By Jonathan E. [email protected] of people poured into Rocky River Coffee Co. last week, but they weren’t all there for coffee or pastry. Family and friends of students in Jennifer Trexler’s fourth grade class at Rocky River Elementary School crowded into the coffee shop to hear students recite poems, some of their own creation, as […]
By Mike Mulhern Dale Earnhardt Jr. and the rest of the NASCAR gang battled high winds and sporadic rain Monday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, in the first round of a crucial week of testing for the car-of-tomorrow, NASCAR’s new winged machine, which has not yet been battle-tested on the stock car tour’s […]
By Mike Mulhern CONCORD So it’s come to this – Larry McClure, after 25 years, some as one of the top car owners in NASCAR, with so many impressive wins at Daytona, is finally forced to hang it up. For a while at least. Unless something comes around his way in the next few […]
By Mike Mulhern CONCORD The irrepressible John Force, drag racing’s biggest star, with one of the sports world’s wildest personas, couldn’t make it to the track, because he’s still recuperating from that savage crash. But Bruton Smith officially wrapped up the final pieces from last fall’s political battle over his planned new NHRA dragstrip […]
Teacher transforms her classroom into a museum with student-made lighthouse models beaconing interest in the famous N.C. lighthouses By Christie [email protected] Typically North Carolina’s lighthouse can only be seen from the coast, but several of the states more famous lighthouse made an appearance at Carolina International School last week. Brenda Mauldin, a fourth grade teacher […]