In their final meeting prior to Thanksgiving, the Lincoln County Board of Commissioners received what one official termed “a very good Christmas present.”
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East Lincoln High School built the first speech and debate team in Lincoln County and they competed in their first competition on Saturday, November 18, 2023 at the Asheville High Cougar Classic at their 23rd annual invitation.
As Thanksgiving approaches, let us all be grateful that miracles have occurred and do take place in modern times. So, reflect now on a thought-provoking tale from the North Carolina mountains.
Sports
Lincolnton High School’s Vanessa Cespedes recently signed to play basketball at Mary Baldwin University in Staunton, Virginia. Pictured are left to right: T.J. Tips, William Aumon (LHS head coach), Vanessa Cespedes, Monique Cespedes (mother), Maya Cespedes (sister), Jhonny Cespedes (father) …
Freshman guard L.J. Smith scored 43 points in his debut for Lincolnton and the Wolves held off the Statesville Greyhounds for a 71-68 win in their season opener at home on Monday.Smith, who finished 18 for 21 from the free throw line, scored 22 of his points in the opening half to help Linco…
Due to scheduling issues, the 2023 Lincoln County Sports Hall of Fame Banquet has been pushed back until February of 2024.This year’s inductees includes Ronald Alexander, Celeste Lisa Lowery Frazier, Ann Devine Keever, Bob Steelman and Jane Goins Wright.The banquet is set for Saturday, Febru…
Obituaries
Susie Carpenter Baker
Jean ‘Jeannie’ Blake
Lesia Kay White Whitener
Robert Cline Baxter
David Eugene Lowe
Arts & Entertainment
DENVER – The Florence S. Shanklin Memorial Library is now home to a lovely bronze statue donated by Elaine Carter of Denver. The statue is of a girl sitting with her dog on a bench reading a book.
LINCOLNTON – The annual “Price is Right for Fighting Child Abuse” remains a popular event for the community with all proceeds benefiting the Lincoln County Coalition Against Child Abuse and the Lincoln County Child Advocacy Center. The event will be held this year on Saturday, March 11.
LINCOLNTON – Lincoln Cultural Center Director, Cathy Davis, approached the Lincoln Theatre Guild last year about the possibility of doing the musical adaption of “The Color Purple,” based on Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. This is the first time Davis has served as a director fo…
Opinion
RALEIGH — Alexis de Tocqueville once described history as “a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.” Right now, in contested regions across the world, enemies of freedom and decency are adding new works of horror to this already gruesome gallery.
hurch anymore. That is what I saw the other Sunday when I came back a few weeks after a short absence.
RALEIGH — It goes without saying that North Carolina’s 16 electoral votes for president will, as usual, be heavily contested next year by the two major-party nominees, who are presumed to be Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump.
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