In closed session at their most recent meeting, the Lincoln County Board of Education the board approved the Superintendent’s recommendation to select Brian Palmer as the new principal at Rock Springs. Palmer has served as the assistant principal at Rock Springs since July 2018. Prior to mo…
News
At 12, Alex Jeune should have been out playing baseball with his fellow teammates, building Legos, or playing video games. Instead, he spent much of his 12th year being treated for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.
A career in education was something that Marie Ashford always knew she wanted. After spending the past seven years as the principal of Pumpkin Center Intermediate, she’s been named the new principal at Catawba Springs Elementary School.
Sports
Cherryville Post 100 had little trouble with Rutherford County in their best-of-3 Area IV Finals series over the weekend, outscoring Post 423 25-0 in a two-game sweep.After exploding for 12 runs in the bottom of the fourth inning of Game 1 on Thursday evening and closing out a 15-0 victory, …
Earlier this week, the North Carolina General Assembly introduced House Bill 91, that would place high school athletics under the N.C. State Board of Education, and could dismantle the North Carolina High School Athletic Association.If HB 91 is passed, a committee of 17 members would be form…
Cherryville Post 100 and Rutherford County Post 423 will begin a best-of-3 series beginning Thursday to determine the Area IV champion and the one seed entering next week’s American Legion Baseball North Carolina State Tournament.All three games of the series are scheduled to be played at Fr…
Obituaries
Clayton Rudy Wedlund
Dolores Merriner
Barbara Moore McConnell
Arts & Entertainment
It was a quiet summer last year at Rescue Squad Park in Denver. That’s not the case this year with the return of the popular Music in the Park series hosted by the Rotary Club of Denver/Lake Norman. This year the series is hosted by Fit Realty and Ross Bulla.
It’s a return to live theater and Christmas in July: ‘Sanders Family Christmas in July’ opens Friday
There’s a bit of a time warp going on at the Lincoln Cultural Center these days. Production of “Sanders Family Christmas,” which is a sequel to the bluegrass gospel musical “Smoke on the Mountain,” has been ongoing. Despite being a Christmas-themed show, it’s opening this Friday, in July. It…
Our pictures of the Lincolnton Fourth of July parade.
Opinion
I have since come to the understanding that the phrase or hashtag, “All Lives Matter” is considered distasteful and using it in Friday’s paper was hurtful to some. In my simple mind, yes, I admit, I have a simple mind, when I put that hashtag on the front of the paper, it was right after I f…
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, the terms “essential” and “nonessential” have been used a good deal. Under the current North Carolina stay at home order, certain businesses are deemed by government as essential. Those businesses can operate as normal (if there is any normal anymore) and…
These are frightening times. We’re entering into unchartered waters. Despite all of our state-of-the-art medical knowledge, facilities and equipment, the novel coronavirus could well stretch our doctors, nurses and hospital staff to the brink. Yes, as President Trump said, we’re fighting an …
Here it is; the last day of 2019 and reports of disruptive gun fire are starting to surface throughout Facebook. The gun fire is from, at least in part, the annual trek of the Cherryville New Year’s Shooters. One of the two groups, the Cherryville Traditional New Year’s Shooters, made a roun…
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