Mooresville has named Randy Hemann its new town manager. Current assistant manager for the City of High Point, Hemann will begin his work here
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
Admin note: this article was written by the Scoop’s Jaime Gatton and first appeared as a submission in the April edition of Iredell Free
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.
Eddie Karriker and Frank Owens were the two top vote-getters in today’s primary race for at-large commissioner on Mooresville’s town board. This means the two men will advance to the general election on Nov. 7.
Mark your calendars, Mooresville. We’re gonna have a debate!
The Scoop is partnering with YOU, the Mooresville community, to get to know our town board candidates and their platforms a bit better. We will hold a candidate forum on Thursday, Sept. 21, beginning at 6 p.m. in the Joe V. Knox Auditorium in the Charles Mack Citizens Center.
The Scoop hosted an informative candidate forum for Mooresville’s town board on Thursday, Sept. 21. All candidates for public office attended*. We packed as much as we could into just over two hours; we chatted about growth and roads, government transparency, education and, of course, Josh’s Farmer’s Market.
Arden McLaughlin is a Mooresville native with deep roots in southern Iredell soil.
Perhaps her name sounds familiar to you, especially if you’re from around here and have an affinity for the best sausage
