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Education

Impact Summer Reading: Student honors Ralph Ketner

Josh Lewis came to the Salisbury Post to deliver his donation to the Impact Summer Reading Fund on Friday. He wanted to honor Food Lion ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, May 31, 2015 12:00 am

Health

Beware of ticks; two tested for Lyme disease in Rowan

By Elizabeth Cook elizabeth.cook@salisburypost.com Tick season is well under way, and though no cases of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever have been reported in Rowan County ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Saturday, May 30, 2015 12:00 am

Education

Impact Summer Reading: How to kiss a pig

By Elizabeth Cook elizabeth.cook@salisburypost.com Today’s contributions to the Impact Summer Reading fund include a check from Phil Kirk, former chairman of the State Board of ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Thursday, May 28, 2015 12:00 am

Editorials

Editorial: Pollinators will persevere

Give Catawba College officials praise for not taking the easy way out of the bee infestation at the Robertson College Community Center. Rather than kill ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Thursday, May 28, 2015 12:00 am

Opinion

Clarification

The 2 percent raise the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education included in its county budget request would have applied to total compensation for all employees, says ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Wednesday, May 27, 2015 5:57 pm

Editorials

Editorial: Teacher pay and local funding

Note: This article has been edited to reflect the fact that raises proposed by the school board were for total compensation for all employees, not ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Wednesday, May 27, 2015 12:00 am

Education

Impact Summer Reading: Program improves disadvantaged students’ access to books

By Elizabeth Cook elizabeth.cook@salisburypost.com People involved in education know that summer reading is important because of the “summer slide,” the learning lost over vacation months. That’s ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Wednesday, May 27, 2015 12:00 am

Editorials

Editorial: Children caught in crossfire

Where is the outrage? In the span of just a few days last week, an 18-year-old was shot and killed in a Salisbury apartment and ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Tuesday, May 26, 2015 12:00 am

Education

Impact Summer Reading: Summer learning shapes futures

More than half of the achievement gap between lower- and higher-income students can be explained by unequal access to summer learning opportunities, studies have found. The ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Monday, May 25, 2015 12:10 am

Columnists

Elizabeth Cook: Hidden blessings in bee problem

Who knew bees could cause so much trouble? People at Catawba College noticed large swarms of bees in the trees outside the Robertson College-Community Center ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, May 24, 2015 12:00 am

Editorials

Editorial: Stories never to be told

“The real war will never get in the books.” —Walt Whitman Memorial Day dawns Monday, a solemn day set aside to remember and honor those ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, May 24, 2015 12:00 am

Education

Impact Summer Reading: Books can be signs of the times

By Elizabeth Cook elizabeth.cook@salisburypost.com You are probably too young to remember 1970. For those who were around when the Beatles released “Let It Be,” these New York ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, May 24, 2015 12:00 am

Editorials

Editorial: County looks to private sector for spec building

If having empty buildings and speculative structures to show industrial prospects is important, why does Rowan County’s proposed budget for 2015-16 lack any mention of ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Thursday, May 21, 2015 12:00 am

Editorials

Editorial: New hope for tax credits

North Carolina’s historic preservation tax credit would be partially restored under the version of the state House budget released Sunday. How serious is this proposal? ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Tuesday, May 19, 2015 12:00 am

Education

Book fund is growing

Students, clubs, a charitable foundation and a law firm are among the donors in today’s Impact Summer Reading report. And Food Lion co-founder Ralph Ketner, ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Tuesday, May 19, 2015 12:00 am

Columnists

Elizabeth Cook: Brown nudges SHS out of the box

Luke Brown said he was a little nervous talking to the Salisbury Rotary Club last week. In the audience was his boss, Dr. Lynn Moody, ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, May 17, 2015 12:00 am

Education

Support summer reading and reverse the slide

By Elizabeth Cook elizabeth.cook@salisburypost.com Several contributions came in last week for the Impact Summer Reading Fund — at the same time that new research emerged to ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, May 17, 2015 12:00 am

Local

Correction

Mike Motley is pastor of Trading Ford Baptist Church. A column on evolution in Saturday’s Post was written by Jeff Long, a resident of Rowan ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, May 17, 2015 12:00 am

Editorials

Editorial: Good timing, Class of 2015

Congratulations, college students in the Class of 2015. You were born at the right time. This is “Pomp and Circumstance” season in Salisbury. Livingstone College ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Thursday, May 14, 2015 12:00 am

Editorials

Editorial: Getting out of the poverty trap

It’s often said that all roads lead to Salisbury. Wherever you go, you can find a Salisbury connection. Lately, though, all rankings have led to ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Wednesday, May 13, 2015 12:00 am

Education

Literacy is the key that opens the door

By Elizabeth Cook elizabeth.cook@salisburypost.com Generous donations have started coming in for the Impact Summer Reading Fund to boost literacy in local middle and high schools. ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Wednesday, May 13, 2015 12:00 am

Editorials

Editorial: Icon ready for action

Train buffs, mark your calendars for Saturday, May 23. A rare behemoth will receive a big send-off at the N.C. Transportation Museum that day before ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Tuesday, May 12, 2015 12:00 am

Letters

Letters to the editor – Tuesday (5-12-15)

Speeding tickets seem like waste of police time Recently the Salisbury Police Department had five patrol cars and at least eight officers giving speeding tickets ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Tuesday, May 12, 2015 12:00 am

Columnists

Elizabeth Cook: Help us shore up students’ reading skills

A month from now, students  in the Rowan-Salisbury system will rush out of school, eager for summer vacation. No more pencils, no more books, no ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Monday, May 11, 2015 8:35 am

Editorials

Editorial: Make an impact; help extend learning through summer

Raising the academic achievement of Rowan-Salisbury students is one of the community’s top priorities. That effort cannot afford to take a summer vacation. The Salisbury ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, May 10, 2015 12:00 am

Editorials

Editorial: New menu for baseball fans

You know the world is changing when the local baseball park offers a Healthy Choices Menu. That’s what is going on this spring at CMCNorthEast ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Wednesday, May 6, 2015 12:00 am

Editorials

Editorial: For prayer, with limits

Prayers can still be said at meetings of the Rowan County Board of Commissioners. But a federal judge ruled Monday that the practice of only ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Tuesday, May 5, 2015 12:00 am

Editorials

Quotes of the week

“Every part of North Carolina will have a chance to build its economy.” — Gov. Pat McCrory, promoting  a state bond package totalling nearly $3 ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Friday, May 1, 2015 1:02 am

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