Mocksville News

The N.C. Highway Patrol has fired a local trooper who was arrested on a charge of driving while impaired after he sideswiped an SUV in Clemmons while he was off duty Thursday, patrol officials said in a news release.

Those attending Saturday's Juneteenth celebration at Kelsey Scott Park danced, sang, munched on all kinds of good eats and generally had a good time.

The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education has named new principals at four high schools -- Carver, Mount Tabor, Carter Vocational and Forsyth Middle College.

Work on a mile-long stretch of U.S. 421 in Watauga County will begin next month under a contract awarded by the N.C. Department of Transportation, officials said yesterday.

Published: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 11:52 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 11:52 a.m. A portion of U.S. Highway 64 in Davidson County will be resurfaced with funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Gov.

Kevin Jasper, an out-of-work computer programmer from Mocksville, North Carolina won the 41st National Hollerin' Contest in Spivey's Corner, North Car ...

Kevin Jasper of Mocksville was named the 2009 National Hollerin' Champion on Saturday.

Davie County and the town of Mocksville are offering up to $370,000 in incentives to Ingersoll-Rand, which is planning to bring 20 new jobs to the county in a consolidation of its plants.

SPIVEY'S CORNER - It's old-timey caller ID. Decades ago when a man came a-courtin', he started calling from the end of the road as he approached the woman's house.

Published: Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 7:13 p.m. The National Weather Service in Raleigh has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for northwestern Davidson County until 8:30 p.m. At 7:55 p.m. Doppler radar continued to indicate a severe thunderstorm.

The Garner Citizen: "Put on your seat belts!" June 04th, 2009 Category: Uncategorized Over the last nine summers, I've led community journalism workshops at over 130 Tar Heel newspapers.

Police say that a Mocksville woman managed to get out of her handcuffs and drive off in a patrol car she was being held in Monday night in the southwestern Iredell County town of Troutman.

Davie County commissioners unanimously approved a $48 million budget last night that lowers the tax rate to 62 cents for every $100 of assessed value.

Phone: 768-1111. $$$. ABC. NS. Mountain-lodge cuisine comes to suburbia. Venison, cedar-planked salmon, trout ... and brie and huckleberry jam baked in phyllo dough.

A 21-year-old Mocksville man will spend the rest of his life in prison after a jury convicted him of shooting another man in the back six times over $250. Kevin Louis Robertson II of Milling Road was charged last year with first-degree murder in the shooting death of 28-year-old Tracy Eugene Fortune.

MOCKSVILLE a ' Davie County Senior Services, 278 Meroney St., Mocksville. offers the upcoming events: - Ask the Doctor: 10:45-11:15 a.m., June 1. Speaker: Dr.

Music Stroll: The Third Thursday Music Stroll in downtown Thomasville will begin at 6:30 p.m. with a free concert by local artist Shane Key and 44 Love of Winston-Salem in the clock-tower parking lot.

Prosecutors said yesterday that a Mocksville man on trial for murder shot another man six times in the back over $250. But the man's defense attorney said that Kevin Louis Robertson II never meant to kill Tracy Eugene Fortune, 27, on May 6, 2008.

Steve Beauchamp always planned on going back to school one day to complete his high-school education.

Permit me to disabuse you of the notion that all newspapers are failing. Sure, we all know that many major metro dailies were already in a dismal state prior to the economy tanking last fall, due largely to investor greed and corporate owners taking on too much debt.