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Remnants of Confederate Prison barracks located

SALISBURY — Archaeologists will go to work in the coming months to unearth remnants of a Confederate prison building that once stood off East Bank Street. ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Thursday, August 31, 2017 12:13 am

Columnists

Paul T. O’Connor: The relentless Republicans

RALEIGH — If there is one indisputable observation to make about the state’s Republican legislative majority it is this: They are relentless in their efforts ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Monday, August 28, 2017 6:47 pm

Columnists

Elizabeth Cook: Was the prayer case necessary?

Raymond Coltrain believes a different decision — and simple courtesy — by the Rowan County Board of Commissioners a few years ago could have saved ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, August 27, 2017 12:00 am

Columnists

Rose Post: Treat my child gently if you can

If you’ll be putting a kindergartner on the school bus for the first time Monday, Rose Post has a message for you. During her career ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, August 27, 2017 12:00 am

Editorials

Other Voices: Monuments vs. artifacts

With a movement afoot to remove Confederate statues from public spaces, it’s important to distinguish between monuments and places that are markers of history, and ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Wednesday, August 23, 2017 7:12 pm

Columnists

D.G. Martin: Revisit ‘Cold Mountain’ 20 years later

“It was not a book that required following from front to back, and Inman simply opened it at random, as he had done night after ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Wednesday, August 23, 2017 1:40 pm

Columnists

John Hood: Outers Banks’ plastic bag ban should go

RALEIGH — My family and I just spent a week at the beach — and found our big stack of reusable grocery and retail bags ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Saturday, August 19, 2017 5:47 pm

Columnists

Elizabeth Cook: A time for calm

SALISBURY — The Confederate monument that rises from the median on West Innes Street could offer Salisbury an opportunity to set a powerful example. While politicians in some ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Saturday, August 19, 2017 12:37 am

Local

A happy find — ‘Chicken of the Woods’ mushrooms

  SALISBURY — Angie Vaughn of Salisbury has taken her “eat local” efforts to a new level — fungus. Vaughn recently found huge mushrooms on a ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Saturday, August 19, 2017 12:36 am

Columnists

Elizabeth Cook: Bringle Ferry not fit for tankers?

Should tankers hauling thousands of gallons of ethanol be allowed to travel Bringle Ferry Road? People who live along this eastern Rowan County road are ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, August 13, 2017 12:22 am

Local

Hospital adds electric car charging station

Novant Health Rowan Medical Center SALISBURY — A new electric car charging station has been added to the first level of Novant Health Rowan Medical Center’s ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, August 6, 2017 12:01 am

Local

Freeze enjoys the telling as much as the cycling

SALISBURY — The Cascade Mountains were grueling. He could go miles and miles without seeing a single soul or building. And four miles from the ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Saturday, August 5, 2017 12:05 am

Columnists

Cal Thomas: Wars and rumors of war

One month after the election, President-elect Donald Trump made a “victory tour” of states that had helped deliver his surprise win. In Fayetteville, North Carolina, ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Wednesday, August 2, 2017 11:13 pm

News

Editorial: Quick action on murders

Jalen Lamont Cook and Zakelo Duren are innocent until proved guilty. The fact that the men were arrested Tuesday confirms at least two things, though: Law ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Tuesday, August 1, 2017 10:31 pm

Columnists

Elizabeth Cook: A difficult subject

Words matter. Choose them carefully. That principle came home to me last week while preparing a story on the Truth, Healing and Reconciliation service planned ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, July 23, 2017 1:26 am

Local

Service to seek healing for 1906 lynching

SALISBURY — Historian Claude Clegg realized in 2000 that there was a shocking gap in the knowledge he had of his hometown. Clegg was looking through a book about lynchings in ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Thursday, July 20, 2017 12:34 am

Education

Retreat invites women to Take Heart

By Susan Shinn Turner For the Salisbury Post LANDIS — In a few weeks, Jennifer Caraccio hopes to introduce her sisters in Christ to another ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Tuesday, July 18, 2017 12:08 am

Business

Cheerwine part of made-in-America event at White House today

Cheerwine was born in the South, raised in a glass — and today is an invited guest at the White House. Top Cheerwine officials are in ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Monday, July 17, 2017 10:23 am

Columnists

Elizabeth Cook: Rowan’s prayer case likely to go on

Prayer has always meant a great deal to the residents of Rowan County. So it’s important that people of faith understand what’s at stake as ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, July 16, 2017 12:18 am

Columnists

Cook column: Rowan’s prayer case likely to go on

Prayer has always meant a great deal to the residents of Rowan County. So it’s important that people of faith understand what’s at stake as ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Sunday, July 16, 2017 12:06 am

Columnists

Paul O’Connor: As cities grow, rural areas will lose clout in legislature

RALEIGH — Ferrel Guillory, the former newsman and current UNC scholar, often lectures to journalists with slides that reporters have nicknamed “Dots, Dots, Dots.” Guillory ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Thursday, July 13, 2017 12:00 am

Local

Downtown Salisbury bottleneck nearing end

By Elizabeth Cook elizabeth.cook@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — The sidewalk project that has squeezed downtown Innes Street traffic and pedestrians since spring will loosen its grip soon. Craig Powers, ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Tuesday, July 11, 2017 12:05 am

Editorials

Editorial: Bill deserves to be vetoed

Deeds speak louder than words, so it’s hard to have faith in state Sen. Trudy Wade’s insistence that she wants to take public notices out ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Monday, July 10, 2017 10:56 pm

Opinion

Hobby Lobby emboldens black market

“I read them the riot act.” That is how an antiquities law expert characterized her warning to Hobby Lobby executives that artifacts the company was planning ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Monday, July 10, 2017 10:53 pm

Columnists

Tom Campbell: Are we a nation of vanishing adults?

Peter Pan never grew up, and there is evidence we have a generation of many young people who, like Pan, are stranded in Neverland. Nebraska ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Saturday, July 8, 2017 10:22 pm

News

Wayne Hinshaw: Mushrooms or toadstools?

By Wayne Hinshaw For the Salisbury Post Recently, I was capturing some photos for an unrelated project in East Spencer and I discovered some mushrooms growing in ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Saturday, July 8, 2017 12:06 am

Local

Mary Messinger remembered as ‘mother of Salisbury Symphony’

By Elizabeth Cook elizabeth.cook@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — You won’t find many photos of Mary Messinger when you look through the Salisbury Post archive’s files for the Salisbury Symphony. ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Saturday, July 8, 2017 12:05 am

Letters

Talkback: What online readers say about …

… New doughnut shop brings L.A. tradition to Salisbury I visited your store for the first time yesterday. The doughnuts were fantastic. — Amber Crawford-Grumbles ... Read more

by Elizabeth Cook, Thursday, July 6, 2017 7:33 pm

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