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The RFP Supports Salisbury, N.C. City Council Candidates of any Political...
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ The Rowan Free Press supports Salisbury City Council candidates of any political stripe (Republican, Democrat, or Independent) who support transparent and effective government...
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Brandon Alexander “Smoke” Talbert, Busted Friday for Alleged Newsome Road...
RFP Staff ♦ The criminal siege continues unchecked in Salisbury, North Carolina a town where the Police Chief Rory Collins moonlights at the city’s housing authority and can’t name a single unsolved...
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Matthew Grey Morris, Criminal Whirlwind, Arrested for Alleged Armed Robbery...
RFP Staff ♦ Matthew Grey Morris, 25, of 2109 Airport Road, a whirlwind of Salisbury criminal activity since he was 17, was nabbed again this time for an alleged armed robbery of a woman near Morlan...
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Donna Sue Williams, 56, Gets Tossed in the Slammer for Beating Up 76-Year Old...
RFP Staff ♦ In Salisbury North Carolina where street beatings and simple assaults almost daily dominate police reports and where the Chief of Police Rory Collins moonlights by Housing Authority...
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The Rowan County Commission Meets on September 8th at 3 P.M in Salisbury, N.C.
RFP Staff ♦ The Rowan County Commission Meets on September 8th at 3 P.M in the J. Newton Cohen, Sr. Room on the 2nd floor of the County Administration Building at 130 West Innes Street, Salisbury, N.C....
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Salisbury, N.C.’s Latest Publicity Ruse: Becoming “America’s 10 Gig City”...
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ City Hall’s latest publicity ruse to distract Salisbury voters from Fibrant’s immense debacle and Salisbury’s continued freefall is called “America’s 10 gig city”. Let them eat...
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Catawba Students Held up at Gunpoint by 4 Black Males at Brenner and Lantz...
RFP Staff ♦ Several Catawba Students were held up at gunpoint by 4 young black males near the intersection of Brenner and Lantz avenues after 12:15 a.m. No injuries were reported although the students...
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A Program on Confederate General A.P. Hill will be Presented at the Rowan...
Public Announcement ♦ A program on Confederate General A.P. Hill, one of General Robert E. Lee’s more effective generals, will be presented by Roy McRorie of the Jonas Cook Camp of the SCV. The...
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Critic: N.C. Insurance Rules Favor Companies Over Consumers
CarolinaJournal.com/Dan Way ♦ Critic: N.C. Insurance Rules Favor Companies Over Consumers. State’s unique Rate Bureau offers few incentives for insurers to compete for business:...
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Video: Rowan County Commissioners Meeting at 3 P.M. on September the 8th
RFP Staff ♦ Video: Rowan County Commissioners Meeting at 3 P.M. on September the 8th: http://rowancountync.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=549
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Scott Teamer and the Salisbury-Rowan NAACP Weighs-in on Monday’s Catawba...
Press Release ♦ Scott Teamer and the Salisbury-Rowan NAACP Weighs-in on Monday’s Catawba College Incident:...
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Carl Lee Burch, Jr. and Michael Dwayne Conner, Jr. Nailed Tuesday for...
RFP Staff ♦ In the neverending Tsunami of motor vehicle break-ins and car thievery throughout Salisbury, Carl Lee Burch, Jr. 31, of 106 Hawkins Avenue and Michael Dwayne Conner, Jr., 28, of 621 S....
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Vietnam War Display Starts Sunday, September 14th at Rowan Museum on Council...
Rodney Cress, Veteran Advocate ♦ The Rowan Museum on Council Street in Salisbury, NC will open Sunday, September 13, 2015 at 1:00 to 4:00 pm for display of Vietnam veterans. The display includes video,...
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Big Ticket Issues in the Salisbury, N.C.’s City Council Race
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ In Salisbury’s gradual decline into bottom rung city over the past decade, Salisbury has sadly become known for its crime, its 25% poverty, the city’s public schools grading no...
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Celestino Torres Dies Tragically Monday While Repairing a Car in his Yard at...
RFP Staff ♦ Celestino Torres, 51, of 1017 Bringle Ferry Road in Salisbury, died tragically Monday afternoon when a car he was repairing fell off its jacks and crushed him in his yard at the Salisbury...
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Fugitive Lonnie Ray “Little” Carpenter, Jr. was Arrested Tuesday for Alleged...
RFP Staff ♦ Lonnie Ray “Little” Carpenter, Jr., 27, of the 800 block of Green Street in Salisbury was arrested Tuesday for the alleged armed robbery of Kendrick Conner on Green Street Sunday night...
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SEXX in the CITY: Andre Floyd Blakeney Allegedly Exposes Himself by the Mural...
RFP Staff ♦ “Bones and sinew all around us, the women and children have left.” Jospar Ganoix, 19th Century Belgian Poet In the 60’s they used to say “dig it–do it!”. Allegedly Andre Floyd Blakeney, 52,...
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The Best and Worst Schools in N.C.: Three Rowan-Salisbury Schools Among the...
JohnLocke.Org/Dr. Terry L. Stoops ♦ The Best and Worst Schools in N.C.: Three Rowan-Salisbury Schools Among the Worst in Growth in the State:...
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Days Inn Robbed Thursday in Salisbury, N.C. Where Da Po Po on Bendix Drive...
RFP Staff ♦ Crime along Bendix Drive in Salisbury is out of control. Thursday the Days Inn Motel on 321 Bendix Drive suffered a robbery for an undisclosed amount of cash. Down the road on the 200 block...
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Rowan County Board of Commissioners to Call Special Meeting at 9 A.M. on...
RFP Staff ♦ In accordance with NCGS 153A-40(b), notice is hereby given that the Chairman of the Rowan County Board of Commissioners has called a special meeting to be held on Monday, September 14th at...
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