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Ask us: Will West Innes Street median follow Confederate monument’s removal?
Editor’s note: Ask Us is a weekly feature published online Mondays and in print on Tuesdays. We’ll seek to answer your questions about items or trends ...
Josh Bergeron, Author at Salisbury Post
Local
Hundreds expected at Trump boat parade on High Rock Lake
SALISBURY — Politics can get crazy, says Genny Duncan. Sometimes people just need to have fun with it. Duncan and longtime friend Anna Garrison are ...
by Josh Bergeron, Sunday, July 12, 2020 12:05 am
Columnists
Josh Bergeron: Is ‘Fame’ an angel or something else?
Is “Fame” an angel, pagan goddess, winged figure from Greek mythology, Greek muse or something else? The Post has written all manner of descriptions about ...
by Josh Bergeron, Sunday, July 12, 2020 12:01 am
Coronavirus
‘Critical needs’: COVID-19 Relief Fund helped Meals on Wheels deliver groceries to seniors
SPENCER — Meals on Wheels has always served homebound seniors, but its services have expanded and been more critical than every during the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
by Josh Bergeron, Sunday, July 12, 2020 12:00 am
Coronavirus
County has averaged more than 100 daily tests since mid-June
SALISBURY — As COVID-19 options have become more readily available in recent weeks, the seven-day rolling average of new tests in Rowan County is hovering ...
by Josh Bergeron, Thursday, July 9, 2020 8:11 pm
Local
111 years after its dedication, ‘Fame’ hoisted away from West Innes Street
After more than a century in one location, the Confederate monument in the median of West Innes Street was permanently removed from the center of ...
by Josh Bergeron, Tuesday, July 7, 2020 5:09 am
Business
Downtown Salisbury Inc director resigns
SALISBURY — The head of the city’s downtown promotions and development organization abruptly resigned her job last month. Larissa Harper, named director of Downtown Salisbury ...
by Josh Bergeron, Tuesday, July 7, 2020 12:00 am
Business
In the Heart of Salisbury, Wivianny DeHaas creates ‘wellness oasis’
SALISBURY — Global pandemics don’t tend to adhere to a schedule, but COVID-19 couldn’t have come to Rowan County at a worse time for Heart ...
by Josh Bergeron, Sunday, July 5, 2020 12:00 am
Gold Hill
Gold Hill Fire Department to hold scavenger hunt
The Gold Hill Fire Department will be holding a back to School Scavenger Hunt Aug. 8 from 10 a.m. to noon. This will be a ...
by Josh Bergeron, Sunday, July 5, 2020 12:00 am
Columnists
Josh Bergeron: Will community meet moment with collective action?
Understandably, my knowledge is slim on moments from the homefront during World War II. Sure, it was a topic in history courses. There are military ...
by Josh Bergeron, Sunday, July 5, 2020 12:00 am
Local
Greenway expansion, traffic signal maintenance submitted for federal funding
SALISBURY — The Cabarrus-Rowan Metropolitan Planning Organization this week endorsed two local projects for federal grant funding. The MPO, which prioritizes local transportation projects for ...
by Josh Bergeron, Thursday, July 2, 2020 12:00 am
Columnists
Mitch Kokai: Put NC at front of line for recovery
By Mitch Kokai The furor over COVID-19 will fade. Eventually. Once that happens, North Carolina will compete in the national race toward recovery. Decisions policymakers ...
by Josh Bergeron, Thursday, July 2, 2020 12:00 am
Local
State says prisoners objected to being quarantined as part of COVID-19 precautions
SALISBURY — An incident in which prisoners barricaded themselves into a dorm at Piedmont Correctional Institute started with an objection to being quarantined for two ...
by Josh Bergeron, Monday, June 29, 2020 3:38 pm
Local
Confederate group contests public safety exception after protests, riots involving monuments
SALISBURY — In a letter sent to North Carolina municipalities last week, the North Carolina Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans said “violent protests ...
by Josh Bergeron, Monday, June 29, 2020 12:00 am
Coronavirus
COVID-19 case count increases by 24; positives continue younger trend
For the eighth-straight day, Rowan County on Sunday reported a double-digit increase in total COVID-19 cases. The increase of 24 raised Rowan County’s COVID-19 case ...
by Josh Bergeron, Sunday, June 28, 2020 10:26 pm
Local
‘Negligible inconvenience’: Locals react to start of state’s face covering mandate
By Josh Bergeron and Shavonne Potts news@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Rowan Countians started masking up Friday as a new state mandate went into place requiring face ...
by Josh Bergeron, Sunday, June 28, 2020 12:05 am
Business
Nurses turn into entrepreneurs in making hand sanitizer
SALISBURY — Tracey Jackson has been a nurse for about 30 years, but a recent conversation turned him and a co-worker into entrepreneurs, too. Jackson, ...
by Josh Bergeron, Sunday, June 28, 2020 12:00 am
Crime
Prison inmates barricade themselves in dorm, Department of Public Safety says
SALISBURY — In an incident Saturday morning at Piedmont Correctional Institution, about 36 inmates barricaded themselves into a dorm, said N.C. Department of Public Safety ...
by Josh Bergeron, Saturday, June 27, 2020 10:48 pm
Local
Photos: City crew covers base of ‘Fame’ with plastic
A crew from the city of Salisbury on Friday used transparent and black plastic to cover the base of “Fame.” Public Works Director Craig Powers ...
by Josh Bergeron, Friday, June 26, 2020 3:16 pm
Coronavirus
Two staff members test positive at assisted living facility on Mooresville Road
Two employees have tested positive for COVID-19 at Elmcroft of Salisbury, an assisted living community on Mooresville Road. The facility is the fifth active outbreak ...
by Josh Bergeron, Tuesday, June 23, 2020 10:05 pm
Letters
Letter: Rhinier’s letter presents misguided characterization
Having lived and worked in several former Soviet and current Muslim countries, we find Mr. Wes Rhinier’s letter to the editor published June 14 (“No right ...
by Josh Bergeron, Tuesday, June 23, 2020 12:00 am
Coronavirus
Double-digit increases keep coming as COVID-19 cases top 1,000
The month of June has brought with it some of the sharpest daily increases in COVID-19 cases, propelling the local total to more than 1,000 ...
by Josh Bergeron, Monday, June 22, 2020 1:49 am
Ask Us
Ask Us: Readers ask about Golden Corral, street cleaning, pet food containers
Editor’s note: Ask Us is a weekly feature published online Mondays and in print on Tuesdays. We’ll seek to answer your questions about items or trends ...
by Josh Bergeron, Monday, June 22, 2020 12:00 am
Columnists
Josh Bergeron: Now more than ever, support local businesses
It’s not everyday that people and businesses ask to be added to a boycott list, but that’s exactly what happened last week after the Salisbury ...
by Josh Bergeron, Sunday, June 21, 2020 12:01 am
Coronavirus
COVID-19 Relief Fund receives Cheerwine donations, names another grantee
SALISBURY — The Rowan County United Way’s COVID-19 Relief Fund received one large donation from Cheerwine and gave out another grant to a local organization ...
by Josh Bergeron, Sunday, June 21, 2020 12:00 am
Coronavirus
Two test positive for COVID-19 at Cleveland Daimler plant
CLEVELAND — Two employees of the Daimler Trucks plant in Rowan County have tested positive for COVID-19 and been out of the facility for several ...
by Josh Bergeron, Friday, June 19, 2020 3:36 pm
News
VA Secretary Robert Wilkie: Salisbury VA quickly adapted to COVID-19 challenges
By Robert Wilkie The importance of military service to America’s safety and security never needs to be explained to North Carolinians. That is why I ...
by Josh Bergeron, Wednesday, June 17, 2020 12:00 am
Local
Charlotte Gardner, who broke barriers as first Rowan woman in state legislature, dies
SALISBURY — It may have been 2:30 a.m., but Charlotte Gardner quickly answered Brad Ligon’s phone call. Ligon had just advanced out of the Republican ...
by Josh Bergeron, Wednesday, June 17, 2020 12:00 am
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