Local
Fourth of July municipal closings
County and municipal offices will be closed and services rescheduled because of the Fourth of July holiday. Salisbury • City administrative offices will be closed ...
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Education
Rowan Wild hosts inaugural Outdoor Survival Skills camp
SALISBURY — With an ever-present layer of dead leaves and limbs crunching beneath their sneakered feet, nine children scattered last week through the woods of ...
by Andie Foley, Tuesday, July 2, 2019 12:00 am
Education
North Rowan High School featured at NeoCon
As a sea of manufacturers, dealers, designers and consumers gathered in Chicago last month to discuss coming and current trends in commercial interior design, award-winning design ...
by Andie Foley, Tuesday, July 2, 2019 12:00 am
Crime
Blotter: June 29
SALISBURY — Ronnie Wayne Warren, 34, of Salisbury, was arrested Thursday on four outstanding Rowan County warrants. Warren is charged with felony breaking and entering; ...
by Andie Foley, Saturday, June 29, 2019 12:00 am
Education
School board approves high school iPad pilot at North
SALISBURY — Looking ahead to the end of Rowan-Salisbury Schools’ second three-year lease on Apple devices, the school board voted Thursday to approve a pilot ...
by Andie Foley, Saturday, June 29, 2019 12:00 am
Education
Rowan-Salisbury school board approves renewal plans at four sites
SALISBURY — The Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education on Thursday approved four additional school renewal plans, making that a total of 17 throughout the district. The ...
by Andie Foley, Friday, June 28, 2019 12:00 am
Education
School board explores fate of Knox Middle School
SALISBURY — With $15 million provided by the county available as soon as March, members of the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education on Thursday weighed options ...
by Andie Foley, Friday, June 28, 2019 12:00 am
Education
From the mind of mom: On camps, kids and chaos
Love them or hate them, North Carolina summers are the type of sensory experience that can stick with you no matter where you meander in ...
by Andie Foley, Thursday, June 27, 2019 12:00 am
Education
Rowan-Salisbury school board to hear renewal plans for four schools
SALISBURY — The Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education will meet at 5 p.m. today to consider renewal plans for four schools. The plans for Granite Quarry ...
by Andie Foley, Thursday, June 27, 2019 12:00 am
Education
‘Breaking the generational curse’: East Spencer resident earns GED
Fresh from an overnight, eight-hour shift, Lil’Blake Montgomery walks the halls of Rowan-Cabarrus Community College and recalls her recent graduation experience with nothing but smiles ...
by Andie Foley, Thursday, June 27, 2019 12:00 am
Education
Bostian Elementary School hosts Summer STEAM
CHINA GROVE — Donning vibrant green safety goggles in the STEAM lab of Bostian Elementary School on Tuesday, rising fifth-grader Katie Stirewalt attaches a balloon ...
by Andie Foley, Wednesday, June 26, 2019 12:00 am
Education
Catawba College addresses cuts to budget, personnel
SALISBURY — Addressing rumors about cuts to Catawba College’s personnel and budget, President Brien Lewis on Tuesday said impending changes for the fall semester are ...
by Andie Foley, Wednesday, June 26, 2019 12:00 am
Kannapolis
Kannapolis approves 2020 budget with increase for water and sewer
KANNAPOLIS – Though consistently divided during talks Monday, the Kannapolis City Council approved a budget and fee schedule that will see water and sewer rates ...
by Andie Foley, Tuesday, June 25, 2019 12:00 am
Local
RSS adds three sites to Summer Feeding Program
SALISBURY — In just eight days, the Rowan-Salisbury School System has distributed over 20,000 free meals to children across Rowan County. The meals — either ...
by Andie Foley, Sunday, June 23, 2019 12:05 am
Kannapolis
Kannapolis to consider approving 2020 budget
KANNAPOLIS — The Kannapolis City Council will meet Monday, June 24, at 6 p.m. to consider a fiscal year 2020 operating budget that could see ...
by Andie Foley, Sunday, June 23, 2019 12:00 am
Education
Organizations partner to benefit youth across Rowan County
SALISBURY — In the dining room of First Baptist Church’s Family Ministry Center, rising eighth-grader Sara Portscheller sits at a table and excitedly introduces her ...
by Andie Foley, Friday, June 21, 2019 12:00 am
Local
Rowan shelter to offer animal adoption special Saturday
SALISBURY — The Rowan County Animal Shelter will offer animal adoptions at a reduced price on Saturday. They will be available from 8:30 a.m. to ...
by Andie Foley, Friday, June 21, 2019 12:00 am
Local
Saturday’s Salisbury Pride Festival harkens back to 1978 message
SALISBURY — Months before his November 1978 assassination, San Francisco’s first openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk stood at San Francisco’s Gay Freedom Day Parade ...
by Andie Foley, Thursday, June 20, 2019 12:00 am
Local
Spencer’s 3.5-cent tax decrease unlikely
SPENCER — The potential for a 3.5-cent decrease in Spencer’s property tax rate declined Tuesday as the Board of Aldermen identified lingering needs in the ...
by Andie Foley, Wednesday, June 19, 2019 12:00 am
Education
House Speaker Tim Moore answers tough questions at Boys’ State
SALISBURY — Facing the 192 participants in this year’s American Legion Tar Heel Boys’ State on Tuesday, North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore offered the ...
by Andie Foley, Wednesday, June 19, 2019 12:00 am
Crime
Blotter: June 18
In Salisbury Police Department reports: • Two burglaries were reported Friday in the 200 and 300 blocks of Depot Street. • A man reported a ...
by Andie Foley, Tuesday, June 18, 2019 12:00 am
Local
Spencer aldermen to discuss 2019-20 budget
SPENCER — Looking ahead at a possible 3.5-cent property tax decrease, the Spencer Board of Aldermen will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday for a budget ...
by Andie Foley, Tuesday, June 18, 2019 12:00 am
Education
‘Wonderful start’: East Spencer charter school talks first-year lessons
EAST SPENCER — Just over a month after Dr. Jonathan Pullin accepted his position as Essie Mae Kiser Foxx Charter School’s inaugural principal, he stood ...
by Andie Foley, Sunday, June 16, 2019 12:00 am
Education
Greg Alcorn talks ApSeed’s expansion plans at Kiwanis
By Andie Foley andie.foley@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Since its launch in 2016, grassroots Salisbury nonprofit ApSeed has distributed 5,300 free, literacy-developing tablets across Rowan and Davie ...
by Andie Foley, Saturday, June 15, 2019 12:00 am
Education
Communities In Schools offers two-day mentorship training
SALISBURY — Without context, a peek into the upstairs board room of the Rowan County Chamber of Commerce building on Thursday may have raised a ...
by Andie Foley, Friday, June 14, 2019 12:00 am
Education
From the mind of mom: The summer struggle begins
It’s 6 a.m. The sun is cresting over the horizon to be welcomed by the blissful and melodious sound of birds, and all is right ...
by Andie Foley, Thursday, June 13, 2019 12:00 am
Education
Horizons Unlimited unveils Phase 1 of trail upgrades
By Andie Foley andie.foley@salisburypost.com As Horizons Unlimited staff and community members celebrated trail renovations last Thursday, Director Amy Pruitt said one guiding thought has always ...
by Andie Foley, Thursday, June 13, 2019 12:00 am
Education
Summer Feeding Program starts today
SALISBURY — Starting today, three buses, six trucks and three vans will make their way across Rowan County to deliver the first of tens of ...