Sherrills Ford News

Two teens were charged with break-ins and larcenies in Lincoln, Gaston, Iredell and Catawba counties, authorities said today.

Lincoln County Sheriff's detectives have charged two teens with break-ins after they were caught Wednesday morning in connection with vehicles stolen from Iredell County.

Water service will be interrupted in the Sherrills Ford/Terrell area on Thursday, July 17, 2008 beginning at approximately 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. for repairs associated with a water main leak on Sherrills Ford ...

Lincoln County Sheriff's deputies and the Highway Patrol arrested a Sherrills Ford man following a high speed chase around 4:45 a.m. Thursday.

Some of the stories that will be in the Observer's regional publications Sunday.

Some of the stories that will be in the Observer's regional publications Sunday.

A 55-year-old Lincolnton man was killed Thursday when his Jeep Cherokee went off the road and flipped several times down an embankment in Sherrills Ford, according to the Highway Patrol.

Sherrills Ford Fire and Rescue and Catawba County officials have developed plans for Sherrills Ford Fire to serve the entire area of Catawba County previously served by the Denver Fire Department.

The hit and miss rain showers over the last month were not enough to lift any water restrictions for City of Hickory utility customers.

It has always been the policy of the Denver Fire Department to keep all of its residents aware of any information pertaining to their fire coverage.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. : Jack and Fran Riley of Belfast and Andrew and Pamela Littlefield of Swanville are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Linda Littlefield, to Ryan Rogers, son of Flora and ... via Village Soup

“Parking elsewhere is a nightmare”

Around the Lake SCORE TWO FOR

THE LITTLE GUYS Angela Regans' favorite new java joint is near a Starbucks Coffee and a Caribou Coffee off N.C. 150 in Mooresville.

Shaun O'Neill's is barely two miles away, on 150 West at Perth Road.

Baristabob's and Three Goats Coffee & Espresso are the latest locally owned hangouts on the Lake Norman specialty bean scene.

So what if Starbucks and Caribou hail nearby?

Robert and Doris Fisher's Baristabob's and Courtney and Holly Nagel's Three Goats already have their daily devotees since opening in March. Read more

“My concern is how many rear-end collisions are we going to have? How many people are going to be T-boned as they enter the store?”

The Catawba County Alcoholic Beverage Control Board wants to open a store in Terrell, but the proposal has angered some residents.

An ABC store is planned near the intersection of N.C. 150 and Sherrills Ford Road, said Randy Isenhower, chairman of the Catawba County ABC Board. Isenhower said the board offered the landowner, TVD LLC, $497,000 to buy the 1 1/2-acre tract.

The ABC board will meet Tuesday to discuss contract negotiations to buy the property.

But the proposal would still require approvals from the ABC Commission in Raleigh and the Catawba County Planning Board and Board of Commissioners. Read more

“Why are they proposing such a beautiful development (the Village at Sherrills Ford) and then they're going to put a recycling center across the street from it? It doesn't make sense”

Mike Melton lives on Slanting Bridge Road in southeast Catawba County. He and his neighbors attended the community forum on March 17 at Sherrills Ford Elementary School, a program organized by the county government to showcase upcoming plans for the southeast Catawba County area. Among them: a passive use park on Little Mountain Road, a new library at the proposed Village at Sherrills Ford development, extension of the sewer system, and a new, bigger solid waste convenience center.

That last issue, the planned relocation of the convenience center, is of special concern to the citizens who attended the meeting. The current convenience center on Sherrills Ford Road operates on leased land that is inadequate to accommodate growth. A tract of land off Slanting Bridge Road is one of two possible sites for the new convenience center. At the meeting, county planners compared the Slanting Bridge Road site with another possible site on Steam Plant Road. Read more

“It will be great for students to have this mentoring program available to them”

Kindergarten screenings and registration for next fall will soon be held at Catawba County Schools, Hickory City Schools and Newton-Conover City Schools.

Any child who will be 5 on or before Oct. 16 may enroll in kindergarten for the coming school year. Parents should determine the school their child will attend by visiting or calling the elementary school close to their home.

To enroll, parents must bring:

** Child's Social Security card.

** Child's certified birth certificate with seal (photocopies and hospital certificates are not acceptable). Read more

“If I don't start building these buildings now and getting the manpower, we're going to be in serious trouble.”

Lake Norman volunteer fire departments are feeling the pressure of fast growth in the area and are trying to improve their aging facilities and equipment to keep up.

Some fire departments say they're seeking innovative ways to help raise money to pay for those upgrades.

'The volunteer fire departments are finding that they can't keep up with growth when the area's growing faster than the funding,' said Kevin Clark, deputy fire chief for the Lake Norman Volunteer Fire Department in unincorporated south Iredell County. Read more

“Baristabob's Coffee, Tea and ...”

Kudzu considering other options

Kudzu on the Green owner Chip Potts said he is considering other potential buyers after financial issues stalled his sale of the fine-dining establishment to Huntersville's Toast Cafe.'I have other parties interested and will pursue those options,' Potts told the Observer in an e-mail.

He said he might sell to a consortium of Davidson residents and Kudzu employees who approached him about 'continuing and enhancing our dining establishment with less drastic changes.' Read more

“We have had trouble with a 2-year-old boy who has started biting in our preschool class. He is not provoked, and we cannot anticipate when he going to bite. We do not want to kick him out of school, but we can't have him biting other kids.”

Q uestion: 'We have had trouble with a 2-year-old boy who has started biting in our preschool class. via Jacksonsun.com

“We don't need the entire 22 acres for our needs in the future”

The Palliative Care Center & Hospice of Catawba Valley plans to open a new satellite office and six-bed facility in Sherrills Ford by 2011, officials said.

David Clarke, president and chief executive officer for the nonprofit that provides programs to patients with serious and life-limiting illnesses, said it's expanding to eastern Catawba County to keep up with the area's growth.

'We want to get closer to the growing population that we serve,' Clarke said.

The center employs 200 people at its main office in Newton and satellite location in Hickory. It serves more than 1,500 patients in six counties that include Iredell and Lincoln counties. Read more

“That links me truly and sincerely to children. They know that I am not patronizing them.”

Imagine a somewhat stooped but powerful black woman. She is dressed in Civil War-era clothing and says her name is Harriet Tubman.

And then she tells you about her life's work: helping black slaves escape to freedom in the North, along a route known as the Underground Railroad.

Too often, the historical figures we read about in school seem less real than the fictional ones on television. It's hard to imagine that someone like Harriet Tubman was a real person -- someone who was afraid sometimes, who laughed, who got cold and sick, who risked her life to help others. We can't talk to her, ask her what her life was like. Read more