As plans for the Kings Mountain casino off of I-85 on Dixon School Road move forward, the lawsuit brought forth by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians against the Catawba Nation and the U.S. Department of Interior continues to move forward in federal court.
The Cherokees hope to put a stop to the $273 million Two Kings Casino Resort.
In December, Washington, D.C., federal District Judge James Boasberg expedited a suit against the Catawba Nation and U.S. Department of Interior filed by the Cherokees.
Boasberg’s decision advanced a filing deadline for the final documents in the case to be turned into the court by Jan. 19, instead of Jan. 25, according to Catawba Indian Nation Tribal Administrator Elizabeth Harris. This step could lead to a hearing date being set as early as February.
Artists of all ages are invited to try their hand at designing the next Cleveland Memorial Library card.
The library wants art created by community artists to be featured on county library cards for the next two years as part of a new community engagement strategy, according to the new Library Director Wright Adams.
“Part of the library s forthcoming strategic plan in 2021 will be to increase community engagement with our existing and potential customers. As stakeholders in the community, we would like residents to be involved in the process of designing our new library cards. We want residents of Cleveland County to really feel like this is their library, he wrote in an email to
A man allegedly decided to take two children out for a joy ride after drinking Saturday night.
Phillip Wooten faces charges of child abuse, careless and reckless driving and DWI after Shelby Police received a call around 9:50 p.m. of a car doing burnouts around the Cleveland Mall parking lot off of U.S. 74.
When officers arrived, a witness reportedly showed them a video of a black Chevy Tahoe speeding out of the lot. The witness saw the SUV in the Zaxby’s parking lot located just a few hundred feet from where the incident occurred.
Officers found Wooten, 36, of Shelby, behind the wheel with two children in car seats in the back seat, according to reports. The children s ages were not listed.
The Shelby Middle School student worked to learn a chord or two.
Now with the stage name of Pistol Hill he travels the country performing around 250 shows a year in venues the size of Dragonfly Wine Market to stages like the Don Gibson Theater.
He credits his Shelby roots in helping to navigate a career in music.
“It was an easy scene to grow up in,” Hill said.
Many musicians started their music careers imitating their favorite bands, Hill, on the other hand, began writing his kind of music.
“I was trying to learn songs from Matchbox 20. I was into the punk-rock music at the time, and I just could not get the chords,” Hill said remembering his rocky start. “I decided to write my own (songs). I wrote 200 or 300, and they were all absolutely terrible.”
The Cleveland County Health Department announced a new plan on Wednesday for when COVID-19 vaccines could be available for some residents.
Last week, the Health Department announced it could be months before a majority of Cleveland County residents would be able to receive a vaccination for COVID-19. Now, after consulting the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, that framework has changed.
Here are five things to know about COVID-19 vaccine distribution in the county:
Supplies are still limited
Because vaccine supplies are currently limited, distribution will be rolled out in phases.
The Health Department and the county are developing a mass vaccination plan starting later in January, starting with the oldest people in the community.