In a contentious and corrupted process, the Cleveland County Board of Education-the School Board, awarded the old North Shelby School to Mt. Calvary Baptist Church-Pastored by Rev. Dr. Lamont Littlejohn...

Folks, comments to Part I and Part II of this series indicate additional perspectives, facts and figures, that show just how serious and perilous the financial situation in Cleveland County...

The Courthouses in North Carolina have all been shut-down for a while now due to all this COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic mess. But, not shutdown all the way. The Trial Coordinator...

The NC Supreme Court has ruled twice (Leandro vs. State of North Carolina) that “North Carolina has a constitutional obligation to ensure ALL children have EQUAL ACCESS to a sound...

Editor’s Note: This is how the Trouble-in-Paradise Part I article started off. I will repeat the lead in text as it fully applies here also: “With all the Emergency Declarations...

With all the Emergency Declarations declared by the Cleveland County Commissioners and NC Governor, because of the so-called deadly COVID-19 coronavirus, you would think the Commissioners would have cancelled or...

Editor’s Note: Matthew Canipe and Junie Barrett have provided comments directly related to the original articles associated with the unfortunate, unnecessary and uncouth Republican Party and TEA Party’s Dirty Tricks...

Nellie Williams April 3 at 1:42 PM·   Attention! After the President’s news conference was over, one of the reporters made the observation that for the first time in our...

The Shelby Star reported today that Cleveland County is giving $50,000 to the United Way to (supposedly) help people during this COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. That is about 50 cents per...