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Catawba County Schools and Newton-Conover City Schools are being asked to reconsider the decision to make masks optional for students, teachers and staff.
Staff and students at Bemidji State University and Northwest Technical College are hoping COVID’s Delta variant won’t derail their plans for normalcy this fall.
How I loved those Sunday mornings when my choir director would take the mic to sing that old standard “Let Us All Go Back to the Old Landmark.” I was a young…
The closed coal ash pond (foreground) on the banks of Belews Lake across Pine Hall Road from the Belews Creek Steam Station. Nearly 12 million tons of submerged coal ash is stored at the plant. WALT UNKS, JOURNAL The N.C. Division of Waste Management said the permit was approved for the Stokes County facility at 3195 Pine Hall Road following an application review and public comment period. The cost to complete the closure by excavation, including the new landfill, is estimated to be $453 million, the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality said in a statement. The cost to perform...
By Neill Caldwell neill.caldwell@thestokesnews.com Pastor Sam Bowman from The King’s Promise Ministries (center, in the red shirt) has his Dan River baptism interrupted by a man in a motorboat over the weekend. The boater was cited by a Hanging Rock park ranger when he entered the state park’s section of the river. DANBURY — At Monday night’s County Commissioners’ meeting, representatives from the new solar energy farm near Walnut Cove tried to explain fencing to the owner of a major fencing company, and it did not go well for the visitors. At issue was a request by Pinegate Renewa...