Special to Iredell Free News An early morning fire at the WestRock facility in Mooresville was controlled by the fire sprinkler system, limiting damage to a single piece of production
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Special to Iredell Free News Family Nurse Practitioner Rachel Hester has joined the family medicine practice of Dr. Samuel Inkumsah. She is now accepting new patients at Davis Medical Group
Special to Iredell Free News By the end of the summer, the City of Statesville will have its first ever housing inventory completed. This record of nearly 10,000 houses will
Special to Iredell Free News The Iredell County Health Department is working closely with Iredell-Statesville School administration to monitor the situation at North Iredell High School after a cluster of
Special to Iredell Free News Mitchell Community College’s Huskins Library was recently awarded a $50,000 Library and Services Technology Act (LSTA) grant titled “Make It at Mitchell” from the
Special to Iredell Free News RALEIGH — Gov. Roy Cooper has signed Executive Order No. 145, forming the North Carolina Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice. The task
Special to Iredell Free News RALEIGH — The State Board of Education approved the N.C. Department of Public Instruction’s Lighting Our Way Forward: North Carolina’s Guidebook for Reopening Public Schools
Voluntary workouts for NIHS athletics teams will be held off campus, starting June 15 Special to Iredell Free News Iredell-Statesville Schools confirmed on Wednesday, June 10, that four North Iredell
Special to Iredell Free News RALEIGH – The State Board of Elections has learned that a voter advocacy group mailed about 80,000 absentee ballot request forms to North Carolina residents
Special to Iredell Free News RALEIGH — As many across the nation and in North Carolina express horror at the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis
FROM STAFF REPORTS Two suspects face drug charges after an off-duty Iredell County Sheriff’s Office narcotics investigator observed a man passed out in a vehicle in a grocery store parking
BY KARISSA MILLER Iredell-Statesville Board of Education members told district administrators to “hire who you normally hire” this week and stressed there was no hiring freeze in place. North Carolina
BY MELINDA SKUTNICK The Mooresville Graded School District Board of Education and MGSD staff are focused on summertime programs for students as well planning for the upcoming 2020-21 school year
BY BRYAN DUNCAN I-CARE Inc. unequivocally denounces all forms of racism and white supremacy. Period. The events we have witnessed in the past few months – the murders of Ahmaud
FROM STAFF REPORTS Iredell-Statesville Schools officials have issued guidelines for high school athletics teams to begin voluntary workouts. The NCHSAA has given the green light for the resumption of workouts
FROM STAFF REPORTS There are now 369 laboratory confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Iredell County. Iredell health officials reported 21 new cases on Tuesday after confirming 21 cases on Monday.
FROM STAFF REPORTS The COVID-19 pandemic has changed many aspects of daily life, but it has not impacted Iredell County Sheriff Darren Campbell’s resolve to hold drug dealers criminally responsible
Special to Iredell Free News The Iredell-Statesville Board of Education approved the appointment of three assistant principals during Monday’s board meeting. Shaun Bock has been named as the assistant principal
Special to Iredell Free News The Birth Place at Iredell Memorial Hospital reported the following births: MAY 29 ♦ A girl, Natalia Rose Sanchez, born to Guadalupe Sanchez and Azure
BY KARISSA MILLER Soon-to-be retired Iredell-Statesville Schools Superintendent Brady Johnson was honored with the North Carolina Order of the Long Leaf Pine award during his last board meeting on Monday.
To the Editor: All of us, in one way or many, are living through a variety of extreme challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic. We need to acknowledge the serious
Special to Iredell Free News Are you curious to learn more about what Iredell-Statesville Schools has to offer in the area of virtual learning for homeschoolers? The district will host
BY BRADY JOHNSON Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and the countless Americans who have been the victims of racial
FROM STAFF REPORTS Iredell-Statesville Schools Board of Education Chairman Martin Page opened Monday’s Board of Education meeting by asking for a moment of silence, during which he encouraged those in
Special to Iredell Free News Iredell County Sheriff Darren Campbell recently selected three new deputies through the Deputy Sheriff Candidate Program. “The original thought process in this program was to
Special to Iredell Free News For the past two weeks the Iredell County Health Department has offered COVID-19 testing to the general community. In various locations across the County, the
Special to Iredell Free News Mitchell Community College congratulates the following students who made the full-time and part-time Dean’s List for the Spring 2020 semester. To be eligible for the full-time students’
Andy Weatherman has worked for the Statesville Fire Department for 26 years Special to Iredell Free News Statesville City Manager Ron Smith announced Monday that Deputy Fire Chief Andy Weatherman
Special to Iredell Free News Camp Med 2020 Virtual Summer Program is a great way to expose students to the world of possibilities in health careers. Now more than ever
Special to Iredell Free News The Iredell-Statesville Schools Board of Education will meet at 6 p.m. on Monday, June 8, at the Career Academy & Technical School in Troutman. The
Special to Iredell Free News Dr. Carl A. Foulks and Dr. Brandon Marion are pleased to announce that April Lockman, FNP-C, has joined their practice and will be seeing patients
FROM STAFF REPORTS The Mooresville Police Department reported the following arrests: MAY 26 ♦ Raymond James Tino, 21, of Parkside Lane, Mooresville, charged with assault inflicting bodily injury and assault
BY BRANDY TEMPLETON More than 500 people marched through Downtown Mooresville on Saturday to call attention to call attention to police brutality and racial inequities.
FROM STAFF REPORTS The Iredell County Sheriff’s Office reported the following felony arrests: MAY 29 ♦ Betty Heidi Jones, 39, of James Farm Road, Statesville, charged with larceny, larceny of
Special to Iredell Free News RALEIGH — The N.C. State Board of Education has approved the allocation of $70 million from federal CARES Act funds for school districts and charter
Special to Iredell Free News RALEIGH — The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) is reporting the state’s highest one day number of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases with 1,370