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Local
Margaret Thompson-Shumate uncovered this photograph in a box of hundreds of recipes and newspaper clippings that were collected by her late mother. ‘She passed away ...
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by Mark Wineka, Friday, December 21, 2018 12:00 am
Education
SALISBURY — For members of Harold B. Jarrett American Legion Post and its auxiliary, the question will always be: Who benefits more, the kids or ...
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by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, December 19, 2018 12:00 am
Local
SALISBURY — I hadn’t heard from Doug Black since September, and I feared the worst. Doug had been battling a grave illness for some time ...
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by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, December 18, 2018 12:00 am
Local
SALISBURY — The carload of four friends left Trinity Oaks at 7:30 on the rainy, 35-degree morning of Nov. 15. They were on a Virginia-bound ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, December 16, 2018 12:10 am
News
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Elizabeth Maxwell Steele represents one of the more significant figures in Rowan County history. So it’s more than fitting ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, December 16, 2018 12:00 am
Health
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Mary Kidd thinks the last time she went sledding was 1950 in Albany, New York. That was until this ...
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by Mark Wineka, Saturday, December 15, 2018 12:10 am
Cleveland
CLEVELAND — Close to noon Saturday, auctioneer Greg Wagoner announced it was time for what many in the crowd had been waiting for — the ...
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by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, December 11, 2018 12:05 am
Granite Quarry
ROCKWELL — As a boy growing up in eastern Rowan County, Banks Kluttz heard only that his grandfather worked for Southern Railroad and had ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, December 9, 2018 12:10 am
Books
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Army Maj. John Tramazzo calls himself a bourbon nerd — and for good reason. Over the past four-plus years, ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, December 9, 2018 12:00 am
Local
SALISBURY — City of Salisbury street crews are ready to begin 12-hour shifts Saturday evening in response to winter weather that seems sure to ...
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by Mark Wineka, Friday, December 7, 2018 2:36 pm
Christmas Happiness
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Many years ago, more than 30 if you’re counting, the Wink’s Bunch started as a business breakfast at the ...
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by Mark Wineka, Friday, December 7, 2018 12:00 am
Granite Quarry
GRANITE QUARRY — A Veronica Lane resident has asked the town of Granite Quarry to compensate her for the loss of a large oak tree ...
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by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, December 5, 2018 12:00 am
Granite Quarry
GRANITE QUARRY — A building committee of Aldermen Jim Costantino and John Linker has quickly realized that deciding on renovations to Town Hall requires considerably ...
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by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, December 4, 2018 12:00 am
Business
SALISBURY — Someone should check Randy Elium’s birth certificate and make sure his real name isn’t John Deere. No one in Rowan County has had ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, December 2, 2018 12:10 am
Local
SPENCER —Meals on Wheels Executive Director Cindy Fink noted the headquarters building hasn’t had heat since last week, but Tuesday’s annual meeting fulfilled her promise ...
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by Mark Wineka, Thursday, November 29, 2018 12:00 am
Local
SALISBURY — All the important people were there, and Stacy E. Walser couldn’t have asked for a much nicer backdrop than George Washington’s Mount Vernon ...
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by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, November 28, 2018 12:00 am
Local
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — The Council Chambers at Salisbury City Hall usually are reserved for things such as agendas, minutes, resolutions, ordinances, budget ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, November 25, 2018 12:05 am
Crime
Staff report A rash of residential and business break-ins in a general area around Peeler and Old Concord roads has led to four suspects being ...
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by Mark Wineka, Saturday, November 24, 2018 5:06 pm
China Grove
LANDIS — Look for the yellow pants. That was Susan Steele’s clue for finding her son Parker in Tuesday’s Southern Rowan Christmas Parade. The yellow ...
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by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, November 21, 2018 12:00 am
East Spencer
Jack ‘Joe’ Poole provided this photograph of East Spencer High School’s baseball team in 1953. Poole was a member of the team and is the ...
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by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, November 20, 2018 12:00 am
Faith
SALISBURY — The Rev. Dr. Vernon Shannon reminded his audience Wednesday of an important thing. “We should not be so heavenly based that we’re not ...
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by Mark Wineka, Thursday, November 15, 2018 12:00 am
Health
SALISBURY — Kelly Cummings had the idea. The chief nurse for acute care at Hefner VA Medical Center thought there should be a way to ...
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by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, November 14, 2018 12:00 am
Local
GRANITE QUARRY — Salisbury attorney and Vietnam combat veteran Cecil Whitley presented the Rowan County Veterans Honor Guard with a bronze fallen soldiers memorial sculpture ...
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by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, November 14, 2018 12:00 am
Local
SALISBURY — There’s a phrase for what a four-man archaeological crew from Richmond, Virginia, is doing this week at the back of a long, empty ...
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by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, November 13, 2018 12:00 am
Local
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Elizabeth Cook, editor of the Salisbury Post for 25 years, has announced her retirement at the end of this ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, November 11, 2018 12:11 am
Local
Today is Veterans Day, and it also happens to be the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. So it’s fitting that Jeanne ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, November 11, 2018 12:00 am
Local
SALISBURY — The ‘Tis the Season Spectacular holiday parade just might have a chance of living up to its name — especially the “spectacular” part. ...
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by Mark Wineka, Friday, November 9, 2018 12:00 am
Local
Editor’s note: With Veterans Day coming up Sunday and many celebrations Monday, it’s appropriate, too, to remember the ultimate sacrifices sometimes made by the men ...
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by Mark Wineka, Friday, November 9, 2018 12:00 am
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