FROM STAFF REPORTS The Statesville City Council on Monday approved a “premium pay program” for full- and part-time employees in recognition of their hard work and service to the community…
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FROM STAFF REPORTS The Mooresville Town Commission on Monday awarded a $7.9 million contract to J.D. Goodrum Co. of Cornelius for the construction of phase II of Liberty Park. Commissioners…
BY DEBBIE PAGE debbiepage.iredellfreenews@gmail.com With a final vote expected at Thursday night’s Troutman Town Council meeting, Matt Prince of TPA Group and Austin Watts of Kimley-Horn participated in a forum…
[caption id="attachment_31141" align="aligncenter" width="724"] Pictured (from left) are NIHS students Mackenzie Puckett, Hayley King, Alleigh Johnson, Abby Martin, Codi Barker, Natalie Tucker, Andrew Ladd, and Dalton Jordan.[/caption] Special to Iredell…
Special to Iredell Free News Iredell County Clerk of Superior Court Jim Mixson announced Monday that he running for another four-year term in 2022. He filed for re-election at the…
Margie McCune Overcash, 92, of Mooresville, N.C., passed away on Saturday, December 4, 2021. She was born on April 1, 1929, in Lincolnton, N.C., to the late Frank and Daisy…
Dr. Robert Pressley Brawley, 68, of Mooresville, N.C., passed away peacefully surrounded by his family on Saturday, December 4, 2021. He was born on August 13, 1953, to Bobby and…
Larry Dean Upright, 61, of Mooresville, N.C., passed away on Thursday, December 2, 2021. He was born on November 25, 1960, in Mooresville to the late Frank and Martha Greenhill…
James “Jim” Woodrow Dotson, 62, of Mooresville, N.C., passed away on Thursday, December 2, 2021. He was born in Lima, Ohio, to the late Claudeane Ceclia Wollet and Woodrow “Woody”…
Michael Dwayne Ward Sr., 59, of Statesville N.C., passed away December 4,2021, at his home after an extended illness. He was born in Iredell County on May 31,1962, to the…
Mr. Dennis Russell Clary, 75, of Statesville, N.C., passed away Saturday, December 4, 2021, at Iredell Memorial Hospital. Mr. Clary was born on April 30, 1946, in Princeton, Maine, to…
BY DEBBIE PAGE debbiepage.iredellfreenews@gmail.com About 150 festively dressed runners, walkers, and canine companions wound through the streets of Troutman on Sunday afternoon in the final event of the weekend of…
Mr. Dennis Kale Turner, 59, of 914 Absher Road, Statesville, N.C., was born in Iredell County on March 15, 1962, and was the son of the late Clarence Burton Chambers…
Margaret Hearn Helms, 80, of Mooresville, N.C., passed away surrounded by her loving family on Saturday, December 4, 2021. She was born on May 3, 1941 in Mecklenburg County, N.C.,…
DCC (SW) James E. Gandy, 74, of Statesville, N.C., passed away on December 3, 2021. James is the son of the late Charles Gandy and Catherine Baca. He is survived…
BY KARISSA MILLER Iredell-Statesville Schools Board of Education members will discuss a draft resolution Monday designed to “ensure dignity and nondiscrimination in schools.” The Committee of the Whole meeting, which…
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Special to Iredell Free News Iredell Imaging at Mooresville has been awarded a three-year term of accreditation in computed tomography (CT), ultrasound, and mammography from the American College of Radiology…
FROM STAFF REPORTS The Iredell County Sheriff’s Office reported the following felony arrests: NOVEMBER 24 ♦ Michael Shane Christy, 36, of Mallard Head Lane, Mooresville, charged with breaking or entering,…
Special to Iredell Free News The Mooresville Police Department is scheduled for a virtual onsite assessment as part of a program to maintain national accreditation by verifying that the department…
FROM STAFF REPORTS The filing period for candidates for more than 20 elected positions in Iredell County begins at 12 noon on Monday, December 6, and runs through 12 noon…
Kathryn “Pat” Killian Hunter passed away on December 1, 2021. She was born January 25, 1932. Pat and her younger sister, Gail, were born to Kathryn “Kat” Killian and James…
Mary Helen Yost Smith, 90, of Mooresville, N.C., passed away on Friday, December 3, 2021, at the S. Mitchell Mack Hospice House in Mooresville. She was born on March 8,…
Ronnie Little Fox, 82, of Statesville, N.C., passed away December 2, 2021, at Iredell Memorial Hospital after a short illness. Ronnie was born in Iredell County on April 28,1939, to…
Deborah Anne Rusczak, 65, of Statesville, N.C., passed away on Friday, December 3, 2021, at Iredell Memorial Hospital. Born on January 20, 1956, in Elmira, N.Y., she was the daughter…
Paul Buenos Warren, 92, went to his heavenly home on December 2, 2021. He was born February 3, 1929, the son of the late Ed D. Warren and Eva Warren…
Donald Fields Ervin, 78, of Statesville, N.C., died Wednesday, December 1, 2021. He was born in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 1943, to the late Osborn Ervin and Cora Lee…
Gerry Lou Duncan Scott, 86, of Statesville, N.C., passed away Thursday, December 2, 2021, at Autumn Care of Statesville. Mrs. Scott was born May 21, 1935, in Statesville and was…
[caption id="attachment_31004" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] BLET student and scholarship recipient Whiteny Craven and Iredell County Sheriff Daren Campbell pose for a photo on Mitchell Communtiy College’s historic Statesville campus.[/caption] Special to…
Special to Iredell Free News RALEIGH — NCDOT Division 12 Engineer Mark Stafford and NCDOT staff members will host a meeting on Thursday, December 16, in Mooresville to discuss the…
BY DEBBIE PAGE debbiepage.iredellfreenews@gmail.com Troutman’s annual Christmas parade returned Saturday after a year’s hiatus due to COVID-19 restrictions, and hundreds of people, decked out in their holiday apparel, cheered the…
Raymond Lee Cornett Jr. of Statesville, N.C., passed peacefully in his home on December 1, 2021. He is the son of the late Raymond Sr. and Marcia Norma James Cornett….
Mary Catherine Safriet Hayes, 94, of Statesville, N.C., was welcomed into her heavenly home by her savior Jesus Christ on Tuesday, December 1, 2021. She was born on July 18,…
Jeremy Shane Britt, 42, of Mooresville, N.C., passed away on Wednesday, December 1, 2021. He was born on December 19, 1978, in Fort Payne, Ala., to Barry and Veretta McElhaney…
Special to Iredell Free News Iredell County’s unemployment rate dipped slightly in October from 3.6 to 3.5 percent. According to the N.C. Commerce Department, Iredell has a workforce of 90,637…
Prohibited burning includes fire pits, campfires, burn barrels and other ember-producing fires Special to Iredell Free News Mooresville Fire Marshal Geoff Woolard has joined other local municipalities by issuing a…