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The ravages of COVID-19 took a toll on many of us, and Morganton Mayor Ronnie Thompson was no exception. The virus, which has killed more than a million Americans, tried its best to take Thompson out …
Basketball teams are at their best when all five players work in sync to achieve a common goal. That lesson was not lost on Brian Epley during his time as a player in high school and college. …
From town limit sign to town limit sign, south to north, Main Street in Drexel stretches for just over a mile. Yet contained within that short length of side-walked street are two reasons Mayor …
For nearly 30 years, Yates Jensen taught students at East Burke and Draughn high schools about the roles and responsibilities of government, from the White House in Washington to the town hall on the …
Why wouldn’t a 15-year-old boy want to be a firefighter?After all, said Charlie Watts, “I loved the lights and the sirens and flying down the road in that big red truck on the way to a …
“I’d never planned to be mayor.” Bob Benfield was happily retired from a long career in criminal justice and “doing just as little as I could get by with” when his cousin, former Glen Alpine Mayor Christine Abernathy, began nudging him toward the mayor’s office. …