SALISBURY — The summer issue (June/July) of Salisbury the Magazine, a publication of the Salisbury Post, has reached subscribers and is being distributed throughout Rowan County this week.

Copies also are available at the circulation desk of the Salisbury Post, 131 W. Innes St.

The summer cover features a disc golf player, Dave Holman, trying to throw his way out of trouble — a thicket of dormant kudzu on the course at Ellis Park. Holman is part of a story about the ever-growing popularity of disc golf in the county, state and nation.

Elsewhere, Salisbury’s Ben White, an awarding-winning NASCAR writer, and photographer Wayne Hinshaw visit the Rowan County home of former champion crew chief and now Fox television analyst Jeff Hammond.

Freelance writer C.L. Myers reviews some exciting recreational things happening for the Yadkin River expanse between U.S. 64 and U.S. 29, an area that includes Boone’s Cave Park and Wil-Cox Bridge.

In other stories, Deirdre Parker Smith describes what’s happening at this year’s Salisbury/Rowan Farmers’ Market. Shavonne Walker catches up with Salisbury native Krystal Stukes and the young lives she is trying to shape at Triple Threat Dance & Charm studio.

The old File Store in Gold Hill has found new life thanks to Raleigh resident Tammy Barry’s Buckle & Bell gift shop, something she calls her “un-general store.”

Recent Catawba College graduate Christopher Derrick provided the “Through the Lens” photo. Susan Shinn Turner checks in with Rowan Original Lynne Scott Safrit, whose career was part of Kannapolis’ transformation from a textile town to a research center.

Smith’s Bookish page offers three reading recommendations for the beach this summer, and Amelia Small provides a picture “spelling test” in Salisbury’s the Place.

The summer issue lays out a lengthy events calendar for June and July.

You also might find people you know in Scene photos from Salisbury Academy’s Bloom gala, Community Care Clinic’s Fashions for a Cause, Historic Salisbury’s annual meeting, Smart Start Rowan’s Shirley P. Ritchie Champion for Children dinner and Oak Park Retirement’s magical prom night when residents partied with the Catawba College baseball and volleyball teams.

Salisbury the Magazine publishes nine times a year. The August issue should reach subscribers about July 20.

To advertise or subscribe, contact 704-797-POST or go to www.SalisburyTheMagazine.com.

— Mark Wineka