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Democrats running for school board
Primary run-off Sept. 12 The five Democrats running for a seat on the county board of education will face a Primary run-off Sept. 12. Early voting will start on Aug. 24 and end at 1 p.m. on Sept. 9 at the Cleveland County Elections office in Shelby. The Monday filing of Coleman Hunt of Kings
Mountain, the fifth Democrat to throw his hat in the ring, meant the race will include a Primary. Tommy Greene filed on Friday. Both candidates filed in the extended filing period which ended Tuesday at 12 noon. Other Democratic candidates are incumbent Phillip Glover, Guy N.
Newton, and Barbara Romich. Voters will mark ballots for four of the five candidates at the polls. The four elected would then run in the November election with the four Republican candidates. If there was last minute filing of candidates Tuesday See RUN-OFF, Page 8A
ECLIPSE STAMPS - The Kings Mountain US Post Office has Total Eclipse of the Sun Forever stamps, 16 in a book and a case to hold them available on first come, first served basis for $8.08, including a quarter for the case. Postal employees Pamela Wilson, left, and Teresa Fulton demonstrate the first-of-its-kind stamp by transforming the solar eclipse image into the moon from the heat of a finger on the black disc. They explain that thermochromic ink is used on the stamps to give you your own personal solar eclipse every time you touch the stamps which commemorate the upcoming Aug. 21 eclipse. Photo by LIB STEWART
Solar Eclipse August 21st By LORETTA HUSKY COZART
On August 21st at 2:40:29 pm, Kings Mountain will experience a partial solar eclipse that will obscure 98.6% of the sun. This will be the first coastto-coast eclipse in the U.S. in 99 years. If you’d like to see the total eclipse, you’ll need to travel 37 miles southwest. If you do, you won’t be alone; lots of folks are traveling to get a better look. Be sure to use protective eyewear, so you don’t damage your eyes. The eclipse begins in Oregon at 1:15 p.m. Eastern Standard Time and ends over South Carolina at 2:45 p.m., about 90 minutes later. That means the full shadow of the moon will travel at three times the speed of sound or about 2,000 mph across the country. In the path of the eclipse, daytime will appear to turn into dusk and then back to daytime. The area where a total eclipse can be seen is about 70 miles wide as the
moon’s shadow crosses the country. In these areas, the total eclipse will last about 2 minutes. Because the path travels across the United States in North America, this is expected to be the most viewed eclipse of all time. The media is warning that traffic could be a nightmare, with sightseers driving to view the total eclipse within the 70-mile wide path to get the best view. The next opportunity central North Carolina will see a total solar eclipse in 61 years, in 2078. Nearby towns that will experience the total eclipse include: Andrews, Brevard, Bryson City, Cherokee, Franklin and Sylva and S.C. cities of Greenville, Columbia and Charleston. The Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute near Brevard, also at Ground Zero, will host 800 dignitaries and guests, including 300 amateur astronomers, some from as far away as Italy. In Great Smoky Moun-
tains National Park, 1,325 tickets for a grand viewing with speakers and telescopes on 6,643-foot-high Clingmans Dome sold out in five minutes. Bryson City, Great Smoky Mountains Railroad will offer an “Eclipse Train” that will arrive in Dillsboro in time to see the total eclipse. Columbia is pitching itself as the “Total Eclipse Capital of the East Coast” because the city will experience 2 minutes, 36 seconds of blackout beginning at 2:42 p.m., longer than any metro area on the eastern seaboard. In Charleston, cruise boats and yachts are offering eclipse-viewing trips in Charleston Harbor for the final display of totality on the continent before the 2017 eclipse heads out to sea.” Where will you be for the Great American Eclipse of 2017? Plan now for a story you can tell your great grandchildren.
Legislators may sponsor Dura new Local Bill in House Fibers closing its Grover plant
Kathy Falls, incumbent school board member, who is circulating petitions so that her name will be on the November ballot, said that Speaker of the House Tim Moore has said that the Cleveland County delegation to the General Assembly, Senator Warren Daniel, Rep. Kelly Hastings and Rep. Moore have agreed to sponsor a local bill lowering the number of required signatures from 4% of registered voters to simply 500. Replying to Falls, Moore said ‘’the net effect of that would be once you as an unaffiliated candidate submit the signatures of 500 registered voters prior to the
date it’s due in September then you will appear on the ballot in the Fall as an unaffiliated candidate.’’ Falls said she is thankful for their support, encouragement and willingness to help her get the petitions signed. She said she is also thankful to all the local businesses in Kings Mountain and Grover for allowing her to display petitions for the public to drop in and sign as well. Falls said that the attorney for the office of Speaker of the House is forwarding to her the new language in Senate Bill 253, which goes into effect for school board elections for eight counties in the state in 2018 but for Cleveland county it goes into effect at the school See BILL, Page 8A
GROVER - Dura Fibers’ Grover manufacturing plant at 2525 Blacksburg Road is closing and 89 employees will lose their jobs. The Huntersville-based textile manufacturer also will close its Salisbury plant which will result in 373 jobs lost. Company officials had recently announced it would close operations if a buyer was not found by Sept. 10. This is part of the company’s efforts to cut costs
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KEY TO THE CITY – Mayor Scott Neisler presented the key to the city to Mary Jackson Warren, 104, Tuesday morning at the H. Lawrence Patrick Senior Life & Conference Center. From left to right, Thelma Reid, the mayor, Mary Jackson Warren, Deborah A. Warren and Warren’s pastor, Rev. Betty B. Brown of Galilee United Methodist Church.
Key to City to KM Woman
Warren, 104, praises GOD every day “I give God the praise every day of my life,’’ said Mary Jackson Warren, 104, who was honored by Kings Mountain city council and a large number of family and friends at last Tuesday’s meeting of Kings Mountain city council at city hall. Warren was congratulated with a kiss and a plaque from Mayor Scott Neisler and a standing ovation and much applause from the crowd.
The mayor escorted Mrs. Warren to a chair in front of the crowd to receive her plaque and said that Mary “continues to be a monarch of the Warren family encouraging identity, unity and a sense of pride to be passed on to generations to come.” This week on Tuesday morning the mayor presented Mrs. Warren an official key to the city as her family and senior citizens at the H. Lawrence Patrick
Senior Life & Conference Center looked on. Warren attributes her long life to believing in God, wholesome living, healthy eating and working hard. A native of Cleveland County, she was married to Clarence Warren for over 50 years. They are parents of 12 children, and the close-knit family includes 43 grandchildren, 65 great-grandchildren and 70 great-great grandchildren.
Spreading the Love in KM Spreading the Love is what the Hale family calls the project and Chesney Hale is learning at age 3 how to spread it. This week the toddler was placing painted rocks with messages imprinted on them at various places in downtown Kings Mountain. Although the toddler has to have help along the way, her mother, Chelse Hale and great-grandmother Linda Moss, are helping her. It’s
a Cleveland Strong project that started out in the elementary schools and has spread throughout the community, in Grover, Shelby and Boiling Springs. “It’s a good project to show that we care and also for us to get some exercise,’’ says her mother. Chesney is granddaughter of Chastity and Brian Pilkenton and great-granddaughter of Linda and Mickey Moss.
Chesney Hale places a painted rock at a flower bush on S. Battleground Avenue. The preschooler, assisted by her mother and grandmother, are spreading love in the community.
Daughter like Mother Robin Masters Meyer was sworn-in as the new NCSDAR District II Director by State Regent Elizabeth Graham on Saturday, July 29th. Betty Lewis Patterson Masters (L), served as District II Director form 2002 – 2005, was given the honor of passing the gavel to her daughter
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