If you moved here in the past couple of years you won’t have a clue what I am talking about. But since most of you have been in the Denver area a decade or more, I have to ask some questions. What’s happened to us? Where is the fire that once burned in our [...]
Drive into Lincoln County from almost any direction and you’ll be greeted by signs that proclaim “Welcome to Historic Lincoln County.” Unfortunately, that’s too often all you see: signs. While Lincoln County certainly had deep historic roots, our county doesn’t live up to its potential in developing that historic past into something we can all [...]
Several years ago, I wrote a story about domestic violence after talking with a Denver woman who had experienced a horrible attack. Thanks to her determination, and help from Amy’s House, the women’s domestic abuse shelter in Lincolnton, she was able to get out of a bad situation and move on with her life. Many [...]
Only in Lincoln County. . . Once again something that happened here has made headlines all across the country, and once again we all look like village idiots. Last week over in west Lincoln someone called the Sheriff’s Office after a man was seen dragging a donkey behind his van. You read that right: a [...]
Bless peoples’ hearts. Well, some people! A reader called recently and said he’d been getting news@norman free for years. He said he wanted to pay us for the paper…but not to enter it as a mailed subscription. He just said he felt “guilty” because he has received it in the mail or has picked it [...]
When Dr. David Curtis solicited campaign contributions last year in his quest for a N.C. Senate seat, he sent a letter to fellow optometrists pledging to “defend” their interests in legislative matters and said that he would “represent optometrists with great vigilance.” We questioned the wisdom of that, and his GOP primary opponent, then-Sen. Chris [...]
Every year just before the boating season begins, the NC Big Sweep is scheduled, and throngs of people head out to the islands and shoreline of Lake Norman to clean up and make it a little nicer for the rest of us. Former Denver business owner Jill Feldmeyer has done a fabulous job trying to [...]
We have an interesting discussion going on right now on our Facebook page, and I’d like to invite you to join in. We posed a couple of questions to our “friends” last week and they have given us a wide range of answers, and many of them are very interesting. Here’s what we are asking: [...]
An ill-conceived and totally unnecessary bill sneaking its way through the legislative process in Raleigh should be stopped dead in its tracks. It is bad public policy, a burden on Lake Norman boaters, and could lead to total confusion all across the lake. Rich Permenter, a Denver resident and current chairman of the Lake Norman [...]
Old newspaper ads shed new light on runaway Lincoln County slaves
There was once gold in them thar Lincoln County hills
The Election of 1892: Tough words and even a shooting in Lincoln County
Graham Round Barn added to county’s historic properties
Rock Springs High School – a consolidation of many small, area schools
State report in 1922 resulted in major changes to Lincoln County education
