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Salisbury Transit receives grant to replace buses
SALISBURY — The city’s Transit Department has received a $480,000 grant to buy buses and equipment, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced Monday. Salisbury received ...
SALISBURY — The city’s Transit Department has received a $480,000 grant to buy buses and equipment, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced Monday. Salisbury received ...
SALISBURY — How does a “massive, impersonal bureaucracy” address the needs of individual people? It’s a core question for the VA Health Care System, U.S. ...
Many high school seniors and their parents are already asking themselves “what schools are worth it” when choosing colleges to apply to. Because of data ...
SALISBURY — To give students flexibility en route to graduation, East Rowan High School hopes to start a virtual academy next year that would offer ...
SALISBURY — Let’s build a school, says Mayor Al Heggins. Recalling the motto for downtown’s Bell Tower Green Park during Monday’s Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education ...
SALISBURY — When the school board meets Monday, it’s scheduled to receive a study that says closing Overton Elementary will have no negative educational impact ...
SALISBURY — The United Way’s 2019 campaign still has work to do. By its final update on Friday, the campaign had raised $1.4 million or ...
SALISBURY — Parents, family and Salisbury residents associated with Overton Elementary School have a single request for the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education: build a K-8 facility ...
SALISBURY — Two men were arrested Friday in connection with the murder of 71-year-old Emerson Truitt Roebuck, according to the Salisbury Police Department. Roebuck was ...
LANDIS — When Fred Steen was running for town board in 1993, people asked what he planned to do about an interchange that state officials ...
SALISBURY — In a move that would address concerns raised by students, local leaders plan to include space for Rowan County Early College in a ...
LANDIS — County commissioners Chairman Greg Edds has a message for employers. “All interstate lanes are now open, and Rowan is open for business,” Edds ...
For the third time since 2011, an incumbent mayor has found herself finishing in second place or worse in a bid for re-election to the ...
The biggest municipal election news in Salisbury was that Al Heggins is likely to lose her job as mayor, but that was not the most ...
SALISBURY — Rowan County has nine days to raise $304,000 and meet its goal for the 2019 United Way campaign. As of Wednesday, the United Way’s annual ...
KANNAPOLIS — Voters chose experience Tuesday, electing Ryan Dayvault, Tom Kincaid and Darrell Jackson to the City Council. Incumbents Dayvault and Kincaid were re-elected to ...
SPENCER — Voters on Tuesday chose Jonathan D. Williams as the town’s next mayor by a landslide and opted for change in choosing six of ...
ROCKWELL — Salisbury VA Medical Center staff members got an earful Monday night during a town hall about medical care organized by the American Legion. Meeting ...
CONCORD — With a driver’s license serving as the most compelling piece of evidence for some of its members, the Cabarrus County Board of Elections ...
For one, confirmation came in a Friday meeting at a Holiday Inn near the highway. For another, it was a phone call on a Thursday. ...
KANNAPOLIS — Daniel Wallace, vice chairman of the Kannapolis City Schools Board of Education, will resign from his position Tuesday to focus on his family ...
KANNAPOLIS — A former councilman and current candidate for the city’s governing board will be the subject of an election hearing in Concord on Monday ...
SALISBURY — Paul Lucas remembers the night vividly. There was the repeated noise of one shoe hitting the ground and then silence as Paul walked ...
SALISBURY — Initial results of Rowan-Salisbury Schools’ first accountability report could be ready for public release in June, district staff members told the school board ...
SALISBURY — The Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education on Monday asked the district staff to prepare a proposal to close Overton Elementary School permanently as part ...
ROCKWELL — Voters will have their choice between two men for Rockwell mayor in 2019. Beau Taylor, who has served has mayor for 18 years, ...
SALISBURY — By the start of 2020, nonprofits, government agencies and health care-focused businesses will begin rolling out what Rowan County United Way Director Jenny Lee ...
Anyone looking for the start of Rowan County’s current political climate might reasonably start with the election of Greg Edds, Jim Greene and Judy Klusman ...
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