Tag: peoples champion

Progress, at last!

After two long years and an hour of robust discussion this morning, commissioners on Monday could take the first big step toward making the long-standing business model of Josh’s Farmers Market — one of the community’s oldest and most cherished small businesses — legal again.

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Looking back: Mooresville’s 2023 candidate forum

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.

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“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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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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