Bostic News

Retired Brookside Principal Jerry Bostic said he was forced to step down from his post in December after he was told that he would either be fired or demoted.

A judge sent a Rutherford County defendant to prison for his role in robbing an elderly McDowell man two years ago.

Painter Pat Passlof had what's known as an artistic temperament. Those who knew her called her honest and funny, but her "refreshingly non-PC humor" could be barbed.

Abbey Horne, a Brookside Elementary fifth-grader, sits with her handmade sign in support of former principal Jerry Bostic during the Gaston County School Board meeting held in the Myers Auditorium on the Gaston College campus Tuesday evening.