Mineral Springs NewsLocal news for Mineral Springs, NC continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.Company Drops Monroe Request: N.C. 75 truck route sought- January 31, 2008 "Parkdale gives us a lot of money; that's no secret. They're a good corporate citizen ... We don't want to go with a knee-jerk reaction with, Oh, a bigger truck is bad.'" A shipping company that wanted to run larger tractor-trailers through downtown Monroe has turned its attention to Mineral Springs and Waxhaw.Trailer Bridge Inc. has withdrawn from the N.C. Department of Transportation its access request involving downtown Monroe. It has submitted another request focusing on N.C. 75 through...http://www.topix.net/city/mineral-springs-nc/2008/01/company-drops-monroe-request-n-c-75-t... What's going on in and around Richmond County- January 29, 2008 MAHS: J.W. Mask Jr. Alumni Chapter meeting at 6 p.m. at NAACP Building in Hamlet. via Richmond County Daily Journalhttp://www.topix.net/city/mineral-springs-nc/2008/01/whats-going-on-in-and-around-richmond... What's going on in and around Richmond County- January 27, 2008 RICHMOND COMMUNITY THEATRE: "Sea Marks" by Gardner McKay will be presented at 8 p.m. Tickets are $9. Box office open. via Richmond County Daily Journalhttp://www.topix.net/city/mineral-springs-nc/2008/01/whats-going-on-in-and-around-richmond... What's going on in and around Richmond County- January 25, 2008 BLOOD DRIVE: 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Richmond Community College, Hamlet. Thursday CAREGIVERS SUPPORT: Group will be held at 6 p.m. in Community Room at Longleaf Community Bank. via Richmond County Daily Journalhttp://www.topix.net/city/mineral-springs-nc/2008/01/whats-going-on-in-and-around-richmond... NSA Moves Toward Restructure- January 23, 2008 "It pointed to the fact that we needed someone in the office to run the organization on a full-time basis." Following a Jan. 17 meeting of the National Steeplechase Association's board of directors in Baltimore, Md., president Franny Abbott announced a 2008 preliminary plan to restructure the organization that ... via Blood Horsehttp://www.topix.net/city/mineral-springs-nc/2008/01/nsa-moves-toward-restructure?fromrss=... Comment Sought: City balks at trucking request- January 13, 2008 City officials are opposing a trucking company's request to run longer tractor trailers through downtown Monroe and out two-lane N.C. 75 to Mineral Springs.The company, Trailer Bridge, has asked the N.C. Department of Transportation's permission to haul twin trailers up to 28 feet each and 48-to-53-foot single trailers to a textile plant in Mineral Springs. In general, most trailers cannot exceed 48 feet.The public can write the N.C. DOT with comments until Feb. 1.The city transportation...http://www.topix.net/city/mineral-springs-nc/2008/01/comment-sought-city-balks-at-trucking... for Fallen Officers: Towns asked to help with memorial- January 4, 2008 "I wish the group sponsoring it ... would have come up with something more proportionate" There's been talk in Union County for more than a decade about erecting a memorial to law enforcement officers killed on the job. But no one acted on it until last May, when members of Fraternal Order of Police, Monroe-Union Lodge 19 began planning to raise money to build one.So far, they've raised $5,000 -- $2,500 each from Union County and the City of Monroe. But organizers think they'll need $35,000 to.http://www.topix.net/city/mineral-springs-nc/2008/01/for-fallen-officers-towns-asked-to-he... |