Charles Curcio

The community building at Oakboro District Park hosted an overflowing crowd of citizens Monday night as the town's administrator and commissioners addressed the public regarding recent developments with the town's police department and former K-9 dogs.

West Stanly entered Friday's road game against former conference rival Mount Pleasant looking for its first win of the season and first for new head coach Ralph Jackson.

The South Stanly football team traveled to Randolph County Friday night to take on the winless 2A Wheatmore Warriors from the 1A/2A Piedmont Athletic Conference.

At a Sept. 13 emergency meeting of the Stanly County Board of Commissioners, the board unanimously voted to deny potential matches for grant applications to be made by Stanly County Schools.

Fine jewelry from the Starnes family in Albemarle now has a fourth generation looking to continue the long tradition of the business.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A Wyoming-based political polling company has sued in Stanly County against a committee representing Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson. Filed Oct. 28, the lawsuit alleges the Friends of Mark Robinson, a “property registered North Carolina political candidate committee,” contracted with Vox Insights, LLC, based in Sheridan County, Wyoming, to […]

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... An incumbent member of the Stanly County Board of Commissioners won reelection Tuesday to the board with a resounding win over a former Stanly Board of Education member. Scott Efird earned his third term on the board receiving 27,849 votes (84.33%) while Melvin Poole, who served two decades on […]

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In Tuesday’s election, voters in Oakboro elected a new mayor, one whom has served for more than three decades with the town’s fire department. Rodney Eury won election with 810 votes (59.65%) while incumbent mayor Chris Huneycutt received 522 votes (38.44%). A total of 26 write-in votes were also […]

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Three Stanly County football squads have qualified for the 2024 NCHSAA state playoffs, with one team hosting Friday night and the other two playing on the road. 1A Playoffs South Stanly The South Stanly Rebel Bulls, who finished 5-4 in the regular season and won the 1A playoff spot […]