Grover News

Please send your parade details to shelbystar@shelbystar.com. Grover Saturday, Nov.

Cars and trucks parked in the small lot, on the grass and nearly a quarter-mile in each direction along the roadside, all for a look at a square mile of nature that is the new Gateway Trailhead.

Martha Loughridge said her lunch was a little tastier on Wednesday. ' maybe next week we'll have some wine,' she said.

"We've turned a new leaf," Sides told The Star after the tally appeared on the Board of Elections Web site.

That's the main reason the town council voted to put a beer and wine referendum on the ballot again.

"We've never had no one file for an entire slate of officers for a municipality." It's just one of the oddities in local fall elections Tuesday, according to Cleveland County Director of Elections Debra Blanton.

Election Day is fast approaching. Until Election Day, we will profile candidates seeking seats on the Kings Mountain City Council.

The county got some good economic news this past week with the groundbreaking for a Southern Power plant, a massive, two-phase project with an investment that could reach $1.2 billion.

Reunions are published each Thursday in The Enquirer-Journal. To list your reunion, call 704-261-2252, fax 704-289-2929 or e-mail news@theej.com. Clinton and Eliza Jenkins family MARSHVILLE a ' The Clinton R. and Eliza Anderson Jenkins family reunion will be Saturday at 4 p.m. at Centerview Baptist Church, 2711 Old Pageland-Marshville Road.

"Ban" seems like such a harsh word. Sam Lockridge prefers to say "recycle." State landfill bans on plastic containers, pallets and personal oil filters start Thursday and Cleveland County is more than ready, according to Lockridge, the county's solid waste manager.

Jason Todd Mace of Gaffney, S.C. and Kristen Michelle Smith of Blacksburg, S.C. Kelsey David Parnell of Shelby and Kelly Denise Walker of Shelby Jonathan Wayne Wortman of Lawndale and Kelli Nichole Mellon of Casar James Johnson of Grover and Lula Mae Ramseur of Grover Billy Joe Beason of Lawndale and Andrea Monika Glossenger of Lawndale Byron Keith ...

Clearing your home of old medicines isn't going to "save the world," but at least one area minister says it's possible that a quick look in your drug cabinet or other storage place could save a life.

Mrs. Betty Grace Rich Raynor, wife of 1st Sgt. Luby "Ray" Raynor, U.S.A. of Columbia, SC, was called to be with the Lord at her SC residence at 5:35 p.m. on 3 September, 2009, at the age of 72 following a long, courageous battle with lupus, heart disease and diabetes.

Dwindling finances have forced officials at Grover Beach Elementary School to cut Librarian Piper Adelmana s hours from six per day to four.

A global chemical company plans to lay off about 100 workers from its Cleveland County plant, it said in documents filed with the N.C. commerce department.

A global chemical company plans to lay off about 100 workers from its Cleveland County plant, it said in documents filed with the N.C. commerce department.

Jimmy Matthew Parker of Gaffney, S.C. and Pamela Jill Montgomery of Blacksburg, S.C. Scott Allan Ital of Blacksburg, S.C. and Tiffany Ann Bachman of Blacksburg Thomas Chad McSwain of Shelby and Ashley Dawn Barrett of Shelby Robert Thomas Greer of Shelby and Emily Carol Tillman of Shelby Nicholas Wayne Parsons of Shelby and Brooklyn Lashay Webb of ...

No campaign signs. No TV commercials. No flyers clogging up mailboxes. For voters, not all the indicators are there.

State Law Enforcement Deputy Director Neil Dolan says ballistics of the gun and bullets found on the man Monday in Gastonia match those used to kill residents in and around Gaffney, some 30 miles away.

More than a $1 million has been awarded to Cleveland County municipalities through the Rural Economic Development Center, Inc.