Lincoln County joined the nation Monday in saluting the memory of civil rights pioneer Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with an event at the Lincoln Cultural Center in the morning and a march through downtown Lincolnton in the afternoon.…
JENNA-LEY HARRISON Staff Writer Firefighters responded to a small-scale blaze over the weekend at a Lincolnton textile plant, the same site where a “suspicious†fire occurred just five months earlier. The incident took place around 9 p.m. at Mohican Mills, located at 1419 E. Gaston Street. Fire officials said…
JENNA-LEY HARRISON Staff Writer A Lincolnton Goodwill employee was emptying trash at the store Friday night when he said he encountered two men with ski masks, one of whom was armed with a knife. Bobby Blalock was outside the Goodwill store, located at 510 Vaughn Way, around 8:40 p.m. unloading…
SARAH LOWERY Staff Writer The Lincoln County Planning Board met jointly with the Lincolnton Planning Board and staff Tuesday evening for a workshop to discuss mutual planning issues. Presided over by Jeff Frushtick, chair of the Lincoln County Planning Board, the meeting was the first of its kind in…
Nayeli Ramirez / Lincoln Times-News Bruce Cochrane, owner and CEO of Lincolnton Furniture Company, met with President Obama last week and is scheduled appear on NBC next week over his efforts to bring furniture jobs back to America. Cochrane’s initiative helps renew faith in U.S. furniture industry SARAH LOWERY…
Food Lions in Linconton, Denver survive; Mooresville Bottom Dollar doesn’t SARAH LOWERY Staff Writer All Lincoln County locations have been spared as yet another retail chain announced closings affecting the region last week. Delhaize America, the Belgian supermarket chain that owns Food Lion and other stores, announced on Wednesday…
JENNA-LEY HARRISON Staff Writer Three different stretches of Lincoln County roadways could be resurfaced as early as this spring. The North Carolina Department of Transportation announced through a press release early last week that they’ve awarded a Charlotte construction company a more than $1 million contract to complete four…
Contributed Denver resident Bill Lifsey hangs a coconut in the Habitat for Humanity home of a family in India. Lifsey is scaling back some of his international Habitat projects this year to focus on Lincoln County. JENNA-LEY HARRISON Staff Writer Bill Lifsey, Denver resident and dedicated worker for Lincoln County’s…
3-2 decision angers Clayton Mullis, whose alternative plan was rejected SARAH LOWERY Staff Writer The Lincoln County Board of Education decided in a split vote Wednesday night which districts from the new redistricting plan will be up for election this year. Following a motion by board member George Dellinger proposing…
