Cougars go for goal
Union County
Indian Trail residents of all ages celebrate Halloween at grand opening of Chestnut Square Park
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Volume 9, Number 44 • Oct. 30 to Nov. 5, 2014
Stallings smooths a lopsided constituency
a bipartisan government consultant group, to redraw the lines. At the council’s meeting on Monday, Oct. 27, the council voted unanimously to approve the third proposal from CCOG, which evens each district to as close to 17 percent of the town’s population as possible. Previous proposals from CCOG were voted down as the council cited concerns about dividing neighborhoods and pitting present councilmembers against each other in upcoming elections. Councilmembers Rocky Crenshaw (currently District 2) and Regis Griffin (currently District 1) were placed in the same district on one early proposal. Small changes to that proposal kept those two from running against each other in 2017.
by Ryan Pitkin ryan@unioncountyweekly.com
STALLINGS - The Stallings Town Council agreed on a new district map that evens voting districts within the town after nearly a year of discussion. Following the 2010 United States Census, the six voting districts in Stallings were unequal. The districts ranged in population from 1,283 in District 2 to 2,940 in District 6. Although the problem was brought to the attention of council early in 2013, the upcoming council and mayoral elections were concerned the process would run up to Election Day and confuse voters. Discussions resumed in early 2014, and the town then sought the services of Centralina Council of Government (CCOG),
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Jack and Tate Hawkes, students at Sun Valley Elementary and Sun Valley Middle schools, respectively, recently spent some time in New Bern, North Carolina, on the set of the popular TV show as extras in two different episodes. The siblings’ mom, Courtney Zepeda-Hawkes, saw a call for extras on Facebook and decided to
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(Above, from left to right) Jack and Tate Hawkes on the set of the Fox TV series “Sleepy Hollow” with actor Tom Mison, who plays Ichabod Crane. Photo courtesy of Courtney Zepeda-Hawkes
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