Barium Springs News

If I were to say the words "Salvation Army" to you, what would be the first thing you think of? Probably those people who ring hand bells beside the red kettles outside malls and shopping centers during holidays.

The moment the 4-year-old boy stepped through her screened porch, Anj Shutt instantly, almost instinctually, felt connected with him.

The YMCA of Iredell County's Board of Directors was so impressed with the job Marcheta Campbell was doing as interim CEO that it has dropped the word interim from her title.

Storage shelves for the soup kitchen, a new bathroom for a house full of children and a push to finish one of the residential homes at Barium Springs Home for Children were on area organizations' wish lists but ...

After spending four years on the campus of Barium Springs Home for Children, Springs Academy is relocating to meet the increased demand for its alternative curriculum.

Iredell-Statesville Schools Superintendent Terry Holliday touted the district's educational successes and ongoing construction projects Wednesday during a Greater Statesville Chamber of Commerce breakfast ...

William Long thought he was at the Greater Statesville Chamber of Commerce Annual Gala on Friday to cheer on someone else.

Jude and Kristi Pfeufer spent Martin Luther King Jr. Day renovating a Habitat for Humanity home in Statesville.

Tim and Anj Shutt have been fostering a 4-year-old boy for four months. Tim was adopted as a child and grew up watching his parents foster other children.

McKinnon Presbyterian Church in Concord will close its doors Sunday after 108 years of weekly services, possum suppers and baseball games.

Interested in becoming a foster parent? Barium Springs Home for Children will host an Open House on Thursday, Jan.

TROUTMAN Ray Taylor isn't much for snakes and poison ivy. That's why the Mooresville resident and other volunteers will head into Iredell County woods soon to build the first of five trails at Blue Sky Nature ...

After being the face of YMCA of Iredell County for more than two decades, Tip Nicholson is saying goodbye.

College Council members of Mitchell Community College recently asked staff and students to donate children's books for Barium Springs Home for Children and the Boys and Girls' Club of Statesville.

The wish list is an expensive one, but a group of local organizations hope to make a difference to a large number of kids.

Troutman officials are hoping to use the lessons learned from Exit 36 to preserve the town's small-town feel.