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By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com ROCKWELL — Russ Roakes of Powles Staton Funeral Home had the exact number — 5,664 toys — and Diane Coffill said ...
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by Mark Wineka, Thursday, December 1, 2016 12:10 am
Local
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Salisbury residents have organized a “March for Love” for Saturday afternoon, part of a statewide response to rumors of ...
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by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, November 30, 2016 12:00 am
Health
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com CHINA GROVE — Lynette McIntosh says her stepmother, Hazel Hendrix, refuses to ask for help and continues to be more concerned ...
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by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, November 30, 2016 12:00 am
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By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Brian Pfaff spent a good part of Monday afternoon trying to make the strings of white lights go as ...
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by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, November 29, 2016 12:10 am
Local
Talk has surfaced recently about creating a ‘Central Park’ in downtown Salisbury, but the town of Spencer had its own downtown park a long time ago ...
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by Mark Wineka, Monday, November 28, 2016 12:00 am
Local
Mary Sechler provided this photograph of people who worked in a weave room at Cannon Mills Co. on Nov. 1, 1928. Mary’s nephew, Andy Sechler, ...
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by Mark Wineka, Monday, November 21, 2016 12:00 am
Granite Quarry
GRANITE QUARRY — In December 2014, while he was shopping for Christmas at Concord Mills, John Cannon received one of those calls — did he ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, November 20, 2016 12:00 am
Faith
LANDIS — On a pew behind him, Gene Caldwell has spread out copies of the three gospel songs he wants his choir to practice. An ...
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by Mark Wineka, Saturday, November 19, 2016 12:10 am
Local
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com MOUNT ULLA — Carolina Farm Credit, which has an office in Salisbury at 2810 Statesville Blvd., has awarded a $5,000 grant to the ...
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by Mark Wineka, Saturday, November 19, 2016 12:00 am
Local
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Catawba College students, out to earn extra credit, manned several tables at Rufty-Holmes Senior Center Thursday morning offering information on ...
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by Mark Wineka, Friday, November 18, 2016 12:05 am
Local
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Retired Brig. Gen. Harold Earnhardt meant to share his insights Monday on the formation, growth and needs of the ...
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by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, November 15, 2016 12:00 am
Local
The holiday issue of Salisbury the Magazine, a publication of the Salisbury Post, has a traditions theme, but how could it not when it comes ...
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by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, November 15, 2016 12:00 am
Local
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com The next time you watch an animated movie, take time to pay attention to what’s happening behind the characters — things such ...
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by Mark Wineka, Monday, November 14, 2016 12:00 am
Local
This photograph, provided by Rodney Calloway, might be familiar to many Boyden High School (now Salisbury High) alumni. It shows the 1949 Boyden High football ...
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by Mark Wineka, Monday, November 14, 2016 12:00 am
Local
SALISBURY — The Central Carolina Chapter of the Military Officers Association of America will meet at noon Monday at Rufty-Holmes Senior Center. Guest speaker will ...
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by Mark Wineka, Saturday, November 12, 2016 12:00 am
Local
SALISBURY — Jack Kepley wandered into the Salisbury Post newsroom the other day with a war story. It’s a good one. In 1945, an Associated ...
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by Mark Wineka, Friday, November 11, 2016 12:04 am
Elections
SALISBURY — I first heard it many elections ago from none other than Pat Buchanan, back in those days when he was running for president ...
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by Mark Wineka, Thursday, November 10, 2016 12:01 am
Granite Quarry
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com GRANITE QUARRY — Does the air seem cleaner? Town Manager Phil Conrad told the Board of Aldermen Monday that Rowan County ...
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by Mark Wineka, Thursday, November 10, 2016 12:01 am
Local
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com Gerald Adams, a Granite Quarry native, died Wednesday morning in his beloved town of Boone, where for the past 25 years ...
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by Mark Wineka, Thursday, November 10, 2016 12:00 am
Local
SALISBURY — Historic Salisbury Foundation has invited state archaeologists to Salisbury Saturday to discuss what they have found in examining at lot at 317 E. Bank ...
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by Mark Wineka, Thursday, November 10, 2016 12:00 am
Elections
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — As if there were any doubts, Rowan County proved once again during a presidential election that it is a ...
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by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, November 9, 2016 12:05 am
Granite Quarry
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com GRANITE QUARRY — Call it the November surprise. A zoning compromise approved Monday night by the Granite Quarry Board of Aldermen ...
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by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, November 8, 2016 12:00 am
Local
SALISBURY — Deborah B. Graham and Amy Brown call themselves the Real, Live Housewives of Coal Ash. They wore T-shirts that said so Monday when ...
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by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, November 8, 2016 12:00 am
Local
Nancy Graham Corriher submitted this photograph of her mother, the late Pauline E. Graham, and her mother’s college roommate, Blanche Penland, shopping in downtown Salisbury. ...
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by Mark Wineka, Monday, November 7, 2016 12:00 am
Local
SALISBURY — The Rowan Museum and Historic Salisbury Foundation are partners again in presenting their 10th edition of the Rowan County History Course. The 2017 ...
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by Mark Wineka, Monday, November 7, 2016 12:00 am
China Grove
CHINA GROVE — Shaggy had a built-in instinct for when people were ailing and needed some companionship. Mary Jones was one of Shaggy’s projects. During ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, November 6, 2016 12:00 am
Local
SALISBURY — It was a morning that started out with people talking about the Cubs winning the World Series. There was anticipation in the air ...
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by Mark Wineka, Thursday, November 3, 2016 2:00 pm
Local
SALISBURY — A powwow for Lumbee Indians and eastern North Carolina flood victims will be held from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday in the Building 6 ...
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by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, November 2, 2016 12:00 am
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