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Elections
GRANITE QUARRY — Arin Wilhelm, first elected to the Granite Quarry Board of Aldermen in 2013, says he’s seeking another four-year term to continue the town’s ...
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by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, September 27, 2017 12:00 am
Elections
GRANITE QUARRY — Wes Rhinier, a candidate for the Granite Quarry Board of Aldermen, says key issues concerning him are taxation, annexation and the town’s ...
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by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, September 27, 2017 12:00 am
Local
The October issue of Salisbury the Magazine has reached subscribers, and it features stories and pictures on a couple of sites on this year’s OctoberTour, ...
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by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, September 27, 2017 12:00 am
Gold Hill
GOLD HILL — There was an open casket Sunday for Capt. Lamar Shafer Russell, even though he died more than 73 years ago. But it ...
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by Mark Wineka, Monday, September 25, 2017 12:10 am
Local
Here is an aerial photograph taken of Salisbury’s Holiday Inn close to the day of its opening on June 20, 1988, along Jake Alexander Boulevard. At ...
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by Mark Wineka, Monday, September 25, 2017 12:00 am
Local
Staff report SALISBURY — The newly formed YSUP! Rowan, which stands for Youth Substance Use Prevention Rowan, received word Wednesday that it has received a $625,000 ...
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by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, September 20, 2017 3:50 pm
Local
ROCKWELL — Julia “Judy” Daniel Corriher died in 2013 when she was 89, and the duty of sorting through her Salisbury home on Holmes Street — ...
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by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, September 20, 2017 12:00 am
Business
SALISBURY — When Hurricane Hazel hit North Carolina in 1954, a lot of telephone repairmen from Salisbury and other areas of the state converged on Raleigh, ...
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by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, September 19, 2017 12:00 am
Local
Staff report SALISBURY — James E. Taylor, a Salisbury oil painter, has won a 2017 Gold Medal in the nationwide Veterans Administration Creative Competition Festival. Taylor plans ...
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by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, September 19, 2017 12:00 am
Local
In this photograph from Jan. 3, 1983, General Manager Newton Fowler holds newly made cigarettes and explains how the module he’s standing next to can ...
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by Mark Wineka, Monday, September 18, 2017 12:00 am
Gold Hill
GOLD HILL — The world seemed to stop for a moment when Jim Bell reached into his briefcase and pulled out the bent but still legible ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, September 17, 2017 12:00 am
Cleveland
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com CLEVELAND — The Legion Riders of Kennedy-Hall American Legion Post 106 will conduct their Wreaths Across America Poker Run this coming Saturday. ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, September 17, 2017 12:00 am
Health
SALISBURY — As Woody Page of Albemarle sat up from the dentist’s chair Friday, he could only mumble. The upper part of his mouth was filled with gauze because ...
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by Mark Wineka, Saturday, September 16, 2017 12:00 am
Local
SALISBURY — It’s good to see Theo Buerbaum again. It’s been a long time. This coming Saturday, John Holshouser — the retired judge, attorney and ...
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by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, September 13, 2017 12:00 am
Local
SALISBURY — Boy Scouts Troop 448 formally dedicated its outside activity area along Chestnut Street in honor of John Rink on Saturday evening. Rink has ...
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by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, September 12, 2017 12:00 am
Local
This photograph shows a vehicle trying to maneuver past a broken tree and precarious power lines on the Friday morning that Hurricane Hugo ripped through ...
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by Mark Wineka, Monday, September 11, 2017 12:00 am
Local
SALISBURY — Sharon Wagoner Whittington is just one of those people. She’s the friend with the smile and the laugh. She’s the person worried about you, ...
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by Mark Wineka, Monday, September 11, 2017 12:00 am
Health
SALISBURY — Dr. Brandon Aron, a Salisbury dentist, will be working his third Missions of Mercy dental clinic this coming Friday and Saturday, and for ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, September 10, 2017 12:10 am
Local
1. As part of its 100th anniversary celebration this year, Cheerwine has announced it will match donations to the Rowan United Way campaign dollar-for-dollar up ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, September 10, 2017 12:00 am
Health
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — For two weeks, that other hurricane — the one named Harvey — consumed the lives of Tim and Donna ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, September 10, 2017 12:00 am
Local
Maybe no one was ever more appropriately named than William C. Peoples Jr. When you get down to it, he was a man of the ...
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by Mark Wineka, Saturday, September 9, 2017 12:10 am
China Grove
CHINA GROVE — Strings of Victory, a bluegrass gospel group, will release its fourth CD, “Angels Are Awaiting,” on Saturday at the Price of Freedom Museum’s ...
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by Mark Wineka, Thursday, September 7, 2017 12:00 am
Granite Quarry
GRANITE QUARRY — The town of Granite Quarry has gone live with its new website, and Town Manager Phil Conrad describes it as a significant ...
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by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, September 6, 2017 12:00 am
Faith
Buddy Barger provided this photograph showing the guys who played for the town of Faith’s baseball team in the early 1940s, prior to World War ...
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by Mark Wineka, Monday, September 4, 2017 12:00 am
Local
Buddy Barger provided this 1951 photograph depicting the first football team at Granite Quarry High School. That’s Barger in the middle at quarterback ready to ...
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by Mark Wineka, Monday, August 28, 2017 12:00 am
East Spencer
EAST SPENCER — Visit Betty Culp and you meet a vibrant 94-year-old woman who has loved life, is proud of her big family and still ...
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by Mark Wineka, Friday, August 25, 2017 12:00 am
News
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Months ago, I overheard my wife and our good friend, Nan Martin, talking about a solar eclipse Aug. 21 as being the ...
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by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, August 22, 2017 12:00 am
Health
SALISBURY — U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., left the Hefner VA Medical Center in Salisbury on Thursday encouraged that the hospital is addressing shortcomings cited in ...
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by Mark Wineka, Friday, August 18, 2017 12:00 am
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