Articles by David Larson

ALBEMARLE — The Stanly County Animal Protection Services (SCAPS) announced in December that they are “over capacity” at their shelter and need help from the community.   “We are only 1.5 staff members, 4 officers, a […]

OAKBORO — Stanly County Board of Education candidate Meghan Almond joined county commission candidates Levi Greene, Patty Crump and Thomas Townsend for a night of fellowship and discussion at Oakboro’s Los Jacubes restaurant this past Thursday.  It […]

ALBEMARLE — On Dec. 10, the Albemarle Police Department charged Asia Monique Grady, 33, with misdemeanor death by vehicle.   Days earlier, on Dec. 6, Grady was involved in a collision with Mitchell L. Morton, 51, […]

ALBEMARLE — Pliney R. Purser, 63, a prisoner at the Scotland Correctional Institution, has died in an apparent suicide, according to a North Carolina Department of Public Safety statement. Purser was serving a life sentence after a 2008 […]

ALBEMARLE — In a unanimous decision, the Albemarle City Council recently approved the largest single-phased residential development in the city’s history.   The councilmembers voted at their Dec. 6 meeting to move forward with a 58-acre, […]

ALBEMARLE — Stanly County Schools made masks optional effective Oct. 25, and in data released for late November, a month without masks has not seemed to return the district to its higher positive COVID numbers […]

ALBEMARLE — With a 6-1 vote, the Stanly County Board of Commissioners passed a resolution Monday night that formally opposes a national COVID vaccine mandate on employers. The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), […]