Consider the environment this holiday season By Eric C. [email protected] all the joy and giving, the holidays make for one of the most wasteful seasons — both financially and environmentally. Think of the mountains of wrapping papers that pile up on Christmas morning, the discarded evergreens and all the leftover food. A release from the […]
By Karen Cimino WilsonSpecial to the Independent TribuneNo cash to pay your overdue library book fines? Bring food. The Cabarrus County Public Library will forgive fines for a food donation now through Dec. 15 during its annual Food for Fines program. The program, which started about five years ago, helps local food banks stock up […]
By Janet MorrisonDid You Know?Did you know there were post offices named Kirkland, Welch’s Mill, and Wharey in Township One in the 1800s? Less is known about them than about the Harrisburg Post Office. Robert Kirkpatrick opened the Kirkland Post Office on Pharr Mill Road on Aug. 6, 1838. I have been unable to determine […]
Second round of cuts this year impacts school supplies, textbooks, spares staff By Justin [email protected] County Schools cut about $1.1 million from its budget on Monday to comply with the state’s request for the 115 school systems to return about $58 million to offset a government shortfall. And Cabarrus County Schools did so without cutting […]
By Eric C. [email protected] Cabarrus Regional Chamber of Commerce is leading a charge to spark the local economy during a recession that some experts say may last until late 2009. The efforts range from encouraging residents to invest responsibly in local goods and services to offering helpful workshops for local businesses. “The bigger idea is […]
By Ben [email protected] Health Alliance announced it will launch the Public Health Research Institute at the North Carolina Research Campus. With financial help from Dole Food Co. owner David Murdock, the health alliance “will seek to enhance and develop joint public health research opportunities between Cabarrus Health Alliance and the North Carolina Research Campus through […]
By Ben [email protected] and Brenda Bost have put a lot of care into Bost Grist Mill. The couple restored the mill — which has been in Gene’s family for six generations — after Hurricane Hugo came through in 1989 and damaged the mill building. “Hugo knocked down a lot of the trees, tore some tin […]
By Jonathan E. [email protected] decades after his A-7 Corsair was shot down by Vietnamese fighters in Laos, former Navy pilot Kenny Wayne Fields returned to the site where he eluded capture and plotted his escape in May 1968. Fields, who wrote about his harrowing experience in “The Rescue of Streetcar 304: A Navy Pilot’s 40 […]