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Albemarle

Albemarle claims track regional championship

Davie County High School hosted the NCHSAA Midwest Regional track and field meet on Saturday, with local Yadkin Valley Conference schools Albemarle, Gray Stone Day ... Read more

by Toby Thorpe, Monday, May 15, 2023 10:06 am

Gray Stone

West Stanly places in regional meet; Starnes breaks 50-year-old record held by Hall of Famer

In Saturday’s NCHSAA 2A Midwest Regional meet at Mt. Pleasant High School, the West Stanly boys and girls track teams took second and third place, ... Read more

by Toby Thorpe, Monday, May 15, 2023 9:51 am

Stanly Community College

Stanly Community College hosts SciFest event

Biology, chemistry and physiology labs at Stanly Community College were active with aspiring young scientists and their families on Thursday evening as the college hosted ... Read more

by Toby Thorpe, Friday, April 14, 2023 6:21 pm

Oakboro

Red Cross adopts development moratorium

At its Monday evening meeting, members of the Red Cross Town Council voted to adopt a two-year moratorium on major housing development (development projects of ... Read more

by Toby Thorpe, Tuesday, April 11, 2023 9:21 am

Norwood

Norwood Town Council approves revised nuisance ordinance

Consideration of a revised nuisance ordinance was the prime item on Norwood’s Town Council agenda Monday, with a public hearing on the matter conducted at ... Read more

by Toby Thorpe, Tuesday, April 4, 2023 10:11 am

Albemarle

SPIRIT OF STANLY: Boom towns in a boom county

With the presence of record inflation, seemingly endless accounts of understaffed workplaces and the aftereffects of a worldwide pandemic, it would be logical to conclude ... Read more

by Toby Thorpe, Monday, April 3, 2023 4:26 pm

Cindy Feis

Oakboro denies residential rezoning request

Oakboro Town Commission on Monday denied a request to rezone a residential lot at the corner of Dorsett and East Third streets. A public hearing, ... Read more

by Toby Thorpe, Tuesday, March 21, 2023 3:59 pm

Blue Dot Concrete

Blue Dot Concrete plant coming to Oakboro

The Oakboro Town Commission on Monday approved a request from Blue Dot Concrete to locate a concrete plant at 420 S. Main St. An evidentiary ... Read more

by Toby Thorpe, Tuesday, March 21, 2023 10:13 am

Nicolle Hopkins

THE LIBRARY LOOKOUT COLUMN: Dreams do come true

American author Annie Dillard said, “She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.” That pretty much sums up my mother ... Read more

by Toby Thorpe, Monday, March 6, 2023 10:30 am

Gray Stone Day School

Races illustrate energy transfer at Gray Stone

Students in Billy Mills’ engineering-design class at Gray Stone Day School were greeted with an unusual challenge to open the 2023 spring semester. The challenge? ... Read more

by Toby Thorpe, Thursday, March 2, 2023 10:02 am

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