The Lincoln County Board of Commissioners periodically hear annual reports from different organizations throughout the county. While not all of the reports that they hear are necessarily positive, the report given by the Lincoln County Community Child Protection/Fatality Prevention Team is c…
Latest News
- Knights top Wolves, lock up South Fork’s top seed
- The status of child abuse, neglect and fatality in Lincoln County: Child Advocacy Center director delivers report to commissioners
- LCSO begins training on new body cams
- Commissioners discuss beach at Beatty’s Ford Park and receive COVID update
- Deputy sheriff keeps the courthouse staff and visitors safe
News
The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office is moving into a new century according Sheriff Bill Beam. It’s been a long time coming, but after four officer-involved shootings in the past four years, with two of those having occurred in the past year, Beam elected to move forward and request funding t…
The Lincoln County Board of Commissioners met with Duke Energy representatives Monday afternoon to continue discussion on planned beach access to Lake Norman at Beatty’s Ford Park on Unity Church Road in Denver.
Sports
The North Lincoln Knights locked up the South Fork 2A Conference’s number one seed Tuesday night with their 73-55 win over the rival Wolves at Lincolnton.Cole Seagle scored a game-high 32 points in the victory, knocking down three 3-pointers and connecting on all nine free throw attempts.Fel…
Lincoln Charter’s Sam Cogan scored the 1000th point of his high school career on Saturday in the Eagles home game against Moravian Prep. Cogan, a junior, had 24 points in the game and is averaging 20.6 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists per contest for the Eagles. Lincoln Charter is 11-1 on …
After dropping two of their first three games of the 2021 season, the East Lincoln Lady Mustangs have gotten on a roll.Since their 5-point loss at Maiden back on January 19, the Lady Mustangs have won 8 of 9 games in the South Fork 2A, putting them in position for the conference’s number-two…
Obituaries
Clayton Rudy Wedlund
Dolores Merriner
Barbara Moore McConnell
Arts & Entertainment
A local coffee shop is extended the community aspect of sipping a cup of coffee with company to include “cruising.” Grounded Coffeehouse, a coffee shop that’s been open in Boger City since October 2018, was the dream of Brytni Brooks. Her husband, Bryson, operates a towing company in Lincolnton.
Beards, bows and barbells don’t quite seem to go together – but they do in the instance of a new training studio in downtown Lincolnton. Dalton Willis wears the beard and his wife, Leah, wears the bows. They co-own B3 Training Studio which recently opened on East Main Street in Lincolnton. B…
A Lincolnton man and his side kick Jimmy are building an online YouTube presence with DIY tips, tricks and reviews. Patrick Parson has been doing YouTube videos for about six years now.
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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