Columns
Wayne Hinshaw: A visit to the World of Coca Cola
ATLANTA —This world is truly the world of Coca Cola. A company brand name that is known world wide having created formulas for some 500 ...
Scott Jenkins, Author at Salisbury Post
Education
Raemi Evans honored at Livingstone banquet
By Laurie D. Willis Livingstone College News Service SALISBURY – Raemi Evans has received recognition for her community and civic involvement over the years, and ...
by Scott Jenkins, Thursday, October 8, 2015 12:04 am
Local
Tuesday seminar aims to help residents identify, avoid scams
Pat Wiles smelled something fishy when a man with a foreign accent called her at home recently with great news — she’d won nearly $400,000 ...
by Scott Jenkins, Monday, September 21, 2015 12:00 am
News
United Way kicks off $2M fundraising campaign with patriotic flair
Rowan United Way With a patriotic theme inclusive of Uncle Sam, the Rowan County United Way kicked off its 2015-2016 campaign Friday to raise $1,999,999.99 ...
by Scott Jenkins, Thursday, September 10, 2015 12:05 am
Books
Bestsellers
Rowan bestsellers Literary Bookpost 1. Dear Carolina, by Kristy Woodson Harvey 2. The Wright Brothers, by David McCullough 3. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee 4. Where They Found ...
by Scott Jenkins, Sunday, June 28, 2015 12:00 am
Lifestyle
Give us your father’s best advice
We all know fathers are endless founts of wisdom. At least, that’s what I keep telling my son. What’s the best advice you ever got ...
by Scott Jenkins, Saturday, June 13, 2015 12:04 am
Columnists
Are we at peril in Pineland?
Fellow Pinelanders, lend me your ears — or eyes, because this is a column, but you get the point. First we are told by a ...
by Scott Jenkins, Saturday, May 9, 2015 12:00 am
Lifestyle
The best advice you got from mom? We want to know
Sunday is Mother’s Day. It’s a day to honor mom, to celebrate her, to let her know just how much we care and how thankful ...
by Scott Jenkins, Tuesday, May 5, 2015 12:17 am
Local
Blue Bell recalls all products after listeria illnesses
By Juan A. Lozano Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Texas-based Blue Bell Creameries has recalled all of its products after two samples of chocolate chip ...
by Scott Jenkins, Tuesday, April 21, 2015 2:12 pm
Local
David Bush named Salisbury Civitan Club’s Good Samaritan of the Year
Civitan Club of Salisbury For his dedication to the needs of others, the Civitan Club of Salisbury named David L. Bush its Good Samaritan of ...
by Scott Jenkins, Monday, April 20, 2015 4:36 pm
Columnists
Seeing is believing — but video is evidence
On April 4, North Charleston, S.C., police officer Michael Slager leveled his service weapon and fired eight shots at a fleeing, unarmed Walter Scott. Sometime ...
by Scott Jenkins, Saturday, April 18, 2015 12:20 am
Editorials
Darts & Laurels: Making the most of a snow day
Laurels to all the Rowan County residents who found ways to be productive and creative Thursday after a winter storm dumped half a foot or ...
by Scott Jenkins, Saturday, February 28, 2015 4:04 pm
Local
Post wins 11 awards in annual editorial contest
The Salisbury Post won 11 awards, including four first-place awards, in the N.C. Press Association’s annual editorial and photojournalism contest. The awards were presented Thursday ...
by Scott Jenkins, Friday, February 27, 2015 12:00 am
Columnists
Scott Jenkins column: Too hard to swallow?
Once, when I was very young, I got so sick that I’m told I became delirious and stood in the middle of the bed yelling ...
by Scott Jenkins, Saturday, February 21, 2015 12:00 am
Local
Black History Month: Dolls were toys and cultural symbols
Aggie Harrington remembers staying with her grandparents in North Carolina as a child and her mother sending her dolls from New York, where she worked. ...
by Scott Jenkins, Monday, February 2, 2015 12:00 am
Health
Health Link program promotes minority infant health
By Beverly A. House-Kerr Rowan County Health Department The Health Link program is an initiative at the Rowan County Health Department that is observing 16 ...
by Scott Jenkins, Tuesday, January 27, 2015 12:00 am
Columnists
Jenkins column: Tragedy and memories
From the April 18, 1977, Beckley (W.Va.) Post-Herald: ROBSON — An eight-year-old Fayette County girl died shortly after being admitted to Montgomery General Hospital on ...
by Scott Jenkins, Saturday, January 17, 2015 12:00 am
Local
Top 10 stories of 2014
He was a native son and a wunderkind, so when Doug Paris became the seventh city manager in Salisbury history at the relatively young age ...
by Scott Jenkins, Wednesday, December 31, 2014 12:00 am
Columnists
Scott Jenkins column: Make that two darts
If the aim of an opinion piece was to evoke reaction, then last week’s Darts and Laurels would have been a raging success. Or a ...
by Scott Jenkins, Saturday, December 20, 2014 12:00 am
Kannapolis
Kannapolis offers facade grants to businesses
KANNAPOLIS – The city of Kannapolis is offering façade and site improvement grants to businesses and property owners on Cannon Boulevard between Interstate 85 and ...
by Scott Jenkins, Friday, December 19, 2014 12:00 am
Editorials
Darts and laurels – Hateful language hurts everyone
Dart to now-former Salisbury police officer Bill Torrence for the hateful language he reportedly used in a Facebook posting. In a news release Friday, the city ...
by Scott Jenkins, Saturday, December 13, 2014 12:00 am
Opinion
Scott Jenkins column: Keeping warm by the hot stove
I am not a summer person. I was born in the fall, and it’s my favorite time of year, with the kaleidoscope of colors, the ...
by Scott Jenkins, Saturday, December 6, 2014 12:00 am
Education
Livingstone hosting UNCF ‘casino night’ fundraiser Friday
Livingstone College is hosting Casino Night, beginning at 7 p.m. Friday, to kick off the 2014-2015 United Negro College Fund (UNCF) Campaign for Davidson County, ...
by Scott Jenkins, Thursday, December 4, 2014 12:00 am
News
Livingstone instructor’s play about domestic abuse to be performed tonight
By Laurie D. Willis Livingstone College News Service Nowadays it’s hard to turn on the television news or pick up a local newspaper and not ...
by Scott Jenkins, Thursday, November 13, 2014 12:00 am
Columnists
Scott Jenkins column: This Christmas, give if you can
I have the memory of being a child, standing with my younger brother in a dark parking lot, in the cold, while my mother waited in ...
by Scott Jenkins, Saturday, November 8, 2014 1:36 am
Local
Liberia native living in Salisbury calls for work toward Ebola cure
Alexander Freeman has lived in the U.S. since 1996. Even so, when he sees how the Ebola virus has ravaged his home country of Liberia, ...
by Scott Jenkins, Thursday, November 6, 2014 12:00 am
Columnists
Scott Jenkins: Not a big party guy
In my southern West Virginia, coal-country family, you were born two things: a Cincinnati Reds fan and a Democrat. My grandfather was the undisputed patriarch ...