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Taylor to lead NC Sheriff Chaplains Association
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:37:29 -0800
The North Carolina Sheriff Chaplains Association has appointed Michael Taylor of the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office, to the position of Executive Director. Taylor currently serves as president of the association, and has been a member since 1994. He attained a Master Level Chaplaincy in 1998 through the association’s accreditation program. He is also the senior pastor at Phaniels Baptist Church ...
Jim, Susan Phillips ambassadors for Senior Games
Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:45:29 -0800
Jim and Susan Phillips have been chosen by Salisbury/Rowan Senior Games to serve as a Rowan County North Carolina Senior Games Ambassador. Ambassadors encourage others to stay healthy and live better and longer through participation in Senior Games ...
Political notebook: Governor's race not only one drawing candidates
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:02:23 -0800
Two candidates have announced their bid for N.C. Senate District 25 as incumbent Sen. Bill Purcell, a Democrat, says he won’t run for re-election. Last year’s redistricting brought southeastern Rowan County into the new District 25. It ...
1 killed in tractor-trailer accident on I-85 in Rowan County
Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:55:26 -0800
SALISBURY, N.C. -- The North Carolina Highway Patrol has reopened two lanes of Interstate 85 south in Rowan County after one person was killed in a tractor-trailer accident Wednesday morning. "This was not our standard accident. We don’t like to see anything like this," said Deborah Horne, a spokesperson with the Rowan County Fire Marshal's Office. The highway patrol says Garry Darnell Wilkerson ...
Rowan County to get its first roundabout intersection
Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:02:03 -0800
SALISBURY — Drivers will see a roundabout at the intersection of Sherrills Ford, Briggs and Barringer roads in about a year, the North Carolina Department of Transportation announced this afternoon. In a press release, the department said ...
Concord, Kannapolis mayors honored
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:46:17 -0800
Not one, but two local mayors received one of North Carolina’s highest civilian honors Friday.
Unemployment down in Rowan
Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:03:04 -0800
Unemployment rates decreased in the majority of North Carolina’s counties in November. Rates decreased in 74 counties, increased in 20 and remained the same in six. The rate for November 2011 in Rowan County was 10.6 percent, compared to 1 ...
North Rowan students receive free word books from Spencer Civitans
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:46:17 -0800
SPENCER — Dictionaries. They’re so old school. But tell that to the 96 third-graders who received a personalized, paperback dictionary Thursday at North Rowan Elementary. As the students lined up to return to class after receivi ...
Rowan History Club
Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:48:06 -0800
The Rowan History Club will meet Tuesday, Jan. 10, at 7 p.m. The program, “Civil War Civilians in North Carolina,” will be presented byLeRae Umfleet. Umfleet works as the chief of collections management for the Department of Cultural R ...
Rowan County plant hiring 1,200
Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:37:02 -0800
CLEVELAND, N.C. — A Rowan County plant is hiring 1,200 people. The recession forced Daimler's Freightliner plant to cut its production in half several years ago.