by Rod Kerr For The Salisbury Post In a day when reality shows are so prevalent, some look back to the golden age of television with fondness. One show, certainly a regional favorite, stands out among them in both physical and cultural proximity — ...Read More

Recently, I've been hearing a lot about scams. So many, in fact, that I can't get to them all in one short column. Have you heard this one? "Bottle caps for cancer." It's not new, but apparently, this toxic rumor has surfaced again locally. Th ...Read More

For those of you who don't know me by my previous articles in The Salisbury Post, I am a fairly recent left below the knee amputee. This happened to me when doctors performed an ankle fusion and I ended up fighting MRSA and Pseudomonas for eight mont ...Read More

By Katie Scarvey kscarvey@salisburypost.com Parkinson's disease can rob married couples of being able to communicate as effectively as they once did. Dr. Tess Deshefy-Longhi wants to help couples overcome these communication hurdles. A doctor o ...Read More

By Katie Scarvey kscarvey@salisburypost.com "I'm still walking on the ceiling," says artist Leslie Hudson-Tolles. She was speaking about her recent reunion with one of her old art students, Heather Van Wolf, who has a solo show at a New York galle ...Read More

Last Saturday, Jan. 23, Waterworks hosted its fifth annual Oyster Roast and Pirate's Treasure Chest raffle at the F& M Trolley Barn. About 450 people attended the event, which is the major fundraiser for the center's education and outreach prog ...Read More

Fulton Masonic Lodge # 99, Salisbury, held an open installation of officers at 7 p.m. on Jan. 9. It was preceded by a dinner at 6 p.m. The following officers were installed for the year 2010: master-Scott Teeter; senior warden-Eric Schenk; junior ...Read More

By Katie Scarvey kscarvey@salisburypost.com If central casting had to come up with the perfect candidate for a game show, they couldn't do much better than Claudia Galup, who is beautiful, blonde, brainy and about as effortlessly charming as any on ...Read More

Civitan International's quietest fundraiser is its candy box campaign. Take a piece of candy, donate your loose change to a good cause. For 14 years The Civitan Club of Salisbury has been a candy box participant. In that time, the club's collections ...Read More

William Rogers A son, William Swinson, was born to Stacey and Jason Rogers of Linwood on Jan. 5, 2010, at Rowan Regional Medical Center. He weighed 8 pounds, 5 1/2 ounces. Grandparents are Ronnie and Sandra Beck of Lexington and Freddie and Judy Roge ...Read More

By Katie Scarvey kscarvey@salisburpost.com Sidney Blackmer was born July 13, 1895, in Salisbury. According to the "Sweet Bird of Youth" playbill, Blackmer's role as a political boss was appropriate, given that his maternal grandfather, Sidney Sea ...Read More

By Katie Scarvey kscarvey@salisburypost.com The upcoming Piedmont Players Theatre production of 'Sweet Bird of Youth" will bring back many fond memories for 92-year-old Billy Burke. Well-known in Salisbury as a pianist and bridge columnist, Burke ...Read More

I wrote a feature story about a new kind of reflexology a few weeks ago. In my haste to finish the story before my holiday vacation, I neglected to give contact information for the reflexologists who were mentioned in the story. I had no idea how mu ...Read More

The combined piano studios of Jan Sywenki of Salisbury and Marsha Carter of China Grove performed a Christmas duet program on Dec. 21 at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Salisbury. Students performed on two pianos and electric keyboard when playing a pr ...Read More

In a country populated by a fleet of wonderful grandparents, there comes a time when we all need to say thank you. Out of compassion and necessity, grandparents are stepping up in more ways than we would have imagined. The stresses of modern Ameri ...Read More

Last Saturday about 200 people attended The Big Band Bash at Catawba College. After a concert in Hedrick Auditorium, guests and musicians alike proceeded to the Crystal Lounge, where there was plenty of food — and lots more music, directed by Davi ...Read More

By Susan Shinn Catawba College News Service You might remember the movie, "Around the World in 80 Days." Tina Costino Jones, who graduated from Catawba College in 1980, and husband Braun are taking a dozen or so years to circumnavigate the globe. ...Read More

Yawn Patrol Zone Toastmasters met Jan. 5 at United Cabarrus Insurance. Mike Craig was Toastmaster; his theme was "Presidential Trivia." Ken Miller was voted Best Evaluator and Roslyn Vargas was voted Best Table Topics. Belinda Dublin was voted Bes ...Read More

Catawba College News Service Lisa Easter admits sheis on the fast track. The 20-year-old Catawba College senior, majoring in music business, has already released her first full-length album, "Welcome to My World," and spent a summer working on th ...Read More

On Thursday before the snow, I had the day off and the opportunity to go for a long bicycle ride. My plans were for a return trip to the New River Trail at Foster Falls, Va. But on Wednesday I received an e-mail from Gary Poole about a series of meas ...Read More

submitted photos Former First Lady Laura Bush poses with Salisburians Ben, 6, and Michael Childress, 10, in Boca Grande, Fla. According to dad Jeff Childress, the boys were visiting grandparents in Florida over Christmas break when they came across ...Read More

Landis-South Rowan Optimists meet The Landis-South Rowan Optimist Club met on Dec. 10 with nine members present at Porky's Bar-B-Q in China Grove. President Ruth Johnson called the meeting to order, prayer and grace was given by Larry Holt, and Johns ...Read More

By Kathy Chaffin kchaffin@salisburypost.comn Nov. 16, 1982, First Presbyterian Church of Salisbury started a soup kitchen in the downstairs of its sanctuary at Innes and Fulton streets to feed the hungry. Sixteen people showed up to eat soup ...Read More

The Catawba College Community Music Program hosted piano and choral performance events for students enrolled in the program. Celebrating 25 years, Catawba Community Music was designed to provide quality musical experiences including private lessons ...Read More

Although the weather outside was frightful enough last Friday to cause a lot of anxiety over whether or not'The Nutcracker' would be performed, the show did in fact go on. For the third year in a row, audiences thrilled to a gorgeous pro ...Read More