LEXINGTON — Davidson County has always had its share of great personalities, folks such as Bob Timberlake and Sheriff Gerald Hege But for the past week, its biggest celebrity has been a little bit of a teacher named Tricia Creasey. She protested We ...Read More

The city of Salisbury is finding it difficult to come up with a name for the fiber-optic cable utility it hopes to launch by next June. To put it simply, all the good names are taken. Mike Crowell, director of broadband services — he jokes that he ...Read More

It was so cold Miss America caught pneumonia. Arthur Smith and the Crackerjacks couldn't play their instruments because of the raw, foot-numbing temperature, which dipped toward 17 degrees. But a crowd estimated at close to 100,000 people hung out o ...Read More

file photo Some of the beauty queens from the 1960 Rowan Christmas Parade included, front row, from left, Miss Merry Christmas (and Miss Spencer) Ann Stoner Kepley, Miss Salisbury Neita Stout, Miss America Nancy Ann Fleming, Miss North Carolina Ann H ...Read More

When Otie Cook returned to the States after World War II had ended in Europe, he was a shell of the young tank commander who landed on Omaha Beach during the invasion of Normandy. He couldn't stop shaking. His stomach went through violent spasms, an ...Read More

For decades after World War II, Otie Cook jotted down notes about his experiences as a tank commander who was part of the Normandy invasion force at Omaha Beach. This past year, he decided to collect his notes and thoughts and put them in a narrativ ...Read More

They throw it the length of the floor ... Laettner catches, comes down, dribbles ... shoots. Scores! Christian Laettner has hit the bucket at the buzzer. The Blue Devils win it 104 to 103. Look out Minneapolis! Here come the Blue Devils! DURHAM — Th ...Read More

DUKEVILLE — Bethel United Methodist Church qualifies as a country church. On Sundays, its members park their cars along the driveway or completely in the grass. Across from the front of the church is an open field. On the side, Dukeville Road stret ...Read More

In 1967, Albemarle's Bob Harris was at a crossroads. He had tried selling shoes for a living, had given up a promising career with Goodyear and was now stuck selling insurance. The previous fall, as a side job, he had tried his hand at selling spons ...Read More

NEEDMORE — Within 5 minutes of arriving at the Scotch-Irish voting precinct Tuesday, I was eating Gold Miner's Pie. Forrest Lloyd, one of the precinct judges, fetched me a piece from the kitchen behind the voter check-in table. His wife specializes ...Read More

By Mark Wineka mwineka@salisburypost.com GRANITE QUARRY — For now, kids riding bicycles at Granite Quarry parks will have to know on their own that the law requires them to wear helmets. The Granite Quarry Board of Aldermen decided Monday night ag ...Read More

What if they held an election and nobody came? It wasn't quite that bad Tuesday, but for about half the Rowan County voting precincts there was only one thing on the ballot — a local quarter-cent sales tax referendum. It made for sparse turnouts an ...Read More

By Mark Wineka
WASHINGTON, D.C. — We know these men from the lives they built daily back home, among us. Lee Bradley was a highway patrolman and officer in the Rowan County Sheriff's Department.
Charlie Swink amazingly still sells cars at Cloninger Fo ...Read More

By Mark Wineka mwineka@salisburypost FARGO, N.D. — Brent Shive and I were standing on the concourse behind home plate, putting a ribbon on the season and this team of Rowan County players. The spot was a good one for Shive, who was videotaping hi ...Read More

By Mark Wineka mwineka@salisburypost.com Jonathan Blackmer, a son of Salisbury's most famous acting couple, wants to demolish his family's historic home on South Fulton Street. A resident of Alexandria, Va., Blackmer has filed an application with ...Read More

By Mark Wineka mwineka@salisburypost.com Bobby Gaulden says it's probably the most challenging project he has ever tackled. How the Archibald Henderson monument, the largest in the Old Lutheran Cemetery off North Lee Street, remained upright was a ...Read More

By Mark Wineka Salisbury Post Her grave lies toward the back of Rowan Memorial Park near the lake and a stand of tall pine trees. On a drizzly December day, water beads on top of the ground-level, bronze marker.Treasure Kiara Symone Feamster June ...Read More