Tag: downtown statesville

It’s a Christmas Miracle!

It’s like an olive branch. But it’s a 23-foot Christmas tree.

This week, Josh Graham and brother-in-law Garrett Deweese, owners of Josh’s Farmers Market, hauled the massive tree from a grower in West Jefferson, all the way down Main Street into Downtown Mooresville and to the corner of Main and McLelland Avenue, where the big blue “150” stands to commemorate the town’s 150th birthday this year.

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Town of Mooresville prepares for Santa

While the world waits in anticipation for Santa and his reindeer to take to the skies, Mooresville’s new mayor spent today touching base with town staff, making sure everything is in place for St. Nick’s fly-through tomorrow night.

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Failing the front lines

As cases of the coronavirus rise in Iredell County, don’t expect to be told the specific area of the county’s new diagnoses.

That would risk identifying a patient … and that is illegal, said Iredell County Health Director Jane Hinson.

Hinson cited Iredell’s size as the reason health officials here – unlike in other counties – don’t offer more detailed information about general locations of diagnoses. “The risk of identification related to the sharing of cities and zip codes is much greater in Iredell County than it is in a county with a population of greater than a million people,” she wrote in an email to the Scoop 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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