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By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Waterworks Visual Arts Center swung for the fences and now finds itself touching all bases with its first Smithsonian Institution ...
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by Mark Wineka, Thursday, June 4, 2015 12:21 am
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SALISBURY — Why can’t we all have the kind of stories Ben Martin tells? On a Sunday morning earlier this year, Martin was watching CBS’s “Face ...
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by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, June 3, 2015 12:10 am
Granite Quarry
GRANITE QUARRY — It was brief, but the Granite Quarry Board of Aldermen continued a personnel-related closed session Tuesday afternoon. Mayor Bill Feather said Tuesday’s closed ...
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by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, June 3, 2015 12:00 am
Granite Quarry
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com GRANITE QUARRY — Town officials met recently with representatives of Food Lion and learned the company is not interested in having a ...
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by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, June 2, 2015 12:00 am
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By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com CHINA GROVE — Artist John Hartley had a lot of interruptions Saturday while fleshing out his acrylic painting, a scene depicting ...
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by Mark Wineka, Monday, June 1, 2015 12:00 am
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Yes, that’s legendary entertainer Bob Hope making his way to the Keppel Auditorium stage at Catawba College in 1979 to induct friend and actor John Wayne ...
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by Mark Wineka, Monday, June 1, 2015 12:00 am
Entertainment
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — It was her first time playing piano in public, but it didn’t take long before 6-year-old Caroline Lyerly had ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, May 31, 2015 12:15 am
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By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Things are shaping up to give Chief Master Sgt. Edwin Everton Morgan, lost in Laos almost 50 years ago, a ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, May 31, 2015 12:00 am
Gold Hill
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com GOLD HILL — Jase Ritchie, a 2012 graduate of East Rowan High and rising senior at the University of North Carolina ...
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by Mark Wineka, Saturday, May 30, 2015 12:10 am
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ROCKWELL — You see it in the way Roy West cocks his head and points his left ear toward the piano. It’s there as the toothpick ...
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by Mark Wineka, Friday, May 29, 2015 12:10 am
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By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — If you’ve been to the Mean Mug coffee shop lately, you might have noticed a a rock or stone ...
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by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, May 27, 2015 12:00 am
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ROCKWELL — Dowd Dunn Sr. straightened up in his favorite chair and leaned closer when the movie was mentioned. “Men of Honor” told the real-life ...
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by Mark Wineka, Monday, May 25, 2015 12:10 am
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There’s a good chance many Salisbury Post readers remember Towne Mall, the shopping center located off East Innes Street next to Interstate 85. This aerial photo ...
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by Mark Wineka, Monday, May 25, 2015 12:00 am
Faith
Going into the Memorial Day weekend, teachers and 3- and 4-year-old students from the First United Methodist Church Child Development Center took their passion for America ...
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by Mark Wineka, Saturday, May 23, 2015 12:00 am
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SALISBURY – Because of John Alford, Goodman Millwork buys brooms from the Lions Club by the case. Really. Many times, Alford has walked up to ...
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by Mark Wineka, Friday, May 22, 2015 12:10 am
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This week, 82-year-old Gladys Castor has spent most of her waking hours getting ready for a three-day yard sale at her house off Roseman Road ...
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by Mark Wineka, Thursday, May 21, 2015 1:00 am
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LANDIS — Margaret Ellen Reid Russell Sherrill — friends and family call her “Monnie” — deserves a name this long. She’s approaching her 100th birthday ...
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by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, May 20, 2015 12:00 am
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SALISBURY — When you see Bonnie and Clyde frolicking together outside their barn, it never crosses your mind they are named after notorious criminals who ...
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by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, May 19, 2015 12:10 am
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In this photograph from October 1968, U.S. Rep. Gerald Ford, R-Mich., is shown talking with Earl Ruth supporters at a Country Club of Salisbury reception. ...
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by Mark Wineka, Monday, May 18, 2015 12:00 am
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SALISBURY — The founding of the “Bucket List Girls” probably started with Susan Linza. She wanted to go water-skiing one more time, and good friend ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, May 17, 2015 12:00 am
Entertainment
By Vivian Hopkins For the Salisbury Post On this weekend’s episode of “Carl White’s Life in the Carolinas,” the spotlight is on the American Legion ...
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by Mark Wineka, Saturday, May 16, 2015 12:00 am
Local
SALISBURY — It was soothing music to work by. The organist at Haven Lutheran Church practiced hymns upstairs Thursday morning while residents of Chestnut Hill ...
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by Mark Wineka, Friday, May 15, 2015 12:02 am
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SALISBURY — By day, attorney Nancy Gaines is used to advocating for her clients, cross-examining witnesses and giving closing arguments to a jury. At night, ...
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by Mark Wineka, Thursday, May 14, 2015 12:30 am
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By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — About two-and-a-half weeks after the Rev. Tim Jones had donated one of his kidneys to friend Don Herbert, Jones ...
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by Mark Wineka, Wednesday, May 13, 2015 12:00 am
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SALISBURY — All Order of the Arrowmen, past and present, are being invited to the 2015 Rowan Order of the Arrow Chapter 75th Anniversary Party ...
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by Mark Wineka, Tuesday, May 12, 2015 2:00 pm
Entertainment
By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Clyde’s night has finally arrived. The “American Pickers” episode which includes Clyde, a Salisbury artist, collector and picker himself, ...
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by Mark Wineka, Monday, May 11, 2015 2:00 pm
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Michele Lobl of Valencia, Calif., provided this photograph of the last eighth-grade class to graduate from Frank B. John School, prior to the opening of ...
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by Mark Wineka, Monday, May 11, 2015 12:00 am
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SALISBURY — Over the past 224 years, much has been written, told and embellished of President George Washington’s visit to Salisbury on May 30-31, 1791, ...
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by Mark Wineka, Sunday, May 10, 2015 12:10 am
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