JENNA-LEY HARRISON Staff Writer Starting this week and for four other weeks throughout the summer, North Carolina nonprofit group Carolina Cross Connection (CCC) will be building wheelchair ramps and completing other service projects for residents in and around Lincoln County. This year also marks the organization’s 25th year…
AMANDA SEBASTIANO Staff Writer It doesn’t matter if the home is new or old, it’s what’s underneath in the soil that’s the trouble; most of us can’t tell those things, County Cooperative Extension Agent Leigh Guth explained to the Times-News last week. Guth has been working with the…
The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office reported the following arrests: Jamie Adell Perkins, 24, of 1324 Highland Bluff Ct. in Lincolnton was charged June 13 with one count of injury to personal property. A $2,500 bond was set. Miranda Danielle Darty, 25, of 705 Landers Chapel Rd. in Lincolnton…
FRANK TAYLOR Managing Editor If this country had a different type of government — for instance a dictatorship or a monarchy — having a rising generation of citizens who didn’t know much about their own country’s past wouldn’t be a major problem. It might even keep the peace better. But…
Betty Short Bennett, 75, of 994 Pointview Lane died June 16,2012 at her residence. She was born in Gaston Co. on Jan 3, 1937, a daughter of the late Roland and Becky Trammell Short. Mrs. Bennett was a retired health care aid; member of Leonard’s Fork Baptist Church and…
Cynthia Carpenter Harris Alford, 52, of Huss St., died June 15, 2012. She was born on March 2, 1960 in Gaston Co., a daughter of Mary Alice Smith Carpenter of Kings Mountain and the late Donald Keith Carpenter. Mrs. Alford was a member of Antioch Baptist Church and a homemaker.…
Glenda Smyre Glenda Smyre of Maiden died June 15, 2012. Services will be held today at First Baptist Church, Maiden today at 4 p.m. The family received friends June 17, 2012 from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. at the church. Interment will be at Maiden City Cemetery. Goodin-Drum Funeral Home,…
Rickie Hoyle Mr. Rickie Hoyle, age 59, of 2046 Dutch Creek Drive, Iron Station, died on June 17, 2012. Arrangements are incomplete at Warlick Funeral Home, Lincolnton. …
MICHAEL GEBELEIN Sports Editor The Lincolnton Wolves football team stepped onto the practice field for the first day of their outdoor summer workouts on Thursday. Turnout for the first day was around 22 players, mostly rising freshmen. “We’re going to go through some learning stages, that’s for sure,” head coach…
