Cherryville News

The Cherryville Chamber of Commerce, The City of Cherryville, local businesses and churches have come together to organize a free event for the public called "Cherryville's 12 Days of Christmas". The event kicks off December 10th on Main Street with a number of events. Each day, there are events scheduled at various locations through out Cherryville. Please contact the City of Cherryville (704-435-1700) or the Cherryville Chamber of Commerce (704-435-3451) for details.

For the third straight season a Cherryville Post 100 American Legion baseball player has been honored as the best in North Carolina Area IV.

This year, Davidson College sophomore Seth Freeman was so honored after he helped Post 100 win its third consecutive Area IV title in the summer.

A 37-year-old Cherryville man faces a charge of assault with a deadly weapon after police say he struck another man in the arm and leg with an ax.

Cherryville attorney Eugene D. Grigg is retiring and closing the law practice he started in 1973, transferring his cases and records to Cherryville's City Attorney, Palmer E. Huffstetler Jr.

The Miss Gastonia Scholarship Association will sponsor the Miss Merry Christmas Pageant on Thursday, December 10, 2009 at the Cherryville Community Building, 108 S. Jacob St., Cherryville.

If you hear the sound of banjos, mandolins and fiddles on Saturday evening, it might be Steve Leatherwood and a few of his bluegrass buddies.

A Cherryville man allegedly admitted to police that he killed his neighbor's dog on Sunday because the animal was barking.

An 18-year-old woman says a man waited in the backseat of her car, and forced her to drive him to Cherryville in Gaston County by threatening to shoot her.

Three North Carolina residents face forgery charges after deputies say they used dozens of counterfeit $20 bills at Carowinds on Saturday.

The Arts Council of Lincoln County is please to announce the winners of the 2009 Paul C Rhyne County-Wide Art Competition.

A Cherryville teenager was charged Friday with raping a 12-year-old girl. Tolentino Martinez, 17, of 204 Marcus Drive, raped the girl July 4 in an Engle Street home, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.

When Angi Shehan's family moved into their Elm Street home three years ago, neighbors tried to prepare them for the coming Halloween madness.

Authorities are on the lookout for a thief who took more than $30,000 in landscaping equipment from a Lincolnton business.

People buy homes for many reasons. Do your homework if you are buying an investment property.

Four people were arrested by Cherryville police Monday for allegedly breaking into a couple's home, cracking open a safe and stealing the contents.

When her eyes darted from the asphalt to her cell phone screen, Brittany Lutz lost control.

Police in Cherryville got more than they bargained for when they responded to a shoplifting call at Wal-Mart. Ellen June Gantt, Jimmie Lee Allen and James Norman Merriam, were arrested this week after items used to manufacture methamphetamine were located in the suspect vehicle on Monday.

On the evening of Oct. 19, 2009, Cherryville Police officers investigated a possible shoplifting call in Cherryville.

Police busted a meth manufacturing ring Monday after finding components of the drug in a shoplifting suspect's car.

A volunteer firefighter en route to a blaze wrecked his truck Wednesday afternoon after a driver pulled out in front of him, officials said.