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Granite Quarry

Postal service rejects change for Granite Quarry residents — again

GRANITE QUARRY — Town officials’ frustration with the U.S. Postal Service continues. Once more, a postal official has denied a request from Granite Quarry for ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, October 6, 2015 12:00 am

Wineka

Yesterday: some 1930s work on West Innes Street

This photograph, on loan from the Rowan Museum, documents some work happening in the 100 block of West Innes Street, not far from the Sanitary ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Monday, October 5, 2015 12:00 am

Local

Council will consider request to allow sculpture on Mitchell Avenue median

By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — The Fulton Heights Neighborhood Association wants to place a sculpture in the Mitchell Avenue median near South Fulton Street. Dottie ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Monday, October 5, 2015 12:00 am

Granite Quarry

Granite Quarry has high return rate on ZIP-code surveys

By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com GRANITE QUARRY — In conjunction with their Sept. 15 community input meeting at Town Hall, planners with Arnett Muldrow did several ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Sunday, October 4, 2015 12:00 am

Local

Attorneys talk professionalism: Is there a Rowan County way?

By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Retired Superior Court Judge John Holshouser regaled members of the Judicial District 19-C Bar Association Friday afternoon with stories of ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Saturday, October 3, 2015 12:00 am

Local

A mother remembered: ‘People never knew the pain she was in’

SALISBURY — Christie Reavis has her mother’s ashes now. She hopes to place them in an urn garden at a church in Cornelius. That’s where ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Thursday, October 1, 2015 12:02 am

Local

The ‘very rich’ Grace Littlejohn comes home for a spell

SALISBURY — Just mention Dixonville, and the memories flood back for Grace Littlejohn. The Johnson Beauty Shop. Robert Evans’ store. Bennett’s Grocery. Clark’s Smoke Shop. ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Monday, September 28, 2015 12:10 am

News

Yesterday: a West Innes Street parade in the 1930s

This photograph, on loan from the Rowan Museum, give’s a bird’s-eye view of some kind of parade going east on West Innes Street sometime in ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Monday, September 28, 2015 12:00 am

Business

Powles Staton Funeral Home has a new look

By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com ROCKWELL — For a funeral home that has served the community since 1933, it might seem unusual to be talking about ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Sunday, September 27, 2015 12:00 am

Local

Land trust transfers Little Long Mountain to U.S. Forest Service

The LandTrust for Central North Carolina announced Friday the transfer of ownership of the Little Long Mountain property, the last gap in the Uwharrie Trail in ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Saturday, September 26, 2015 12:00 am

Local

After 132 years, Stoudemire Furniture going out of business

By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SPENCER — It’s hard to imagine Spencer without Stoudemire Furniture. This store on South Salisbury Avenue, across from Spencer Shops (now ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Thursday, September 24, 2015 12:05 am

Local

Military vehicle convoy is retracing the 1920 Bankhead Highway route

By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SPENCER — For the past seven weeks, Dan and Sabra Seaborg have been living in their 1968 Vietnam War-era Kaiser Willys ambulance, ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, September 22, 2015 12:02 am

Local

Cooper finds receptive Democratic audience in Rowan

By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper, a Democratic candidate for governor, harkened back to the days of governors Terry Sanford and Jim ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, September 22, 2015 12:00 am

Local

Ketner celebrates his 95th birthday

By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — A gathering of family, friends and colleagues joined Food Town/Food Lion cofounder Ralph Ketner Sunday afternoon in marking his 95th ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Monday, September 21, 2015 12:10 am

Local

Yesterday: Sacred Heart School’s first grade in 1947

Joe Williams of eastern Rowan County provided this photograph of the first grade at Sacred Heart Catholic School in Salisbury in 1947. He recalls Sister ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Monday, September 21, 2015 12:00 am

Local

Why old places matter: Here are 14 reasons

By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — As Tom Mayes kept delving deeper into why old places matter, he discovered it takes only about a generation ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Sunday, September 20, 2015 12:10 am

Local

The complex, kind-hearted man who was Jake Fisher

GRANITE QUARRY —  Men like Jake Fisher don’t come along too often. It seemed as though he could do anything. He was a businessman, farmer, ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Saturday, September 19, 2015 12:00 am

News

Preservationist: In comparisons, older usually beats newer

By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — In all parts of the country, historic preservation is under assault. So says Donovan Rypkema, a leading expert on ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Friday, September 18, 2015 12:10 am

Local

Dixonville-Lincoln reunion wil honor trailblazers Saturday night

By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — The Dixonville-Lincoln Community Association will honor 11 “trailblazers” at its biennial reunion Saturday. The banquet begins at 6 p.m. ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Friday, September 18, 2015 12:00 am

Local

Preservation conference buoyed by news on state tax credits

By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — People attending Preservation North Carolina’s annual conference in Salisbury Wednesday afternoon applauded several times when the subject of state tax credits ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Thursday, September 17, 2015 12:00 am

Local

Clement shares insights on preservation at opening of state conference

By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Ed Clement would scoff at the idea he’s the Father of Preservation in Salisbury, but if he isn’t, he’s ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Thursday, September 17, 2015 12:00 am

Local

Spencer’s search continues for more Dixonville Cemetery names

SALISBURY — Betty Dan Spencer still becomes mesmerized, captured in the stories of people buried in Dixonville Cemetery. John Pless Alexander, who was buried in ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, September 16, 2015 12:03 am

Granite Quarry

Coming up with a plan: Granite Quarry residents give consultants some input

By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com GRANITE QUARRY — Things got real in Granite Quarry Tuesday night when consultants, who will be devising a comprehensive community plan, ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, September 16, 2015 12:00 am

Local

Rembrandt raccoon one of many animal artists at Dan Nick

Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — When it comes to being an artist, Roxy the raccoon is a natural. Bring out the paints and canvas, and ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, September 15, 2015 12:03 am

Local

Preservation North Carolina Annual Conference in Salisbury Wednesday-Friday

By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — “Revolving Funds Rock” is the theme to Preservation North Carolina’s Annual Conference to be held in Salisbury Wednesday through ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, September 15, 2015 12:00 am

Granite Quarry

Thanks to Cochran, Old Stone House getting snake-rail fence

GRANITE QUARRY — This kind of fence goes by many names — snake-rail, worm, zigzag or battlefield fence. But it’s a thing of simple, beautiful ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Monday, September 14, 2015 12:10 am

Local

Council looking Tuesday at child care center, annexation, sidewalks

SALISBURY — Salisbury City Council will consider a special-use permit Tuesday to allow a child care center to operate out of a residence at 433 ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Monday, September 14, 2015 12:05 am

Local

Yesterday: a Rowan County connection to Utah

Joe Williams, who lives between Granite Quarry and Faith,brought in this photograph from a family album that once belonged to his grandmother. He judges it ... Read more

by Mark Wineka, Monday, September 14, 2015 12:00 am

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