JENNA-LEY HARRISON Staff Writer Authorities are looking for teen girls who recently disappeared from their homes in Lincoln and Gaston Counties late last month and early January in two separate missing person’s cases. Molly Hill, 15, went missing around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday from her Lincoln County foster home in the…
Department of Social Services Director Susan McCracken says the conversion to paperless management is costing nearly $2 million, but will eventually result in substantial savings and efficiency. SARAH LOWERY Staff Writer In the year since the Lincoln County Department of Social Services began implementing its new paperless case management and…
JENNA-LEY HARRISON Staff Writer Sheriff’s Office authorities have called on aid from the county’s Economic Development Association in requesting all area industries to tighten their security measures. The request comes just weeks after a tractor-trailer filled with more than $50,000 in tires was stolen from a trucking company, located…
JENNA-LEY HARRISON Staff Writer A Gaston County bus driver was placed in jail Tuesday for inappropriately touching a young girl, police said. A Cherryville Police statement said Cherryville resident Laurence Oscar Lee Huss, 50, was driving the child’s school bus at the time. After the girl’s parent notified the principal…
Cause of deadly blaze remains under investigation JENNA-LEY HARRISON Staff Writer An elderly man is dead following a fatal house fire New Year’s Day in the eastern end of the county. Fire officials remain uncertain as to what exactly instigated the blaze that killed 73-year-old resident Richard Helms Jr., at…
SARAH LOWERY Staff Writer The issue of backyard chickens is once again on the agenda for the Lincolnton City Council, which is set to consider proposed draft language for a potential ordinance amendment at Thursday night’s meeting. Council members will also weigh several budget amendments, one of which is…
JENNA-LEY HARRISON Staff Writer Of the more than 40,000 new state laws that went into effect across the nation Sunday with the new year, local law enforcement leaders in Lincoln County are speaking out about a particular North Carolina law that’s calling for a shift in where misdemeanor offenders…
SARAH LOWERY Staff Writer With the new year comes changes for Gaston College. As of Jan. 1, all of the school’s campuses, including Lincolnton’s, are now tobacco-free. The college’s Student Government Association pushed for the initiative, becoming one of roughly 30 tobacco-free campuses of the North Carolina community college…
JENNA-LEY HARRISON Staff Writer Lincoln County resident and Department of Social Services worker Shaun Newton is heading the effort to bring a Boys & Girls Club program to Lincoln County. Newton knows first-hand the benefits of such an organization after spending six years of his childhood at the Boys and…
