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Humanitarian awards celebrate unity, self-sacrifice
By Rebecca Rider For the Salisbury Post SALISBURY — Elsewhere in the country, people are focusing on divisions ... Read more
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Continuing a legacy: Annual MLK events fight for rights, access
Click here for additional photos from Saturday’s parade. By Rebecca Rider For the Salisbury Post SALISBURY — On ... Read more
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Elected officials make their New Year’s resolutions
By Rebecca Rider For the Salisbury Post SALISBURY — At midnight Monday, most people were making New Year’s ... Read more
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Advice for keeping fitness resolutions: Set reasonable goals, get started and stick to it
By Rebecca Rider For the Salisbury Post SALISBURY — The dawn of a new year saw Rowan County ... Read more
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A new year, a new baby
SALISBURY — Rowan County’s first baby of the new year, Brandon Mejia Bautista, was born to Alma Bautista ... Read more
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2018 Newsmaker of the Year: Rowan-Salisbury Schools
By Rebecca Rider For the Salisbury Post SALISBURY — It’s been a year of ups and downs for ... Read more
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Overton Elementary students get a Christmas surprise
By Rebecca Rider For the Salisbury Post SALISBURY — It was the last day of school before winter ... Read more
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Moving Day: Teachers move into new West Rowan Elementary
By Rebecca Rider For the Salisbury Post CLEVELAND — The mood was strange Friday at West Rowan Elementary School. ... Read more
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North Rowan residents make passionate pleas to save school
By Rebecca Rider For the Salisbury Post SPENCER — North Rowan residents banded together Wednesday night to fight ... Read more
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West Rowan consolidation meeting draws small crowd
MOUNT ULLA — A small crowd kept West Rowan’s community input session on a proposed school consolidation plan ... Read more
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Rowan-Salisbury school board settles on new school calendar
By Rebecca Rider For the Salisbury Post SALISBURY — The Rowan-Salisbury Schools calendar for the 2019-20 year was ... Read more
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Wreaths Across America honors those who served
By Rebecca Rider For the Salisbury Post SALISBURY — It was a somber scene Saturday in the Historic ... Read more
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‘Shop with a Cop’ inspires Christmas spirit
By Rebecca Rider For the Salisbury Post SALISBURY — Traffic ground to a halt Saturday morning as more than ... Read more
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School board to vote on 2019-2020 school calendar Monday
By Rebecca Rider For the Salisbury Post SALISBURY — The Rowan Salisbury Board of Education will consider adopting ... Read more
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Schools post survey on consolidation; meetings continue tonight
SALISBURY — Parents concerned they’d have to fight the weather or their work clock in order to voice ... Read more
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School performance grades linked to poverty
By Rebecca Rider SALISBURY — While communities and politicians tout test scores and school performance grades as the ... Read more
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Election 2018: Two vie for North seat on Rowan-Salisbury school board
SALISBURY — There’s only one race for a seat on the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education this year. Incumbents Travis ... Read more
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Goodbye, for now
By Rebecca Rider I know what you’re thinking: “Another Post reporter’s leaving; there must be something wrong with ... Read more
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Students dive deep into the story of Alexander Hamilton
SPENCER — Tenth-graders at North Rowan High School are getting the opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to show ... Read more
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Salisbury High reports two possible cases of contagious bacteria infection impetigo
By Rebecca Rider education@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Two students at Salisbury High School have contracted a “contagious bacterial infection,” ... Read more
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Two candidates, two perspectives running for school board seat
SALISBURY — There’s only one seat on the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education up for election in November. That’s the ... Read more
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Spencer puts hold on talk about rental ordinance
SPENCER — The Spencer Board of Aldermen on Tuesday agreed to recess a public hearing on a proposed ... Read more
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School board discusses capital needs, consolidation
SALISBURY — The Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education spent more than an hour Monday discussing its enormous capital needs ... Read more
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Fiesta de Rowan breaks down barriers
By Rebecca Rider rebecca.rider@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Saturday was a day for building bridges during La Fiesta de Rowan. ... Read more
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‘A tradition:’ Autumn Jubilee shines in 39th year
By Rebecca Rider rebecca.rider@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Autumn Jubilee kicked off its 39th year with balmy temperatures and plenty ... Read more
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South Rowan library to host China Grove Roller Mill talk
CHINA GROVE — On Monday, the Rowan Public Library’s South Rowan Regional branch will host a talk about ... Read more
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School board to discuss law enforcement coverage at elementary schools
SALISBURY — The Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education will meet Monday at 1 p.m. for its October work session. ... Read more
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Spencer Library reminisces about ‘The Good Old Days’
By Beverly McCraw Spencer librarian SPENCER — What was life really like in the good old days? Thirty-one ... Read more