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Fourth of July municipal closings

County and municipal offices will be closed and services rescheduled because of the Fourth of July holiday. Salisbury • City administrative offices will be closed ... Read more

by Andie Foley, Wednesday, July 3, 2019 12:00 am

Education

Rowan Wild hosts inaugural Outdoor Survival Skills camp

SALISBURY — With an ever-present layer of dead leaves and limbs crunching beneath their sneakered feet, nine children scattered last week through the woods of ... Read more

by Andie Foley, Tuesday, July 2, 2019 12:00 am

Education

North Rowan High School featured at NeoCon

As a sea of manufacturers, dealers, designers and consumers gathered in Chicago last month to discuss coming and current trends in commercial interior design, award-winning design ... Read more

by Andie Foley, Tuesday, July 2, 2019 12:00 am

Crime

Blotter: June 29

SALISBURY — Ronnie Wayne Warren, 34, of Salisbury, was arrested Thursday on four outstanding Rowan County warrants. Warren is charged with felony breaking and entering; ... Read more

by Andie Foley, Saturday, June 29, 2019 12:00 am

Education

School board approves high school iPad pilot at North

SALISBURY — Looking ahead to the end of Rowan-Salisbury Schools’ second three-year lease on Apple devices, the school board voted Thursday to approve a pilot ... Read more

by Andie Foley, Saturday, June 29, 2019 12:00 am

Education

Rowan-Salisbury school board approves renewal plans at four sites

SALISBURY — The Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education on Thursday approved four additional school renewal plans, making that a total of 17 throughout the district. The ... Read more

by Andie Foley, Friday, June 28, 2019 12:00 am

Education

School board explores fate of Knox Middle School

SALISBURY — With $15 million provided by the county available as soon as March, members of the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education on Thursday weighed options ... Read more

by Andie Foley, Friday, June 28, 2019 12:00 am

Education

From the mind of mom: On camps, kids and chaos

Love them or hate them, North Carolina summers are the type of sensory experience that can stick with you no matter where you meander in ... Read more

by Andie Foley, Thursday, June 27, 2019 12:00 am

Education

Rowan-Salisbury school board to hear renewal plans for four schools

SALISBURY — The Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education will meet at 5 p.m. today to consider renewal plans for four schools. The plans for Granite Quarry ... Read more

by Andie Foley, Thursday, June 27, 2019 12:00 am

Education

‘Breaking the generational curse’: East Spencer resident earns GED

Fresh from an overnight, eight-hour shift, Lil’Blake Montgomery walks the halls of Rowan-Cabarrus Community College and recalls her recent graduation experience with nothing but smiles ... Read more

by Andie Foley, Thursday, June 27, 2019 12:00 am

Education

Bostian Elementary School hosts Summer STEAM

CHINA GROVE — Donning vibrant green safety goggles in the STEAM lab of Bostian Elementary School on Tuesday, rising fifth-grader Katie Stirewalt attaches a balloon ... Read more

by Andie Foley, Wednesday, June 26, 2019 12:00 am

Education

Catawba College addresses cuts to budget, personnel

SALISBURY — Addressing rumors about cuts to Catawba College’s personnel and budget, President Brien Lewis on Tuesday said impending changes for the fall semester are ... Read more

by Andie Foley, Wednesday, June 26, 2019 12:00 am

Kannapolis

Kannapolis approves 2020 budget with increase for water and sewer

KANNAPOLIS – Though consistently divided during talks Monday, the Kannapolis City Council approved a budget and fee schedule that will see water and sewer rates ... Read more

by Andie Foley, Tuesday, June 25, 2019 12:00 am

Local

RSS adds three sites to Summer Feeding Program

SALISBURY — In just eight days, the Rowan-Salisbury School System has distributed over 20,000 free meals to children across Rowan County. The meals — either ... Read more

by Andie Foley, Sunday, June 23, 2019 12:05 am

Kannapolis

Kannapolis to consider approving 2020 budget

KANNAPOLIS — The Kannapolis City Council will meet Monday, June 24, at 6 p.m. to consider a fiscal year 2020 operating budget that could see ... Read more

by Andie Foley, Sunday, June 23, 2019 12:00 am

Education

Organizations partner to benefit youth across Rowan County

SALISBURY — In the dining room of First Baptist Church’s Family Ministry Center, rising eighth-grader Sara Portscheller sits at a table and excitedly introduces her ... Read more

by Andie Foley, Friday, June 21, 2019 12:00 am

Local

Rowan shelter to offer animal adoption special Saturday

SALISBURY — The Rowan County Animal Shelter will offer animal adoptions at a reduced price on Saturday. They will be available from 8:30 a.m. to ... Read more

by Andie Foley, Friday, June 21, 2019 12:00 am

Local

Saturday’s Salisbury Pride Festival harkens back to 1978 message

SALISBURY — Months before his November 1978 assassination, San Francisco’s first openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk stood at San Francisco’s Gay Freedom Day Parade ... Read more

by Andie Foley, Thursday, June 20, 2019 12:00 am

Local

Spencer’s 3.5-cent tax decrease unlikely

SPENCER — The potential for a 3.5-cent decrease in Spencer’s property tax rate declined Tuesday as the Board of Aldermen identified lingering needs in the ... Read more

by Andie Foley, Wednesday, June 19, 2019 12:00 am

Education

House Speaker Tim Moore answers tough questions at Boys’ State

SALISBURY — Facing the 192 participants in this year’s American Legion Tar Heel Boys’ State on Tuesday, North Carolina House Speaker  Tim Moore offered the ... Read more

by Andie Foley, Wednesday, June 19, 2019 12:00 am

Crime

Blotter: June 18

In Salisbury Police Department reports:  • Two burglaries were reported Friday in the 200 and 300 blocks of Depot Street. • A man reported a ... Read more

by Andie Foley, Tuesday, June 18, 2019 12:00 am

Local

Spencer aldermen to discuss 2019-20 budget

SPENCER — Looking ahead at a possible 3.5-cent property tax decrease, the Spencer Board of Aldermen will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday for a budget ... Read more

by Andie Foley, Tuesday, June 18, 2019 12:00 am

Education

‘Wonderful start’: East Spencer charter school talks first-year lessons

EAST SPENCER — Just over a month after Dr. Jonathan Pullin accepted his position as Essie Mae Kiser Foxx Charter School’s inaugural principal, he stood ... Read more

by Andie Foley, Sunday, June 16, 2019 12:00 am

Education

Greg Alcorn talks ApSeed’s expansion plans at Kiwanis

By Andie Foley andie.foley@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Since its launch in 2016, grassroots Salisbury nonprofit ApSeed has distributed 5,300 free, literacy-developing tablets across Rowan and Davie ... Read more

by Andie Foley, Saturday, June 15, 2019 12:00 am

Education

Communities In Schools offers two-day mentorship training

SALISBURY — Without context, a peek into the upstairs board room of the Rowan County Chamber of Commerce building on Thursday may have raised a ... Read more

by Andie Foley, Friday, June 14, 2019 12:00 am

Education

From the mind of mom: The summer struggle begins

It’s 6 a.m. The sun is cresting over the horizon to be welcomed by the blissful and melodious sound of birds, and all is right ... Read more

by Andie Foley, Thursday, June 13, 2019 12:00 am

Education

Horizons Unlimited unveils Phase 1 of trail upgrades

By Andie Foley andie.foley@salisburypost.com As Horizons Unlimited staff and community members celebrated trail renovations last Thursday, Director Amy Pruitt said one guiding thought has always ... Read more

by Andie Foley, Thursday, June 13, 2019 12:00 am

Education

Summer Feeding Program starts today

SALISBURY — Starting today, three buses, six trucks and three vans will make their way across Rowan County to deliver the first of tens of ... Read more

by Andie Foley, Wednesday, June 12, 2019 12:00 am

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