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Question: When people are holding fundraisers, why do they call the cost of a ticket a “donation?” Whitey Harwood Answer: The reasoning for using the term ...
Question: When people are holding fundraisers, why do they call the cost of a ticket a “donation?” Whitey Harwood Answer: The reasoning for using the term ...
North Carolina’s historic tax credit program may still have a chance of being revived in the General Assembly. Last week, a historic tax credit bill ...
By Josh Bergeron josh.bergeron@salisburypost.com One of the most criticized policy decisions of county government’s former Salisbury Mall purchase is scheduled to come up for debate ...
Rowan County’s trajectory for business and residential development is a steep incline if you talk to just about any public official, but there’s a trade-off ...
Controversy about a Religious Freedom Restoration Act made national news this week and shifted to North Carolina after two bills were introduced in both legislative bodies of ...
The NAACP is officially back at Livingstone College after a multi-year year period of being declared inactive because of compliance issues. Two weeks ago, the college ...
Dozens, perhaps hundreds, of egg hunts are scheduled for this weekend in conjunction with the Easter holiday, but one will involve thousands of eggs and an ...
FAITH — The memory of one of Rowan County’s most well-known public servants will forever reside on Faith Road. Friends, family, former co-workers and acquaintances packed into ...
Gov. Pat McCrory on Wednesday officially announced the reappointment of Rowan County’s state transportation board representative to the N.C. Turnpike Authority. Local businessman Jake Alexander ...
By Josh Bergeron josh.bergeron@salisburypost.com The Salisbury-Rowan NAACP is turning to the city’s youngest generation as community organizers continue a crackdown on crime in Salisbury’s West ...
Staff report Novant Health Rowan Medical Center has named its two new board members, both of which are from opposite ends of the county. Landis Attorney ...
Indiana’s new “religious freedom” law has become a lightning rod for criticism, but similar bills — both co-sponsored by local legislators — have been introduced in N.C. House ...
There’s 100 county clerks in North Carolina, but Rowan County’s was named the best in the state Saturday during the North Carolina Association of County ...
The Rowan County Social Services Department won’t meet a March deadline of finishing a backlog of thousands of Medicaid cases created, in part, by a ...
By Josh Bergeron josh.bergeron@salisburypost.com A road naming ceremony to honor Faith native and legendary public servant Eugene McCombs on his hometown’s namesake road is scheduled ...
Aaron Robert Lambo, 26, of 275 Bren Lane in Salisbury, was charged Friday with statutory rape by the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office. Warrants state the ...
The Democratic Party has got to get mean in 2016, according to U.S. Rep. Alma Adams. Adams, a Democrat who represents North Carolina’s 12th Congressional ...
SPENCER — North Carolina’s Transportation Museum is bringing steam power back to the future. State officials on Saturday officially announced the start of a $2.2 ...
State Rep. Harry Warren,R-77, spent a lengthy amount of time talking about tax-related issues during a town hall meeting Friday in Salisbury. Two areas he ...
By Josh Bergeron josh.bergeron@salisburypost.com Liberalism is dead and the nation’s institutions are disintegrating, at least according to Catawba College history professor Gary Freeze. Freeze, a ...
State Rep. Harry Warren, R-77, will have a town-hall-style meeting Friday at the Rowan County Government administrative office building at 130 West Innes Street in ...
By Josh Bergeron josh.bergeron@salisburypost.com A bill introduced this week in the N.C. General Assembly that intends to shift more sales tax dollars to rural areas is ...
By Josh Bergeron josh.bergeron@salisburypost.com Rowan County’s total population is growing ever so slightly, according to the latest U.S. Census statistics. Released this week, U.S. Census ...
U.S. Rep. Alma Adams, D-12, will headline a Rowan County Democratic Party fundraising luncheon on Saturday. The fundraiser will raise money for the county’s Democratic Party, ...
Steve Fisher wants to be like Mike. Fisher, an F&M Bank executive, was named the new president of the Rowan County United Way during the ...
Rowan’s largest government agency in total employees and yearly expenses has submitted a budget to the county that’s almost $500,000 less than its projected expenses for the ...
With little discussion, the Rowan County Planning Board on Monday zipped through a rezoning for a business on Old Concord Road that’s expanding. The planning ...
County government’s financing rates for a West End Plaza loan came in lower than expected and lower overall than proposals received in 2014. Rowan County ...
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