Hazel Annette Saunders and Jack Albert Warlick of Lincolnton will be united in marriage as they pledge their love to each other, Saturday, June 23, 2012 at 3 p.m. at Reepsville Baptist Church. The bride is the mother of Melissa Lingerfelt and Barry Saunders, both of Lincolnton. The groom…
SARAH LOWERY Staff Writer The state has awarded a $100,000 grant of federal funds to the Lincoln County Library System to go toward technology equipment for its three branch libraries. The Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grants come from the State Library of North Carolina — a…
William Norwood Macon Sr. William Norwood Macon Sr., 78, died June 13, 2012. Visitation will be June 16, 2012 from 12:45 p.m. until 1:45 p.m. at Emmanuel Baptist Church, Cherryville. Funeral services will be held June 16, 2012 at 2 p.m. at Emmanuel Baptist Church. Stamey~Cherryvile Funeral Home is serving…
Charles Maffatt Neal Charles Maffatt Neal, 78, of Bessemer City died June 12, 2012. Funeral services will be held June 16, 2012 at 2 p.m. at Cone Memorial Chapel of Carpenter’s Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Shady Grove Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends tonight from 6…
AMANDA SEBASTIANO Staff Writer Lincoln County Schools are increasing social studies requirements for students to graduate. Freshmen beginning high school this fall, will be required to take four social studies courses to graduate rather than three, following a Board of Education decision on Wednesday. In another change, they…
JENNA-LEY HARRISON Staff Writer Deputies are on the hunt for a masked man who broke into a north-central Lincoln County home, pointed a gun at an elderly couple and threatened to kill them. A couple was inside their residence on the 3500 block of Goodson Road near Pumpkin…
JENNA-LEY HARRISON Staff Writer Deputies arrested a man and woman accused of harboring crack cocaine inside a vehicle Tuesday night. Jessica Leah Whitehead, 32, of Fox Chase Lane in Alexis, and Chad Aaron Williams, 32, of Peachtree Street in Lincolnton, were taken into custody just before midnight on…
JENNA-LEY HARRISON Staff Writer More charges have been filed against a Lincoln County woman accused of improperly handing out driver’s licenses at the Department of Motor Vehicles office in Newton where she worked. North Carolina DMV Communications Officer Marge Howell told the Times-News earlier this week that 62-year-old…
