Caldwell County News

"This is about you guys being as creative as you want," Erica Lein, youth services librarian, told the children gathered around the tables of paper, markers and scissors at the Lenoir branch of the Caldwell County Public Library.

Underneath the murky brown water, prehistoric-looking creatures swam with gaping mouths and aimlessly staring eyes.

Jarae Garcia, 6, and Harold Garcia, 4, ran in the grass at the Sawmills Farmers Market under a sky of thick, rolling clouds.

Elizabeth Norris pointed through walls made only of two-by-fours, telling a group of visitors that this space, now only concrete and bare walls, will be a kitchen, a dining room, a sleeping area - a home for Lenoir's homeless.

A Caldwell County man was driving about 100 miles per hour down U.S. 321 north of Lenoir when he lost control of the car late Monday afternoon and wrecked, the N.C. Highway Patrol reported.

Caldwell County Yokefellow and Lenoir are holding an open house Tuesday evening for people to see what will become the city's first full-time homeless shelter.

Two women and a child were killed Wednesday night in a head-on collision in Caldwell County, according to the N.C. Highway Patrol.

District Attorney Jay Gaither says he has yet to begin planning what he'll do beyond the next five months as he assists the transition for the man who stopped his bid for a fourth term.

A Florida-based furniture company is considering placing a manufacturing plant in Caldwell County, with perhaps 150 jobs over the next three years, county officials said Monday.

Hall, 70, is a retired teacher. She taught for 16 years in five districts. In Caldwell County, she taught primarily exceptionally gifted students.

Eleven-year-old Kaylee Fitzgerald carefully measured out fruit punch, seltzer water and cola syrup with a small eyedropper.

Teachers should have less work supervising high school students' graduation projects, and end-of-course tests will not count as much toward each student's graduation, under changes approved by the Caldwell County school board Monday night.

Three incumbents and one former school board member filed Monday, the start of candidate filing, for this fall's election for four seats on the Caldwell County Board of Education.

The 22,000-square-foot building is planned for a site near the Walmart Supercenter on the east side of U.S. 321 and is described as a "multi-specialty surgical center" that will focus predominantly on orthopedic and spine surgery, said David Horn, the vice president of business development at Caldwell Memorial Hospital.

Jack Starnes, 81, of Petra Mill Road reported in late May that one of his 35 head of beef cattle on his 92-acre spread in the Dudley Shoals area was found shot just above the ankle.

Three men have been accused of trying to have sex with children they had contacted through social media sites online, the Caldwell County Sheriff's Office said in a press release.

Investigators in Caldwell County are investigating the intentional shooting of livestock in the Petra Mill and Granite Falls area.

Meredith Leigh Michaux, who was wanted in Burke County, was arrested Thursday in Lenoir by local, county and federal agents, authorities said.

The first day that a child spends with a new foster parent can be hectic, lots to do and little time for the two to get acqainted, but at Caldwell County Department of Social Services, there's a second-floor room that can take away some of that pressure and even provide the first foundations of a new relationship.

TOPIC Victoria Rieffel uses a mixer to blend ingredients while making goat milk soap during Thursday's DIY day with the 4-H club at the N.C. Cooperative Extension office in Lenoir.