SARAH LOWERY Staff Writer Lincoln County Schools will continue on a path toward enhanced security as additional measures were signed off on by the Board of Education Tuesday night. In a unanimous vote, School Board members approved Howard Construction Company as the low bidder to install…
JENNA-LEY HARRISON Staff Writer Narcotics officers uncovered a meth lab, a marijuana grow operation and an alcohol still in connection with two unrelated cases this month at county residences, the Sheriff’s Office said. On Monday, investigators said they seized 16 marijuana plants from a Diesel Drive residence…
JENNA-LEY HARRISON Staff Writer A Lincolnton woman will appear in court later this week after deputies charged her Tuesday with falsely reporting that her daughter had been kidnapped from their home, the Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies issued an Amber Alert Sunday night for 3-year-old Christina Grace Koonce…
E. Lincoln’s Earnhardt sets three personal bests at meet Staff report East Lincoln’s boys track team led the Lincoln County schools with a second-place finish at the 2A West Regional track meet at Bunker Hill High School on Saturday. The boys team had three individual first place finishers with Jesse…
Baseball playoffs No. 1 West Lincoln defeated No. 3 Brevard 5-4 in the first round of the NCHSAA 2A state playoffs on Friday. Ethan Bumgarner closed out the games for the Rebels with a walk-off single. No. 2 East Lincoln fell to No. 2 Mountain Heritage 4-0 in the first…
Lincoln Charter senior baseball player Hunter Dodson has signed a National Letter of Intent to play college baseball at Carson-Newman University in Jefferson City, Tenn. Dodson started for the Eagles baseball team for the past four years and was named a Piedmont Charter Athletic Conference All-Conference player for the 2012…
Baseball playoffs West Lincoln hosts Draughn at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Softball playoffs North Lincoln hosts Bandys at 7 p.m. Tuesday. West Lincoln travels to Pisgah at 7 p.m. Tuesday. East Lincoln travels to East Rutherford at 7 p.m. Tuesday.…
TODAY Diabetes support group CMC-Lincoln will host a “Keeping on Track with Diabetes” support group meeting 6 p.m. at the Sally’s YMCA, 1601 Forney Creek Pkwy. in Denver. For more information, call Valerie Burgess at (980) 212-6006. Church revival Hope Baptist Church, 571 Salem Church Rd. in Lincolnton, will host…
Edith Ellen Beam Beam CHERRYVILLE — Edith Ellen Beam Beam, devoted Mother, cherished grandmother, precious great grandmother, devoted sister, and dearest friend died May 11, 2013 at Carolina Medical Center-Lincoln. Mrs. Beam was born in Lincoln Co. on April 24, 1927 a daughter of the late Cone Gaston and Vera…
MICHAEL GEBELEIN News Editor Members of the North Carolina House of Representatives have an important decision to make. Either they value the free flow of information between the government and the citizenry or they want to allow governments to hide their activities from the very people who elected them in…
