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Tracy Dean Greene, age 54, of Mooresboro, NC, passed away Wednesday, March 24, 2021.

Andrew Pletts, age 74, of Forest City, passed away on Friday, March 26, 2021.

Pat Bivens, age 79, of Rutherfordton, passed away Thursday, March 25, 2021.

Donald Ray White, 89, of Union Mills passed away on Saturday, March 27, 2021.

Cheryl Litterio, age 71, of Rutherfordton, passed away Friday, March 26, 2021.

Perry Mashburn, age 74, of Columbus, NC, passed away Friday, March 26, 2021.

Nell Horton, age 86, of Forest City, passed away Friday, March 26, 2021.

Nell Bagwell Gragg, age 65, of Forest City, passed away Wednesday, March 24, 2021.

Thomas Neil Ward, age 57, passed away Wednesday, March 24, 2021.

Dorothy Ann Thrift, age 86, of Rutherfordton, passed away Sunday, March 21, 2021.

Jesse Boyd McEntire, 86, of Rutherfordton, passed away Monday, March 22, 2021.

James Garland Dalton, age 69, of Rutherfordton, passed away on home March 19, 2021.

Faster opening of Catawba Two Kings Casino Resort will accelerate job creation for region

KINGS MOUNTAIN, N.C. - The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs has approved the Catawba Nation's Tribal-State Compact with the State of North Carolina, allowing the state to share in revenues generated by the new Two Kings Casino Resort

DAR has again tapped future heroes and heroines for Rutherford County's youngest generation.

The Griffith Rutherford Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution announced the School and Chapter winners of the Junior American Citizens Contest for 2020-2021.

Ray Edward Matheson, Jr, age 56, passed away December 26, 2020.

Julia Marie Hagan, age 33, of Forest City, passed away, Friday, March 19, 2021.

Johnnie Buff, age 80, of Bostic, passed away Thursday, March 18, 2021.

Carolyn Greene Morrow, age 67 of Rutherfordton, passed away on March 20, 2021.

Betty Dobbins Holtzclaw, age 86 of Ellenboro passed away Thursday, March 18, 2021.

Irene "Maw-maw" Flynn Boone, age 79, of Rutherfordton, passed away Thursday, March 18, 2021.

Janice Pruett Brown, age 75, of Rutherfordton, passed away on Thursday, March 18, 2021.

Norman Allan Parris, age 72, of Rutherfordton, passed away Tuesday, March 16, 2021.

Virginia Beason Towery, age 71, passed away on Sunday, March 14, 2021.

Jane Ellen Denno, age 69 of Rutherfordton, passed away on March 15, 2021.