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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.

Mary Stamper, age 86, of Forest City, passed away Sunday, March 14, 2021.

Maryssa Dysart of Mooresboro is a recipient of a personalized quilt from the nonprofit group Quilts of Hope. She is the daughter of Jeremy and Tonya Dysart. The quilt was delivered to the Dysart home Saturday by Jaime Smitte, owner/creator of the Quilts of Hope. Smitte and her mom drove to Rutherford County from Florida to hand deliver the quilt to Maryssa.

Diana Lee Sears, age 69 passed away Saturday, March 13, 2021.

James B. Cartee, age 82, of Forest City passed away Saturday, March 13, 2021.

Ronald Lovelace, age 74, of Ellenboro, passed away Wednesday, March 10, 2021.

Ralph Burnette, Jr., age 80, of Bostic, passed away Thursday, March 11, 2021.

Joan Ernestine Faber, age 88, of Cliffside, passed away on Saturday March 6, 2021.