ArticleThe 2015 Lincoln Funeral Train at the N.C. Transportation Museum on August...
Public Announcement ♦ The 2015 Lincoln Funeral Train, Featuring the Leviathan Locomotive, at the N.C. Transportation Museum on August 28th through August 30th:...
View ArticleDowntown Salisbury Inc. Time to Invite Salisbury, N.C.’s “Disturbing...
Turn Loose a Piece of the Pie! ♦ Downtown Salisbury Inc. time to invite Salisbury, N.C.’s “Disturbing Demographic” and the city’s many gangs FREE to “Slide the City” on Saturday August 29th. After...
View ArticleManhunt for Lonnie Ray “Little” Carpenter, Jr. for Alleged Armed Robbery in...
RFP Staff ♦ The Salisbury Police are searching for Lonnie Ray “Little” Carpenter, Jr., 27, of the 800 block of Green Street in Salisbury for the alleged armed robbery of Kendrick Conner on Green Street...
View ArticleInterview with Todd Paris, Candidate for Salisbury, N.C.’s City Council
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ Steve Mensing: I’m interviewing Salisbury Attorney Todd Paris, one of several non-incumbent candidates I’m going to support for a seat on Salisbury’s City Council. In recent...
View ArticleA Confederate Memorial Service will be Conducted for M.V.B. Capps at Chestnut...
Public Announcement ♦ On Sunday, August 30, at 5:00 pm, the Rowan Rifles #405 SCV Camp will be assisting with a Confederate Memorial Service for M.V.B. Capps at Chestnut Hill Cemetery in Salisbury. The...
View ArticlePolice Chief Rory Collins Grilled by City Council Candidates about Unsolved...
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ “Kill the body and the head dies with it.” Joe Louis, the former heavyweight champion providing sagacious wisdom on defeating ring opponents or incumbents in a reform campaign...
View ArticleHomeless Man Nabbed for Allegedly Roosting inside Bernhardt Historic Home in...
RFP Staff ♦ It’s becoming a fact of life in a city racked by 25% poverty and crime for homeowners to return home after work or after a long summer weekend away to find either front door or backdoor...
View ArticleBrandy Jackie Barnhardt, 41, Dies Tragically in SUV Accident Wednesday on...
RFP Staff ♦ Brandy Jackie Barnhardt, 41, of Edmiston Road in West Rowan died tragically when her Oldsmobile Bravada struck guardrail on the 800 block of Edmiston Road and tumbled down an embankment....
View ArticleVideo: Kenny Hardin, Candidate for Salisbury, N.C. City Council
Chris Sifford, Videographer ♦ Video: Kenny Hardin, Candidate for Salisbury, N.C. City Council. Learn about his Platform:
View ArticleJamar O’Brien Still, 24, of Bringle Ferry Road in Salisbury, N.C. was...
RFP Staff ♦ Jamar O’Brien Still, 24, of 649 Bringle Ferry Road in Salisbury, was arrested Thursday morning at his home for alleged sex crimes with an under age female. Still was charged with 3 counts...
View ArticleCity Council Candidate Kenny Hardin’s Position on Salisbury, N.C.’s Municipal...
Kenny Hardin, Candidate for City Council, Salisbury, N.C. ♦ I did an interview last week with the Salisbury Post for an upcoming political article on where the candidates stood on Fibrant. In addition...
View ArticleStephanie Luann Fisher, Alleged Lone Woman Burglar, Busted During Break-in...
RFP Staff ♦ “Any woman who breaks into my house is open-season.” Romeo Void Stephanie Luann Fisher, 31, of the 600 block of Roseman Road in Rowan County, was arrested at 5830 Bertie Avenue for an...
View ArticleFormer Salisbury City Manager Doug Paris to Become Full-Time Town...
RFP Staff ♦ At the last Town Council meeting of the prospering berg of Midland, N.C. the council extended the offer of full-time Town Administrator to former Salisbury City Manager Doug Paris. Paris’s...
View ArticleFormer County Commission Chairman Jim Sides “Considering” Running for 2...
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ Last week my phone rang from people out in the county reporting former County Commission Chairman Jim Sides colorful van was parked in a sign painters yard with “2016?” and “Do...
View ArticleSalisbury’s BIG ANNOUNCEMENT Next Thursday is that Fibrant is Going to 10...
RFP Staff ♦ Hate to let the cat out of the bag about Amerika’s Gig City and Fibrant’s “big” announcement next Thursday, but we will. Reliable sources informed us over a week ago that Fibrant is going...
View Article“Slide the City” Salisbury, N.C., Plagued by Low Water Pressure and an...
RFP Staff ♦ In what must have been a disappointing day for both sliders and Downtown Salisbury Inc., Salisbury’s “Slide the City” was plagued from the start by low water pressure, disappointing...
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