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By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Stephen Pocklington said his heritage is what he starts making today and that he creates a new heritage “when I ...
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by Mark Wineka, Friday, July 31, 2015 12:00 am
Local
In a Thursday story about the shooting of Otto Wood, William Raymond Barbee was incorrectly identified as William Raymond Freeman in one part of the ...
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by Mark Wineka, Friday, July 31, 2015 12:00 am
Crime
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — The Harris Teeter grocery store at 850 W. Jake Alexander Blvd. was evacuated Wednesday night after someone called the ...
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by Mark Wineka, Thursday, July 30, 2015 9:43 am
Crime
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — A pair of men, armed with a handgun, robbed the Circle K store at 1015 E. Innes St. near ...
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by Mark Wineka, Thursday, July 30, 2015 9:33 am
Local
He pulled out his gun and then he said, “If you make a crooked move, you both fall dead. Crank up your car and take ...
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by Mark Wineka, Thursday, July 30, 2015 12:25 am
Local
SALISBURY — Welcome to Umbrella City. Since Friday, when the N.C. American Legion Baseball Tournament started, diehard fans at Newman Park have lined up along ...
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by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, July 28, 2015 12:30 am
Local
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — A man and woman were injured and taken to Novant Health Rowan Medical Center Sunday afternoon when their motorcycle hit ...
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by Mark Wineka, Monday, July 27, 2015 12:20 am
Local
SALISBURY — Anyone who knows 91-year-old Joe Riley recognizes the man as a storyteller, and a pretty good one. We spent some time together the other ...
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by Mark Wineka, Monday, July 27, 2015 12:10 am
Local
Here is a framed copy of the freedom paper 18 slaves from Salisbury carried with them to Oberlin, Ohio, after Maxwell Chambers freed them May ...
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by Mark Wineka, Monday, July 27, 2015 12:00 am
Entertainment
Staff report SALISBURY — The Second Annual Rowan Chamber Dragon Boat Festival will be held from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 1, at the Shrine Club on ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, July 26, 2015 12:00 am
Local
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SPENCER — As Patty Crocker emerged Saturday morning from Jean McCoy’s slice of heaven off Steeplechase Trail, she carried a bucket full ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, July 26, 2015 12:00 am
Local
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com CLEVELAND — Local motorcycle riders are being invited to participate in the Aug. 22 Poker/Legacy Run, being hosted by the American Legion Riders ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, July 26, 2015 12:00 am
College
SALISBURY — When James Jarrell sits in Newman Park and takes in American Legion baseball games, he can’t help but think of his long departed ...
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by Mark Wineka, Thursday, July 23, 2015 12:15 am
Local
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — For now, Salisbury’s water supply from the Yadkin River remains good and is not cause for implementing any restrictions. ...
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by Mark Wineka, Thursday, July 23, 2015 12:00 am
Local
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — A standing room-only crowd produced 42 speakers Tuesday who weighed in on Salisbury’s 1909 Confederate monument and what it ...
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by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, July 22, 2015 12:10 am
Local
SALISBURY — Their names were, well, sort of beautiful — Adeline, Garrison, Marget, Adelaide, Isham, Chelsy, Sally. They go on and on, and meld into ...
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by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, July 21, 2015 12:00 am
Local
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Tuesday’s Salisbury City Council meeting will allow time for public comment, so it might give people shut out from ...
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by Mark Wineka, Monday, July 20, 2015 12:00 am
Local
Jimmie Higgins says this photograph of the 1909 Confederate monument’s being raised in Salisbury was one of many history-related photographs included in a 1994 Heritage ...
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by Mark Wineka, Monday, July 20, 2015 12:00 am
Entertainment
The free tickets that will be offered for the Salisbury’s Symphony’s special 50th anniversary showing of “The Sound of Music” will not be available at ...
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by Mark Wineka, Friday, July 17, 2015 12:00 am
Local
SALISBURY — Scott Huler has the definite sense now that he’s walking uphill, into a more rolling terrain where the color green dominates. Someone long ...
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by Mark Wineka, Thursday, July 16, 2015 12:03 am
Local
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — In a move its chairman called “out-of-the-box” thinking, the Blanche & Julian Robertson Family Foundation has taken an option ...
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by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, July 15, 2015 12:15 am
Local
SALISBURY — Decade after decade, the many folks who bought their Buicks from Donald Clement Jr. at the family business, Salisbury Motor Co., usually became ...
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by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, July 14, 2015 12:00 am
Local
Charlie Sowers provided this photograph of senior high youth and adults from St. John’s Lutheran Church who embarked on their ‘Big Trip’ cruise in June ...
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by Mark Wineka, Monday, July 13, 2015 12:00 am
Local
SALISBURY — To avoid paying admission to the Rowan County Fair, Hubert Ritchie always went to the back entrance where the livestock trucks and trailers would go ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, July 12, 2015 12:10 am
Education
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — The West End community held a reception Friday afternoon at the former J.C. Price High School on West Bank ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, July 12, 2015 12:00 am
Local
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Friday morning as she watched a honor guard take down the Confederate flag that flew over the grounds of the S.C. Statehouse, ...
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by Mark Wineka, Saturday, July 11, 2015 12:10 am
Entertainment
HIGH ROCK LAKE — When you talk to Lisa Hill about the many uses of blackberries, it’s like listening to Bubba tell Forrest Gump all ...
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by Mark Wineka, Friday, July 10, 2015 12:10 am
Local
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Close to 20 people, most of them wearing black shirts, attended Salisbury City Council’s meeting Tuesday hoping to see ...
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by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, July 8, 2015 1:00 am
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