by Deborah Keller Lake Lure- Over one hundred people with standing room only packed the Mountains Branch Library to hear ninety two (92) year old Holocaust survivor Walter Ziffer speak for over an hour today. It was a humbling experience to be…Read More »
On today’s date, officers from Forest City Police Dept. were called to Wal-Mart in reference to a subject obtaining property by false pretenses. The person of interest used a stolen credit card to purchase a variety of items. The person of interest…Read More »
The day faith in the N.C. General Assembly’s Republican leadership bottomed out By Billy Ball, Colin Campbell, Joe Killian NC POLICY WATCH N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore We will remember a lot of things about this day. We’ll remember how North Carolina’s Democratic…Read More »
SUBJECT HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED ________________________________________________________________ This morning officers responded to Child Care Quest, located at 1288 W. Main St. in Forest City, in reference to a breaking and entering that occurred around 5:00 am. The suspect is a white female with dark hair…Read More »
Lt. Governor to share the stage with speakers who have vilified LGBTQ and Muslim communities, called for plan to “free Christian children from public education” By Joe Killian, in Policy Watch Investigates _________________________________________________________________ Next month, Lt. Gov. Dan Forest will be the…Read More »
By Lisa Sorg North Topsail Beach, two days before Hurricane Dorian (Photo: Lisa Sorg) Forty-eight hours before the arms of Hurricane Dorian locked on the coast, North Topsail Beach in Onslow County sounded like an untuned symphony. The roar of the…Read More »
By Melissa Boughton, NC Policy Watch The law firm representing Republican legislative leaders in an ongoing partisan gerrymandering case may have just polluted the remedial mapmaking process by sending them partisan data prohibited from use. A court last week ordered lawmakers to draw new…Read More »
Last seen on Aug. 25; call 652-2235 or 652-4000 with info Reply with TIP McDowell County sheriff’s deputies are looking for a missing woman. Family members last spoke with Barbara Slone, 41, address listed as Cimarron Drive in Old Fort, on…Read More »
ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA – Over the next few weeks,Brother Wolf’s chapter projects in McDowell, Rutherford, and Dickenson counties will all become independent non-profit organizations. Brother Wolf originally began these auxiliary chapters with the intention of reducing the counties’ kill rates and ultimately…Read More »
