Press Release: Rowan County plan to address lead and copper found in some drinking water Rowan County has been working with the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) and Virginia Tech University to identify a long-term solution to reduce corrosivity of the water to interior household plumbing and address lead levels. (Source: David Whisenant-WBTV) By David Whisenant | April 7, 2021 at 6:54 AM EDT - Updated April 7 at 6:54 AM
ROWAN COUNTY, N.C. (WBTV) -
Rowan County Manager Aaron Church provided the following press release with more details on the county’s plan to deal with the issue of lead and copper found in some samples of drinking water in the Dukeville community off Long Ferry Road:
American poet Nikki Giovanni
Who Is Nikki Giovanni?
Nikki Giovanni established Cincinnati’s first Black Arts Festival in 1967. She published her first book of poems, Black Feeling, Black Talk in 1968.
Early Life
Poet and writer Nikki Giovanni was born Yolande Cornelia Giovanni, Jr., was born on June 7, 1943, in Knoxville, Tennessee. Giovanni is a prominent poet and writer who first caught the publics attention as part of the Black Arts movement of the late 1960s. Growing up in the Cincinnati area, she often visited Knoxville to see family, especially her maternal grandmother. After graduating with honors from Fisk University in 1967, she returned to Cincinnati and established the city’s first Black Arts Festival. Giovanni also began writing the poems that are included in her first self-published volume, Black Feeling, Black Talk (1968).
Friend says Townsend knew Sotomayor prior to murder
Posted By: News Editor
April 1, 2021
Cady Stribling
@murraystate.edu
Sarah Townsend’s best friend sat down with The News for an interview in which he revealed that she knew her alleged killer, Julius Sotomayor prior to her disappearance on March 25.
Townsend’s body was found in a ditch near the Cherry Corner area in Calloway County on Friday morning, March 26. Preliminary autopsy results showed she died of multiple gunshot wounds.
Julius Sotomayor, 22, of Dexter, Kentucky, was arrested on Saturday, March 27, and charged with murder, tampering with evidence and theft by unlawful taking (auto). Sotomayor is currently being held in the Calloway County Jail on a $1 million bond.
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GOP rep to CDC chief: You said three feet was enough distance for schools last year. Why are you saying six feet now?
AllahpunditPosted at 4:20 pm on March 17, 2021
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We’re in another one of those pandemic moments with respect to this subject in which things happen before they happen. That is, we all know what the public-health bureaucracy’s going to do
eventually, it’s just a matter of waiting around until they do it. The guidance advising against travel for vaccinated people