Friday Five: Street construction, HBCUs, new stores and a rant Mark Plemmons Feb 15, 2019 Feb 15, 2019 Updated Apr 18, 2019 0 A single car is parked on campus on a Thursday in mid-February at Barber-Scotia College. Mark Plemmons/mplemmons@independenttribune.com Mark Plemmons/ Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Mark Plemmons There’s plenty to talk about this week with road construction, new stores and always somebody doing something to irritate.kAmkDEC@?8mR`k^DEC@?8mk^AmkAmkDEC@?8m':C8:?:2 $EC66E C64@?DECF4E:@?]k^DEC@?8mk^Am Virginia Street has lots of cracks and dips in the concreate. Mark Plemmons/mplemmons@independenttribune.com kAm':C8:?:2 $EC66E :D @?6 @7 E96 76H C6>2:?:?8 4@?4C6E6 DEC66ED :? r@?4@C5 2?5 E92E H:== 492?86 E9:D DF>>6C] p? :?7@C>2E:@? D6DD:@? :D D4965F=65 7@C 2?J@?6 :?E6C6DE65 :? 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Roberta Road closed next week CONCORD – An NCDOT project to replace a failing pipe under Roberta Road in Cabarrus County will require the closure of a short section of the …
Friday Five: Record pace for construction in Cabarrus Any way you slice it, business is booming in Cabarrus County. This week we’ll take a look at some of the raw numbers from 2018.
Friday Five: Krispy Kreme, Famous Toastery and things that blow in the wind Between the wind, the rain, construction and new business, we’ve got a lot to talk about today.
Friday Five: Old friends and photos, scams, litter and more A little progress has been made this week on several fronts.
Friday Five: The Census is coming! The Census is coming! Preparations for the 2020 U.S. Census are underway and it is in everyone’s best interest that you and all your neighbors are counted.
Friday Five: Building, blooming and sneezing Spring has sprung and there’s lot to be done. It’s not like there hasn’t been a lot going on in spite of the crazy weather including lots of c…
Friday Five: Parks, paths and potential pileups It’s exciting to see some of things that are happening in our community, but on the flipside some of it might not all be good for everyone.
Friday Five: ‘Colored News’ and Mr. Coleman There’s always more news than we can report and sometimes a good story gets pushed to the back burner for a while. Leonard Conell Coleman is o…
Friday Five: For sale or lease, name that team and stop cussing The business and real estate landscape in Cabarrus County seems to change with each passing day, so today’s Friday Five will deal with some of those.
Friday Five: Reviving Barber-Scotia, freezing seats and dripping ceilings While the rest of Concord seems to be booming with business, a 25-acre site in downtown Concord seems to be idle. Or is it?
Friday Five: More road construction coming It looks like widening of N.C. 73 between Concord and Huntersville is on the horizon. Here are few of the details for the proposed road improvements.
Friday Five: Tearing down, building up and leaving town Reaction to Wednesday’s announcement that the old Philip Morris buildings would be torn down was pretty quick and varied from our readers, esp…
Friday Five: Rubble, renewal, racing and remembering Let’s go back and forth a bit from the past to the present and look toward the future in today’s Friday Five.
Friday Five: Rain, falling trees, bad smells and moving dirt Somebody get in touch with Creedence Clearwater Revival and find out if they ever figured out “Who’ll Stop the Rain?”
Friday Five: Memories from holidays past and making a few new ones Happy holidays! If you’re like me, you’re still celebrating. It’s always a fun time of the year but really hectic. Today we’ll take a trip dow…
Friday Five: Christmas a time to remember others and air your grievances The holidays mean different things to different people and circumstances change from year to year. I hope this finds you well. If it doesn’t,…
Friday Five: Crazy building, something in an old building Surprise, surprise – there’s more construction and I have something to complain about.
Friday Five: Roads, dirt, college basketball and poor customer service There’s a whole lot of grading going on.
Friday Five: Traffic woes, economic development and gambling in baseball It might be hard to imagine what traffic is going to look like when all the projects currently underway are completed.
Friday Five: Help on the way for traffic hot spot Relief may be on the way for one traffic headache in Concord; the messy intersection of Cabarrus Avenue/Union Cemetery Road/Concord Parkway (U…
Friday Five: 9-year-old inspires fashion show audience The biggest perk in working for a newspaper is all the wonderful people you meet. I met a bunch of folks this week backstage at the NorthEast …
Friday Five: Cartoons, columns and politicians Besides circulation the most complaints I get is about the editorial page. So today’s Friday Five is about questions and complaints about poli…
Friday Five: CROP Walk, a couple of rants and more Today’s Friday Five will be pretty random, ranging from Sunday’s CROP Walk in Kannapolis to a personal rant against telemarketers.
Friday Five: Registration, early voting and more Campaigns are in full swing and early voting for the Nov. 6 election is less than two weeks away. What better time to get out some information…
Friday Five: Senior citizens, road construction and bugs? There’s more than we can do and mostly that’s a good thing.
Friday Five: The Grounds at Concord (Philip Morris/Alevo site) on the market The dairy farm turned world’s largest cigarette manufacturing plant, turned cutting edge battery technology plant is now The Grounds at Concor…
Friday Five: Bread-deprived, thirsty and watching football Is anyone else in full-blown weather fatigue?
Friday Five: Fair food and fun I love the fair. I’ve been going to the Cabarrus County Fair since 1984. My fair-going days date back to 1978 and my first trip to the N.C. St…
Friday Five: Five follow-ups on traffic, new business and more The past couple of Friday Fives have generated a good bit of feedback and discussion, so this week let’s follow-up a bit.
Friday Five: Traffic nightmares in Cabarrus Today’s Friday Five started out as the worst five intersections in the county but as I started thinking about them and talking with people, I …
