Gaston News

Buy a lottery ticket at any North Carolina convenience store and you could win big.

There are reasons why people have a desire to live in rural northeastern North Carolina.

The North Carolina State Health Director has issued a fish consumption advisory for walleye and largemouth bass in Lake Gaston, which is located between north-central North Carolina and south-central Virginia.

Women were complaining to police three years ago that a Bessemer City pastor was touching them inappropriately, according to Gaston County Police.

A nora easter brought heavy rain and strong wind to the Roanoke-Chowan region - knocking over trees, power lines and causing flooding.

Inmates at the Gaston County Jail will not receive swine flu vaccinations before members of the general public, officials say.

Work crews with heavy equipment were busy Tuesday repairing the historic Piedmont & Northern Railroad off of Ozark Avenue in Gastonia, but while the restoration of the rail line is moving ahead, the project's bottom line still has obstacles to overcome.

Election Day is fast approaching. Until Election Day, we will profile candidates seeking seats on the Kings Mountain City Council.

Gaston County's jobless rate was down for the third month in a row in September to 13.3 percent compared to a revised 13.9 percent in August, the N.C. Employment Security Commission reported Friday.

Real estate transactions represent transfer of real property recorded with the Gaston County Register of Deeds.

Once upon a time, the Cotton King and Queen paraded through the streets of Gastonia with 60,000 adoring onlookers lined up on both sides of the street, cheering decorated floats from Gaston County's many textile mills, military units and high school bands from across the region.

Police say an East Gaston High School student sold angel's trumpet seeds to several classmates, and at least one was rushed to the hospital while experiencing hallucinations from the psychedelic plant.

On September 16, 2009, the Carolina Thread Trail Grants Committee awarded $352,684 in grant funding to communities to design and build trails that will be a part of The Thread's regional network of trails, greenways, blueways and conservation corridors.

Tony's Ice Cream is the best thing about Gaston County. There, I said it. Or rather that's what I was told by hordes of e-mailers in response to the "Seven Wonders of Gaston County" column I wrote awhile back.

The finer points of how Jackie Farnham chooses to spend much of her free time might not make the best material for a promotional brochure.

In recent years, policies seeking to narrow the entrenched achievement gap between black and white students have proliferated.

Henderson Collegiate, the proposed charter school for Vance County, will hold a community forum on Tuesday, Sept.

Will, Ian and Neal Kirkpatrick get up each morning and get ready for school. Instead of hopping on a school bus bound for public school, they head to the dining room table for their home school lessons.

Joe DePriest is a columnist for the Neighbors of Catawba & Gaston. 868-7745 http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/09/13/23/hospital0812_G5QPD5B1.1+depriest0813_6.JPG.embedded.prod_affiliate.138.jpg 244 Nellie Beaty, 82, was a patient at the hospital during the 1930s.

Law enforcement efforts to keep travelers safe this Labor Day weekend began early near the North Carolina and Virginia state border.