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BY MIKE FUHRMAN Zion Syncere Wilder’s friends and family members laughed and cried, rejoiced, and cried some more on Saturday afternoon as they celebrated his life and tried to make

Special to Iredell Free News New Hope Baptist Church will host a free Women’s Conference on Friday, April 28, at 5:30 p.m. Phyllis Foy, a women’s motivational Speaker and senior

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FROM STAFF REPORTS A crowd of students and family members packed Cool Spring Elementary School on Thursday night to participate in the school’s family STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)

Special to Iredell Free News Statesville City offices will be closed on Friday, April 7, in recognition of the Easter holidays. Garbage Collection There will be no garbage collection on

BY BRANDY TEMPLETON

Special to Iredell Free News RALEIGH — With warmer weather on the way, the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services urges North Carolinians to “Fight the Bite” by taking

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Special to Iredell Free New After a three-year pause due to the pandemic, several Statesville churches are once again coming together to observe Good Friday. This years’ service will take

Special to Iredell Free News Hoptown Brewing Company recently closed out a successful second year of Sipping it Forward for charity by awarding $18,115 to four regional nonprofit organizations. Brewery

Special to Iredell Free News After an extensive national search, the National Balloon Rally Charities Board of Directors announced Friday that it has hired Don Edwards as its news executive

BY SARAH KIRKMAN March is Women’s History Month, and I almost let it get by me without recognizing it. The observance of Women’s History Month began in California in 1978

Special to Iredell Free News The Statesville Recreation & Parks Department, in partnership with the City of Statesville, will host its annual Arbor Day Celebration on Saturday, April 15, at

Special to Iredell Free News RALEIGH — North Carolina’s seasonally adjusted February 2023 unemployment rate was 3.6 percent, decreasing 0.2 of a percentage point from January’s revised rate. The national rate

FROM STAFF REPORTS The N.C. State Highway Patrol is asking for the public to help with a hit-and-run investigation. Troopers responded to a hit-and-run crash on U.S. Highway 21 at

BY KARISSA MILLER Making sure students are nourished and ready to start their day, Troutman Elementary School celebrated National School Breakfast Week earlier this month. The theme this year was

Special to Iredell Free News Rescue Ranch recently welcomed Joan Rizzo as development manager and Todd Fowler as the humane education manager. Rizzo has spent more than four decades as

Special to Iredell Free News The City of Statesville has released its 2022 Water Quality Report, and the results show the City’s drinking water meets or exceeds every health standard

FROM STAFF REPORTS A third suspect has been arrested in connection with a March 15 shooting in which a Statesville man was killed and a teen critically injured. The Statesville

Special to Iredell Free News A man wanted for attempted murder in Carteret County was apprehended in Catawba County on Monday following a pursuit by Iredell County Sheriff’s Office deputies

FROM STAFF REPORTS A man suspected of shooting a woman multiple times while she was in her vehicle outside a Statesville home earlier this month has been apprehended. The Statesville

BY KARISSA MILLER Iredell-Statesville Schools Board of Education member Abby Trent believes it’s important to recognize local teachers and staff who are going the extra mile to support students. She

Special to Iredell Free News For the first time in three years, the Statesville Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will again host its annual

Special to Iredell Free News RALEIGH — The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, in partnership with the N.C. Department of Public Instruction, has released the N.C. School Behavioral Health