“The message is
very clear: If you
commit a crime, law enforcement will work together to bring the perpetrators to justice.”

— Chief Michael James,

Spencer Police,

on arrest of third murder suspect, with
help of Rowan Sheriff’s Office and SBI

“Friends and associates said, ‘I knew you weren’t finished with the festival,’”

— Eleanor Qadirah,

on  organizing a blues and jazz festival next spring, after saying  in 2013 that she was done with the festival

“We are not into
excuse making. Sometimes you just have to be a man and credit the other team. I thought they played with more heart and more desire.”

— Scott Young,

West Rowan football coach,

after 59-14 loss to East Rowan

“We don’t feel this is a measure of what our schools do for our students, our community, for our stakeholders.”

— Kelly Burgess, Kannapolis Schools testing director,

on statewide school performance grades, which assign an A through F letter grade to each public school

“I can still hear him singing, ‘Won’t You Come Home, Bill
Bailey?’”

— Margaret Kluttz,

on the late Foster Owen, former assistant city manager and a passionate musician