LINCOLNTON - Numerous community members attended the most recent Lincolnton City Council meeting to speak on the application from Prestige Acquisitions, LLC requesting the rezoning of approximately 24 acres of land from Residential-25 and Residential-Office to Planned Residential District fo…
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LINCOLNTON - There will be pie, served up with a good portion of mystery, mayhem, murder, and lots of laughs at the Lincolnton High School Drama Club’s annual Murder Mystery Dessert Theater. This long-running fundraiser will be held this Saturday at the James W. Warren Citizen’s Center. The …
LINCOLNTON - The bulk of the cast in the Lincoln County youth production of “The Nutcracker” have been in the performance since they were little. Many starting out in the roles of mice or bon bons and working their way up to more advanced roles over the years. This year’s Nutcracker is not o…
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The Catawba Valley 2A has announced the individual postseason awards for 2021 football season, and West Lincoln and Lincolnton combined for a total of 13 players on the All-Conference team, including Defensive Player of the Year Bernard Wingate of the Wolves.Running back/linebacker Mason Ave…
The East Lincoln boys opened the high school basketball season with a convincing 84-41 win over county-rival West Lincoln on November 23 in Denver.The Mustangs opened up a 55-24 lead in the first half and cruised in the second half of the non-conference contest to win the season opener for b…
The West Lincoln wrestling team took first place at the Gaston/Lincoln Invitational over the Thanksgiving holidays at West Lincoln High School.The Rebels’ Andy Sain (106-pound) and Chade Norman (126-pound) were both champions in their respective weight classes, as West Lincoln scored a team-…
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LINCOLNTON - There will be pie, served up with a good portion of mystery, mayhem, murder, and lots of laughs at the Lincolnton High School Drama Club’s annual Murder Mystery Dessert Theater. This long-running fundraiser will be held this Saturday at the James W. Warren Citizen’s Center. The …
LINCOLNTON - The bulk of the cast in the Lincoln County youth production of “The Nutcracker” have been in the performance since they were little. Many starting out in the roles of mice or bon bons and working their way up to more advanced roles over the years. This year’s Nutcracker is not o…
LINCOLNTON - The annual downtown Lincolnton Christmas parade, which didn’t happen last year due to COVID restrictions, was like a breath of fresh air – complete with candy canes, lollypops, gingerbread houses and of course the big man himself. There was magic in the air when Santa’s sleigh p…
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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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