Caldwell County News

The unemployment rate for June was 7.3 percent, down from 7.5 percent, and the number of people counted as unemployed dropped by 145, to 2,670, the N.C. Division of Employment Security reported.

TOPIC Clay Wilson feeds the farm's pet pig Porky an Oreo cookie at Johnny Wilson Farm along Dry Ponds Road.

TOPIC Riley Craig works on his paper airplane during Tuesday afternoon's Float and Fly program at the Lenoir Library.

A new educational program is brewing at Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute and will be on tap this fall.

In 1972, a group of community leaders in Lenoir started a small festival to showcase local talent - The Black Arts Festival, presenting paintings, drawings, sculptures, dancing and more.

Firefighters had to take two people to the hospital Tuesday morning -- including a toddler -- after responding to a house fire in Caldwell County.

Jerry Duane Anderson, 27, of Hudson, was arrested late last week on methamphetamine-related charges, according to the Caldwell County Sheriff's Office.

Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corp. is warning about a scam that seeks to get customers' debit card or credit card information.

The first SunTrust Summer Bash will bring a bit of the coast to the foothills, complete with sand, beach music and shag dancing.

Four Lenoir residents are accused of trying to get away from police Wednesday night by speeding away in an SUV, then running off when it wrecked.

Silver Alert issued for Caldwell County man The Caldwell County Sheriff's Office has issued a Silver Alert for a 58-year-old Lenoir man.

"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.