The Cabarrus County Board of Education met Monday for its monthly business meeting. Here is an update of discussions and decisions made at the meeting.
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Danielle T. Hillie, a native of Concord, has written her first book.
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100 Men Who Care, Concord’s newest nonprofit, celebrated its one-year anniversary recently.
WINSTON-SALEM — During challenging times, HonorBridge is on track to have a record-breaking year to save and heal more lives than ever through organ and tissue donation. At mid-year, HonorBridge has coordinated organ and tissue donations from more donors than ever, allowing for more transplants.
Former President Donald Trump says he will be questioned today in a New York civil investigation into his dealings as a real estate mogul. The case is unrelated to the FBI’s search of his Florida residence. Learn more on our daily podcast.
Here upcoming community events around Cabarrus County.
CONCORD — Continuing construction on the Cabarrus County Courthouse expansion will close another street.
KANNAPOLIS — Friends and family gathered Sunday at Kimball Lutheran Church for a surprise 100th birthday party for a legendary figure — Norris Dearmon.
CONCORD — The history of Atrium Health Cabarrus dates to the mid-1930s, when Charles A. Cannon and his associate, George A. Batte Jr., led an effort to pursue more accessible and full-service health care for the wave of workers that Cannon Mills brought to Cabarrus County. The small, private…
ASHEVILLE — Highland Brewing Company is pleased to donate a collection of COVID-Era artifacts to the permanent collection of The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. The museum is collecting items from communities, businesses, and individuals across the count…
Stacker compiled a list of counties with the most born and bred residents in North Carolina using data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Last Saturday, as kids cooled off in downtown Concord’s Rotary Square Splashpad, a small group of artists gathered nearby, surrounding the blue sculpture called Genesis, with heaps of colored chalk, pencils and paper in their hands and at their feet. Within an hour, Rotary Square no longer h…
The legislation approved by the Senate over the weekend includes nearly $400 billion for clean energy initiatives, the country's largest-ever investment in fighting global warming.
🎧 The FBI has searched former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate as part of an investigation. And Olivia Newton-John, the superstar singer who was everyone’s favorite Sandy in “Grease,” has died. Listen to those stories and more on Hot off the Wire.
As COVID-19 stubbornly hangs around, vaccinations continue to be an important tool in fighting the contagious BA.5 variant — and a new round of boosters should be available within the next two months, said Dr. David Weber, distinguished professor of medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill.
In major American cities, police departments are losing officers and can't find enough recruits to replace them. Pandemic burnout, budget cuts and anti-police protests after George Floyd's murder have combined to reduce police ranks and many departments are downsizing. The evolution has affe…
Are you getting groceries delivered? Demand is cooling for the service as food prices rise. That stories and others on the daily news podcast.
There were several notable deaths, Warner Bros. shelved "Batgirl" and Juan Soto was the biggest move of the trade deadline.
Many of us with a passing knowledge of pop music know we can reach Jenny at 867-5309 but a surprising number of us could not call ourselves without Siri’s help.
The Concord-Afton Sunset Rotary Club is sponsoring the Cabarrus County WSOC-TV 9 SchoolTools project for the fifth year.
Swinson family reunion
CONCORD — When Chad Oxendine got his first real Cabarrus County experience more than a quarter-century ago, he was just passing through, really.
Here upcoming community events around Cabarrus County.
CONCORD – It was an interesting week for former Jay M. Robinson baseball standout Seth Johnson.
CONCORD — The N.C. Department of Transportation has closed the bridge on Old Airport Road over Coldwater Creek for maintenance work.
One of Duke Energy’s newest solar plant projects was open to the media for a tour Friday morning in Midland.
Kansas voters made a statement on abortion, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi angered China with her visit to Taiwan and gas prices continued to fall.
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George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic bring to 21 the number of main-stage musical and dance performers announced for the festival from Sept. 9 to 11 in downtown Greensboro. It features groups representing a diverse array of cultural traditions on multiple stages.
A Stanly County man pleaded guilty in Catawba County Superior Court on Thursday to shooting and killing a Granite Falls man in 2017.
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While Wake Forest quarterback Sam Hartman will be out indefinitely after undergoing a medical procedure for a "non-football-related" condition, his presence at practice Wednesday is already rallying teammates.
The Journal’s Bruce Miller talks with Anny Jacobson and Chante Adams, the stars of the new Amazon Prime Video series “A League of Their Own.”
In what Martinsville Speedway officials are calling a “beautification project,” the track will be making adjustments to seating in Turns 1 and 2, removing seats and replacing them with grassy berms.
The Jackie Robinson Museum openes in Manhattan.
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