By Karen Cimino [email protected] city officials want taxpayers to know the city has not given Lowe’s Motor Speedway or owner Bruton Smith one penny of the $30 million in tax incentives it offered in 2007 in exchange for road improvements near the speedway. But Concord will kick in $1.5 million to help pay for improvements […]
By Robin L. [email protected] Cabarrus County Public Library in Kannapolis is trying to help the community wade through the bad economic times by offering programs designed to help stretch our dollars. The library started all this with a coupon box. Branch Manager Terry Prather wanted a coupon club, but settled with boxes on a red […]
By Janet MorrisonDid you know? Cotton gins were made of dangerous machinery. William Eugene Alexander related the following story in “Some Sketches of Rocky River Church and Vicinity,” to illustrate that point. He wrote, “A rather tragical thing occurred here when James F. Harris, (Major or Little Jim) then about 16 years old, had the […]
By Karen Cimino [email protected] Christian Ministry of Concord officials hope to receive some of the $55,778 earmarked to help Cabarrus County residents hit hard by the economic downturn. The ministry has had a 300 percent increase in the number families it helps in the last year, said Ed Hosack, executive director of the Cooperative Christian […]