Day: August 18, 2023

“Band-aid” not enough for South Statesville

Public officials in Statesville are “putting band-aids on surgical wounds” after a nine-year-old girl was gunned-down and killed while playing on a neighborhood sidewalk earlier this week.

“The city can revitalize downtown, but in South Statesville, they do everything half-ass; they don’t want to deal with the underlying garbage,” said Danette Glover, a lifelong resident of the neighborhood where three children were struck by bullets in two separate – but likely related – drive-by shootings on Monday.

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Town planner resigns

Mooresville’s planning director, Danny Wilson, has resigned. Wilson has been the town’s planner for three years and is perhaps best known for creating Mooresville’s current Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) then using it

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Town fires whistleblower

A broad investigation into the Mooresville Police Department working environment has led to the resignation of the police chief and demotions of two in

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What a cluster____!

A social-media post about an informational meeting on thyroid cancer and coal ash has left a lot of people scratching their heads this week

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About Author

Hi! I’m Jaime

I was a newspaper reporter in Mooresville, NC for a decade and covered local government issues from 2003 to 2006.

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