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Staff report SALISBURY — Because of lasting effect of tropical depression Florence, Rowan-Salisbury Schools will be closed for students Monday. Here was the message issued ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, September 16, 2018 12:08 pm
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By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Nothing was going to keep Tiffany Patrick from competing against other barbecue teams at the Biker Blues & BBQ ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, September 16, 2018 12:10 am
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Marlene Kepley provided this aerial photograph of the N.C. Finishing Co. plant and a portion of the Yadkin Mill Village (bottom part of the photo), ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, September 16, 2018 12:00 am
Education
Staff report SALISBURY — Livingstone College President Jimmy R. Jenkins Sr. said Livingstone College will remain closed through Monday “due to the effects of now ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, September 16, 2018 12:00 am
Local
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com Ben Taylor felt a bit conflicted Saturday. The Salisbury native had ridden out Hurricane Florence’s impact as part of a skeleton ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, September 16, 2018 12:00 am
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By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Rowan Countians settled in Saturday for what forecasters are still predicting could bring upward of 12 inches of rain ...
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by Mark Wineka, Saturday, September 15, 2018 1:21 pm
Education
Staff report Note: This 10 a.m. Saturday update from Catawba College comes from Tonia Black-Gold, communications director. As the remnants of what was Hurricane Florence ...
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by Mark Wineka, Saturday, September 15, 2018 11:46 am
Local
SALISBURY — Mailman Jeff Clifton still has a vivid memory of the morning Hurricane Hugo hit Salisbury on Sept. 22, 1989. Rain, whipped by wind ...
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by Mark Wineka, Friday, September 14, 2018 12:00 am
News
SALISBURY — If anyone has a case for declaring a personal state of emergency, it’s Jill Foster. She needs to be standing at a podium ...
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by Mark Wineka, Thursday, September 13, 2018 12:00 am
Local
SALISBURY — For now, Salisbury might seem far away from the path of Hurricane Florence. But that doesn’t mean people on the coast don’t see ...
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by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, September 11, 2018 7:00 pm
Local
SALISBURY — Because of the uncertainty of Hurricane Florence, Rowan Museum has postponed its annual Germanfest, which was scheduled for Saturday at the Old Stone ...
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by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, September 11, 2018 6:00 pm
Local
SALISBURY — Every anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, is an emotional day for Nancy Fezler. Back then, Fezler was a customer relations executive for United ...
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by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, September 11, 2018 11:16 am
News
MOORESVILLE — Tristen Hobbs would be 16 now, driving his well-appointed pickup back and forth to Mooresville High School, maybe playing junior varsity football and ...
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by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, September 11, 2018 12:00 am
Business
SALISBURY — For more years than he cares to remember — first as a kid stocking shelves and sweeping floors, then for decades as the ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, September 9, 2018 12:10 am
Local
Rowan Museum Inc., owners of the Old Stone House in Granite Quarry, provided these contrasting photos of the 1766 property. Above is a Theo ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, September 9, 2018 12:00 am
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By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Why wouldn’t you name a popular section of greenway between Overton Elementary School and Prescott Drive for the late ...
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by Mark Wineka, Saturday, September 8, 2018 12:00 am
Granite Quarry
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com GRANITE QUARRY — At the surface, the hole doesn’t look that significant. Some town officials described it as the size of ...
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by Mark Wineka, Saturday, September 8, 2018 12:00 am
Granite Quarry
GRANITE QUARRY — Back in 2016, the Granite Quarry Board of Aldermen paid $20,000 for 10.1 acres off Faith Road in hopes some of the ...
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by Mark Wineka, Thursday, September 6, 2018 12:00 am
Granite Quarry
GRANITE QUARRY — In the recent past, town employees have often seen residents walk into Town Hall and ask, “Can I keep chickens?” Granite Quarry ...
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by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, September 5, 2018 12:00 am
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SALISBURY — After two-and-a-half years on the job, Karen L. Hobson has resigned as executive director of Historic Salisbury Foundation. She turned in her resignation ...
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by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, September 5, 2018 12:00 am
Local
With the recent passing of U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, Terry Osborne, general manager of of the Rowan-Kannapolis ABC Board, rummaged through some of his ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, September 2, 2018 12:00 am
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By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — From all appearances, it was a retirement ceremony for three veterans of the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office — Lt. ...
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by Mark Wineka, Saturday, September 1, 2018 12:00 am
News
SALISBURY — The September issue of Salisbury the Magazine, a publication of the Salisbury Post, reached subscribers early last week and has been distributed throughout ...
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by Mark Wineka, Friday, August 31, 2018 12:00 am
Local
SALISBURY — From his bedroom window in Germanton, a young John Wagoner could see his Grandpa Sid Holland’s store. In the 1930s and ’40s, the ...
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by Mark Wineka, Thursday, August 30, 2018 12:00 am
Granite Quarry
GRANITE QUARRY — The town of Granite Quarry will kick off its food drive Saturday and expects it to run through December. “We will be ...
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by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, August 29, 2018 10:15 am
Faith
KANNAPOLIS — It started back when her youngest son, Neal, didn’t want to stay in Sunday school by himself. To allay his fears, Annie Lee ...
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by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, August 29, 2018 12:00 am
Local
This photograph from the Salisbury Post archives shows a Piedmont Players scene between Francis Cook, left, and Lou Murphy, who were starring in the December ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, August 26, 2018 12:00 am
News
SALISBURY — When O’Bryan Neely was born on March 16 more than 33 years ago, it was close enough to St. Patrick’s Day that he ...
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by Mark Wineka, Friday, August 24, 2018 12:00 am
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