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The Final Solution to the Empire Hotel Question: When in Rome Do as the...
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ It’s looking bad for the fabulous Empire Hotel and the future of the South Main’s fragile bat ecosystem. The historic preservation tax credits mercifully timed out in Raleigh...
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Police Raided 3 Illegal Sweepstakes Parlors Wednesday Morning in Salisbury,...
RFP Staff ♦ Salisbury Police were busy Wednesday morning raiding 3 Salisbury Internet cafes and shutting them down. All three previously received warning letters from the Salisbury Police and the...
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To All Our Rowan Free Press Readers Carping about the Cold in Rowan County
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ To all our Rowan Free Press readers carping about the cold in Rowan County with a measly 10 degrees forecast for early Thursday morning. Welcome to the polar he-man winter of...
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Letter-to-the Editor: Salisbury’s Anti-Car Crackpotism is Nothing New....
Jonathan Morris, U.S. Army Ranger Ret. & Rowan County Sheep Baron ♦ Downtown Salisbury really topped themselves in the screwball department with this “Complete Streets” Program costing 4 million...
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Struggling Cartucci’s, a Once Popular Italian Restaurant in Downtown...
RFP Staff ♦ Cartucci’s, a once popular Italian restaurant on Brick Street in Downtown Salisbury, appears to have closed its doors. Neighbors report Cartucci’s was struggling in recent months and that...
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Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education Meets at 4 P.M. on Monday January 12th at...
RFP Staff ♦ The Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education will meet in a work session on Monday January 12th at the Ellis Street Board Room at 314 . N. Ellis St. in Salisbury. Key Topics on the Board of...
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The FBI’s Forensic Accountants
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) ♦ The FBI’s Forensic Accountants: http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2012/march/forensic-accountants_030912/forensic-accountants_030912
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Billy Floyd Pless, Jr., Spencer and Salisbury, N.C.’s “One Man Crime Wave”...
RFP Staff ♦ Billy Floyd Pless, Jr., 61, of Spencer, N.C., a “one man crime wave” with a long criminal record stretching back to 1982 and who is frequently seen tooling around Salisbury, N.C. in a...
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Salisbury’s “Complete Streets” Study for East Innes and Long Streets PDF.
RFP Staff/East Innes Street and Long Street Complete Streets Study ♦ Here is Salisbury, N.C.’s “Complete Streets” Study for East Innes and Long Streets in PDF. form: (Give the PDF. Document a few...
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Video: Salisbury’s Complete Streets –“City Council” Makes a Suicide Pact with...
RFP Staff ♦ The saga of the Complete Streets Study in Salisbury, NC is approaching legendary status in the Rowan County and the surrounding region. Salisbury’s City Council swallowed a poison pill at...
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Fibrant Network in Complete Collapse this Morning!
RFP Staff ♦ Rowan Free Press received dozens of emails and Facebook messages from irate Fibrant customers about Firbrant’s being down most of the morning. Fully expected with the “mature” recycled...
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Salisbury’s “Gold Dust Twins” Michael Dale Bost and Michael Justin Putnam...
RFP Staff ♦ Salisbury, N.C.’s “Gold Dust Twins” Michael Dale Bost, 25, of Drew Circle and Michael Justin Putnam of Sidney Drive were arrested by the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office for an alleged streak...
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On Tuesday January 13th PBS Will Air the American Experience Documentary:...
RFP Staff/PBS American Experience ♦ On Tuesday evening January 13th PBS will air the American Experience documentary: “Klansville, U.S.A”. This presentation centers on Rowan County a hotbed of Klan...
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What’s $4 million Dollars? Its for the Safety of Our Jaywalkers and Our...
I MUST be Mayor Artist Collective, LTD. ♦ What’s $4 million Dollars? Its for the Safety of Our Jaywalkers and Our Bicyclist!
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An 8 Year-Old Boy Drowned in an Icy Pond at Hurley Park in Salisbury on...
RFP Staff ♦ Kymello McClean, an 8 year-old 2nd grader at Overton Elementary in Salisbury, fell through the ice and drowned in an icy pond at Elizabeth Holmes Hurley Park several blocks from Novant...
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A Program on Gen. Robert E. Lee and Gen. “Stonewall” Jackson Will be Held...
Public Announcement ♦ A program will be held on General Robert E. Lee and Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson in the Stanback Room of the Rowan Public Library at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday January 14th....
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Cracking Down on Public Corruption: Why We Take It So Seriously and Why It...
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) ♦ Cracking Down on Public Corruption: Why We Take It So Seriously and Why It Matters To You http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2005/june/obrien_062005
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Jared McManus, 31, Alleged Salisbury, N.C. Meth Chemist, Busted at His Garage...
RFP Staff ♦ As Salisbury, N.C.’s meth epidemic mushrooms, Jared Anthony McManus, 31, alleged Salisbury meth chemist, was arrested at his garage lab Friday. After obtaining a warrant to search McManus’s...
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Hillbilly Heroin Luv Story Goes Bad in Rockwell. Dynamic Drug Duo Brought...
RFP Staff ♦ Undercover narcotics deputies from the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office arrested an alleged drug dealing Rockwell couple: Ryan Anthony Everhart, 28, and Leslie Nicole Helms, 25 both of the 100...
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SBI to Investigate “Misappropriation” of City Funds by Former City Customer...
Steve Mensing, Editor ♦ Monday evening we received several phone calls and emails concerning an article by David Purtell, the Post’s city reporter, about city funds being “misappropriated” by a...
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