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Rowan Helping Ministries has crisis funding help for heat bills

Staff report With outside temperatures dropping, Rowan Helping Ministries is reminding county residents that it has funding available to help them stay warm in their ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Monday, March 7, 2016 12:00 am

BREAKING NEWS

Driver identified in Saturday’s fatal crash involving custom race car

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. Trooper J.D. ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Sunday, March 6, 2016 12:29 pm

Local

Last of the builder brothers: Ralph Wagoner never stops learning

SALISBURY — Even though Ralph Wagoner will turn 100 this week, just last year he bought a new Toyota Prius. You shouldn’t be surprised. His mother, Pearl, ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Sunday, March 6, 2016 12:10 am

Local

Games people play: Newcomers Club raises money for Food for Thought

By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — It sounds like something you’d write on your tombstone, and with these women, who love playing their card game of ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Thursday, March 3, 2016 12:05 am

Business

Rowan Diagnostic Clinic hires Fink, plans office in Faith

FAITH — Rowan Diagnostic Clinic, with offices on Mocksville Avenue in Salisbury and in Cooleemee, will open another primary care facility with Dr. Gary Fink ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Thursday, March 3, 2016 12:00 am

Local

Fighting isolation, hunger: Meals on Wheels is more than just a meal

By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SPENCER —  When Spencer Mayor Jim Gobbel dropped by Tuesday morning to deliver a Meals on Wheels lunch, Louise Richardson placed him within ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, March 2, 2016 12:10 am

Local

Yesterday: In 1988, Bob Dole’s first run for president

A good-sized crowd mobbed Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole and his wife, Salisbury native Elizabeth Dole (right), when they flew into Charlotte for a Feb. ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Monday, February 29, 2016 12:00 am

Local

Brrrrr! Brave souls take the Polar Plunge

By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com HIGH ROCK LAKE — Joshua Moss wanted to propose at a place where Sadie Hoffard would least expect it. So after the couple ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Sunday, February 28, 2016 12:05 am

Faith

Noted Catawba professor, Center for Faith & the Arts founder Dan Brown dies

By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — You’ve heard that some people are left-brained, some right-brained. Dr. J. Daniel Brown, known as “Dan” to most of ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Sunday, February 28, 2016 12:00 am

Local

The Parker brothers: They know how to cover ground

SALISBURY — On one side of Salisbury, an early city bus deposits Tony Parker at the West End Plaza. Tony fishes out his key and opens ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Friday, February 26, 2016 12:10 am

Local

Levi and Dorothy: A connection held together by ‘keepsakes’ she left behind

SALISBURY — Levi Adams didn’t know Dorothy Frye all that well. How could he? She had spent her life in Brooklyn, N.Y., while Adams was ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, February 23, 2016 12:05 am

Local

Black History Month: a mix of photographs from the past

Reginald Brown, a local historian, supplied these three noteworthy photographs to the Post. He identified one of the pictures as an 1891 grammar school class ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Monday, February 22, 2016 12:05 am

Local

Yesterday: A family moves into the new Lincoln Apartments

In this Salisbury Post photograph published Jan. 5, 1969, Dora King and her 3-year-old son, one of her five children, get ready to occupy one ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Monday, February 22, 2016 12:00 am

Granite Quarry

Granite Quarry officials look to grow population, tax base

By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com GRANITE QUARRY — There are two important numbers for Granite Quarry: 3,012 and $206 million. The Granite Quarry Board of Aldermen ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Sunday, February 21, 2016 12:00 am

Granite Quarry

Granite Quarry board looks to the future at retreat

By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com GRANITE QUARRY — The built-in contradiction of municipal and county governments going on planning “retreats” is that with much of their discussion, they’re ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Saturday, February 20, 2016 12:00 am

Local

Lunch with Charlie: Wahoo’s Diner regular celebrates his 92nd birthday

GRANITE QUARRY — The chalkboard at Wahoo’s Diner lists the day’s specials. Thursday, they were the sausage and cheese omelet for $4.30 and the open face country-style steak ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Friday, February 19, 2016 12:10 am

Crime

Man on trial for murder had been informant for Salisbury Police

By Shavonne Walker and Mark Wineka news@salisburypost.com A State Bureau of Investigation agent and investigators with the Salisbury Police Department and Rowan County Sheriff’s Department ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Thursday, February 18, 2016 12:00 am

Local

Mother Bear: Overcash stuck to rules, loved her Cubs

SALISBURY — Dave Roof considered Alice Overcash a superhero. In the world of Cub Scouts, so many things such as Blue and Gold banquets, summer ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, February 16, 2016 12:00 am

Local

Yesterday: AME Zion Board of Bishops

Reginald Brown, an archivist for Livingstone College, provided this photograph of the 1904 Board of Bishops for the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Standing, left ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Monday, February 15, 2016 12:00 am

Local

War hero, home builder: Greer Goodman looks back on full life

HIGH ROCK LAKE — Greer Goodman remembers the two-room chicken house where he and Flo first lived. “We threw the chickens out and moved into it,” he ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Saturday, February 13, 2016 12:10 am

Local

Message in a (plastic) bottle: Waterworks’ waterfall carries environmental statements

SALISBURY — Overton Elementary School fifth-grader Quentin Hippert’s message was to the point. “If we have a sun,” he said Wednesday, “why are we burning our natural ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Thursday, February 11, 2016 12:05 am

Local

‘We’re the lucky ones’: Chinese New Year brings together families made richer through adoption

SALISBURY — Monday, when everyone seemed down in the dumps from the Carolina Panthers’ loss in the Super Bowl, a small group of  families found ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, February 9, 2016 12:10 am

Local

In Raleigh, Smith proved he could work across the political aisle

By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — When Paul Smith, serving as chairman of the Rowan County Board of Commissioners, abruptly changed his party affiliation from Democrat ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, February 9, 2016 12:00 am

Local

Yesterday: Going through the drills at Livingstone College

Reginald Brown, an archivist for Livingstone College, provided this photograph, which appeared in a 1911-1912 college catalog. It shows the Livingstone College Military Department and ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Monday, February 8, 2016 12:00 am

Local

For Hall of Famer Ryan, sports was like a family business

SALISBURY — Let’s get this out of the way first. Hall of Fame sportswriter Bob Ryan predicts a Carolina Panthers victory in Sunday’s Super Bowl. ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Thursday, February 4, 2016 12:00 am

Faith

HSF’s Sacred Places Tour scheduled for March 19

SALISBURY — Historic Salisbury Foundation’s third annual Sacred Places Tour, sponsored by Windsor Gallery Jewelers, will feature eight historic churches and two cemeteries The Sacred Places Tour will ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, February 3, 2016 12:00 am

Granite Quarry

Should town of Granite Quarry have a Facebook page?

By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com GRANITE QUARRY —  Jason Smith, owner of the Hot Dog Shack and a big supporter of the town, urged Granite Quarry officials ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, February 2, 2016 12:00 am

Local

Now it’s Simone Martin’s turn on the civil rights battlefield

Between the ages of 9 and 14, Simone R. Martin must have done her Rosa Parks monologue about 100 times. She always began, “I’m Rosa ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Monday, February 1, 2016 12:10 am

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