Here was the Salisbury Post’s list of top 10 stories for 1999:
1. Elizabeth “Liddy” Dole runs for Republican presidential nomination.
2. Food Lion becomes part of Delhaize America and then swallows Hannaford Bros.
3. Bombs explode at Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouses in Salisbury and Asheboro.
4. Layoffs hit local employers, especially textile industry, which loses hundreds of jobs to foreign competition.
5. Union finally wins at Fieldcrest Cannon.
6. Local residents reach out to victims of flooding in eastern North Carolina.
7. Local governments debate what to do about the spread of mobile homes.
8. Spencer Police Officer Robert Clement dies from complication arising from operation that was part of his recovery from 1997 shooting.
9. Rowan County Sheriff’s Deputy Rick Hillard dies when he loses control of his cruiser as he chased a speeder.
10. Three people die in fall from a radio-telephone tower in western Rowan County.
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