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BREAKING NEWS
Staff report SALISBURY — Salisbury Police and the State Bureau of Investigation are investigating what they call a “suspicious death” at Alexander Place Apartments, following ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, April 3, 2016 1:47 pm
Local
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — You were invited to a “Lego Extravaganza?” “That just means you have Legos everywhere,” Cindy Webb said. And she was ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, April 3, 2016 12:10 am
Education
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — The prospects of school consolidation dominated discussion Saturday at the Rowan County Republican Breakfast Club, and school board member ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, April 3, 2016 12:00 am
Local
SALISBURY — Back in his days as assistant fire chief, Marvin Yost sometimes had to conduct regular evaluations of his men — a task that ...
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by Mark Wineka, Friday, April 1, 2016 12:10 am
Local
SALISBURY — Salisbury native Dr. White McKenzie Wallenborn will be the featured speaker at Historic Salisbury Foundation’s 43rd Annual Meeting April 12. All members and prospective ...
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by Mark Wineka, Thursday, March 31, 2016 12:00 am
Local
The North Carolina Museum Council has awarded Kay Brown Hirst, executive director of Rowan Museum, with its Professional Service Award. The award came at the ...
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by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, March 30, 2016 12:00 am
Granite Quarry
GRANITE QUARRY — As part of National Public Health Week, the Rowan County Health Department and the town of Granite Quarry will hold a Community ...
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by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, March 30, 2016 12:00 am
Local
SALISBURY — Everywhere I went Saturday, I seemed to see kids shooting hoops, usually in their driveways, most often in pairs. It even looked as though ...
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by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, March 29, 2016 12:00 am
Local
Executives of the N.C. Finishing Co. are shown in this Salisbury Post file photograph from 1954. From left, they are Julian H. Robertson, president; Edward T. ...
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by Mark Wineka, Monday, March 28, 2016 12:00 am
Local
SALISBURY — Jonathan Blackmer traveled to Chestnut Hill Cemetery Monday and placed fresh flowers at the gravesite of his mother, Suzanne. It would have been her ...
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by Mark Wineka, Thursday, March 24, 2016 12:10 am
Business
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com CHINA GROVE — Tuscarora Yarns Inc. will close its China Grove plant at 308 E. Thom St. effective May 9, putting ...
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by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, March 22, 2016 5:42 pm
Local
SALISBURY — It took four years, but bald eagles Liberty and Justice have hatched their first chick at Dan Nicholas Park. Nature Center Supervisor Bob ...
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by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, March 22, 2016 12:10 am
Local
Staff report Rowan Museum Inc. has announced the selection of a new director, Aaron Kepley, to lead the future development of the museum’s properties and ...
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by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, March 22, 2016 12:00 am
Local
In this photograph from 1987, from left, Dick Messinger, Dr. John Wear and Edward H. Clement stand in front of the downtown mural dressed in early ...
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by Mark Wineka, Monday, March 21, 2016 12:00 am
Local
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — When you go about planning the 225th anniversary celebration of President George Washington’s visit to Salisbury, there are plenty of ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, March 20, 2016 12:10 am
Local
ROCKWELL — During his year of combat in Iraq, Jesse Ray Ours saw things no man should have to see. “He didn’t come back the same ...
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by Mark Wineka, Friday, March 18, 2016 12:10 am
Local
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, meet Izzy, short for Isabella, the Irish setter pet and backstage dog of Piedmont Players Director Reid Leonard. Leonard ...
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by Mark Wineka, Thursday, March 17, 2016 12:00 am
Local
SALISBURY — Is Rowan County a bellwether for North Carolina?
In Tuesday's primaries, most of the candidates favored by Rowan County voters also put up winning ...
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by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, March 16, 2016 12:05 am
News
SALISBURY — There’s something that feels really American about voting at the Wagon Wheel. This place — it used to be called Jim Shoaf’s Barn ...
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by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, March 16, 2016 12:00 am
Local
Editor’s note: The Dart is a weekly feature requiring reporters to throw darts at a map of Rowan County and use the locations to find ...
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by Mark Wineka, Monday, March 14, 2016 12:10 am
Local
This photo from the Post files shows the Jan. 18, 1989, fire that destroyed the manufacturing facility, costly memorials, offices and records of Salisbury Marble ...
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by Mark Wineka, Monday, March 14, 2016 12:00 am
Local
The 2016 Kiwanis Pancake Festival, a Salisbury tradition since 1957, will be held Friday and Saturday at the J.F. Hurley Family YMCA, 828 Jake Alexander ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, March 13, 2016 12:00 am
Faith
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — As a kid, Tonya Kesler Brittain and her three siblings did everything imaginable at Union Lutheran Church. They served as acolytes, played handbells, ...
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by Mark Wineka, Saturday, March 12, 2016 12:00 am
Granite Quarry
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com GRANITE QUARRY — The Granite Quarry Board of Aldermen took its first serious look at a 2016-2017 budget proposal Thursday, but ...
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by Mark Wineka, Friday, March 11, 2016 12:00 am
Granite Quarry
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com GRANITE QUARRY — After seeing a short video presentation on how temporary speed bumps could be installed on neighborhood streets, members ...
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by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, March 9, 2016 12:00 am
Granite Quarry
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com GRANITE QUARRY — The Board of Aldermen approved Monday night making a $20,000 offer on 10.1 acres of land off Faith ...
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by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, March 8, 2016 12:00 am
Local
This photograph, provided by local historian Reginald Brown, appeared in the July 1973 third edition of “The Strength of My Life, In Memoriam, The Right ...
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by Mark Wineka, Monday, March 7, 2016 12:00 am
Local
Staff report MOORESVILLE — The N.C. Highway Patrol has identified the driver killed Saturday morning while test driving his race car on Performance Road off N.C. 152. ...
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by Mark Wineka, Monday, March 7, 2016 12:00 am
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