Recent Editorial - September 2002

Understanding 9-11

September 11, 2002 - What more can be said. We’ve heard a lot about American resilience after  the Sept. 11 attacks. We have heard repeated tributes to those firefighters who lost their lives in New York. We’ve felt the patriotic fervor. We’ve proudly placed the American flag in every appropriate spot we can find and some not so appropriate. It’s just one of those occasions when we can’t do enough to commemorate our sorrow, our anger, our sympathy and our love for our country after the brazen attack on the World Trade Center that killed some 3,000 Americans one year ago today.

Lincoln schools continue to show gains in test scores

September 18, 2002 - Lincoln County schools got more good news on student performance on ABC tests last week. Seventeen of the 18 schools in the Lincoln County system met or exceeded their expected academic growth in ABCs testing for the 2001-02 school year, according to statistics released Thursday by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.

Celebrate the 31st Lincoln Apple Festival

September 20, 2002 - Join the crowds this weekend for Lincoln County’s premier celebration — the Apple Festival. It’s a wonderful excuse to get outside with your family and enjoy the beginning of autumn after a torturously hot and dry summer.

County prepares for new adult businesses

September 27, 2002 - Probably the most often-cited reason voters approved alcoholic beverages in the county was that such beverages are available just about everywhere else, including the city of Lincolnton. Sales of beer and wine also help attract upscale hotels and restaurants to the area and make local grocery chains and convenience stores more competitive with the goods they can sell. Voters were not interested in attracting sleazy bars, topless dancing or adult book stores. But unfortunately, alcoholic beverages often go hand-in-hand with such establishments. That’s why Lincoln County Commissioners are taking the right steps to put new regulations into effect that would put restrictions on such activities.

Remembering attorney Clarence Leatherman

September 30. 2002 - Clarence Leatherman undoubtedly influenced a lot of lives in this community during the half-century he practiced law here. It is fitting that his portrait should hang in the the courtroom when he spent so much of his career.