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Will Commissioner Craig Pierce’s Lease Request for the Rowan County...
RFP Staff ♦ Recently County Commissioner Craig Pierce proposed the moneysaving idea of obtaining a lease for the Rowan County Republican HQ at the West End Plaza which has plenty of empty space. In...
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Salisbury City Councilman Kenny Hardin: CITY COUNCIL UPDATE
Kenny Hardin, Salisbury City Council ♦ We had our follow up meeting last Friday afternoon to finalize capital improvement items in the budget. In the initial meeting two weeks prior, I requested that a...
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BoE’s Travis Allen Showed Flexibility in Changing his Mind about the Location...
Todd Paris, Staff Writer and Salisbury Attorney ♦ Rowan Rural Save Our Schools made some major yardage today when BoE member Travis Allen and a fellow the majority of us supported in the last election...
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Rowan Rural Save Our Schools WEAR RED on Monday May 2nd to the 3 P.M. County...
Todd Paris, Staff Writer and Salisbury Attorney ♦ RFP ran a gag last week about “Exodus Real Estate: The Gateway to Davidson County.” The gag had a point. Now it’s real. Someone close to me is looking...
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King of the Salisbury, N.C. Panhandlers and Ex-Chief Collins’s Step-Brother,...
RFP Staff “Ma’m you got 33 cents–that’s all I need to get gas in my tank to get back to China Grove.” Tony Rippey, the King of Salisbury Panhandlers and Ex-Chief Rory Collins’s DNA half-Brother Bad...
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Salisbury Police Arrest Justin Ray Banks and Two Salisbury Women for...
RFP Staff ♦ Salisbury Police Arrested Justin Ray Banks, 29, of the 200 block Mt. View Road in Salisbury and two Salisbury women: Monique Marie Bevan, 26, of the 200 block East 11th Street and Sabrina...
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Video: Rowan County Commission Meeting at 3 P.M. on Monday May 2nd
RFP Staff ♦ Video: Rowan County Commission Meeting at 3 P.M. on Monday, May 2nd: http://rowancountync.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=583
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RowanWorks Director Rob Van Geons Called a Special SECRET Emergency Meeting...
Todd Paris, Staff Writer and Salisbury Attorney ♦ RowanWorks EDC (”Rowandoesn’tWork”) director Rob Van Geons called a special emergency meeting for Tuesday, May 3rd for Board Members. Even though this...
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Video: With Rowan County in Crisis, Commission Chairman Gregg Edds Goes...
RFP Staff ♦ Video: With Rowan County in Deepening Crisis, County Commission Chairman Greg Edds Goes Strange and Irrational with Commissioner Craig Pierce Over a Simple Request to Place a Lease...
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Rockwell Couple Charged with Child Abuse for Allegedly Failing to Provide...
RFP Staff ♦ On Sunday Ronald Lee Rhinehardt, 33, and his wife Angela Kay Moneymaker, 32, of Fletcher Road in Rockwell were both charged with felony child abuse when their eight week old daughter was...
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Hand It to SFL+A: They Know How to Line Up Future Business
RFP Staff ♦ In a recent FOIA request, Rowan Free Press learned that SFL+A stood to make $1,214,525 off designing, bidding, and administering the consolidated West Rowan elementary school. A total of...
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Emergency School Board Meeting Called for 5 P.M. Thursday, May 5th at Wallace...
RFP Staff ♦ An Emergency Rowan-Salisbury School Board Meeting is called for 5 P.M., May 5th at the Wallace Education Forum at 500 North Main. The topic is Consolidation. Please attend this more...
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Salisbury City Manager Lane Bailey No Longer on Probation
RFP Staff ♦ Apparently Salisbury City Manager Lane Bailey was on probation. Hired over a year ago in February 2015, Bailey came from Lenior after the city decided not to hold an originally planned...
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Man Gut Shot During Home Invasion Robbery at Glock Court in Salisbury Area...
RFP Staff ♦ Wednesday morning around 5:30 a.m. a yet to be identified Black man was seriously gut shot during a home invasion at a yellow mobile style home at 1032 Glock Court in the Salisbury area....
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Councilman Kenny Hardin Weighs in on a Zoning Issue Bringing Noise, Alcohol,...
Kenny Hardin, Salisbury City Councilman ♦ The inability and refusal of the full Council to vote on the zoning issue was personally embarrassing to me. Sending the measure to a special committee for...
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Sample Ballot for 13th Congressional District Republican Primary Election on...
Rowan Board of Elections ♦ Sample Ballot for 13th Congressional District Republican Primary Election on June 7th : https://enr.ncsbe.gov/voter_search_public/ballot_pdf.aspx?cid=80&eid=55&bs=R037
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Statewide A.L.E. CRACKDOWN on Electronic Gaming Devices Raids Several...
RFP Staff ♦ Early this morning the Rowan Free Press learned that a number of convenience stores across Salisbury were being raided by A.L.E. and local law enforcement. It was all apart of a statewide...
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Board of Education Narrowly Votes 4 to 3 to Scrap SfL+A’s “Nightmare...
RFP Staff ♦ This evening the Board of Education narrowly voted 4 to 3 to scrap SfL+A Architects’ ill-advised “nightmare scenario” to close four county elementary schools: Mt. Ulla, Morgan, Faith, and...
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Video: When Rowan Rural Save Our Schools Drew a Line in the Sand at the Town...
RFP Staff ♦ Video: When Rowan Rural Save Our Schools Drew a Line in the Sand at the Town Hall Meeting on April 28th. All Power to the People! When the School Board Claimed Last Night They had No...
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Letter-to-the-Editor: We Never Embraced Scenario 1’s Overreach. Don’t Let...
Chuck Hughes, BoE, Salisbury, N.C. ♦ Although I welcomed and participated in a conversation about a long term plan for Rowan/Salisbury Schools, neither I, nor to my knowledge, any other member of the...
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