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City Council gives raise to City Manager ELIZABETH STEWART lib.kmherald@gmail.com
City Manager Marilyn Sellers, the city's first woman city manager and veteran city employee for 27 years, received high marks from city council after a performance evaluation recently. Her 3% raise came after a closed session last Tuesday at the council's regular meeting. Sellers was hired by the city's first city manager George Wood in the new city manager-council form of government which began in 1988. She served as city clerk, was interim/ acting manager and became city manager nine years ago. Mayor Rick Murphrey said that council used several criteria in the performance evaluation, looking at the excellent audit reports, Sell-
MARILYN SELLERS ers' preparation of the annual budget as chief financial officer, the generation of additional revenues and savings, infrastructure upgrades and expansions to position the city for growth and the overall financial position of the city under her management. He said Sellers works hand See CITY COUNCIL, Page 7
Award-winning author to review book April 11 Award-winning Southern writer Sharyn McCrumb will return to the Kings Mountain Historical Museum on Saturday, April 11, at 2 p.m. to regale audiences of all ages with a program based on her 2013 novel “King's Mountain,'' which has just received the Patricia Winn Award for Southern Fiction. “King's Mountain” tells the story of the Overmountain Men, a group of unpaid volunteers from the southern Appalachians who fought the pivotal Revolutionary War battle at Kings Mountain. Adria L Focht, Museum Director and Curator, invites the community to hear about the women whose courageous actions helped to turn the tide of the revolution, such as Mary Patton,
SHARYN McCRUMB who earned her place in history by providing over 500 pounds of gunpowder to the Overmountain Men, essential to the victory at the Battle of Kings Mountain. This program is made possible by a grant from the Kings Mountain Tourism Development Authority. Admission is free.
Grover town board to swear in Barrett GROVER -Town Council will meet Monday night at 6
p.m. and Mayor J. D. Ledford will swear in Barbara Barrett as active city clerk. Applications area being taken through April 30 for the permanent position of city clerk. Among items on the agenda are updates on audit issues and waste water treatment plant grant applications.
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Shooting range breaks ground DAVE BLANTON dave.kmherald@gmail.com
Cleveland County officials were joined by representatives from the N.C. Wildlife Commission, the National Rifle Association and members of local law enforcement to break ground on a public shooting range near the town of Waco on Monday that’s the result of a unique partnership. Estimating that there are 80 million gun owners in the United States, an NRA official said that many in that group lack access to an affordable range. “It’s still tough to find a place to shoot because there’s a lack of access,” said Brian Hyder, a national liaison for gun rights group. They have no place to go … and commercial operations can be too expensive. We’re doing something about that access
Representatives from the N.C. Wildlife Commission, Cleveland County Board of Commissioners and law enforcement personnel pitch in to break ground at the county’s public shooting range Monday. Scheduled to open by autumn, the facility will feature rifle, pistol and archery ranges as well as skeet and trap areas. today.” He was joined in congratulating the citizens of Cleveland County by state wildlife leaders, who said the county had stood out among others
for its drive to build a full-service range that will include a a 3-D archery range, a 250yard rifle range and three pistol target shooting bays. The range will also feature skeet
and trap facilities. “Very few counties have been able to put their money where their mouth is,” said See SHOOTING RANGE, Page 14
Man hauling cross 8,500 miles cuts through Kings Mountain area DAVE BLANTON dave.kmherald@gmail.com
You may have noticed him making his way through town Thursday and Friday. A middle-aged man wheeling an 8-ft. tall, wooden cross. The mild and soft-spoken fellow (he offered only a first name, “Paul”) isn’t local to Kings Mountain and the fact that area residents saw him on the eve of Easter weekend was merely a coincidence. Paul is making an 8,500mile trek across the United States with the 175-lb. cross in tow. He started his
unusual journey in Tulsa, Okla., in the fall of 2013. He’s been walking almost daily every since. “It’s a reverence to the son,” the 49-year-old said Friday during a few minutes of rest on King St. “It’s a praise. It’s a worship, a prayer, a fast, a sermon on wheels. They can’t unsee the cross.” The traveler has spent the last year and a half winding through much of the southeastern section of America. During a frigid and snowy spell during the most recent winter he took a few weeks See MAN, Page 14
Paul calls his long journey “a prayer, a fast, a sermon on wheels.” He began in Oklahoma in 2013 and expects to end his trip in St. Louis in the fall of 2016.
Seeing Double ELIZABETH STEWART lib.kmherald@gmail.com
Walk into East Elementary School and you will see double – not one time but eight times. No mistake! There are eight sets of twins enrolled this year at East School. How do their teachers and friends tell them apart? Distinguishing marks can be their shoes, their eyes, and if they don't dress alike it's easy. Are they ever cool! Fourth graders Jeremiah
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EIGHT SETS OF TWINS- Pictured on the East School campus are the eight sets of twins who are enrolled at the elementary school. From left, Marie and Haylie Morrow, Chloe and Sarah Hudson, Kayla and Alyssa Goode, Brooke and Brittany Blanton, Jacob and Jaylend Wright, Jeremiah and Jordan Ellis, Carter and Curtis Simpson and Chloe and Sofia Martin. Photo by JULIE FORTNER
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