Street People Hurled Rocks at the Rear of Wallace Educational Forum Friday at...
RFP Staff ♦ Late Friday afternoon a pair of street people hurled rocks at the rear of new Wallace Educational Forum at 500 North Main in Salisbury. When the person, who sent us these cell phone...
View ArticleJohn Lowell Hopkins, Jr. Arrested for Allegedly Manufacturing Meth in...
RFP Staff ♦ On Monday morning John Lowell Hopkins, Jr., 40, of 179 Sechler Street in China Grove was arrested for allegedly for having meth’s precursor drugs and a multi-lab meth (one-pot shake and...
View ArticleThe City Dangles a CHUMP CHANGE $1,600 raise that’s NO WAY Competitive with...
CODE BLUE ♦ The math in the city’s officer pay raise proposal is curious. Assuming City Manager Bailey’s police vacancies are 12 (We hear on March 8th there’s actually 20 vacancies with more openings...
View ArticleWhy Salisbury Police Officers are Not Remaining with the Salisbury Police...
RFP Staff ♦ With recent talk about officers in the Salisbury Police department “maybe” getting a much needed pay raise, its important to discuss why Salisbury Police officers avoid staying with the...
View ArticleAntoine McGee Remains in Critical Condition from Saturday’s J.C. Price Post’s...
RFP Staff ♦ Antione Terrell “Sky” McGee, 29, of Salisbury remained in critical condition Tuesday at Wake Forest Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem as a result of gunshot wounds sustained during Saturday...
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View ArticleVideo: County Commissioner Craig Pierce Guards Taxpayer Money During...
RFP Staff ♦ Video: County Commissioner Craig Pierce Guards Taxpayer Money During Discussion of “Gateway Monuments” with Chairman Edds:
View ArticleLocal Governments Should Stick to Core Functions
CarolinaJournal.Com/Julie Tisdale ♦ Local Governments Should Stick to Core Functions: Local Governments Should Stick to Core Functions
View ArticleCouncilman Kenny Hardin Talks Up the PEDAL FACTORY in Salisbury and How They...
Kenny Hardin, Salisbury City Councilman ♦ Ok Facebook friends, you know I don’t ask for financial assistance very often and typically only if it’s to bless a child or children. There is a new...
View ArticleBREAKING: City of Salisbury Changes Audit Firm One Month after PERKS to...
RFP Staff ♦ One month after Rowan Free Press made public emails documenting that Salisbury Finance Manager Wade Furches requested and was provided perks by the city’s audit firm Martin and Starnes, the...
View ArticleSadly the Jerkey Station Closes Its Doors after a Brief 10 Month Run at 107...
RFP Staff ♦ Sadly the Jerky Station announced their closing after a brief 10 month run on 107 S. Main Street in Downtown Salisbury. Opened from June 2015 until now, this specialty jerky shop sold a...
View ArticleUpdated: Cooper the Cat Recovering from Jaw Surgery After Rowan County Animal...
RFP Staff ♦ Have you heard about Cooper the Cat? Cooper according to Debbie Orbison suffered his jaw being broken allegedly during a microchip implantation at Rowan County Animal Control and has since...
View ArticleLetter-to-the-Editor: Answering Questions about Early College
Chuck Hughes, Salisbury, N.C. ♦ Recently, I was asked several questions about “Early College” at the monthly Saturday GOP breakfast. I answered them to the best of my ability, yet I required some...
View ArticleAn Interview with Rowan County Commissioner Mike Caskey Running for Re-Election
Steve Mensing, Editor with Rowan County Commissioner Mike Caskey running for re-election. ♦ The primaries are underway and our Rowan County citizens are already showing up at the polls. There’s much...
View ArticlePhoto Gallery: In the Final Days of Rowan County, N.C. Early Voting. Light...
RFP Staff ♦ Voting in the final days of Rowan County’s early voting was relatively light in Salisbury and at the two polling places in the county. Saturday was more active than during the week at the...
View ArticlePhotos: Rowan County Republican “Lincoln-Reagan” Dinner a Success!...
RFP Staff ♦ Photo Gallery: Rowan County Republican “Lincoln-Reagan” Dinner a Success! Brock-Forest-Ford-Warren-Caskey-Pierce-Burr-Auten Attend: Stephen Kidd, M.C. Commissioner Craig Pierce and City...
View ArticleCity Councilman Kenny Hardin on Openness, Transparency, and Being Committed...
Kenny Hardin, Salisbury City Councilman ♦ As promised during my campaign, I’m offering transparency as much as possible. As a Councilman, I try to keep everyone abreast of my involvement, activities,...
View ArticleCouncil Meets at 5 P.M. Tuesday to Discuss Replacing Martin and Starnes...
RFP Staff ♦ Tuesday City Council Meets at 5 p.m. at 217 South Main Street to discuss replacing Martin and Starnes Auditing with the Elliot Davis Decosimo after it was revealed by the RFP that the...
View ArticleMarco Antonio Santillan, Alleged Major Meth Trafficker, Busted in the YMCA...
RFP Staff ♦ Marco Antonio Santillan, 24, of Salisbury and an alleged major meth trafficker in a city drowning in meth, heroin, and crack, walked out of the YMCA at 828 Jake Alexander Blvd. Tuesday with...
View ArticleThe Rowan County, N.C.’s Sheriff’s Office COLD CASE FILES
RFP Staff ♦ Rowan County, N.C.’s unsolved murders with all the known facts and photographs going back several decades. The Sheriff’s Office “Cold Case” files:...
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