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Chick-N-Ale Appears to have Closed in Struggling Downtown Salisbury, N.C.
RFP Staff ♦ Chick-N-Ale closed in struggling Downtown Salisbury, N.C. Occupying the spot Uncle Bucks left behind on East Innes, Chick-N-Ale just opened its doors at the end of September. On Tuesday...
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Rowan Sheriff’s Office Most Wanted: Jonathan EliJah Ijames, 24, Captured in...
RFP Staff ♦ Jonathan Elijah Ijames, 24, a wide-ranging burglar and safecracker and a year on the Rowan County Sheriff Office’s MOST WANTED list, was arrested in Gulfport, Mississippi. He faces...
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Coming Soon: a Five Year Plan for the People’s Republic of Salisbury
RFP Staff ♦ “The People’s Republic of Salisbury comprises a total area of 17.8 square miles “surrounded by reality”.” Initially the Five Year Plan for the People’s Republic of Salisbury will appear...
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A Photo Safari: Survival of the Fittest Amid the Growing Vacancies in...
RFP Staff/Reynaldo Sutcliffe ♦ A Photo Safari: Survival of the Fittest Amid the Growing Vacancies in Downtown Salisbury, N.C. Here is a photographic sampling of the many restaurants and shops having...
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Salisbury, N.C.: the Unvarnished Statistical Truth and then Ride around All...
RFP Staff ♦ This is Salisbury, N.C. the unvarnished statistical truth that repels businesses, families, and entrapaneurs from coming here or remaining here....
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Fibrant in the Black? Like Downtown Salisbury’s Alleged Vibrancy, It’s Purely...
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ Maggie Blackwell’s defensive tap dance down at city council on Tuesday did little to convince anyone that Salisbury’s municipal broadband entry Fibrant was in the black. She...
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Voter Suppression Claim Takes a Hit
The Carolina Journal/John Hood ♦ Voter Suppression Claim Takes a Hit: http://www.carolinajournal.com/daily_journal/display.html?id=11646#.VJHUwSTirxE.mailto
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1000 Blank Gift Certificates Ripped Off from Salisbury Salon and Spa on East...
RFP Staff ♦ Be on the alert for “Hot” Gift Certificates, from the Salisbury Salon and Spa on 210 East Innes, being sold on the streets of Salisbury, N.C.. Some will unfortunately wind up as Christmas...
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“Crips” Gang Member Arrested Thursday in Rowan County by a Federal, State,...
RFP Staff ♦ “Crips” gang member Cameron Jamar Neely, 27, was arrested Thursday in the China Grove area of Rowan County by a joint federal, state, and local law enforcement taskforce on firearms...
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Survey Bad News for Municipal “Gigabit” Internet Providers. Most Internet...
CED Magazine/Mike Robuck ♦ New survey bad news for municipal “gigabit” providers. The overwhelming majority of customers could care less about gigabit services and those limited few who buy expensive...
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Letter-to-the Editor: What Salisbury’s City Council Really Wants in a New...
Rabbi Will McCubbins, China Grove, N.C. ♦ Just the other day I was reading where the City of Salisbury put a job listing out there for a new City Manager and low and behold the Rowan Free Press puts it...
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Jacob Kendrick, Federal Armed Robbery Fugitive from Boston, Apprehended in...
RFP Staff ♦ Jacob Cody Kendrick, 26, a Federal Armed Robbery fugitive from Boston, Ma., on the run after escaping from Boston Police, was captured Friday at 11 p.m. on South Salisbury Avenue by King’s...
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What Attracts Entrepreneurs to a City or a Small Municipality?
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ I live in Madison, Wisconsin, a city recognized as a major vortex for entrepreneurial activity in a number of areas. Madison is a cornucopia of entrepreneurial attractants:...
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Video: Magic Math Theater with Maggie Blackwell and John Sofley Defending...
The Magic Math Theater ♦ Video: Magic Math Theater with City Councilman Maggie Blackwell and Interim City Manager John Sofley Defending Fibrant’s “Turning the Corner”:
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Allen Cress Named Director of Rowan County Telecommunications
Press Release ♦ Allen Cress will take the helm at Rowan County Telecommunications Department on December 31, 2014. Cress who has served 20 years in telecommunications in Rowan County with the last ten...
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Letter-to-the Editor: Down the Rabbit Hole
Chuck Hughes, Salisbury, N.C. ♦ When did multiethnic-Grand Juries become irrelevant? When did community disruption and destruction by looters become acceptable? When did the criminal become the victim...
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Letter-to-the Editor: “Our Kool-Aid is Made from the Water that Subsidizes...
Jonathon Morris, U.S. Army Ranger, Ret. & Rowan County Sheep Baron ♦ “Our Kool-Aid is Made from the Water that Subsidizes Fibrant’s Profits”
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Public Corruption Update: FBI Continues Efforts to Root Out Crooked Officials
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) ♦ Public Corruption Update: FBI Continues Efforts to Root Out Crooked Officials...
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All about the Rowan County Literacy Council
Rowan County Literacy Council ♦ All About the Rowan County Literacy Council: http://www.rowancountyliteracycouncil.org/
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