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State Sen. Clark retiring at end of term Raleigh Ben Clark, a five-term state senator, announced on Tuesday he would not seek a sixth term in the General Assembly.

In a statement, Clark said representing the citizens of Hoke and Cumberland counties was “the blessing and honor of my life.”

He said in his announcement that he will complete his fifth term in Raleigh and will seek other ways to serve the state, including ensuring fair representation in the state’s new congressional and legislative maps.

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Trudeau’s party wins Canada vote but fails to attain majority Toronto Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party secured victory in parliamentary elections but failed to get the majority he wanted in a vote that focused on the coronavirus pandemic but that many Canadians saw as unnecessary.

Trudeau struggled to justify why he called the election early given the virus, and the opposition was relentless in accusing him of holding the vote two years before the deadline for his own personal ambition.

“Trudeau lost his gamble to get a majority so I would say this is a bittersweet victory for him,” said Daniel Béland, a political science professor at McGill University in Montreal.

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State Sen. Jim Perry (R-Lenoir) holds his hand against budget documents at a conference committee meeting at the General Assembly. The House and Senate are expected to continue working into October on the state’s biennial budget.

Washington, D.C. A prominent lawyer with ties to Hillary Clinton pleaded not guilty to making a false statement to the FBI in a charge stemming from a probe of the U.S. government’s investigation into Russian election interference.

Michael Sussman appeared Friday in D.C. federal court. He is the second person to be prosecuted by special counsel John Durham.

The indictment accuses Sussmann of lying to the FBI when he was questioned about a September 2016 conversation he had with the FBI’s general counsel.

Sussmann’s firm, Perkins Coie, has deep Democratic connections. A thenpartner at the firm, Marc Elias, brokered a deal with the Fusion GPS research firm which produced the infamous “Steele dossier” that helped form the basis of flawed surveillance applications targeting former Trump campaign officials.

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Holder’s redistricting group disappointed in activist testimony at NC hearings Democratic-tied group holding trainings to improve comment quality

Drywall-repair company helps veterans learn a trade, run their own franchise PatchMasters CEO Tim Forrest talks about empowering veterans to learn drywall repair, “lift them to the next level” in life and business

By A.P. Dillon North State Journal RALEIGH — Need your drywall repaired? There’s a veteran run business that can help.

PatchMasters is a veteran run and owned business specializing in drywall repair that offers franchise opportunities to military veterans. There are currently two locations, one serving Iredell County and another in southern Wake County.

PatchMasters offers “high-quality drywall service for all those small holes, dings, and dents. Our technicians will leave it like it never happened.”

The Iredell County location opened in March and the Wake County location opened up in July of this year. PatchMasters has fanchises across the United States and some in Canada.

“All we do is drywall repair,” said Tim Forrest, the CEO and current owner and operator of the southern Wake County location. “We want to do the repair.

We don’t want to get into competing for new homes and new buildings and all that. It’s not where I want to be.”

A resident of Holly Springs in Wake County, Forrest served in the Army for 30 years and 10 months. He enlisted in 1987 and retired in 2018 is a colonel 06.

“I lived in 42 countries for various and sundry reasons. I did two years in Afghanistan, two years in Iraq. I was there for the OIR fight, which you probably know is ISIS,” said Forrest.

“I was over that way in northern Iraq.”

Forrest said he’s seen “a lot of the world, and as an engineer I’ve built a lot of the world.” He also accumulated a number of medals and awards and recognitions, but he said he most wants to give back. That giving

back includes running for Holly Springs Town Council in the upcoming 2021 municipal election. He’s also helping veterans get their own business, leading a Boy Scout troop as committee chair and building beds for Sleep in Heavenly Peace.

Forrest, who also started PatchMasters in the Iredell location, said the organization has a parent Corporation, Bronze Star Holdings, which owns the two LLC’s. Bronze Star Holdings is named after the military meritorious valor award from a combat zone.

Bronze Star Holdings was incorporated in May of 2020 by military veteran John Gallina.

He is also the CEO of Purple Heart Homes, which has chapters in all 50 states, with offerings that include helping veterans obtain access ramps for a new house.

“Bronze Star Holdings’ purpose is we want to recruit, train, and enable veterans to have their own franchise if they can,” said Forrest. “We want to enable them to get their own business, whether that’s through our investment, their investment or combination thereof.”

Currently, there are three veterans working with PatchMasters, one of whom is a disabled veteran.

“He’s a single-handed individual due to an IED in Iraq,” said Forrest. “But he’s actually able to do drywall because now there’s special equipment they didn’t have 10 years ago or 20 years ago, for one person to be able to do drywall by themselves. They have a lot of special gear now.”

Forrest said they plan on recruiting more in 2022 once they get beyond process and training procedures, training concepts, operational development, and marketing.

The idea for PatchMasters came from Gallina, who wanted to help veterans, disabled or not, who want to work and provide for their families. Forrest See VETERANS, page A2

By David Larson North State Journal DURHAM — Activists at public hearings on redistricting are calling for “fair maps” and speaking against gerrymandering, but operatives connected to Eric Holder’s National Democratic Redistricting Committee are worried they are doing more harm than good to Democrats’ cause.

The maps, expected from the North Carolina General Assem-

bly in October, will increase the state’s congressional representation from 13 seats to 14, due to 2020 census numbers showing the state’s growth relative to other states. Holder’s group is fighting to see that the new seat is not added to the Republican’s 8-5 advantage in the delegation.

Throughout September, North Carolinians are being given a chance to communicate their priorities for the new congressional maps during public hearings in each of the 13 current congressional districts. Members of the General Assembly’s Joint Select Committee on Congressional ReSee HOLDER, page A2

ABC chair resigns amid supply issues Cooper appointee cites anxiety, distribution challenges

By Gary D. Robertson The Associated Press RALEIGH — The chairman of the North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission has resigned from the board, citing anxiety over the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the agency’s recent challenges with liquor distribution.

A.D. “Zander” Guy submitted his resignation on Friday to Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, who appointed him to the chairmanship in early 2017.

Guy, who also previously served as chairman when Democrat Beverly Perdue was governor, said in a phone interview Monday that recent events led he and his wife to reassess his service.

The former mayor of Surf City said he’ll be 73 next month and that two friends and an uncle with COVID-19 had died in the last 90 days. Guy also said liquor supply troubles, including the rollout of a new computerized inventory and ordering software program by the ABC system’s warehouse operations contractor, had led to added stress.

“When you can’t sleep at night and you’re worrying about things that you can’t control, it’s time to readjust,” Guy told The Associated Press, adding later: “I’m done.”

Cooper’s office on Monday thanked Guy for his service on the commission. Guy’s three-sentence resignation letter, provided by the governor’s office, didn’t go

into specifics.

There are two other commissioners who also serve at the pleasure of the governor. The See ABC, page A2

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“Liberty’s story”

THE WORD: TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE

The fourth chapter of Ecclesiastes begins with a comparison of the oppressed and their oppressors. Because both sides of the equation lack a comforter, the teacher concludes that due to the pain of oppression and the sadness born by oppressors, man is better off dead.

Solomon continues to explore the common theme of the futility of life on earth in this chapter. Regardless of how much power, riches or knowledge one acquires, you can’t take it with you. But the author points out that accomplishments are not in vain when you have friends or companions.

The struggle of life is better faced with a partner. Solomon references the analogy of the “threefold cord” — which was proverbial back to the Epic of Gilgamesh — to show that strength is in numbers. He could also be referencing God as the third cord in the strong rope created by friends and partners.

While Solomon takes a fatalistic view of life with his conclusion that excessive self-interest leads to a meaningless life.

But he provides hope that we can find some meaning through companionship and ultimate fulfillment through God.

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Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.

11 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?

12 And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

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“Nighthawks” by Edward Hopper (1942) is a painting in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.

without using this data, the process would be too blind and fair districting are in attendance at maps couldn’t be drawn. Some these events to listen and note the favored maintaining “communities of interest” and avoiding comments.

The first hearing was held on splitting them; others said packSept. 8 at Caldwell Community ing these communities together College in Lenoir, and the final would cause non-competitive disone will be held on Sept. 30 at tricts. Some favored maintaining Fayetteville Technical Communi- wholeness in counties and cities; ty College. NSJ was in attendance others opposed this as a priority.

General Assembly Republicans at the Sept. 15 Durham Technical Community College hearing. The announced in August that they bulk of the dozens of comments are not going to consider partisan were from left-leaning activists data at all in their maps, “for the venting anger at the legislators, first time in North Carolina hiscalling for fair maps and de- tory,” and instead will “use sevnouncing gerrymandering. The eral other traditional, non-partispeakers frequently noted court san redistricting criteria such as battles over the state’s congres- seeking to keep municipalities sional maps made after the last whole, avoiding splitting precensus, which had to be redrawn cincts, and keeping districts comdue to alleged partisan and racial pact, in an effort to limit partisan considerations.” gerrymandering.

Observers from all sides have But the comments being made at the events, according to Lekha noted that these non-partisan Shupeck, state director for All On criteria favor Republicans at the The Line, the grassroots organiz- moment, because Democratic voters are concentrated ing arm of the NDRC, in cities. Republicans, were too vague and unwho are more spread out helpful. across the state, have a “Y’all one thing I have “Stop trying strong advantage in the to say — I am concerned vast majority of counthat people are not mak- to sandbag ties, so Democrats gening effective comments the process. erally run up their numat public hearings — bers in urban races and that they’re making Let people then lose everywhere comments that can be say what else. easily ignored by the rethey wish.”

To create a map that districting committee,” would favor Democrats, said Shupeck in a Sept.

Sen. Ralph Hise it would have to break 14 Twitter thread. up the cities and create She went on to say (R-Mitchell) what some have called that Republicans were “pizza-slice” districts to making very specific dilute the advantage of comments about not wanting their counties split into GOP-leaning rural counties by two districts or not wanting their adding some urban Democrats to rural area paired with a city, each of the surrounding districts. comments which she believes will But with provisions that keep citbe useful “now and in future liti- ies and counties whole, this would gation.” She said left-leaning ac- not happen, and any map created tivists, however, need to be “mak- would almost certainly favor Reing a very different kind of public publicans.

When they are accused of parcomment than the vast majority of people are making at these tisan gerrymandering to get the hearings,” and instructed follow- current 8-5 maps, Republicans ers that “If you want to know how are quick to point to comments to make an effective comment, about the 2019 process from Democrats at the legislature, come to one of our trainings.”

Republicans at the legislature such as from current U.S. Senate quickly fired back at Shupeck and candidate state Sen. Jeff JackHolder, with Sen. Ralph Hise of son (D-Mecklenburg), who said, Spruce Pine, co-chair of the joint “I feel as someone who has been committee, saying, “Stop trying a frequent critic of redistricting, to sandbag the process. Let peo- I’m duty-bound to acknowledge ple say what they wish. He ac- these are the fairest maps and cused the NDRC of “‘Begging’ the this was the fairest process to ocPublic to Parrot Their Canned cur in N.C. in my lifetime,” and Talking Points.” Hise’s press re- from state Sen. Natasha Marcus lease also suggested that people (D-Mecklenburg), who said, “I should not be fooled into think- believe these Senate maps are as ing NDRC and All On The Line good as humans can draw.”

With Republican’s advantage are non-bias actors looking for simple fairness, since the stated on nonpartisan criteria in mind, are increasingly mission in their IRS paperwork is Democrats to “favorably position Democrats shifting to a call for evenness in the predicted future delegation, for the redistricting process.”

Those speaking in Durham, without as much focus on what while nearly united in their anger process creates those results. at gerrymandering and Repub- In a state that is around 50-50 licans, were not united in their in voting behavior, Democrats messaging, as Shupeck noted. argue the maps should create Some favored eliminating the something closer to a 7-7 delegause of partisan and racial data tion, not 9-5, which would be the to avoid the “targeting” courts result if Republicans gained the alleged in past maps; others said new seat.

ABC from page A1 chairman is considered a fulltime, salaried position. The commission oversees the state’s wholesale and retail liquor distribution. The liquor comes from licensed distillers to the state’s two alcohol warehouses before it gets shipped to local ABC stores for sale.

WBTV in Charlotte, which first reported Guy’s resignation, said the commission in July began a renewed contract with LB&B Associates — the agency’s longtime warehouse operator — that includes new requirements, such as the electronic inventory system. Some county ABC boards told the television station they aren’t receiving weekly shipments, or that the shipments are greatly reduced — leading to empty shelves and restaurants unable to remain stocked.

The commission “has acknowledged that LB&B Associates’ implementation of the new contract has not met expectations or the level of service that the ABC customers deserve,” commission spokesperson Jeff Strickland said.

Global supply issues also have led to shortages, Strickland said, and North Carolina bars and restaurants returning to more normal operations following COVID-19 closures have seen a massive demand increase in mixed-beverage sales. Total alcohol sales at local ABC board locations statewide were 14% higher in July compared to July 2020, according to the commission.

Guy told the AP he had confidence in LB&B in working through the problems. “At the end of the day it’s going to work and be good for everyone,” he

said. “Customer service is my No. 1 concern.” LB&B President and CEO David Van Scoyoc said it was working with local and state ABC officials to address supply problems, WBTV reported.

Rep. Tim Moffitt, a Henderson County Republican and chairman of the House Alcoholic Beverage Control Committee, wished Guy well on Monday, calling him forthright. Moffitt said alcohol supply issues would be addressed soon in public by the committee.

“ABC is under a lot of stress right now,” Moffitt said.

Nearly $1.37 billion in spiritous liquor and fortified wine were sold at the more than 430 local ABC stores statewide for the year ending June 30, 2020, according to the state commission’s annual report. State and local governments shared over $529 million in revenues.

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In this Tuesday, May 1, 2018, file photo, North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission Chairman Zander Guy speaks at the new Nash County ABC Store No. 1.

VETERANS from page A1 said that, “those opportunities are limited… real limited.”

Gallina told Forrest that once he is able to “get us off the ground, get this working, then I want us to go after getting veterans and helping them get to the next level of life to where they own their own franchise.”

“They can take their family on that vacation to Disney World.

They can live a good life because most veterans leave the military, whether at 25 or 45, with leadership skills, hard-working ethics, you know, male…female…it doesn’t matter,” said Forrest.

Forrest says that PatchMasters is a way to connect veterans and their skills to real-world

jobs.

“You’ve got all this raw material, and then they go out… they may have worked on a college degree at night to get a job in a corporation, or a company, and their manning a desk, they’re answering phones to get by because they don’t have any civilian experience. Or their military experience may not align very well within a job in the civilian market, especially like infantryman, right?” said Forrest.

He added that they want to “provide a veteran with a way to provide for their family in and use their skills they’ve earned and learned.”

When asked why drywall repair was the route they decided to go down, Forrest said that

kind of work is a fast-growing industry in the United States.

“In North Carolina alone, it’s over a billion dollar a year industry because drywall goes in a lot of buildings and homes,” Forrest said, citing the increases in new homes and business buildings.

“Pick a thing, there’s usually drywall there.”

PatchMasters in Iredell County can be accessed via: https:// statesville.patchmaster.com/ Southern Wake County’s PatchMasters can be accessed via: https://southwake.patchmaster.com/ Veterans interested in working for PatchMasters or becoming a franchise owner can visit: https://patchmasteropportunity. com/

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The Associated Press RALEIGH — Union County’s school board voted Monday to modify the district’s quarantine protocols to comply with state law and let the county health departstory” ment “Liberty's lead contact-tracing efforts.

The move comes after the North Carolina Department of Health and Human threatened to VisitServices us online sue the district for overhauling connsjonline.com tact-tracing procedures and allowing most of its 7,000 quarantined students back into the classroom as North State Journal long as they are not symptomatic or (USPS 20451) infected with COVID-19.

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legal action if the board did not vene. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper signed a bill into law last month update its policies.

PHILEMON 15-16 “NCDHHS, UCPS and the (local that shifts more power to local health department) are continuing school boards and allows them to to work together on an operation- revisit their masking policies eval plan that will clarify steps and ery month. Cooper’s administraroles in the process,” Cohen’s office tion no longer requires a statewide said in a statement. “These actions mask mandate or remote learning 1,700 kids were quarantined last are critical to protect student, staff option.

In the meantime, parents conweek after the changes, a 77% and community health.”

Emily Goss decided to home- tinue to make difficult choices. weekly drop.

Sushanth Kancharla, a father The district said in a statement school her 5-year-old son, BerkeThe Book Philemon, or the of two of elementary school students that quarantines will be shortened ley, after the kindergartener was Epistle in of the Pauldistrict, to Philemon, kept hisranks kids third in the to 10 days for asymptomatic stu- quarantined early in the school classroom, but fears for theirofsafety dents and seven days for those who year without a remote learninginopour look at the shortest books because of the John lack ofand a mask manare asymptomatic and have got- tion. the Bible after Third Second date.single-chapter book has “We didn’t really see a choice ten a negative test result. ReturnJohn. This “When I send them to school, ing pupils will need to be masked but to pull out because, at least just want them to come back safely in Union County, it’s just going to25 Iverses. through the 14th day.

Philemon wasnot a wealthy Christianand and also get quarantined The measure passed 8-1, with keep being a political fight all year who hosted a church in his home insaid. not miss school,” Kancharla the Rev. Jimmy Bention the lone long,” Goss said.

“Every thattothey go to school, Colossae.

Paulday wrote Philemon Some parents blame the district objector. He said he could not it’s of kind of rollingslave the dice on it and support it because it “will cause for refusing to mandate masks onto behalf a runaway named what curb virus spread, but they Onesimus also seeing healthy kids to be sent home.” who hadhappens. wrongedIt’s quite unfortunate.

ThisThe is something Mandy Cohen, the state’s top fault the governor and other state Philemon, his owner. letter is that public health official, threatened leaders for not doing more to inter- can be completely avoidable.”

him for ever; 16 Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, antines in accordance with state tostaffme, how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord? lawspecially of students and who but are considered close contacts with a COVID-19 positive case,” said Kathy Heintel, a member of the board.

Because it is one of a handful of districts not compelling students or staff to wear masks and does not have an online learning option, some Union County parents say the quarantines have amounted to 14 days of near-total learning loss.

Roughly one-sixth of the district’s 39,000 enrolled pupils were stuck at home the week before the district substantially changed its COVID-19 protocols. Less than

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“Saint Paul Writing His Epistles” attributed to Valentin de Boulogne (circa 1618) is a painting in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

MORRIS from page A1

addressed to Philemon but also includes Apphia, Archippus and the church in Philemon’sFive-year-old house.

The additional recipientsBerkeley are like an Goss class ancient CC line which letsreviews the readers with know that Paul intended work the request his mother, to Philemon as a more public matter.

Emily, inside Paul met Onesimus after hisMonroe, escape their and subsequently sharedN.C. the home gospelon with the fleeing slave. Onesimus Monday,then Sept.

13, 2021. helped Paul during his imprisonment.

Because of his love for Onesimus, Paul asked his brother in Christ to elevate his former slave. While Paul doesn’t make a broad statement against slavery, he does speak for the humanity of slaves and asks for any debts owned by Onesimus to be put on Paul’s account. The book is a simple of example of loving people regardless of their station.

MASKS from page A1

the one we really invest our money in, is (R-Gaston), and Shelly Willingham (D-Edgecombe). the Wounded Hero program, and helpWillis will be the chair. From the Senate, Sens. Bill Raing these guys basically have the daibon (R-Bladen), Joyce Krawiec (R-Forsyth), Deanna ly independence they need to function Ballard (R-Watauga), and Kirk deViere (D-Cumberand adjust to their new normal with land) will sit on the committee. Rabon will act as chair. the injuries they sustained in combat.”

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RALEIGH — Former colleagues of the late Senate leader Marc Basnight gathered Tuesday to remember his lasting contributions to North Carolina and to view a portrait of the Outer Banks Democrat that will hang in the chamber.

Gov. Roy Cooper, former Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton and at least 30 other exsenators who served with Basnight sat on the floor while the current Senate passed a formal resolution honoring his life. Basnight, whose service as Senate president pro tempore made him the longest-serving head of a legislative body in North Carolina history, died in December at age 73.

Basnight influenced nearly every major legislative achievement of the 1990s and 2000s, including passage of a state lottery, a ban on smoking in restaurants and bars, and funding improvements for higher education, the environment and cancer treatment.

Colleagues who spoke remembered Basnight for his knack for listening to people, often during his weekly road trips between Manteo and Raleigh, and understanding their needs and aspirations.

“Mark came from humble beginnings to become one of the most influential political figures in our state’s history,” said Sen. Don Davis, a Democrat and one of three current senators who served in the legislature alongside Basnight. All three spoke Tuesday. “His life was about people — the people of North Carolina.”

Basnight joined the Senate in 1985 and within eight years was the chamber’s leader, keeping the post through 2010, when Republicans took over the chamber for the first time in 130 years.

He resigned his Senate seat in early 2011, announcing his decision weeks before GOP Sen. Phil Berger was elected

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September is famous as the start of college football and the changing leaves, but it’s also a great time to celebrate North Carolina’s 186 wineries.

At over 1.1 million cases per year, the state ranks 11th in U.S. wine production as of 2020.

The state estimates that the wine and grape industry has an economic impact of nearly $2 billion per year and supports more than 10,000 jobs.

Asheville is home to the Biltmore Estate Winery, which receives more than 1 million visitors annually and is the most-visited winery in the U.S.

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Smoky Mountains National Park to hold town halls on black history

Man pleads guilty to getting girlfriend to buy gun Buncombe County A man prohibited from buying a gun because of a prior conviction pleaded guilty to getting his girlfriend to buy it. Travis Shaqwann Fair, 31, of Asheville, discussed buying a cheap gun with a gun dealer in 2019. Kourtney Nichelle Shivers, 29, of Asheville went to the same store to buy it.

Shivers certified she was the buyer when she actually was buying it for Fair at his request.

Fair pleaded guilty to illegal possession of a firearm. Shivers already pleaded guilty to making a false statement. Fair faces up to 10 years in prison. Shivers could receive five years.

Jackson County Officials with Great Smoky Mountains National Park scheduled three town hall events to introduce the public to the history of blacks within and around the park.

Participants will learn about the history of blacks in the park in a 30-minute program, followed by a discussion about current research and upcoming projects. The park is conducting this research effort to better understand the untold history of the black experience in southern Appalachia. The first town hall is Thursday at AshevilleBuncombe Technical Community College.

Others are scheduled for October at UNC Asheville and Western Carolina University.

Clay County Cleveland Meredith, 53, of Clay County, entered a guilty plea to charges that he threatened to kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, following the Capitol Building riots of Jan. 6. Meredith brought two guns and 2,500 rounds of ammunition to Washington, D.C. on the day after the riots and sent texts to friends and family members saying he would shoot Pelosi on live T.V. WLOS

Durham County Human remains have been found behind a building in Research Triangle Park, according to a sheriff’s office. In a news release, the Durham County Sheriff’s Office says that some bones were discovered on Thursday in a wooded area near the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Durham.

The FBI was called in to investigate because the institute is on federal property. Both the FBI and the sheriff’s office are working to collect evidence from the scene. The sheriff’s office says there is no threat to public safety, but no other details were provided.

Wilkes County The NC Dept. of Health and Human Services announced that four new locations around the state will offer monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID-19. The state is working with FEMA to provide the treatment, which is now available in 200 locations around the state. The sites opened on Sept. 19 and are located in North Wilkesboro, Smithfield, Lillington and Lumberton. FEMA is also offering help staffing a pre-existing location in Murphy.

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Firefighter dies after battle with COVID-19 Durham County A Durham firefighter has died after battling COVID-19 for more than a month. The Durham Fire Department announced the death of 45-year-old Jeremy Klemm in a Facebook post Sunday morning. The 15year employee died late Saturday. “He will be missed greatly,” the fire department said in its Facebook posting. Klemm began his career with the Durham Fire Department on Feb. 27, 2006, after graduating from Fire Academy 19. He was promoted to fire driver on Jan. 2, 2020, and was last assigned to the Engine 8 A-Shift.

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Nash County Greenville Fire/Rescue Chief Eric Griffin is resigning after his arrest for drunken driving.

The announcement comes after the Nash County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that Griffin, 50, was arrested and charged with speeding and driving while impaired. Griffin was traveling 94 mph in a 70-mph zone and was charged after a sobriety test found a blood alcohol content of .20. Griffin had been with the department since 1993 and served as chief since 2014. Last month, he announced that he would retire in December. Deputy Chief Brock Davenport has been named acting chief.

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Man charged in 2012 beating death of UNC-Chapel Hill student

Rockingham County Officials with the N.C. Dept. of insurance have accused Martha Jeffries Inman, 68, and her son, Cecil Dwayne Roberson, 43, of Stoneville, of falsely telling an insurance company that her vehicles had been struck multiple times by deer and other animals.

Special agents say Inman secured more than $10,000 from an insurance company by making the false claims about animal collisions between October 2019 and January 2021. Inman was also charged with obtaining property by false pretense. Roberson was also charged with aiding and abetting Inman in obtaining property by false pretense. All charges are felonies.

Man charged after 17-month-old left in hot car

Fire chief resigns after drunk-driving arrest

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Health Dept. opens 4 new sites for antibody COVID treatment

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Orange County A man was charged with murder in the 2012 beating death of a UNC student. Chapel Hill police announced Miguel Enrique Olivares, 28, of Durham was arrested in the beating death of Faith Hedgepeth at her off-campus apartment. Olivares is charged with firstdegree murder and is being held without bail. The police said the investigation is not complete. Hedgepeth was 19 when her roommate found her body in their apartment on Sept. 7, 2012. Hedgepeth suffered extensive skull fractures, cuts to her face and head and was badly beaten on her arms and legs.

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Man accused of sex offenses against teenager Carteret County A man has been arrested for sex offenses involving a teenager, according to the Carteret County Sheriff’s Office. The office said in a news release that Andrew Tyler Lewis, 26, of New Bern, was arrested after an investigation just outside of Morehead City. According to the sheriff’s office, task force investigators received a tip about sex offenses involving a 13-year-old girl and began an investigation which lasted for a month. Lewis is charged with statutory sex offense with a child and is jailed on a $300,000 bond.

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Cumberland County Charges have been filed against a man after his 17-month-old child was left inside a car outside his home. The Fayetteville Police Department says officers were dispatched to a home on Sept. 5 in response to a report of an unresponsive child. Emergency workers responding to the scene said the child died of heat-related injuries. Fayetteville reached a high of 89 degrees on Sept. 5. Police charged Wayne Nesbitt, 36, on Tuesday with involuntary manslaughter.

by the chamber to succeed him as Senate leader. Basnight told reporters at the time that he was already struggling with a degenerative nerve disease later diagnosed as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Although just a high school graduate, Basnight was among the legislature’s top boosters of the University of North Carolina system, seeing it as a tool to help the state transition from textiles and tobacco to a high-tech economy.

“Marc was instrumental in leading our state into the 21st century,” said Senate Minority Leader Dan Blue, who was also House speaker in the early 1990s.

Cooper was the Senate majority leader under Basnight in the late 1990s. Others who gained leadership experience during Basnight’s tenure included Gov. Beverly Perdue and the late U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan. Former State Treasurer Janet Cowell and 2020 U.S. Senate candidate Cal Cunningham also attended as ex-senators.

Berger said while he and others suffered political defeats at the hands of Basnight, it wasn’t personal. That’s one reason why Tuesday’s gathering had the feel of a class reunion, as senators from both parties and former Basnight aides shook hands and hugged.

“We don’t often get an opportunity to come together like this,” Berger said during a speech. “You see, that’s one of things that Mark always had an ability to do, and that is bring people together.

And I will say that he’s doing it again today with this ceremony and this resolution.”

Basnight’s two daughters were escorted to the well of the Senate for the unveiling of the portrait, which was painted by a Berger aide.

“It is fitting that his portrait hang in this chamber, so that people now and in to the future will have the opportunity to ask, ‘Who was that? What did he do?’”

Berger said.

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Man arrested on multiple sex charges Robeson County A man has been arrested on sex charges and failing to notify officials of a change in his online identity as a sex offender. The Robeson County Sheriff’s Office says in a news release that Charles E. Richards, 22, of Parkton, was arrested on Friday. Richards is formally charged with four counts of indecent liberties with a child who was under the age of 16. Richards is also charged with a felony probation violation. Richards is being held in the Robeson County jail under a $1 million secured bond for the sex-offense charges.

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EDITORIAL | FRANK HILL

The most important patriots you’ve never heard of

A teeny-tiny percentage of people, about 0.2%, or 500,000 adults nationwide over age 18, gave the maximum amount to any federal candidate, $2800 per election cycle, in 2020.

ROBERT AND GOUVERNEUR MORRIS. No relation. Ever heard of them?

People think George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were the “indispensable” founders of the United States of America. Without financiers and fellow Founding Fathers Robert Morris and Gouverneur Morris, their lives most likely would have ended at the bottom of a noose around 1780. The Declaration of Independence would have been proven a bust and the Constitution would never have been written, which would have been a darn shame for liberty for billions of people worldwide since 1789.

Former speaker of the California State Assembly Jesse Unruh coined a cute phrase in 1962 when he said of campaign contributions: “Money is the mother’s milk of politics.”

Since that has been proven empirically true for centuries, the Morrises’ money and ability to finance the actual and political revolution makes them the cash cows of the American Democratic Republic. Their money and financial acumen paid for the revolution so we can enjoy the benefits of freedom now 245 years later.

Those who finance the revolution towards liberty away from socialism today will be the Robert and Gouverneur Morrises to future generations, who will appreciate it one day as adults.

During the winter encampment at Middlebrook, New Jersey, in 1778-79, one year after Valley Forge, Washington was appalled when he was invited to parties in his honor in big cities such as Philadelphia. The spectacle of rich elites in towns feasting on roasted turkey, ice cold oysters, ham, beef and desserts of every kind while quaffing magnums of champagne — at the same time his troops starved, froze and foraged for wild game to survive the winter —

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enraged the general. Many of those same elite were making a fortune selling food and supplies to the British army because the pound sterling was worth something while the Continental dollar was not.

At the same time, the states were not providing their share of money to pay for the war effort. The first constitution of the United States, the Articles of Confederation, had no taxing authority to force states to comply with anything the Continental Congress passed.

So Washington turned to his friend Robert Morris. Mr. Morris not only paid out of his own pocket for the spies Washington employed to do reconnaissance on the British troops and a cash bonus to keep soldiers from going home after their enlistments were up, he and Gouverneur Morris used their considerable financial skills and acumen to find ways to finance the war effort until a victory treaty was signed in Paris in 1783. The Morrises also guaranteed loans on their own credit to finance the war effort which

at the time was extremely risky.

How much is freedom, liberty and a freemarket system worth to you? Is it 10% of your annual income? 10% of your total net worth?

5%? 1%?

No percent?

Ninety-five percent of the American public never contribute to any political campaign, candidate or cause. Let’s assume half of them support conservative policies. They are not willing to contribute one single penny to keep America free and prosperous no matter what their financial status may be. They might as well go ahead and tell the socialists, “Come on in and take over; we are not going to do anything to oppose you.”

Less than 5% of the American people ever contribute any money to a political campaign in a given year. Less than 2% of Americans contributed any amount over $200 to any campaign in 2020.

A teeny-tiny percentage of people, about 0.2%, or 500,000 adults nationwide over age 18, gave the maximum amount to any federal candidate, $2800 per election cycle, in 2020. An even more miniscule number of people give truly large amounts of money to independent expenditure campaigns, although the socialist left has done a great job getting hundreds of millions of dollars from the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and George Soros lately through networks such as Arabella Advisors, located in Washington, D.C. Robert and Gouverneur Morris chose to use their wealth, financial resources and acumen to help America win independence. They valued freedom enough to risk their entire fortunes to provide it for us. Not just 10% or 5% or only 0.0001% of their wealth, but all of their wealth.

Thank God they did. They were true patriots in every sense of the word.

EDITORIAL | STACEY MATTHEWS

Democrats flout mask rules they force on common folks

“The fact that this story became about me and less about the artists and nightlife, which I will continue to enjoy in San Francisco, is very unfortunate.”

Breed whined.

LAST WEEK, yet another prominent Democrat was caught not observing the mask rules she put in place for her city. But what was particularly revealing about the incident was not so much the mask violation but rather her response to it.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed, who is said to be a close political ally of Vice President Kamala Harris, went out to the “Black Cat” jazz club Wednesday in the city’s Tenderloin district, along with a group of friends that included Black Lives Matter leader/co-founder Alicia Garza.

As per the norm at any club, there was much partying, singing, dancing, eating, drinking and having a good time.

It just so happened that the same night Breed and her left-wing activist friends were enjoying the indoor festivities at the Black Cat sans masks, a San Fransico Chronicle reporter was there, spoke to Breed, and documented what she saw for the paper.

Mariecar Mendoza, who is the Chronicle’s senior arts and entertainment editor, wrote in her article that “Most patrons inside the subterranean venue, which serves food and drinks, did not wear a mask as mandated by the city of San Francisco.”

Breed, who would later claim she was there to celebrate a return to live music for the club, “had a table of drinks in front of

her and was often holding one” but “spent the night dancing, singing along and posing for photographs without a face covering,” Mendoza also noted.

Video and photos from that night show Mendoza’s report was accurate.

Breed’s mask mandate for the city of San Francisco is very specific, as ABC7 reported.

“Everyone, including people who are fully vaccinated, must wear a well-fitted mask in indoor public settings at all times except,” the order states, “people may remove their wellfitted mask while actively eating or drinking.”

“Violation of or failure to comply with this Order is a misdemeanor punishable by fine, imprisonment, or both,” reads the order at the top of the first page.

Mendoza interviewed Breed, but it was clear in the piece that the mayor wanted to gloss over being caught not following the rules she expects others to obey.

“I’ve been very careful, not just because I want to set an example but because I don’t want to get COVID,” Breed said at the time.

But a few days later, and as outrage grew, Breed, apparently exasperated by people having the nerve to call her to account, told reporters that she was disappointed that the focus of this story was her.

“The fact that this story became about me and less about the artists and nightlife, which

I will continue to enjoy in San Francisco, is very unfortunate,” Breed whined.

Breed went on to say that she and her friends who were all flouting her mask rules “don’t need the fun police to come in and micromanage and tell us what we should or shouldn’t be doing.”

That says it all, doesn’t it? Consider it the modern-day version of “rules for thee, but not for me.”

If that’s the case then Breed needs to repeal the mask mandate immediately, because if she and her friend girls don’t want to fall victim to the dreaded “fun police” then no one else in the city should have to worry about it, either.

At another point when talking to reporters, Breed suggested that “the fact that this is even a story is sad.” Many people would agree, but not for the reasons she insinuates.

It’s sad indeed, and has been for over the last year or so, how Democrat politicians, including her fellow Californians like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Gov. Gavin Newsom, continue to behave as though the strict COVID mandates they advocate and put in place for others don’t apply to them.

Media analyst Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym Sister Toldjah and is a regular contributor to RedState and Legal Insurrection.

North State Journal for Wednesday, September 22, 2021

COLUMN | NEWT GINGRICH

COLUMN MICHAEL BARONE

The Republican opportunity IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS, Republicans have an opportunity to rebrand the Democrats as Big Government Socialists.

This is the kind of opportunity which may come once in a lifetime.

Every Democratic senator and representative has already voted for the outline of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ $3.5 trillion Big Government Socialist bill. No matter what lies they tell back home about being moderates, their names are right there on pages S6237 (Aug. 10) and H4371 (Aug. 24) of the Congressional Record. When it mattered, there were no moderate Democrats. The only Democrats serving in Congress were unanimously willing to vote for Big Government Socialism.

The Big Government Socialist brand will isolate the Washington Democrats from their own moderates and from the rest of the country. Faced with this clear betrayal of their values, millions of grassroots Democrats will find themselves having to organize a moderate wing of the Democratic Party — something Bill Clinton tried to do as governor of Arkansas in the 1980s.

In a number of upcoming primary elections, there may be moderate Democratic candidates prepared to run against the Big Government Socialist incumbents using the $3.5 trillion bill vote as proof the incumbents need to be replaced.

The polling is clear and devastating

for the Big Government Socialist Democrats. Americans in general favor Free Market Capitalism over Big Government Socialism by a huge margin, 59% to 16 percent. Among swing voters, there is an almost 5:1 advantage for Free Market Capitalism over Big Government Socialism, 82% to 18 percent.

Perhaps most ominous of all for the Washington Democrats, swing voters already believe by 69% to 31% that the $3.5 trillion Big Government Socialist bill proves Big Government Socialists now define the Democratic Party.

If everyone who is opposed to the $3.5 trillion bill uses the term “Big Government Socialists,” within a few weeks the 50 Senate Democrats and 220 House Democrats who have already voted for the bill will be permanently defined as members of a repudiated value system.

When the detailed version of the $3.5 trillion Sanders bill makes clear its wide range of tax increases and enormous expansion of government into our personal lives, Democrats will have two choices. They could vote “no” to soften their images back home and defeat the bill. Or they could double down, vote “yes,” and hope the wave of Pelosi-Schumer-Biden money will overcome the immense voter hostility to Big Government Socialism.

The real test for the next month falls on Republicans and conservatives.

Can they have a disciplined focus on defining the $3.5 trillion bill as Big

Government Socialism?

Can they communicate nationally — in every state and congressional district — that the Democratic incumbents have proven they are Big Government Socialists by voting for the $3.5 trillion bill in August?

When facing hostile, distracting questions from leftwing television reporters, can Republicans discipline themselves to constantly point out that the $3.5 trillion bill was written by an avowed socialist and is Big Government Socialism?

When face-to-face with Democratic incumbents, can the Republicans muster the courage and discipline to stick to facts and hammer away that “on this date you voted for a $3.5 trillion Big Government Socialist Bill and that makes you a Big Government Socialist”?

Finally, can Republican Party officials, activists, and candidates focus on communicating that Democrats have become Big Government Socialists — and that the old moderate Democratic Party has been replaced by a new radical party?

These votes in favor of Big Government Socialism have given Republicans the opportunity of a lifetime to brand the Democratic Party so it becomes a minority for a generation or more.

The test now is on the Republican side — and in the conservative movement — to see if they can rise to the opportunity.

COLUMN | BEN SHAPIRO

Our elective monarchy IN 1629, FRUSTRATED by the unwillingness of Parliament to grant him taxation power, King Charles I of England dissolved the body and had nine members arrested. He did not recall Parliament for over a decade. The intervening period, known as Personal Rule, saw Charles I govern as a de facto dictator, with only a body of councilors to advise him.

In 1640, forced by military necessity from Scotland, Charles I recalled Parliament in order to raise money to pay the military; shortly thereafter, stymied by Parliament, he dissolved the body again. But necessity encroached once again, and Charles I finally recalled Parliament. This would be the beginning of the end of his monarchy: the Long Parliament, as it would later be called, directly opposed many of Charles I’s initiatives, and that opposition would devolve into the English Civil War — a war that ended with Charles I’s execution.

All of this should serve as a brief reminder that when a chief executive ignores checks and balances, he may maximize his authority temporarily, but after a while, the royal saddle tends to chafe.

We are now approaching an inflection point in the United States: Do we want an elective monarchy, or not? A great many Americans seem perfectly comfortable with such a system, so long as the president is of their party. Today, the president of the United States is elected once every four years; he mouths platitudes about respect for norms and institutions; and then he proceeds to do what he wants, using the authority of the administrative state as his scepter.

The legislature has become a vestigial organ, delegated only the power to fund enormous omnibus packages. True rulemaking authority lies with the chief executive.

Thus, former President Barack Obama declared more than 20 times that he did not have the authority to unilaterally suspend elements of immigration law. That did not stop him from doing just that with the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. President Joe Biden recently declared

he had no power to extend an eviction moratorium via the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That did not stop him from pursuing precisely that policy. Biden and his administration stated repeatedly that they did not have the power to unilaterally mandate COVID-19 vaccination. That power was to be exercised by the individual states. That did not stop Biden from mobilizing the vague grant of power under the Occupational Safety and Health Act to dictate that every business with more than 100 employees had to test its unvaccinated employees once per week, or vaccinate them, or fire them, or pay $14,000 per violation.

There are only two institutions standing in the way of full-fledged presidential monarchy: the courts and the states. Biden has pledged to override the states: “If these governors won’t help us beat the pandemic, I’ll use my power as president to get them out of the way.” And while Biden has pledged not to stack the courts, his prior institutional pledges have lasted only as long as his power remains unchallenged; he repeatedly suggested he would not seek to destroy the filibuster but has now apparently flipped on that subject.

The problem with elective monarchy is that it destroys the feedback mechanisms that help balance a pluralistic, decentralized society. Charles I could reign under the precepts of Personal Rule just so long as his impositions were moderate and his foreign policy peaceful. The minute serious complications arose, Personal Rule began to collapse.

The same will hold true in the United States. Charles I had the authority of kingship, but not consolidated compulsory control. That made his dictatorship unstable. The lesson for us is simple: We may want change, and we may want to carve a path through the checks and balances that obstruct that change by granting near-total power to an elective monarch.

But unity won’t follow. Chaos will.

Ben Shapiro, 37, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” and editor-in-chief of DailyWire.com.

COLUMN | STEPHEN MOORE

Congress is back to serving pork PORK IS BEING SERVED in Washington again. Big juicy slices to the lobbyists with the deepest wallets and the campaign contributors who write the biggest reelectioncampaign checks. It is the way of the swamp. It is the currency of the Washington Beltway. It explains how people get so rich in politics.

The two massive spending bills now circulating through Congress with a combined price tag north of $5 trillion are filled with earmarks and thank-you gifts to big donors and the Gucci Gulch lobbyists. That’s why the bills have thousands of pages — to bring home the bacon.

We still don’t know even half of what is in this bill because, as Rep. Richard Neal, the head of the House Ways and Means Committee, admits, he wants to “hold off on the (details of the bill) until we are at the altar.”

By this, he means pretty much what then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said before the vote on the Affordable Care Act some 10 years ago: We will read the bill after we pass it.

But here’s what we do know so far about some of the gems inserted into the bill.

A tax break for musicians will allow them to deduct “the cost of qualified sound recording productions” by up to $150,000 each taxable year. Bruce Springsteen and Barbra Streisand, take note.

Want an electric bike? Congress will give you a 15% refundable tax credit if you purchase one.

Union members will be able to deduct their union dues from their income.

The Davis-Bacon Act, which forces federal contractors to pay higher union wages on their projects, will be extended to bonds used to pay for water, sewage and highway projects.

There is a raft of provisions subsidizing electric vehicles.

They include a $7,500 credit for buying electric cars, though the break would be even larger if the final assembly of those cars is done at domestic factories where workers are

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unionized. A new, separate break for buying used electric vehicles is also proposed at $2,500. So you get a tax break when you buy a Tesla and then when you sell it!

The wind and solar industries will get billions more in handouts from taxpayers. We are told how efficient renewable energy is, yet we have to give them higher and higher subsidies each year.

And how about this one to help the Democratic congressional critters trying to pass this bill: exempting “local news journalists” from the employer side of the payroll tax. That’s really Democrats delivering for their political base! So every other worker has to pay the payroll tax except the media?

Over the past couple of decades, taxpayer groups and heroic senators such as Jim DeMint of South Carolina and the late Tom Coburn of Oklahoma worked to end these pork-barrel items in spending bills. There was a prohibition against “earmarks,” but Democrats have ended that so they can reinstate “pay-to-play” politics.

By injecting all these slabs of pork into the tax code, we will have reversed all the gains from bipartisan tax reform under President Ronald Reagan. Back then, the goal was to lower tax rates and get rid of all the tax breaks so that the tax system was pro-growth and simple but made everyone pay their fair share. President Joe Biden keeps saying this bill will make the rich pay their fair share — unless the rich people are contributors to the politicians. Then they get tax goody bags from Congress.

Coburn used to say that pork spending was the “gateway drug” to multibillion-dollar spending bills. He was spot on, but now the addiction is so advanced that we are talking about trillion-dollar, not billion-dollar, atrocities.

Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at FreedomWorks. He is also a co-founder of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity and a Washington Examiner columnist.

California voters get what they deserve THE NATION’S LARGEST state has just voted in an election triggered by one of the nation’s weirdest recall processes, and the results have come out just about where they’ve been before.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom was elected governor in 2018 by 62% to 38%, a result that was, unsurprisingly in an era of straight-ticket voting and strong partisan allegiance, almost identical to President Joe Biden’s 64% to 34% margin over Donald Trump in 2020.

As of this writing — and it has taken California weeks to fully count its votes in recent general elections — incomplete returns show 64% of Californians voting against recalling Newsom and only 36% for removing him from office.

That result makes the second question on the ballot about who should replace the governor irrelevant. But it did enable Democrats to spend enormous sums painting Larry Elder, the conservative radio talk host who led in polls on the replacement question, as a clone of Trump.

Some liberals even attacked Elder, who is black, as a “white supremacist.” It’s interesting who plays the race card these days.

Newsom’s success is good news for Democrats. Polls over the summer showed as many as 47% of voters supporting the recall.

When voters focused on facts on the ground such as the growing homeless encampments and the rapidly rising numbers of homicides and carjackings, they found reason to repudiate the liberal policies that Newsom has pursued or supported.

Newsom’s maskless appearance at the expensive ($350 a plate) French Laundry restaurant, celebrating the birthday of a Democratic lobbyist, was an unforced error, perhaps characteristic of a politician whose core constituency has been San Francisco billionaires.

But an avalanche of TV ads targeting Trump got voters thinking in partisan terms, with the results as noted. Go over the county maps of the 2018, 2020 and 2021 contests and see how the results are the same within a couple of points just about everywhere.

The exit polls, however, suggest some shifts among demographic groups. The recall was opposed by 81% of black voters, who are only 6% of California’s population, but by significantly fewer Asians (62%) and Latinos (58%).

These latter “people of color” groups were less supportive of Newsom than white college graduates (68%). This reflects the increasing dominance in the Democratic Party of white college graduates and the fact that on issues, they are often the party’s leftmost group.

White voters without college degrees, or those left behind after hundreds of thousands of others have left California’s high housing and energy costs behind, were the one ethnically defined group that favored the recall by 57% to 43%.

These results mirror the recent national Quinnipiac poll that shows approval of Biden nationally at 42%. Approval is 69% among black people and 56% among white college graduates, but only 38% among Hispanics and 28% among white people who didn’t attend college.

That polarization seems to be increasing.

MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki compared the 2018 and 2021 Newsom exit poll numbers and found that his support has risen 9 points among white college graduates but has declined by 12 points among noncollege white voters and 6 points among Hispanics.

That looks much like the changes nationally between the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections.

California, which seemed a harbinger of the political future from the 1950s through the 1980s, is clearly not anymore. It was the second-best state, after Hawaii, for Hillary Clinton in 2016, and the fifth best, after Vermont, Massachusetts, Maryland and Hawaii, for Biden in 2020.

Nor does California seem to be the demographic wave of the future. Forty years ago, I was writing about the dynamic economic growth on both sides of the Pacific Rim, in California and Japan. In the 1990s and 2000s, I substituted China for Japan and saluted California’s booming high tech and China’s double-digit economic growth.

Now the flowers on both sides of the Pacific Rim seem to be wilting. Thanks to its recently repealed one-child policy, China’s workforce is now shrinking, while California’s poverty rate of 15% is the highest in the nation when cost of living is taken into account. Illegal immigrants, who headed mostly to California 20 years ago, are mostly heading to Texas now.

After two decades of domestic population outflow, the 2020 census showed California gaining population at less than the national rate since 2010, and in the reapportionment following the census, it lost a congressional seat, and hence an electoral vote, for the first time since it was admitted to the Union in 1850.

Newsom’s victory shows that California voters want more of the same. As H.L. Mencken put it, they “deserve to get it good and hard.”

Michael Barone is a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and longtime co-author of The Almanac of American Politics.

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NATION & WORLD Haitians on Texas border undeterred

by United States plan to expel them

By Elliott Spagat The Associated Press DEL RIO, Texas — Haitian migrants seeking to escape poverty, hunger and a feeling of hopelessness in their home country said they will not be deterred by U.S. plans to speedily send them back, as thousands of people remained encamped on the Texas border Saturday after crossing from Mexico.

Scores of people waded back and forth across the Rio Grande on Saturday afternoon, re-entering Mexico to purchase water, food and diapers in Ciudad Acuña before returning to the Texas encampment under and near a bridge in the border city of Del Rio. The Department of Homeland Security said Saturday that it moved about 2,000 of the migrants from the camp to other locations Friday for processing and possible removal from the U.S. Its statement also said it would have 400 agents and officers in the area

by Monday morning and would send more if necessary.

The announcement marked a swift response to the sudden arrival of Haitians in Del Rio, a Texas city of about 35,000 people roughly 145 miles west of San Antonio. It sits on a relatively remote stretch of border that lacks capacity to hold and process such large numbers of people.

A U.S. official told The Associated Press on Friday that the U.S would likely fly the migrants out of the country on five to eight flights a day, starting Sunday, while another official expected no more than two a day and said everyone would be tested for COVID-19. The first official said operational capacity and Haiti’s willingness to accept flights would determine how many flights there would be. Both officials were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Told of the U.S. plans Saturday, several migrants said they still intended to remain in the encampment and seek asylum. Some spoke of the most recent devastating earthquake in Haiti and the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, saying they were afraid to return to a country that seems more unstable than when they left.

“In Haiti, there is no security,” said Fabricio Jean, a 38-year-old Haitian who arrived with his wife and two daughters. “The country is in a political crisis.”

Haitians have been migrating to the U.S. in large numbers from South America for several years,

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Haitian migrants use a dam to cross into and from the United States from Mexico, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021, in Del Rio, Texas. many having left their Caribbean nation after a devastating 2010 earthquake. After jobs dried up from the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, many trekked by foot, bus and car to the U.S. border, including through the infamous Darien Gap, a Panamanian jungle.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection closed off vehicle and pedestrian traffic in both directions last Friday at the only border crossing between Del Rio and Ciudad Acuña “to respond to urgent safety and security needs” and it remained closed Saturday. Travelers were being directed indefinitely to a crossing in Eagle Pass, roughly 55 miles away.

Crowd estimates varied, but Del Rio Mayor Bruno Lozano said Saturday evening there were 14,534 immigrants at the camp under the bridge. Migrants pitched tents and built makeshift shelters from giant reeds known as carrizo cane.

Many bathed and washed clothing in the river.

It is unclear how such a large number amassed so quickly, though many Haitians have been assembling in camps on the Mexican side of the border to wait while deciding whether to attempt entry into the U.S. The number of Haitian arrivals began to reach unsustainable levels for the Border Patrol in Del Rio about 2 ½ weeks ago, prompting the agency’s acting sector chief, Robert Garcia, to ask headquarters for help, according to a U.S.

official.

Since then, the agency has transferred Haitians in buses and vans to other Border Patrol facilities in Texas, specifically El Paso, Laredo and Rio Grande Valley.

They are mostly processed outside of the pandemic-related authority, meaning they can claim asylum and remain in the U.S. while their claims are considered. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement makes custody decisions but families can generally not be held more than 20 days under court order.

Homeland Security’s plan announced Saturday signals a shift to use of pandemic-related authority for immediate expulsion to Haiti without an opportunity to claim asylum, the official said.

The flight plan, while potentially massive in scale, hinges on how Haitians respond. They might have to decide whether to stay put at the risk of being sent back to an impoverished homeland wracked by poverty and political instability or return to Mexico. Unaccompanied children are exempt from fasttrack expulsions.

DHS said, “our borders are not open, and people should not make the dangerous journey.”

“Individuals and families are subject to border restrictions, including expulsion,” the agency wrote. “Irregular migration poses a significant threat to the health and welfare of border communities and to the lives of migrants themselves, and should not be attempted.”

U.S. authorities are being severely tested after Democratic President Joe Biden quickly dismantled Trump administration policies, most notably requiring asylum-seekers to remain in Mexico while waiting for U.S. immigration court hearings.

A pandemic-related order to immediately expel migrants without giving them the opportunity to seek asylum that was introduced in March 2020 remains in effect, but unaccompanied children and many families have been exempt.

During his first month in office, Biden chose to exempt children traveling alone.

Mexico’s immigration agency said in a statement Saturday that Mexico has opened a “permanent dialogue” with Haitian government representatives “to address the situation of irregular migratory flows during their entry and transit through Mexico, as well as their assisted return.”

The agency didn’t specify if it was referring to the Haitians in Ciudad Acuña or to the thousands of others in Tapachula, at the Guatemalan border, and the agency didn’t immediately reply to a request for further details.

In August, U.S. authorities stopped migrants nearly 209,000 times at the border, which was close to a 20-year high even though many of the stops involved repeat crossers because there are no legal consequences for being expelled under the pandemic authority.

‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero sentenced to 25 years on terror charges

By Ignatius Ssuuna The Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda — The man who inspired the film “Hotel Rwanda” for saving hundreds of his countrymen from genocide was convicted of terrorism offenses Monday and sentenced to 25 years at a trial that human rights watchdogs and other critics of Rwanda’s repressive government have described as an act of retaliation.

Paul Rusesabagina, credited with sheltering ethnic Tutsis during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide and a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom, boycotted the announcement of the verdict after calling the trial a “sham.”

The U.S. resident and Belgian citizen was convicted on eight charges including membership in a terrorist group, murder and abduction. He was charged along with 20 other people.

The circumstances surrounding Rusesabagina’s arrest last year, his limited access to an independent legal team and his reported worsening health have drawn international concern for the 67-year-old who left Rwanda in 1996.

Rusesabagina, who remains in custody, has asserted that his arrest was in response to his criticism of longtime Rwandan President Paul Kagame over alleged human rights abuses. Kagame’s government has repeatedly denied

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In this Monday, Sept. 14, 2020, file photo, Paul Rusesabagina, center, whose story inspired the film “Hotel Rwanda” for saving people from genocide, appears at the Kicukiro Primary Court in the capital Kigali, Rwanda. targeting dissenting voices with arrests and extrajudicial killings.

Monday’s ruling comes more than a year after Rusesabagina disappeared during a visit to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and appeared days later in Rwanda in handcuffs, accused of supporting the armed wing of his opposition political platform, Rwandan Movement for Democratic Change.

The armed group claimed some responsibility for attacks in 2018 and 2019 in the south of the coun-

try in which nine Rwandans died.

Rusesabagina testified at trial that he helped to form the armed group to help refugees but said he never supported violence — and sought to distance himself from its deadly attacks.

Throughout, Rusesabagina has maintained he is not guilty of the charges against him but said he didn’t expect to get justice.

“We knew from the day he was kidnapped that the verdict would be ‘guilty’ on some or all of the

false charges. We are happy that the charade of the trial is ending,” Rusesabagina’s family said in a statement.

Government spokeswoman Yolande Makolo tweeted shortly after the sentencing that the evidence against Rusesabagina was “indisputable.”

“Rwandans will feel safer now justice has been delivered,” Makolo wrote.

Rusesabagina’s family alleges he was kidnapped and taken to Rwanda against his will to stand trial. But the court ruled that he wasn’t kidnapped when he was tricked into boarding a chartered flight. Rwanda’s government has asserted that at the time he was going to Burundi to coordinate with armed groups based there and in Congo.

Amnesty International criticized the proceedings, noting that Rusesabagina was initially denied the right to choose his own lawyer.

It added that Kagame’s comments that “Rusesabagina had ‘done something terribly wrong, committed a crime,’ may have prejudiced the defendant’s right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty.”

Rusesabagina is credited with saving more than 1,000 people by sheltering them at the hotel he managed during the genocide in Rwanda in which more than 800,000 Tutsi and Hutus who tried to protect them were killed.

Virginia governor’s race: Key takeaways from the 1st debate Richmond, Va. Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin met in southwest Virginia for the commonwealth’s first gubernatorial debate of the general election season.

Much of the exchange between McAuliffe, a longtime Democratic Party fundraiser who is seeking a rare second term as governor, and Youngkin, a former business executive and political newcomer, dealt with vaccine mandates and abortion policy.

During the GOP nomination contest, Youngkin made election integrity a top campaign issue. Moderator Susan Page pressed Youngkin to simply answer yes or no Thursday to a question about whether he agreed with remarks Trump recently made during a radio interview, in which he suggested that Democrats might “cheat” in the governor’s race.

“No. ... I think we’re going to have a clean, fair election that I fully expect to win,” said Youngkin.

Page also asked both candidates if they would concede if the state certified their opponent had won.

Both committed to doing so.

Next, Youngkin went after two state agencies that have faced persistent complaints from Virginians during the pandemic: the Virginia Employment Commission and the Department of Motor Vehicles.

“We’re going to introduce the concept of customer service, not flawed process,” he said.

During a segment when the candidates were allowed to ask each other a question, Youngkin pressed McAuliffe about the woman he appointed chair of the state parole board, where the state’s watchdog agency has found a number of serious problems.

“If you could do it all over again, would you appoint her chair of your parole board?”

Youngkin asked.

Without directly addressing the issue of former board chairman Adrianne Bennett, McAuliffe responded that if anyone in state government had acted inappropriately, “people would be removed.”

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Judge: Prosecutors can’t show Rittenhouse link to Proud Boys Madison, Wis. A judge ruled that prosecutors can’t argue that a man who shot three people during a protest against police brutality in Wisconsin is affiliated with the Proud Boys or that he attacked a woman months before the shootings, bolstering his position as he prepares for a politically charged trial.

Kyle Rittenhouse is set to stand trial beginning Nov. 1 on multiple counts, including homicide. The 18-year-old argues he opened fire in self-defense after the men attacked him.

Kenosha was in the throes of several nights of chaotic demonstrations after a white police officer shot Jacob Blake, a black man, who resisted attempts by law enforcement to arrest him. Rittenhouse traveled from his home in Antioch, Illinois, about 20 miles to Kenosha on Aug. 25, 2020, in response to a call on social media to protect area businesses.

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Hurricanes ready for camp, B4

Running back Zonovan Knight and the Wolfpack will host Clemson on Saturday in the biggest game of NC State’s season.

Season-defining game vs.

Clemson awaits Wolfpack COLLEGE FOOTBALL

UNC stays 21st in latest AP poll, Wake gets votes Indianapolis The North Carolina Tar Heels were leapfrogged by three teams but had three others fall behind them to stay ranked No. 21 in The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll released Sunday. UNC beat Virginia 59-39 on Saturday in Chapel Hill to earn its first ACC win of the season. Wake Forest, 35‑14 winners over Florida State, received seven votes and was the only other team from the state to appear on a ballot. Alabama and Georgia stayed at Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, and Oregon moved up to No. 3 with Oklahoma falling one spot.

Iowa rounded out the top five.

Clemson fell three spots to No. 9 after avoiding an upset to Georgia Tech, but the Tigers remained the top‑ranked ACC team. Virginia Tech — which upset the Tar Heels in Week 1 and had climbed to No. 15 — dropped out of the poll after a loss to West Virginia.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

5-star recruit Lively commits to Duke Durham Five-star center Dereck Lively committed to Duke on Monday, giving the Blue Devils another blue chip recruit from the Class of 2022. Lively picked Duke over Kentucky and Penn State.

Jon Scheyer, the Blue Devils’ coach-in-waiting as Mike Krzyzewski concludes his Hall of Fame career this coming season, made Lively his first scholarship offer upon being named Duke’s next coach.

The 7-foot-1 center from Pennsylvania — ranked the No. 2 prospect in the country by 247Sports and ESPN and No. 3 by Rivals — is Duke’s third five-star commitment in the class, joining forward Dariq Whitehead and center Kyle Filipowski.

The Tigers’ defense is as good as ever, but their offense has struggled ahead of the trip to Raleigh

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal THE MISSISSIPPI STATE game was a major downer for NC State in more ways than just the final score. But in the grand scheme of the 2021 football season, the Wolfpack’s 24-10 loss in Starkville two weeks ago amounted to little more than a missed opportunity and an experience from which to learn.

The Wolfpack will have a chance to put that lesson to practical use when it hosts its annual ACC Atlantic Division showdown against No. 9 Clemson on Saturday at Carter-Finley Stadium.

And this time, it won’t just be for another shot at making a pro-

gram-defining statement.

The game will also go a long way toward determining whether State is finally ready to mount a serious challenge at dethroning the sixtime defending league champion Tigers.

“Anytime you get to play a team like this, that’s been the gold standard in our league, it’s a great opportunity for your football team,” coach Dave Doeren said Monday during his weekly meeting with the media. “I look forward to it and, more than anything, just being a part of what our team is doing.

They’re really focused on playing one rep at a time right now.”

Clemson (2-1, 1-0 ACC) has looked vulnerable during the early going this season as it works to find a rhythm while replacing several key players — including quarterback Trevor Lawrence, the top pick in the 2020 NFL Draft, and Travis Etienne, the ACC’s all-time leading rusher.

“Anytime you get to play a team like this that’s been the gold standard in our league, it’s a great opportunity for your football team.”

Dave Doeren, NC State coach Not only did Clemson lose its opening game against Georgia in Charlotte, but it also needed a late goal-line stand to escape a stunning upset at the hands of 27-point underdog Georgia Tech at home last week.

Lawrence’s replacement, D.J. Uiagalelei, has led his team to just two offensive touchdowns in two games against FBS opponents while the ground game has yet to

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gain its stride with Raleigh native Will Shipley as the featured back.

Despite those struggles, the Tigers continue to be the team to beat in the Atlantic Division, at least until somebody actually beats them.

Doeren is confident his Wolfpack are capable of being that somebody, but only if it remains focused on the task at hand rather than its disappointing recent history in the series once known as the Textile Bowl.

“In games like this a lot can be made of the matchups. To me, this is more about us in this game,” said Doeren, who has lost all seven meetings with Clemson. “We just need to do what we did last week and the first week against much, much, much better competition.

“We need to focus on doing our job. We need to focus on our fundamentals. We need to focus on our eyes, on our finish, respecting the game of football and playing it one play at a time. Not letting the momentum swings in the game bother us. Just managing our opportunities and responding to adversity when it happens. And creating more plays than they create.”

The Wolfpack (2-1, 0-0) didn’t handle adversity well in their first See NC STATE, page B4

Hellos, farewells highlight ACC basketball schedule One legend is leaving and another is already gone, leaving large shoes to fill on Tobacco Road

since 1980. The Blue Devils open the ACC season at home against the Hokies and close it at home against the Tar Heels in a game at Cameron that may be the toughest ticket in the rivalry’s history.

By Shawn Krest North State Journal THE ACC RELEASED its 202122 basketball schedule last week as the league prepares for a year of transition.

The conference is down one Hall of Fame coach already, and another is heading into his final trip around the ACC. The league is also looking to be a factor late into the NCAA Tournament after a year in which no team had a seed higher than four and the conference was eliminated in the Sweet 16.

Here’s a look at the most interesting games and stretches in the season to come.

Welcome to the new guys The ACC welcomes two new coaches this year. The biggest name is longtime UNC assistant Hubert Davis, who takes over the Tar Heels for Roy Williams. Davis’ welcome-to-the-ACC moment will come on the road against Georgia Tech on Dec. 5. His first ACC home game comes 24 days later when the

Unbalanced schedule

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The ACC schedule is out for what will be Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski’s final year leading the Blue Devils.

Tar Heels host Virginia Tech. Davis’ first overall game as coach will be Nov. 9 at home against Loyola of Maryland.

Boston College also welcomes a new coach in Earl Grant. He opens his BC career with a home game against Dartmouth on Nov. 9. His first ACC game is Dec. 3 at home against Notre Dame and his first trip is to Wake Forest on Dec. 22.

Grant was an assistant at Clemson under Brad Brownell for four seasons, and he meets the Tigers in an ACC game for the first time on the road on Jan. 15.

Final farewell Duke will be playing one last season under coach Mike Krzyzewski, who has been in Durham

The league plays a 20-game schedule again, with each team playing home-and-homes against six other teams, a home game only against four teams, and a road game only against four. The biggest beneficiary of the schedule may be Boston College, which plays single games against Duke, UNC, Virginia, Florida State and Louisville. Clemson may have gotten the toughest draw, with two games against FSU, Virginia, Duke and defending ACC Tournament champion Georgia Tech.

Short notice The least popular aspect of the ACC schedule is the Saturday-Monday turnaround. Most weeks during the season, two lucky teams get to play on ESPN’s Big Monday on less than 48 hours rest. Louisville, Virginia and UNC all have to make the quick turnSee ACC, page B3

North State Journal for Wednesday, September 22, 2021

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TRENDING

Tim Wilkerson: The Funny Car driver won for the second time in three weeks Sunday, beating Cruz Pedregon in the DeWalt NHRA Carolina Nationals at zMAX Dragway in Concord.

Wilkerson had a 3.927-second run at 331.36 mph in a Ford Shelby Mustang in the final for his 22nd career victory. He moved to sixth the in season standings. Josh Hart won in Top Fuel, Kyle Koretsky in Pro Stock and Angelle Sampey in Pro Stock Motorcycle.

Ryan Santoso: The former Panthers kicker was signed to the Titans’ practice squad Friday. Santoso spent three weeks with the Titans in 2019 and was on the Giants’ practice squad last season. He was traded to Carolina last month and made two field goals and one of two extra points before being released following the Panthers’ Week 1 win over the Jets. His replacement in Carolina, Zane Gonzalez, made two of three field goals and two of three extra points in the Panthers’ 26-7 win Sunday over New Orleans.

Rashaun Jones: The former University of Miami football player pleaded not guilty on Friday to second‑degree murder in the killing teammate Bryan Pata outside a South Florida apartment complex in 2006. The 35‑year‑old Jones, who was arrested last month, was long suspected in the death of his 22-year-old teammate. Jones was originally arrested on a first‑degree murder charge and could still face that charge. But to indict him on that charge, prosecutors would have to present the case to a grand jury.

Beyond the box score POTENT QUOTABLES

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The U.S. Coast Guard Academy football team honored the Pea Island Life-Saving Station at homecoming Saturday, wearing Station 17-themed uniforms during its 33-6 win over Nichols. When the all-white crew refused to serve under Richard Ethridge — a former slave and Civil War veteran who was appointed the station’s keeper in 1880 — at the Outer Banks post, he recruited and trained the country’s first all-black crew at a life‑saving station.

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“I’m ready to rip somebody’s freaking head off.”

Kevin Harvick after Saturday night’s postrace confrontation with Chase Elliott at Bristol.

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NHL

SWIMMING

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“Gunnar is playing pretty dang well.”

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PRIME NUMBER

Defenseman Zdeno Chara agreed to terms with the New York Islanders on a one-year deal Saturday, returning 25 years later to the organization that drafted him, to chase the Stanley Cup one more time at age 44. Chara played last season with the Capitals after leaving the Bruins after 14 seasons. He also previously played in Ottawa.

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BOXING

Blue Devils coach David Cutcliffe on quarterback Gunnar Holmberg’s performance in the Duke’s 30-23 win Saturday over Northwestern.

Different decades Spain’s Sergio Garcia will have played in the Ryder Cup when he competes for Europe for the 10th time at this year’s event. The 41-year-old debuted in 1999 at age 19, teaming with Jesper Parnevik to beat Tiger Woods and Tom Lehman in foursomes at Brookline to earn his first points for Europe.

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Olympic gold medal swimmer Madison Wilson of Australia has been hospitalized for treatment of COVID-19. The 27-year-old, who is fully vaccinated, won a gold medal in the 4x100-meter freestyle and picked up a bronze in the 4x200 free relay in Tokyo, adding to the gold and silver she won in relays in Rio in 2016.

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Philippine boxing icon and senator Manny Pacquiao says he will run for president in the 2022 elections. Pacquiao accepted the nomination of his PDP-Laban party at its national convention on Sunday, saying that the Filipino people have been waiting for a change of government. Pacquiao, 42, is the president of the PDP‑Laban faction led by him and Sen. Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III.

North State Journal for Wednesday, September 22, 2021

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NC Central, A&T renew rivalry as nonconference foes The Aggies left the MEAC for the Big South this year, but the two teams will still meet for the 92nd time on Saturday

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal

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Wake Forest quarterback Sam Hartman gets upended by Florida State defensive back Travis Jay while converting a two-point conversion in the third quarter of the Demon Deacons’ 35-14 win Saturday at Truist Field in Winston-Salem.

Unbeaten Deacons take slights in stride Wake Forest is off to another fast start, even if many aren’t yet taking notice

By Brett Friedlander North State Journal WINSTON-SALEM — The entire panel of analysts on ESPN’s College GameDay show picked Florida State to beat Wake Forest on Saturday.

One of them was so confident in the Seminoles’ chances, he tabbed them as his “Superdog” of the week.

It was the kind of slight that would typically become bulletin board material for a 4½-point favorite playing at home against a team coming off a loss to an FCS opponent.

But for the Deacons, it was business as usual.

They’re so used to being overlooked and underappreciated, especially when compared to brand name programs such as Florida State, that they barely even notice it anymore. Let alone take motivation from it.

“We’re not ‘Little Old Wake Forest’ anymore,” said redshirt senior defensive tackle Miles Fox after he and his teammates manhandled the Seminoles 35-14 at Truist Field. “We’re big boys. We’re one of the best teams in the ACC, and we want to go out there and prove everybody wrong. That’s all we can do.”

It’s doubtful Saturday’s outcome changed anybody’s perspective of coach Dave Clawson’s team.

In fact, the prevailing postgame narrative was how far the winless Seminoles have fallen since their days as a perennial national championship contender rather than how well Wake played.

But as Fox stated, the Deacons don’t waste much time or energy worrying about such things.

Their only concerns are the things they can control. And they took care of business emphatically.

“We’re one of the best teams in the ACC, and we want to go out there and prove everybody wrong.”

Miles Fox, Wake Forest defensive tackle Facing its first real test after opening the new season with easy wins against Old Dominion — a team that opted out in 2020 — and FCS foe Norfolk State, Wake dominated the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball on its way to improving to 3-0 for the fourth time in the past six seasons.

It rolled up a balanced 259 yards passing and 225 rushing on offense, holding onto the ball for 18 more minutes than its opponent, while forcing six turnovers and holding the Seminoles scoreless in the second half.

“We knew the level of competition was going to step up,” Clawson said. “The offense did a great job of controlling the clock. We controlled the line of scrimmage, we ran the ball really well. I thought (quarterback Sam Hartman) was really efficient again. Defensively, it was one of our best efforts. We’re going to need more of this as we move forward.”

Getting off to strong starts is nothing new for the Deacons. It’s finishing that has been the problem.

They are a combined 24-13 (.649 winning percentage) in September and October during their school-record run of five straight bowl seasons dating back to 2016, but only 9-14 (.391) in November and December.

Much of that dropoff can be traced to depth issues that come into play as injuries mount as the season progresses.

The schedule has also traditionally gotten tougher, as is the case again this year with the final four

games coming against North Carolina, NC State, six-time defending ACC champion Clemson and Boston College — with three of the four coming on the road.

They’ll get their first taste of life away from home and take another step up in competition when they travel to Virginia on Friday.

If there was ever a year in which Wake was equipped to run such a difficult gauntlet, it’s this one thanks to the return of nine “super seniors” who chose to use the extra year of eligibility given to them by the NCAA. “We’re coming,” said sophomore wide receiver A.T. Perry, who had a career day against Florida State with seven catches for 155 yards and a touchdown. “Just one game at a time, one practice at a time, making sure we get the right things down.”

Perry was one of four Deacons to get into the end zone against Florida State on Saturday. Donald Stewart was also on the receiving end of a Hartman touchdown pass while Christian Beal-Smith and Justice Ellison each ran for a score.

Wake is averaging 39.3 points in its first three games.

Scoring points in bunches is nothing new, however. The Deacons have broken or tied more than 300 records under Clawson and offensive coordinator Warren Ruggiero, and their past three full seasons — they only played nine games during the COVID-shortened 2020 campaign — were the three highest-scoring in school history.

What sets this year’s team apart is the way it has defended. After finishing 12th in the ACC at 32.8 points per game allowed last season, Wake has given up an average of just 13.3 points to its first three opponents. It also leads the league with six interceptions, with Caelen Carson, Nasir Greer and Traveon Redd getting one each against Florida State.

It’s a difference that’s been especially noticeable to Hartman.

“In camp there was some animosity (between the offense and defense) in a great way, going back and forth and competing with each other,” the veteran quarterback said. “When you see those guys succeed against someone that’s not you, it’s awesome. All across the board, it’s great to see.”

A rivalry is still a rivalry no matter when the game is played.

So even though the showdown between NC A&T and NC Central has been moved from its traditional spot at the end of the college football regular season to this Saturday, a switch precipitated by a change in conference affiliation, it still feels like the Aggie-Eagle Classic to those involved.

“It doesn’t matter if you play in November, December, January or February,” Central coach Trei Oliver said. “We could play this game after a basketball game, it doesn’t matter. People are going to show up and both teams are going to come to play.”

Saturday’s game in Greensboro will be the 92nd meeting between the historically black universities dating back to a 1313 tie in 1924.

It will be the first since 2010, however, in which the teams aren’t members of the same conference.

A&T left the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, a league it helped start a half-century ago, to become a member of the Big South this fall. But because of their shared history and the popularity of their annual matchup among fans on both sides, the schools have agreed to extend the series for at least 10 more years.

Next year’s meeting will be played at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte.

According to the coaches of both teams, the pageantry and intensity of the Aggie-Eagle will remain strong even without the added bonus of a potential league championship being on the line.

“We haven’t played a Big South opponent as of yet, so that has absolutely no bearing,” said A&T coach Sam Washington, whose team makes its new conference debut next week against Robert Morris.

“I haven’t even given it any thought that they’re not in our conference anymore,” Central’s Oliver added. “When we go down there, we’re going to try and beat the brakes off A&T and they’re going to try to do the same to us.

It’s a true rivalry. Neither school really cares for each other.”

Despite those feelings of contempt among the players, bands, alumni and most others affiliated with the Aggies and Eagles, the two coaching staffs have a healthy respect for one another.

ACC from page B1 around three times this season.

Both UNC-Louisville games are on Big Monday, including one that comes after UNC faces NC State the Saturday before. Carolina also has Monday games in back-to-back weeks in late February. Duke faces Virginia on Monday, two days after the first UNC game.

Tough stretches for N.C. teams

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Wake Forest receiver A.T. Perry reacts after a first down catch in second quarter of the Demon Deacons’ win over Florida State on Saturday.

NC State has back-to-back road games at Louisville and Duke in mid-January. The Wolfpack, which have frequently found themselves on the NCAA bubble down the stretch, closes with UNC at home followed by two road games — at Wake and Florida State.

Duke also has a tough closing stretch. Before hosting Carolina in an emotional final game at Cameron for Coach K, Duke has three straight road games, with Krzyzewski’s last trips to Virginia, Syracuse and Pitt, the latter game against former Coach K player and assistant Jeff Capel.

UNC’s final two weeks consist of games against Louisville, at NC State, home against Syracuse and at Duke.

Wake’s toughest stretch comes in January with the following seven games: FSU, Syracuse, Duke, at Virginia, at Georgia Tech, UNC and at Syracuse.

That’s because of the relationship that exists between the leaders of the two programs.

Washington served as Central’s defensive coordinator when Oliver was a defensive back and punter for the Eagles from 1994-97. After his playing career was over, Oliver later rejoined Washington, this time at A&T, as assistants under thencoach Rod Broadway.

Oliver refers to Washington as his mentor. But that only intensifies his motivation to win now that they’ve become rivals.

“I’ve had some success in my career and learned so much from him,” Oliver said of Washington.

“It would mean the world to beat your mentor. I’ve got a great relationship with those other guys on the staff over there. Those are all my guys, at least until about 6 o’clock Saturday.”

Oliver’s Eagles (2-1) are off to a promising start as they look to post their first winning season since 2017.

They opened the season with an impressive nationally televised upset of Alcorn State in the MEAC/SWAC Challenge in Atlanta before losing on the road at Marshall and eking out a 20-17 win against Division II Winston-Salem State last week.

While A&T has lost both of its first two games, the Aggies showed how good they can be by leading Duke for most of the first half in their most recent outing on Sept. 10 before running out of gas over the final 30 minutes in a 45-17 setback.

They had an open date last week to get a head start on preparations for Central.

“I thought intensity played a part in the Duke game,” Washington said. “We came out highly intense, but then it fell off. This week I’m looking at the intensity remaining throughout the entire ballgame. We’re going to start high and finish high.”

A&T has done just that in each of the past three meetings — winning them by a combined 123-10 margin. That includes 45-0 and 54-0 shutouts in 2018 and 2019, respectively. Last year’s game was canceled after both teams opted out of their seasons in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

“We’ll let other people talk about what the score was this year, that year or whatever the case may be,” Oliver said. “This is a different football team.”

It’s a change that hasn’t gone unnoticed by Washington and the Aggies.

“They’re a physical football team. They don’t mind mixing it up,” he said of the new-look Eagles. “I think their running game is really solid. They have four capable running backs and do a very good job up front. We have to be at our very best to be effective.”

Nonconference games to watch Other than Davis’ first at UNC, the nonconference slate for the in-state teams has some other can’t-miss gems. Davis will continue Roy Williams’ tradition of playing true road games with a trip to the College of Charleston. The Heels also face a loaded field in the Hall of Fame Tipoff, opening with Purdue and then getting either Villanova or Tennessee the next day.

NC State drew Nebraska at home in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge but plays a more daunting Big Ten foe 11 days later when the Pack face Purdue in Brooklyn.

State also has Oklahoma State in Connecticut early in the season.

Duke opens with Kentucky at Madison Square Garden in the Champions Classic. The first home game will be against Coach K’s alma mater and first head coaching stop — Army.

The Blue Devils also head to Las Vegas in late November to play Gonzaga.

Wake Forest plays eight nonconference home games, including the Big Ten Challenge against Northwestern. The only time it leaves the state is to play in the Emerald Coast Classic in Destin, Florida, against Oregon State and then either Penn State or LSU. The only other time the Deacs leave Lawrence Joel Coliseum is to play Charlotte in the Spectrum Center in December.

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Revamped Hurricanes open training camp Carolina made several additions and subtractions this offseason with the hopes of advancing further in the playoffs

By Cory Lavalette North State Journal RALEIGH — The NHL gets back to its usual 82-game schedule this season, but the team returning to the ice for the Carolina Hurricanes will look unfamiliar from the one that was eliminated in five games by the eventual champion Tampa Bay Lightning in early June.

The goaltending depth chart has been completely turned over, the defense has been overhauled, and GM Don Waddell and the front office cut ties with a handful of longtime forwards and added both experience and potential in their place.

That leaves a lot of questions as training camp opens this week. Let’s try and answer some of them.

Who’s that behind me?

In the spirit of Halloween, the Hurricanes will have three unknown masked men looming behind them on the ice. Gone are Petr Mrazek, Alex Nedeljkovic and James Reimer, and in their place comes Frederik Andersen, Antti Raanta and Alex Lyon.

Much of what happens in 202122 will hinge on whether or not Carolina made the right move in walking away from Mrazek and Reimer while trading a Calder Trophy finalist in Nedeljkovic.

The good news is Andersen has the best track record of the lot.

Andersen, who will be 33 when the season opens at PNC Arena against the Islanders on Oct. 14, is one of two goalies in NHL history with more than 200 wins and 100 or fewer losses. His 226100-48 record is behind only Ken Dryden’s 258-57-74 mark with the Canadiens dynasty of the 1970s, and the 6-foot-4 Dane has been a winner at every stop.

Raanta, meanwhile, has had moments of brilliance in a career that has often been derailed by injuries. When he’s on, he’s among the best, and when he’s hurt — well, the Hurricanes have a career-long No. 3 in Alex Lyon waiting to help out.

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More than 11 years after he was drafted by Carolina, goaltender Frederik Andersen will finally play for the Hurricanes this season.

From Dougie to DeAngelo Dougie Hamilton — along with the 42 goals and 121 points he had in three seasons for Carolina — is gone to New Jersey on a deal that will pay him $63 million over seven seasons. Can Tony DeAngelo — cast aside by the Rangers and perhaps on his last chance in the NHL — fill some of that void?

Talent-wise, the right-handed defender could. The 25-year-old had 53 points in just 68 games 2019-20, a season total even Hamilton hasn’t reached in his career.

And where does he fit? Is it next to Jaccob Slavin on the top pairing, or will he be in a more sheltered evenstrength role?

Carolina has options on the right side thanks to the addition of Ethan Bear, acquired from Edmonton for Warren Foegele in the offseason.

The Hurricanes added more veteran guile and grit on the left side

by signing Ian Cole and Brendan Smith. Jake Gardiner, who in two seasons has been unable to be a complementary offensive defenseman due to various ailments, is on long-term injured reserve with hip and back problems.

One sheet to the wind Speaking of LTIR, the cap space created by Gardiner’s absence opened the door for Carolina to successfully land 2018 third overall pick Jesperi Kotkaniemi from Montreal via a hostile offer sheet.

The one-year, $6.1 million deal will be difficult for the 21-year-old Finn to live up to, but the Hurricanes don’t see the acquisition in terms of dollars and cents. Kotkaniemi will likely start on the wing as coach Rod Brind’Amour tries to build back his confidence and tap into the potential he has exhibited during three seasons with the Canadiens.

Thursday night lights for Panthers

serious test against a Power Five opponent.

Despite coming into the Mississippi State game with high hopes following a 45-0 shutout of South Florida in its season opener, State saw its confidence take an early hit when the Bulldogs’ Lideatrick Griffin ran the opening kickoff back 100 yards for a touchdown.

The team never fully recovered from the early setback. To make

Glimpse at the future

After winning the Central Division last season, Carolina is back in the Metropolitan — and a look around the division shows the Hurricanes could again find themselves on top after the regular season.

Washington and Pittsburgh both

The third-round draft pick entered Sunday’s game in the third quarter, which isn’t much film for Carolina coaches to work with.

Rhule said the staff hasn’t resorted to watching tape of Mills from Stanford … yet. They’ve been looking at film of preseason games, however.

“This is a short week,” Rhule emphasized. “Especially early in the year, you have a lot of questions about who the other team is and what they do.”

With all the added difficulty of playing on Thursday, the benefits are twofold. First, the team will get some national television exposure as the only NFL game on the air at the time. Coming off of two down seasons, the Panthers will get to show the rest of the league — and the country — how their rebuild is progressing.

While everyone likes the attention, the real carrot for the players is the prospect of what happens after Thursday. The team essentially gets the weekend off while everyone else is playing. With an extra three days to rest, the Panthers will get a mini-bye heading into Week 4.

“You have to fit a full week of install and a full week of meetings into a short amount of time, but at the same time, on the back end, you get more days off for the next game,” McCaffrey said. “It has its perks as well. At the end of the day, it is what it is. We’ve got to just roll with the punches, and whatever the week asks of us, we’ve just got to dominate the week and go out get ready to play ball on Thursday.”

ing to force the ball down the field,” the State coach said. “I think sometimes that blitz package, that pass rush and the number of plays they make in their front can get you conservative.

“You’ve got to take the things that are there so you can stay in manageable situations, but you also have to take your shots when they present themselves and you’ve got to make some plays.”

Something they couldn’t do at Mississippi State.

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Christian McCaffrey said. “Everything I would do during a normal Sunday-to-Sunday seven-day week, the window’s tighter to do that. You have to double up on some days on treatments, the pool work, contrast (between the hot tub and cold tub), all that stuff. …

Really, it’s all day, every day, just getting right for Thursday.”

matters worse, State also lost two of its top defensive players — linebacker Payton Wilson and safety Cyrus Fagan — to season-ending injuries in the game.

The Wolfpack managed to get some of their mojo back last Saturday by rolling to another lopsided victory against an overmatched opponent.

While it’s doubtful that the 45-7 win against Furman will have any appreciable impact on this week’s game, it will at least help put State

in a better frame of mind heading into what will likely be the most important game of its season.

“It was great to get back in rhythm after last week,” running back Zonovan Knight said after rushing for 104 yards and a touchdown against the Paladins.

“We weren’t really functional as an offense (at Mississippi State), so to get back out there and get a rhythm, it’s definitely giving us a positive mindset going into next week.”

It’s going to take more than just a positive outlook for Knight, quarterback Devin Leary and the rest of the Wolfpack offense to finally get their team over the Clemson hump.

The key to success, Doeren said, is to stay on the attack and not be intimidated by a Tigers defense that is the only one in the country yet to allow an offensive touchdown this season.

“You’ve got to be aggressive when you want to go make big plays. You can’t let them scare you out of try-

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Coach Matt Rhule has the Panthers off to a 2-0 start, but Carolina faces a short week with Thursday’s visit to Houston to face the Texans.

continue to age, and the Blue Jackets are in full rebuild mode. The Rangers, Devils and Flyers could compete for a playoff spot, but none have the look of a division winner.

Carolina’s main competition will likely be the Islanders, who added veterans Zdeno Chara and Zach Parise to an already veteran-laden lineup.

While Carolina’s roster seems close to set heading into camp, that doesn’t mean there won’t be intriguing young players to watch in the preseason. The team’s most recent first-round picks, Seth Jarvis and Ryan Suzuki, will both try to beat the odds and make the team, and forwards Jack Drury, David Cotton and Jamieson Rees along with defenseman Joey Keane and Jesper Sellgren are all worth keeping an eye on.

here (Sunday) night and guys were here getting a head start on their treatment.”

It’s part of the challenge of fitting a week’s worth of work into about four days.

“Really, just whatever you’d do in a full week, you’ve got to condense that into the short amount of time you have,” running back

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And while we’re talking a lot of money, Andrei Svechnikov has exactly that. Picked right before Kotkaniemi in the draft three years ago, the Russian winger has a new eight-year contract extension that will pay him an average of $7.75 million annually.

For his career, Svechnikov has scored at about a 24-goal pace for an 82-game season, and the expectation will be for the young Russian to grow into a 30-goal scorer as soon as this year.

Recovering from the beating a player’s body takes on Sunday already seems like a full-time job.

But it goes into overtime in a short week.

“The treatments are longer,” McCaffrey said. “An hour-long treatment, an hour-long chiropractor session turns into two hours. It starts earlier, and it kind of goes all the way up to the game.”

McCaffrey is just returning from a series of injuries that caused him to miss most of last season. Playing in back-to-back weeks for the first time in a long time, he missed time during Sunday’s game with cramping.

“Honestly, I just had some onset cramps, I wasn’t fully cramping or anything,” he said. “We just thought it was best, just precautionary, to go in there (the locker room) and pluck a couple of IVs into me, just in case so we can roll for the fourth quarter. We tried to do that really quickly, tried to do it right at the end of the third (quarter) so we could make it back for the fourth.”

Now, McCaffrey will be suiting up again with even less recovery time. In 100 hours, to be exact.

“Obviously, short week, really important that you get your body back,” he said.

The opponent also presents a bit of a preparation problem.

The Texans were already starting backup Tyrod Taylor, with Deshaun Watson sidelined by legal problems. Taylor injured his hamstring on Sunday, however, and rookie Davis Mills will get his first NFL start.

Carolina battles a short week to prepare for its national TV game against the Texans

BY THE TIME the Carolina Panthers completed their 2-0 start to the season, the clock was already ticking.

The Panthers play in this week’s Thursday Night Football game, which will kick off a little over 100 hours after Sunday’s game ended.

That’s not a lot of time for a team to recover from an NFC South rivalry game and prepare for a Texans team that has opened 1-1.

Making matters even more challenging, the game will be the Panthers’ first road game, with travel to Houston eating away at some of the time available.

“Phil (Snow, Panthers defensive coordinator) finished the game (Sunday), showered and came upstairs to the office to start working on the Texans,” coach Matt Rhule said. “The defensive coaches were working on the Texans last week after the Saints prep was done.”

The players also put in overtime on Sunday.

“After the game, players want to see their families,” Rhule said.

“I’m never going to tell guys not to see their families but I came in

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RESTRICTIONS from page B5 ery both in the U.S. and abroad and the reunification of families who have been separated for more than 18 months.”

Worldwide, air travel is still down more than half from pre-pandemic levels, and the decline is much sharper for cross-border flying. By July, domestic travel had recovered to 84% of 2019 numbers, but international travel was just 26% of the same month two years ago, according to figures this month from the airline industry’s main global trade group, the International Air Transport Association.

The numbers are similar but not quite as stark for the U.S., where international travel in August was 46% of that in August 2019, according to Airlines for America. Arrivals by nonU.S. citizens were only 36% of the 2019 level.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted that he was “delighted” by the news. He said: “It’s a fantastic boost for business and trade, and great that family and friends on both sides of the pond can be reunited once again.”

Airlines hailed the U.S. decision as a lifeline for the struggling industry. Tim Alderslade, chief executive of industry body Airlines U.K. said it was “a major breakthrough.”

Shai Weiss, chief executive of Virgin Atlantic, said it was “a major milestone. ... The U.K. will now be able to strengthen ties with our most important economic partner, the U.S., boosting trade and tourism as well as reuniting friends, families and business colleagues.”

“The travel bans were really behind the times,’’ said Maka Hutson, counsel specializing in immigration issues at the law firm Akin Gump. She said they were very frustrating to European executives who’d been vaccinated but still couldn’t fly to the United States to conduct business.

The changes also drew praise from business groups, who have been contending with labor shortages as the economy bounces back with unexpected strength from last year’s coronavirus recession. U.S. employers have been posting job openings — a record 10.9 million in July — faster than applicants can fill them.

Myron Brilliant, head of international affairs for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said in a statement, “Allowing vaccinated foreign nationals to travel freely to the United States will help foster a robust and durable recovery for the American economy.”

DEBT BILL from page B5 other natural disasters, as well as money to help defray the evacuations from Afghanistan. Tacking on legislative language to allow more borrowing would cover the nation’s debt payments through 2022.

By withholding votes, Schumer said, “what Republicans are doing is nothing short of a dine-and-dash of historic proportions.”

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said he’s not about to help pay off past debts when Biden is about to pile on more with a

By Christopher Rugaber The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Reserve is reviewing the ethics policies that govern the financial holdings and activities of its senior officials in the wake of recent disclosures that two regional Fed presidents engaged in extensive trading last year.

Robert Kaplan, president of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, in 2020 traded millions of dollars of stock in companies such as Apple, Amazon, and Google, while Eric Rosengren, president of the Boston Fed, traded in stocks and real estate investment trusts, according to financial disclosure forms.

Both pledged last week to divest those holdings after they were reported by The Wall Street Journal.

Comments made by Fed regional presidents can move markets and they have a hand in the Fed’s interest rate policies. Such high-placed officials often have exclusive access to discussions about upcoming policy shifts that could benefit or be detrimental to some economic sectors, though they are prohibited from trading on that knowledge and are unable to trade in the period leading up to Fed meetings.

Both Kaplan and Rosengren said last week that their trades were permitted under the Fed’s ethics rules. But they also said they would sell their holdings the end of this month and place the money in index funds, which track a wide range of securities, or in cash.

Still, the trades occurred last year when the Fed took extraordinary steps to buoy the U.S. economy and stabilize financial markets during the pandemic. The central bank cut its short-term benchmark interest rate to zero in March 2020 and has since purchased trillions of dollars in Treasury securities and mortgage-backed bonds to hold down longer-term interest rates.

One impact of those policies has been to make stocks a more attractive investment relative to bonds, which provide very little return when interest rates are low.

The Fed has come under criticism for worsening wealth inequality by pushing up the value of stock port-

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The Fed’s purchase of mortgage-backed bonds, which are issued by mortgage buyers such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, has been criticized by some other regional bank presidents for contributing to the run-up in home prices in the past year. One investment that Rosengren made was in real estate investment trust Annaly Capital Management, which also purchased those same securities.

In a prepared statement Thursday, the Fed said that Chair Jerome Powell late last week requested a “fresh and comprehensive look at the ethics rules around permissible financial holdings and activities by senior Fed officials.”

The statement came after letters were sent Wednesday by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, to all 12 regional Fed banks, urging that they ban the ownership of stocks by senior officials.

“The controversy over asset trading by high-level Fed personnel highlights why it is neces-

sary to ban ownership and trading of individual stocks by senior officials who are supposed to serve the public interest,” Warren’s letter said. Warren has introduced legislation that would bar stock ownership by members of Congress, Cabinet Secretaries, and other high-ranking officials.

Under the Fed’s complex structure, the 12 regional banks are chartered as private organizations but are overseen by the Federal Reserve’s board in Washington, known as the Board of Governors.

The regional banks have their own codes of conduct, though they are largely identical to the rules that govern the Fed’s board.

The Board of Governors follows the same rules on investing and trading as other government agencies, but also follows additional rules “that are stricter than those that apply to Congress and other agencies,” the Fed said Thursday.

Fed officials, for example, cannot invest in banks, many of which are supervised by the Fed. They are also prohibited from making

trades during a roughly 10-day period before each Fed meeting, and are not supposed to hold a security for less than 30 days.

Kaplan worked for 23 years at Goldman Sachs before joining Harvard Business School in 2006. He then became president of the Dallas Fed in September 2015. The government’s disclosure forms allow officials to provide their holdings in ranges, so the precise values aren’t available. But at the end of 2020, Kaplan owned at least $1 million worth of 24 different stocks and funds, including Apple, Chinese ecommerce firm Alibaba, Boeing, Chevron, Facebook, and Johnson & Johnson. He also owned a stake in the Kansas City Royals baseball team worth at least $1 million.

Rosengren started working at the Boston Fed as an economist in the research department in 1985, and has been president since 2007.

His holdings at the end of last year were much smaller than Kaplan’s but include shares of Chevron, Pfizer, Phillips 66, and several real estate investment trusts.

J&J: Booster dose of its COVID shot prompts strong response The Associated Press LONDON — Johnson & Johnson said Tuesday that a booster of its one-shot coronavirus vaccine provides a stronger immune response months after people receive a first dose.

J&J said in statement that an extra dose — given either two months or six months after the initial shot — revved up protection. The results haven’t yet been published or vetted by other scientists.

The J&J vaccine was considered an important tool in fighting the pandemic because it requires only one shot. But even as rollout began in the U.S. and elsewhere, the company already was running a global test of whether a two-dose course might be more effective — the second dose given 56 days after the first.

That two-dose approach was 75% effective globally at preventing moderate to severe COVID-19, and 95% effective in the U.S. alone, the company reported — a difference likely due to which variants were circulating in different countries during the monthslong study.

Examined a different way, the company said when people got a second J&J shot two months after the first, levels of virus-fighting antibodies rose four to six times higher. But giving a booster dose six months after the first J&J shot

“reckless” tax and spending package.

“Since Democrats decided to go it alone, they will not get Senate Republicans’ help with raising the debt limit. I’ve explained this clearly and consistently for over two months,” McConnell said Monday on the Senate floor.

Meanwhile, behind the scenes, Democrats are negotiating among themselves over Biden’s big $3.5 trillion package as the price tag likely slips to win over skeptical centrist lawmakers who view it as too much.

The proposal would impose

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In this March 26, 2021, file photo a member of the Philadelphia Fire Department prepares a dose of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination site setup in Philadelphia. yielded a 12-fold increase.

While the single-dose vaccine remains strongly effective, “a booster shot further increases protection against COVID-19 and is expected to extend the duration of protection significantly,” Dr. Paul Stoffels, J&J’s chief scientific officer, said in a statement.

The company previously published data showing its one-shot dose provided protection for up to eight months after immunization.

It also pointed to recent real-world data showing 79% protection against coronavirus infection and

tax hikes on corporations and wealthy Americans earning beyond $400,000 a year and plow that money back into federal programs for young and old. It would increase and expand government health, education and family support programs for households, children and seniors, and boost environmental infrastructure programs to fight climate change.

With party-line opposition to Biden’s sweeping vision, Democrats have no votes to spare in the Senate, and just a few votes’ margin in the House.

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81% protection against COVID-19 hospitalization in the U.S. even as the extra-contagious delta variant began spreading.

J&J said it has provided the data to regulators including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the European Medicines Agency and others to inform decisions about boosters.

J&J’s one-dose vaccine is approved for use in the U.S. and across Europe, and there are plans for at least 200 million doses to be shared with the U.N.-backed COVAX effort aimed at distributing

vote on a companion bill, a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill of public works projects that enjoys widespread support from both parties in the Senate, though House Republicans mostly oppose it.

Even though that bipartisan bill should be an easy legislative lift, it too faces a political obstacle course. Dozens of lawmakers in the Congressional Progressive Caucus are expected to vote against it if it comes ahead of the broader Biden package. But centrists won’t vote for the broader package unless they are assured the bipartisan bill will also be included.

vaccines to poor countries. But the company has been plagued by production problems and millions of doses made at a troubled factory in Baltimore had to be thrown out.

As the delta variant spread worldwide, numerous governments have considered the use of booster shots for many of the COVID-19 vaccine options.

Last week, advisers to the FDA recommended people 65 and older get a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer and German partner BioNTech. A final decision is pending.

Britain previously authorized booster shots for people 50 and over and to priority groups like health workers and those with other health conditions. Countries including Israel, France and Germany have also begun offering third vaccine doses to some people.

The World Health Organization has urged rich countries to stop giving booster doses until at least the end of the year, saying vaccines should immediately be redirected to Africa, where fewer than 4% of the population is fully vaccinated.

Last week in the journal Lancet, top scientists from the WHO and FDA argued that the average person doesn’t need a booster shot and that the authorized vaccines to date provide strong protection against severe COVID-19, hospitalization and death.

“Since Democrats decided to go it alone, they will not get Senate Republicans’ help with raising the debt limit.

I’ve explained this clearly and consistently for over two months.”

Mitch McConnell

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A race car for the road If a regular Lamboghini isn’t hardcore enough

By Jordan Golson North State Journal ROSAMUND, Calif. — It’s easy to think of Lamborghini as the flashy supercar for people who are more concerned with showing off than going fast.

And this is probably true if we’re honest. Head to any Cars & Coffee event, and you’ll see plenty of Lambos but far fewer Ferraris.

There are many track-focused, but road-legal Ferrari and McLaren cars adorned with names like Speciale and Longtail.

It’s not that Lamborghini cars are slow. Far from it, the Lamborghini Huracan Performante set a (since-broken) production car lap record at the Nurburgring with a time of 6:52:01. But none of the more than 17,500 Huracans sold have ever been so specifically designed for racing as the new Huracan STO that I was able to drive last week at Willow Springs Raceway.

STO stands for Super Trofeo Omologata, and it’s a road-legal rocket ship taking inspiration from both the Huracan ST Evo and Huracan GT3 race cars — the latter of which won the 24 Hours of Daytona three years in a row.

Lamborghini Chief Technical Officer Maurizio Reggiani says the STO improves on the Performante in braking, lap time, consistency of performance, aerodynamics, and overall chassis control, which is impressive considering how able the Performante is.

Gone are the active aerodynamic pieces in favor of an enormous rear wing that can be quickly adjusted to three different positions with a screwdriver. It generates an astonishing 926 pounds of downforce at its maximum setting, double that of the Performante.

That helps put the power down

at the car’s rear while simultaneously providing 37 percent better aerodynamic efficiency over the Performante. That means there’s more downforce but comparably less drag, which is the magic formula for Going Faster.

An air scoop above the engine gobbles up cool air from the top of the car and runs it over the top of the 640-horsepower naturally aspirated V10 to help maximize cooling when out on the track.

Making 75 percent of the body out of carbon fiber, ripping out the carpets and replacing the door handle with a floppy red piece of cloth helped reduce overall vehicle weight by nearly 95 pounds.

The body panels at the front of the car have been combined into one enormous carbon fiber piece.

The two front fenders, hood, and front bumper are joined together into one vast bit of carbon fiber.

This means far fewer brackets and mounting points are needed, and there are no panel gaps to mess up that precious airflow. It also means that cargo space (already at a premium in the regular Huracan) is reduced to one cubic foot, or roughly enough room for a crash helmet and very little else.

There’s also a considerable

amount of clever technology meant to get you set up for the track when you pull off the street.

Because most people don’t have an entire race team helping them set up, the goal was to get the whole car ready for maximum attack with the flip of a switch.

On the steering wheel are three settings: STO, Trofeo, and Pioggia. They roughly translate to Street, Track, and Wet. In STO, the transmission stays in automatic mode, the traction and stability control modes are all active and protecting you, and the car is a dream to drive. It’s almost docile.

But with a single touch to Trofeo, the car gets red and angry, ready to charge. Track-oriented pedal maps (for more direct and predictable throttle response) are activated, the Magneride suspension firms up, and the transmission locks into full manual mode.

And then it gets really clever.

Lamborghini’s engineers fitted the car with rear-wheel steering, but then it was tuned to approximate real-time adjustment of toe and camber angle setups (how the tire touches the ground, basically) to optimize performance on the track versus street. This is something that a bunch of expensive

race engineers would do to an actual race car, but the STO allows drivers to do it with a toggle of the drive mode.

This is also true for the Torque Vectoring system. Using subtle braking on the rear wheels during turns, the system can simulate changes to the differential to maximize traction. Again, it allows the driver to get a race car feel out of a street car with a single button press.

The effect is intoxicating. After taking a lap in STO mode, I toggled to Trofeo, and it was like driving a different car. It wasn’t slow before, but it was a whole different beast once I set it up for the track. Turn in was sharper and more precise, the throttle was predictable, and the downforce was mind-boggling.

I was able to launch into and out of corners at speeds my brain could scarcely believe, and the faster I went, the happier it was.

And when I ran out of bravery, the Formula One-derived carbon-ceramic brakes were happy to slow things down.

New on the STO is a traffic-light green/yellow/red system that watches brake temps for each wheel, advising on the center

screen whether you’ve gotten a bit too enthusiastic and need to take a few cooling laps. Reggiani said he could never make the system go red through all the development and testing of the car, which is a testament to all the cooling tricks Lamborghini’s engineers have stuffed into this car.

But perhaps the coolest part of the STO is a new connected telemetry feature. The car has onboard cameras looking at both the steering wheel from behind the driver and at the road ahead, and the STO can record both live telemetry and video from racing laps.

This part isn’t particularly unique.

But because the car has an onboard data connection, it’ll upload your recordings in real-time to the cloud, where you can look at and analyze them on your phone.

And, best of all, you can share those videos with your friends or post ‘em on social media. Ah, now we’re back on firmer Lamborghini ground with what the Huracan does best: showing off.

We’ll have to wait and see what the new Huracan STO does at the Nurburgring, but don’t be surprised if Lamborghini throws down another production car record.

North State Journal for Wednesday, September 22, 2021

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Brett Goldstein, Hannah Waddingham, Jason Sudeikis, Juno Temple and the cast and crew from “Ted Lasso” pose with their awards for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series, outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series, outstanding lead actor in a comedy series and outstanding comedy series at the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021, at L.A. Live in Los Angeles.

Emmys: ‘Crown,’ ‘Lasso,’ ‘Queen’s Gambit,’ streaming triumph The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Netflix’s “The Crown” and “The Queen’s Gambit” combined with Apple TV+’s “Ted Lasso” to sweep top series honors at the Sunday’s Emmy Awards, a first for streaming services that cemented their rise to prominence in the television industry.

“I’m at a loss for words,” said Peter Morgan, the creator and writer of the British royal saga “The Crown,” which collected acting, writing and directing awards in addition to four acting honors.

His comment may also apply to the premium cable channels that once ruled the Emmy Awards and to the broadcast networks — including Sunday’s ceremony host, CBS — that have long grown accustomed to being largely also-rans.

Netflix won a leading total of 44 awards, equaling the broadcast network record set back in 1974, by CBS. The streaming service, which fielded the first drama series nominee, “House of Cards” in 2007, finally won the category.

Newcomer Apple TV+’s first top series came less than two years after it launched.

“The Crown” and “The Queen’s Gambit” tied as leaders with 11 awards each, with “Ted Lasso” topping the comedy side with sev-

en trophies.

“The Queen’s Gambit” made Anya Taylor-Joy a star and Emmy nominee for her portrayal of a troubled chess prodigy. Executive producer William Horberg singled her out in his acceptance speech.

“You brought the sexy back to chess, and you inspired a whole generation of girls and young women to realize that patriarchy has no defense against our queens.” he said.

There was a bright spot for HBO with its limited series “Mare of Easttown,” the crime drama that earned four Emmys, including a lead acting award for star Kate Winslet. For broadcaster NBC, “Saturday Night Live” again came through with variety honors.

Cedric the Entertainer proved a game host, moving from a hiphop opening number to gags and sketches, but the relatively small crowd — a result of pandemic precautions — was fairly muted in their response to him and others’ one-liners.

There was a feeling of personal sadness that pervaded the night, with a number of winners recounting the loss of loved ones.

“The Crown” stars Olivia Colman and Josh O’Connor won the top drama acting honors Sunday, with Jason Sudeikis, star of the warm-hearted “Ted Lasso,” and Jean Smart of the generation-gap

story “Hacks,” winners on the comedy side.

Colman and O’Connor were a winning fictional mother-son duo: She plays Queen Elizabeth II, with O’Connor as Prince Charles in the British royal family saga that combines gravitas and soap opera.

“I’d have put money on that not happening,” Colman said of the award, calling it “a lovely end to the most extraordinary journey” with the show’s cast and creators. She cut her remarks short, explaining why she was growing tearful.

“I lost my daddy during COVID, and he would have loved all of this.” she said.

O’Connor gave a shoutout to Emma Corrin, who played opposite him as Princess Diana and was also a nominee Sunday, as a “force of nature.”

Sudeikis co-created “Ted Lasso,” which many viewers found a balm for tough pandemic times.

He gave a speech that evoked the chipper, upbeat title character he plays in the series about a U.K. soccer team and its unlikely American coach.

“This show’s about families and mentors and teammates, and I wouldn’t be here without those things in my life,” said Sudeikis.

He also thanked his fellow castmates, saying, “I’m only as good as you guys make me look.”

Gillian Anderson and Tobias

Menzies were honored for their supporting performances on “The Crown.”

Anderson, who played British political leader Margaret Thatcher, was one of numerous cast members to accept from a “Crown” gathering in London. Menzies who plays Prince Philip, didn’t attend either ceremony.

Before announcing the winner in his category, presenter Kerry Washington paid tribute to another nominee, Michael K. Williams of “Lovecraft County.” Williams died Sept. 6 at age 54.

“Michael was a brilliantly talented actor and a generous human being who has left us far too soon,” Washington said.

Another lost star was remembered by John Oliver of “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.”

“No one was funnier in the last 20 years than Norm Macdonald on late-night comedy,” Oliver said in accepting the Emmy for best variety talk show, suggesting people spend time checking out clips of Macdonald, as he did after Macdonald died Sept. 14 at age 61.

Kate Winslet, who played the title character in “Mare of Easttown,” and Ewan McGregor, who starred in the fashion biopic “Halston,” were honored as top actors for a limited series.

Winslet saluted her sister nominees in “this decade that has to be

about women having each other’s back.”

Julianne Nicholson and Evan Peters claimed best supporting acting honors for “Mare of Easttown,” about crime and family dysfunction. Both she and Peters praised star Winslet as an actor and colleague.

Debbie Allen received the Governors Award for a long and acclaimed career as an actor, dancer, choreographer and activist.

“I am trembling with gratitude and grace and trying not to cry ... it’s been many years in the making, taken a lot of courage to be the only woman in the room most of the time. Courage and creative and fight and faith to believe I could keep going, and I have,” she said.

The show opened with a musical number that featured Cedric the Entertainer rapping a modified version of the Biz Markie hip-hop hit “Just a Friend” with lyrics like “TV, you got what I need.” LL Cool J bounded from the audience as stars including Rita Wilson, Mandy Moore and more dropped verses celebrating the breadth of television.

Seth Rogen presented the first award, throwing some cold water on the celebratory vibe by noting that the Emmys were being held in a giant tent. “There’s way too many of us in this little room,” he exclaimed in what seemed to be an attempt to be funny that fell flat.

In the cumulative awards handed out Sunday and at the previously-held creative arts events, the outlets that followed Netflix included HBO and HBO Max with 19 combined awards; Disney+ with 14; Apple TV+, 10; NBC, 8.

Apple’s next iPhone mirrors last year’s, adds more storage The Associated Press SAN RAMON, Calif. — Apple unveiled its next iPhone line-up, including a model that offers twice the storage available in earlier versions and other modest upgrades to last year’s editions that proved to be a big hit among consumers devouring the latest technology during the pandemic.

The pre-recorded video event streamed Tuesday gave Apple a chance to present a polished story following a turbulent few weeks.

The recent bumps included a hastily patched security vulnerability that could let hackers secretly take control of iPhones and other Apple devices; a backlash to the company’s plans to scan iPhones for images of child sex abuse and a federal judge’s ruling that chipped away further at the competitive barrier Apple built around its app store, which generates billions of dollars in profits each year.

As has been the case since Apple’s late co-founder unveiled the first iPhone in 2007, Apple executives talked reverently about the latest model, even though it isn’t dramatically different from the version Apple released nearly a year ago.

Like last year’s model, the new

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Seen on the screen of a device in La Habra, Calif., new iPhone 13 smartphones are introduced during a virtual event held to announce new Apple products Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. iPhone 13 will come in four different designs, with prices starting from $700 to $1,100. They’re scheduled to be in stores September 24.

“It’s an incremental upgrade,” said Gartner analyst Tuong Nguyen. “Some of the new features are

impressive, but most of them are not noticeable or practical for most users.”

Possibly the most notable change in the latest high-end iPhone 13 will be an option for a full terabyte of storage — that’s 1,000 gigabytes — on the device, up from its pre-

vious maximum of 512 gigabytes.

That’s enough storage to accommodate roughly 250,000 photos, or about 500 hours of high definition video.

Having a massive amount of storage could become more important to many consumers with the advent of ultra-high definition video and ultrafast wireless 5G networks that will make downloading content faster and easier, Nguyen said.

Apple is also promising better cameras on the iPhone 13, including an improved ultrawide lens, a cinematic-like video feature and technology for better nighttime pictures. (The latter mirrors a feature Google has long offered in its line of Pixel phones, which haven’t been big sellers yet.) As usual, the latest iPhones are supposed to have longer-lasting batteries, too.

“We keep making the iPhone more capable,” Apple CEO Tim Cook boasted.

These kinds of incremental upgrades have become routine for Apple and other device makers in recent years as the pace of smartphone innovation slowed, even while prices for some phones have climbed above $1,000. That trend has prompted more consumers to

hold on to their older smartphones for longer periods.

But the release of last year’s iPhone 12 unleashed one of Apple’s biggest sales spurts since 2014, possibly because the pandemic helped make homebound people realize it was time to get a newer and better model than what they had been using. Through the first six months of this year, Apple’s iPhone sales have surged by nearly 60% from the same time last year.

That boom has helped push Apple’s stock price near its all-time highs recently, giving the company a market value of about $2.5 trillion -- more than twice what it was before the pandemic began 18 months ago.

Apple’s shares dipped 1% Tuesday in a sign that that investors weren’t excited by what they saw in the new iPhones.

Although the iPhone is still by far Apple’s biggest moneymaker, the company has been trying to supplement its success with peripheral products such as its smartwatch. The Cupertino, California, company used Tuesday’s showcase to provide a preview of its next Apple Watch, which will feature a thinner, more rounded and brighter display.

North State Journal for Wednesday, September 22, 2021

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CABARRUS IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION CABARRUS COUNTY 21SP204 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY LATINA S. SISINYAK DATED MARCH 3, 2006 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 6587 AT PAGE 337 IN THE CABARRUS COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in

CUMBERLAND 19 SP 424 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Eric S. Nkusi to Jennifer Kirby Fincher, PLLC, Trustee(s), which was dated August 6, 2013 and recorded on August 7, 2013 in Book 09264 at Page 0081, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 20 SP 147

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Roland B. Barrett and Elizabeth S. Barrett (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Robert Franklin Raper) to Trustee Services of Carolina, Trustee(s), dated May 20, 2004, and recorded in Book No. 6537, at Page 828 in Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Cumberland County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Fayetteville, Cumberland County,

15 SP 789 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Brian Scott Remson and April A. Remson to The Law Offices of Daniel A. Fulco, PLLC, Trustee(s), which was dated June 15, 2006 and recorded on June 27, 2006 in Book 7281 at Page 461, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 18 SP 1491

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Neil Clark Gerke and Lynn L. C. Gerke to Michael Lyon, Trustee(s), dated the 19th day of December, 2011, and recorded in Book 08798, Page 0309, and Modification in Book 10184, Page 0382, in Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Cumberland County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in the City of Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, or the customary

the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secureddebt,theundersignedsubstitutetrusteewillexpose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:00AM on September 29, 2021 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Latina S. Sisinyak, dated March 3, 2006 to secure the original principal amount of $132,500.00, and recorded in Book 6587 at Page 337 of the Cabarrus County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: Rd North, Mount Pleasant, NC 28124

200 Moose

evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on October 6, 2021 at 01:30 PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Lot 350 in a subdivision known as LAKESHORES, SECTION 4, PHASE 1, according to a plat duly recorded in Book of Plats 58, Page 103 Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 634 Georgetown Circle, Fayetteville, NC 28314.

North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on October 4, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Fayetteville in the County of Cumberland, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 76 in a subdivision known as Wessex Place, and the same being duly recorded in Book of Plats 93, Page 107, Cumberland County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 6333 Bent Tree Drive, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities

A certified check only (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are ERIC S NKUSI.

The date of this Notice is August 26, 2021. LLG Trustee LLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 20-109526

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SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b) (2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include,

but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Aaron B. Anderson Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5710 Oleander Drive, Ste. 204 Wilmington, NC 28403 Phone: (910) 202-2940 Fax: (910) 202 2941 File No.: 19-02662-FC01

courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on October 6, 2021 at 01:30 PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit:

($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED.

Being all of Lot 23 in a Subdivision known as Pinewood Lakes Sub-Div., Section I and the same being duly recorded in Book of Plats 27, Page 49, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Brian Scott Remson and wife, April A. Remson.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b) (2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 4958 Pinewood Drive, Hope Mills, NC 28348.

A certified check only (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars

location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on September 27, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Cumberland, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Tax Id Number(s): 0405-08-1616 Land Situated in the Township of Rockfish in the County of Cumberland in the State of NC Being all of Lot 348 in a subdivision known as Arran Lakes West, Section 6, according to a plat of the same duly recorded in Book of Plats 52, Page 82, Cumberland County Public Registry, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 2162 Baywater Drive, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Commonly known as: 2162 Baywater Drive, Fayetteville, NC 28304 Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS 45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by NCGS 7A-308(a)(1).

BEING ALL OF LOT NO. 126 IN A SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS WATERS EDGE, SECTION 2, F, PART 2, ACCORDING TO PLAT OF THE SAME DULY RECORDED IN BOOK OF PLATS 53, PAGE 11 IN THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA. A.P.N. #: 0407-07-1543

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 6004 Dalton Road, Fayetteville, NC 28314.

A certified check only (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY 21 SP 105

undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Cumberland County, North Carolina, at 2:00PM on September 28, 2021, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property, to wit:

Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Aris Professional Investment Group, LLC, in the original amount of $105,000.00, payable to 5 Arch Funding Corp, dated June 20, 2019 and recorded on July 1, 2019 in Book 10533, Page 0222, Cumberland County Registry.

The land referred to herein below is situated in the County of Cumberland, State of North Carolina, and it’s described as follows:

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Eugenia Thomas (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): , Heirs of Eugenia L. Thomas a/k/a Eugenia Thomas: Myron Lambert, Queen Lambert, Craig L. Thomas a/k/a Craig Thomas, Christopher J. Thomas a/k/a Christopher Thomas, Carolyn Thomas) to Brock and Scott, Trustee(s), dated June 15, 2005, and recorded in Book No. 6913, at Page 099 in Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Cumberland County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door

The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Latina S. Sisinyak nka Latina Conder.

for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. 45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. 7A-308(a)(1).

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and

Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Richard Lupyak to Doran J. Berry, Trustee(s), which was dated May 7, 2004 and recorded on May 13, 2004 in Book 6521 at Page 547, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 19 SP 1187

And Being more commonly known as: 200 Moose Rd North, Mount Pleasant, NC 28124

arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Donna L. Clark (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Donna L. Clark) to Faircloth & Taylor, Trustee(s), dated July 14, 1997, and recorded in Book No. 4690, at Page 0253 in Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Cumberland County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on September 28, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real

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any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by

and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 29, 2021 at 01:30 PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit:

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 21 SP 34

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conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition are expressly disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for

19 SP 102 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE

Default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Anchor Trustee Services, LLC having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Cumberland County, North Carolina, and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the

Tax Parcel ID: 56616102680000 Present Record Owners: Sisinyak nka Latina Conder

Being all of Lot 8, Blount’s Ridge Subdivision, Section One, as shown on a map recorded in Plat Book 122, Page 180, Cumberland County Registry.

Together with improvements located hereon; said property being located at 1413 Deal Street, Fayetteville, NC 28306.

Tax ID: 0436-07-2182 Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax, pursuant North Carolina General Statutes §105-228.30, in the amount of One Dollar ($1.00) per each Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or fractional part thereof, and the Clerk of Courts fee, pursuant to North Carolina General Statutes §7A-308,

estate situated in Stedman in the County of Cumberland, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all the certain tract or parcel of land situated in Cedar Creek Township, Cumberland County, North Carolina, and more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 48 as shown on a plat entitled “Bethany South Part II, Section II,” as recorded in Plat Book 89, Page 195, Cumberland County Registry. For title reference see deeds recorded in Book 4257, Page 290 and Book 4385, Page 691, Cumberland County Registry. Subject to Restrictive Covenants recorded in Book 4385, Page 92, Cumberland County Registry. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 812 Canaveral Street, Stedman, North Carolina.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. 45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third

in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 12:00 PM on September 27, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Fayetteville in the County of Cumberland, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 437, in a subdivision known as COLLEGE LAKES, SECTION X, PART A, according to a plat of same duly recorded in Book of Plats 32, Page 44, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 5409 Sandstone Drive, Fayetteville, North Carolina.Parcel ID Number: 0520 95 2189 Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. 45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. 7A-308(a)(1).

The property to be offered pursuant to

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Richard Lupyak.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include,

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b) (2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include,

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Firm Case No: 1673 - 3058

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 15-09591-FC01

providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

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but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 18-24049-FC01

in the amount of Forty-five Cents (0.45) per each One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or fractional part thereof with a maximum amount of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00).

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the bid or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale and must be tendered in the form of certified funds. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts will be immediately due and owing.

Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance AS IS WHERE IS. There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, special assessments, land transfer taxes, if any, and encumbrances of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owners of the property is Aris Professional Investment Group, LLC. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: An order for possession of the

property may be issued pursuant to North Carolina General Statutes §45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the Clerk of Superior Court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination (North Carolina General Statutes §45-21.16A(b)(2)). Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of termination. If the Trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan

without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the Substitute Trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. 7A-308(a)(1).

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition are expressly disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the

purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property

pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition are expressly disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return

of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained

in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

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Anchor Trustee Services, LLC Substitute Trustee By: ________________________________________ John P. Fetner, Bar #41811 McMichael Taylor Gray, LLC Attorney for Anchor Trustee Services, LLC 3550 Engineering Drive, Suite 260 Peachtree Corners, GA 30092 404-474-7149 (phone) 404-745-8121 (fax) jfetner@mtglaw.com

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North State Journal for Wednesday, September 22, 2021

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CUMBERLAND 19 SP 533 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, CUMBERLAND COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Alicia E. Spath to H. Terry Hutchens, Trustee(s), which was dated April 23, 2013 and recorded on April 24, 2013 in Book 09170 at Page 0242, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county

DAVIDSON 17 SP 290 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, DAVIDSON COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Edna Griffin to Greg Fisher, Trustee(s), which was dated June 7, 2006 and recorded on June 12, 2006 in Book 1706 at Page 0075 and rerecorded/modified/corrected on May 23, 2014 in Book 2143, Page 1360, Davidson County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee

FORSYTH AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 16 SP 1268

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Thomas Oliver Lovelace and Jennifer D Lovelace (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Thomas Oliver Lovelace and Jennifer Manning) to Cogburn, Goosman, Brazil & Rose, Trustee(s), dated August 27, 2004, and recorded in Book No. RE 2500, at Page 493 in Forsyth County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Forsyth County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Winston-

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 20 SP 64

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Kelsey Paige White (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Kelsey Paige White) to Laurel A. Meyer, Trustee(s), dated July 6, 2017, and recorded in Book No. RE 3356, at Page 2096 in Forsyth County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Forsyth County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:15 PM on September 29, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Tobaccoville in the County of Forsyth, North

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 20 SP 141

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Richard H. Wade, Jr. and Kendall B. Wade (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Richard H. Wade, Jr. and Kendall B. Wade) to William R. Echols, Trustee(s), dated September 22, 2017, and recorded in Book No. RE 3369, at Page 870 in Forsyth County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Forsyth County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:15 PM on September 29, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Clemmons in the County of Forsyth, North

JOHNSTON AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, JOHNSTON COUNTY 20 CVS 3160 Under and by virtue of that Judgment filed on May 24, 2021 in Johnston County by the presiding superior court judge, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the Deed of Trust recorded on May 2, 2003 in Book 02443, Page 0212, Johnston County Registry, and the undersigned, Anchor Trustee Services, LLC having been appointed as Commissioner in this case, the undersigned Commissioner will offer for sale at the courthouse door or other usual place of sale in Johnston County, North Carolina, at 2:00PM on September 23, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property, to wit: All that certain lot or parcel of land situated in the City of Selma, Selma Township, Johnston County, North Carolina and more particularly described as follows: FIRST TRACT: BEGINNING on Anderson Street at Romley’s line; thence a Southerly course along Romley’s Line 140 feet to an alley; thence a Westerly course along said alley 50 feet to Lot No. 5; thence along Lot No. 4 a Northerly course 140 feet to Anderson Street; thence along said street an Easterly course 50 feet to the beginning, and being Lot No. 4 in Block A on map of the Graves’ property as surveyed and platted

by Lore and Fore, surveyors, Map Book No. 1, Page 142.

SECOND TRACT:

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 20 SP 50

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Adam Gray Hicks and Leslie Nicole Hicks (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Adam Gray Hicks and Leslie Nicole Hicks) to Allan B. Polunsky, Trustee(s), dated October 28, 2016, and recorded in Book No. 4855, at Page 716 in Johnston County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Johnston County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on September 28, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Clayton in the County of Johnston, North Carolina, and being more

courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 29, 2021 at 01:30 PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Cumberland County, North Carolina, to wit: BEING all of Lot No. 2, in a subdivision known as “CYPRESS POND, PHASE 1” according to a plat of the same duly recorded in Plat Book 110, page 105, Cumberland County Registry, North Carolina.

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 3584 Pioneer Drive, Hope Mills, NC 28348.

A certified check only (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED.

Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are All lawful Heirs of Alicia Elizabeth Spath.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days after the

sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b) (2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403

PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 19-04564-FC01

will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 27, 2021 at 11:00 AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Davidson County, North Carolina, to wit: THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY, TO WIT:

rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b) (2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403

PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 17-06669-FC01

BEGINNING AT A STAKE S. 49° 30’ MIN. WEST 153’ FROM THE S.E. CORNER OF THE KOONTZ PROPERTY AND THE S.W. CORNER OF THE C.A. GRIFFIN TRACT AND RUN THENCE NORTH 40 DEGREES 30 MINUTES EAST, 200 FEET TO A STAKE; THENCE SOUTH 49° 30 MIN. EAST, 119 FEET TO A STAKE; THENCE SOUTH 40 DEGREES 30 MIN. WEST 200 FEET TO A POINT IN THE CENTER OF JUBILEE ROAD (SR1145); THENCE NORTH 49 DEGREES 30 MINUTES WEST, 119 FEET TO THE BEGINNING, DAVIDSON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 1076 Jubilee Road, Linwood, NC 27299.

A certified check only (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars

($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are All Lawful Heirs of Edna Griffin.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the

Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:15 PM on September 29, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Winston Salem in the County of Forsyth, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED as Lot No. 17 of Garden View Subdivision, Section No. 2, as recorded in Plat Book 25 at page 178, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Forsyth County, North Carolina, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 4884 Sedgeview Lane, Winston Salem, North Carolina.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. §7A-308(a)(1).

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers,

directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition are expressly disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return

the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

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Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Firm Case No: 1192613 - 12623

Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being known and designated as Lots 2 and 3 on the Map of property of the Thomas S. Sprinkle Estate located in Old Richmond Township, Forsyth County; which map or plat is recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Forsyth County in Plat Book 12 at Page 79. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 4751 Boiling Springs Road, Tabaccoville, North Carolina.

the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE

c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Firm Case No: 1753 - 3581

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. §7A-308(a)(1).

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note

make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition are expressly disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return

Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING known and designated as Lot Number 63 as shown on the Plat of Rivergate, Phase V, Section 1 as recorded in Plat Book 64, Pages 106 & 107 in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Forsyth County, North Carolina, reference to which is hereby made for a more particular description. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 4507 Silo Ridge Court, Clemmons, North Carolina.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. §7A-308(a)(1).

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions

existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition are expressly disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real

Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311

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BEGINNING at the west corner of Worley and Company’s lot on south side of Anderson Street and runs South 140 feet to an alley; thence West 50 feet to D. H. Graves, trustee, line; thence North 140 feet to Anderson Street; thence East 50 feet to the beginning, and being the same lot deeded to W. F. Lancaster by Dewitt Kates and wife by deed dated October 14, 1919, and registered in Book U-11, Page 538, Registry of Johnston County, to which deed reference is hereby made.

THIRD TRACT: BEGINNING at a stake on Anderson Street in suburbs of Selma at Dewitt Cates’ line and runs South with Cates’ line 143 feet to an alley; thence with said alley West 50 feet to a stake in Pilkington’s line; thence with said Pilkinton’s line 143 feet to Anderson Street; thence with Anderson Street 50 feet to the point of beginning, and being the same lot conveyed by B. A. and J. H. Worley to J. H. Parker on January 3, 1920, and recorded in Book 66, Page 571 in the Register of Deeds Office for Johnston County, and after the decease of said J. H. Parker, allotted to the said Sarah E. Pate as one of his heirs, said allotment being shown on plat on file in Register of Deeds Office for Johnston County.

LESS AND EXCEPT that property deeded to William Karl Henry from Ida Henry by deed dated September 14, 1998, recorded in Book 1750, Page 899, Johnston County Registry, and more fully described as follows: BEGINNING AT A POINT IN THE SOUTHERN RIGHT OF WAY OF WEST ANDERSON STREET, SAID POINT MARKING THE NORTH WEST CORNER OF “ROMLEY’S OLD LINE” ACCORDING TO SURVEY BY BOYD L. SHOOK, FOR FRANK HENRY ET UX, DATED 7/8/81; THENCE, WITH ROMLEY’S LINE, S. 39 DEG. 57’ W. 140.00’ TO A POINT IN THE NORTHERN LINE OF AN ALLEY; THENCE, WITH SAID ALLEY N. 50 32’ W. 90’ TO A POINT; THENCE, WITH A NEW LINE OF FRANK AND IDA HENRY, N. 39 DEG. 57’ E. TO A POINT SET IN THE SOUTHERN RIGHT

OF WAY OF W. ANDERSON STREET; THENCE WITH SAID RIGHT OF WAY, S. 49 DEG. 23’ E. 90.00’ TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, BEING A 90’ X 140’ LOT RECOMBINED FROM THE PROPERTY DEEDED AT BOOK 775, PAGE 319, JOHNSTON COUNTY REGISTRY. PERSONAL EASEMENT IDA HENRY GRANTS TO WILLIAM KARL HENRY THE RIGHT TO MAINTAIN THE MOBILE HOME CURRENTLY ON THE REMAINDER OF THE PROPERTY AS RECORDED IN DEED BOOK 775, PAGE 319, JOHNSTON COUNTY REGISTRY. IN THE EVENT WILLIAM KARL HENRY FAILS TO MAINTAIN THE SAME AS HIS PERSONAL RESIDENCE, THEN THE HOME SHALL BE REMOVED WITHIN 90 DAYS. Together with improvements located hereon; said property being located at 905 W Anderson Street, Selma, NC 27576.

Tax ID: 14025019 Third party purchasers must pay any land transfer tax, costs of recording the commissioner’s deed, the excise tax, pursuant North Carolina General Statutes §105-228.30, in the amount of One Dollar ($1.00) per each Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or fractional part thereof. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the bid or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale and must be tendered in the form of certified funds. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts will be immediately due and owing.

Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance AS IS WHERE IS. There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, special assessments, land transfer taxes, if any, and encumbrances of record. To the

best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owners of the property is William Karl Henry.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to North Carolina General Statutes §1-339.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the Clerk of Superior Court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination (North Carolina General Statutes §45-21.16A(b)(2) or other applicable statute).

Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of termination. If the Commissioner is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit.

Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the Commissioner. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the Commissioner, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Anchor Trustee Services, LLC Commissioner By: ________________________________________ Goddard & Peterson, PLLC

125-B Williamsboro Street Oxford, NC 27565 Phone: (919) 755-3400

particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 152, The Knolls At The Neuse Subdivision, Phase II, as shown on a map recorded in Plat Book 71, Pages 386-388, Johnston County Registry, to which plat reference is hereby made for a full and complete description of said lot. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 29 Sharpstone Lane, Clayton, North Carolina.

any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition are expressly disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than

15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Firm Case No: 1951 - 4044

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. §7A-308(a)(1).

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street

North State Journal for Wednesday, September 22, 2021

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TAKE NOTICE

RANDOLPH NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 21 SP 18 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Faye G. Hunt (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Faye G. Hunt) to Frances S. White and Rick D. Lail, Trustee(s), dated June 20, 2014, and recorded in Book RE2390, at Page 559 in Randolph County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the terms of agreement set forth by the loan agreement secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Randolph County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door in Asheboro, Randolph County, North Carolina, or

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION RANDOLPH COUNTY 20sp5 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY RANDY W. SHEFFIELD AND DEENA B. SHEFFIELD DATED JUNE 27, 2011 AND RECORDED IN BOOK RE2239 AT PAGE 907 IN THE RANDOLPH COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained

the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 11:00 AM on OCTOBER 4, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Asheboro in the County of Randolph, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: PER DEED BOOK 906, PAGE 577 BEGINNING AT AN IRON STAKE IN THE WESTERN RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF INGRAM ROAD, SAID IRON STAKE BEING LOCATED NORTH 4 DEGREES 47 MINUTES EAST 1,130.77 FEET FROM THE NORTWEST INTERSECTION OF INGRAM ROAD WITH ALLRED ROAD; RUNNING THENCE NORTH 85 DEGREES 02 MINUTES WEST 177.03 FEET TO AN IRON STAKE; THENCE NORTH 4 DEGREES 37 MINUTES EAST 100 FEET TO AN IRON STAKE; THENCE SOUTH 85 DEGREES 02 MINUTES EAST 177.32 FEET TO AN IRON STAKE IN THE WESTERN RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF INGRAM ROAD; THENCE SOUTH 4 DEGREES 47 MINUTES WEST ALONG THE WESTERN RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF INGRAM ROAD 100 FEET TO THE BEGINNING. PARCEL ID: 7762-31-3876 Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars

and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:00AM on October 6, 2021 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Randolph County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Randy W. Sheffield and Deena B. Sheffield, dated June 27, 2011 to secure the original principal amount of $57,800.00, and recorded in Book RE2239 at Page 907 of the Randolph County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: Knob Trl, Seagrove, NC 27341 Tax Parcel ID:

672

High

REID: 15686;

PARCEL # 7675421885 Present Record Owners: Sheffield

Deena

B.

And Being more commonly known as: 672 High Knob Trl, Seagrove, NC 27341 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are Deena B. Sheffield.

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition

but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination.

Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the

expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order

effective date of the termination.

THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, except as stated below in the instance of bankruptcy protection.

IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANK-RUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIRE-MENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PUR-POSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY. Frances S. White and Rick D. Lail SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES Attorney at Law Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid, Crane & Partners, PLLC Attorneys for Frances S. White and Rick D. Lail 110 Frederick Street, Suite 200 Greenville, South Carolina 29607 Telephone: (470) 321-7112 Firm Case No: 21-059050

for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is September 16, 2021.

LLG Trustee LLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 19-108745

Parkway,

Suite

400

For further reference see Deed Book 1205, Page 572, Stanly County Registry.

Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior

conveyances of record.

Said property is commonly known as 225 Smokehouse Lane, Albemarle, NC 28001.

A certified check only (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to all prior liens, unpaid taxes, any unpaid land transfer taxes, special assessments, easements, rights of way, deeds of release, and any other encumbrances or exceptions

of record. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Perry Robinson.

An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to G.S. 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination [NCGS § 45-21.16A(b) (2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for

WAKE

ALL PERSONS, firms and corporations having claims against Thyrza F. McClure, deceased, of Wake County, N.C., are notified to exhibit the same to the undersigned on or

before December 3, 2021, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery. Debtors of the decedent are asked to make immediate payment.

This 22nd day of September 2021.

Mary L. Hood, Executor, c/o Lisa M. Schreiner, Stam Law Firm, PLLC, 510 W. Williams St., Apex, NC 27502

ALL PERSONS, firms and corporations having claims against Diane Townsend Davis, aka, Diane Emelia Townsend, deceased, of Wake County, N.C., are notified

to exhibit the same to the undersigned on or before December 3, 2021, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery. Debtors of the decedent are asked to make

immediate payment.

This 22nd day of September 2021.

Robert G. Myers, Jr., Executor, c/o Lisa M. Schreiner, Stam

Law Firm, PLLC, 510 W. Williams St., Apex, NC 27502 North State Journal: September 1, 8, 15 and 22, 2021

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 21 SP 1118

1:30 PM on September 27, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Wake Forest in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Lying and being in the City of Wake Forest, Wake Forest Township, WAKE County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: Being all of Lot 37, Caddell Woods Subdivision, Phase 3B, as shown on a map recorded in Book of Maps 2004, Page 544, Wake County Registry, to which map reference is hereby made for a more particular description. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 2717 Gross Avenue, Wake Forest, North Carolina.

the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by

providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. §7A-308(a)(1).

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition are expressly disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in

perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 10:00AM on October 1, 2021 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Wake County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Eugene Clifton Harris and Carolyn L. Rogers, dated December 29, 2000 to secure the original principal amount of $95,000.00, and recorded in Book 8771 at Page 932 of the Wake County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: 6 5 1 3 Bridgemont Ln, Willow Spring, NC 27592

Tax Parcel ID: 0271216 Present Record Owners: The Heirs of Carolyn L. Harris And Being more commonly known as: 6513 Bridgemont Ln, Willow Spring, NC 27592 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are The Heirs of Carolyn L. Harris.

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to

all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale. This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the

purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

The date of this Notice is August 18, 2021.

the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in the City of Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on September 27, 2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lot 63, Section 2, Canterbury Woods Subdivision, as shown on map recorded in Book of Maps 1985, Page 1650, Wake County Register of Deeds. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 106 Haversham Court, Cary, North Carolina.

($100.00) required by NCGS §7A-308(a)(1).

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition expressly are disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the

purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk

of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE

Present Record Owners: Melva Benson Dunn

expressly are disclaimed. This sale is made subject to all prior liens and encumbrances, and unpaid taxes and assessments including but not limited to any transfer tax associated with the foreclosure. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the amount of the bid or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

This sale will be held open ten days for upset bids as required by law. Following the expiration of the statutory upset period, all remaining amounts are IMMEDIATELY DUE AND OWING. Failure to remit funds in a timely manner will result in a Declaration of Default and any deposit will be frozen pending the outcome of any re-sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee, the Substitute Trustee or the attorney of any of the foregoing.

purchaser. Also, if your lease began or was renewed on or after October 1, 2007, be advised that you may terminate the rental agreement upon written notice to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time notice of termination is provided. You may be liable for rent due under the agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

STANLY 19 SP 6 AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, STANLY COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Perry A. Robinson to M.T. Lowder & Assoc., Trustee(s), which was dated May 7, 2013 and recorded on May 7, 2013 in Book 1449 at Page 922, Stanly County Registry, North Carolina.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Ijeoma A. Nwankwo (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Ijeoma A. Nwankwo) to Moore & Alphin, Trustee(s), dated July 25, 2005, and recorded in Book No. 011500, at Page 01978 in Wake County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Wake County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION WAKE COUNTY 19SP719 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY EUGENE CLIFTON HARRIS AND CAROLYN L. ROGERS DATED DECEMBER 29, 2000 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 8771 AT PAGE 932 RERECORDED ON FEBRUARY 12, 2001 IN BOOK 8806, PAGE 1090 IN THE WAKE COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 20 SP 1616

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Melanie J. Olson, (Melanie J. Olson, Deceased) (Heirs of Melanie J. Olson: Jayson Bartlett aka Jayson Francis Bartlett, Christopher Michael Phillips, Andrew Richard Phillips, Stephen Graham Phillips and Ian Jeffrey Phillips) to Wayne A. Roper, Attorney, Trustee(s), dated the 15th day of May, 2018, and recorded in Book 017136, Page 02606, in Wake County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Wake County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that

IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE OF NORTH CAROLINA SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION WAKE COUNTY 21SP1186 IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED BY MELVA BENSON DUNN DATED AUGUST 28, 2017 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 16894 AT PAGE 2454 IN THE WAKE COUNTY PUBLIC REGISTRY, NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in the above-referenced deed of trust and because of default in the payment of the secured indebtedness and failure to perform the stipulation and agreements therein contained

AMENDED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE 17 SP 2847

Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust made by Heather D. Shissler and Shane M. Shissler (PRESENT RECORD OWNER(S): Shane M. Shissler) to H. Terry Hutchens, Esquire, Trustee(s), dated May 6, 2016, and recorded in Book No. 16380, at Page 2594 in Wake County Registry, North Carolina, default having been made in the payment of the promissory note secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, Substitute Trustee Services, Inc. having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust by an instrument duly recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Wake County, North Carolina and the holder of the note evidencing said indebtedness having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the Wake County Courthouse door, the Salisbury Street entrance in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, or the customary location designated for foreclosure sales, at 1:30 PM on October 4,

evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 29, 2021 at 11:00 AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Stanly County, North Carolina, to wit: Being all of Lot No. 88, as shown on plat of Anderson Ridge, Phase I, recorded in Plat Book 19, page 4, Office of the Register of Deeds for Stanly County, North Carolina, reference to which being hereby made.

($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. §7A-308(a)(1).

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition are expressly disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and State laws.

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include,

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Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale for up to one hour as provided in NCGS §45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars

and, pursuant to demand of the owner and holder of the secured debt, the undersigned substitute trustee will expose for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the usual place of sale at the county courthouse of said county at 11:00AM on October 1, 2021 the following described real estate and any other improvements which may be situated thereon, in Wake County, North Carolina, and being more particularly described in that certain Deed of Trust executed Melva Benson Dunn, dated August 28, 2017 to secure the original principal amount of $328,500.00, and recorded in Book 16894 at Page 2454 of the Wake County Public Registry. The terms of the said Deed of Trust may be modified by other instruments appearing in the public record. Additional identifying information regarding the collateral property is below and is believed to be accurate, but no representation or warranty is intended.

Address of property: Lawndale Street, Garner, NC 27529 Tax Parcel ID:

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2021 and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following real estate situated in Rolesville in the County of Wake, North Carolina, and being more particularly described as follows: The land hereinafter referred to is situated in the City of Rolesville, County of Wake, State of NC, and is described as follows:All the certain Lot or parcel of Land situated in the City of Rolesville Township, Wake County, State of North Carolina and more particularly described as follows:Being all of Lot 21, Pine Glen Subdivision, recorded in Book of Maps 2012, Page 01164, Wake County Register of Deeds. Together with improvements located thereon; said property being located at 4613 Jersey Pine Drive, Rolesville, North Carolina. And being the same property conveyed from KB Home Raleigh-Durham, Inc., the Grantors, to Shane M. Shissler and spouse, Heather D. Shissler, the Grantees by virtue of Deed dated 08/16/2013, and recorded 08/16/2013, in Book 015408 at Page 02403, among the aforesaid Land Records.APN: 1758255870 / Tax ID: 0414212 Trustee may, in the Trustee’s sole discretion, delay the sale

The Estate of

And Being more commonly known as: 500 Lawndale Street, Garner, NC 27529 The record owner(s) of the property, as reflected on the records of the Register of Deeds, is/are The Estate of Melva Benson Dunn.

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale. Any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition

for up to one hour as provided in N.C.G.S. §45-21.23.

Should the property be purchased by a third party, that party must pay the excise tax, as well as the court costs of Forty-Five Cents ($0.45) per One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) required by N.C.G.S. §7A-308(a)(1).

The property to be offered pursuant to this notice of sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS, WHERE IS.” Neither the Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of trust/security agreement, or both, being foreclosed, nor the officers, directors, attorneys, employees, agents or authorized representative of either the Trustee or the holder of the note make any representation or warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at or relating to the property being offered for sale, and any and all responsibilities or liabilities arising out of or in any way relating to any such condition are expressly disclaimed. Also, this property is being sold subject to all taxes, special assessments, and prior liens or prior encumbrances of record and any recorded releases. Said property is also being sold subject to applicable Federal and

SPECIAL NOTICE FOR LEASEHOLD TENANTS: If you are a tenant residing in the property, be advised that an Order for Possession of the property may be issued in favor of the

State laws.

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, is required and must be tendered in the form of certified funds at the time of the sale.

If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in its sole discretion, if it believes the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Additional Notice for Residential Property with Less than 15 rental units, including Single-Family Residential Real Property An order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 45-21.29 in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties in possession by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold.

any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy.

Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC Substitute Trustee Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Trustee Services of Carolina, LLC 5431 Oleander Drive Suite 200 Wilmington, NC 28403 PHONE: (910) 392-4988 FAX: (910) 392-8587 File No.: 18-23865-FC01

North State Journal: September 1, 8, 15 and 22, 2021

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Firm Case No: 4424 - 16041

LLG Trustee LLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 15-073515

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The date of this Notice is September 14, 2021.

LLG Trustee LLC Substitute Trustee 10130 Perimeter Charlotte, NC 28216 (704) 333-8107 21-111708

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Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may after receiving the notice of foreclosure sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days but not more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in this notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination.

SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SERVICES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE c/o Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 1028 4317 Ramsey Street Fayetteville, North Carolina 28311 Phone No: (910) 864-3068 https://sales.hutchenslawfirm.com Firm Case No: 1227758 - 12382

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New fishing pier complete A new handicap-accessible fishing pier at Morrow Mountain State Park was completed in September and is ready for the public.

WHAT’S HAPPENING School district breaks record for supply donations Stanly County Stanly County collected 25,467 school supplies in the “9 School Tools” program, a supply drive with 22 counties in the Carolinas participating, breaking the district’s record.

The program is organized by WSOC-TV 9 and has been in place since 1997. The supplies are meant to support local families who are experiencing financial difficulty to have the supplies they need for their children to succeed in school.

Schools in both North and South Carolina participate.

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Nearly 600 employees suspended over vaccine, testing Mecklenburg County A total of 598 county employees have been suspended without pay for violating the county’s vaccination and testing mandates. The employees have not received a COVID-19 vaccination, and policy requires them to submit to weekly COVID-19 testing starting Sept. 7. Last week, the county announced the suspensions.

The Parks and Rec department has the most suspensions, at 221, followed by DSS at 128.

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Man dies after crashing into county welcome sign in SC Mecklenburg County A man died after his van ran off Interstate 77 in South Carolina and hit a brick welcome sign for Chester County, authorities said. Gregory Morris Hill, 70, of Charlotte, died at the scene of the crash, Chester County Coroner Terry Tinker said.

Hill’s van was heading south on I-77 when it ran off the right side of the highway and into the “Welcome to Chester County” sign at Exit 65, South Carolina Highway Patrol Cpl. Joe Hovis said.

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New COVID policies at Stanly schools after 1,500 students quarantined Meals will no longer be considered in contact tracing

By David Larson Stanly County Journal ALBEMARLE — Stanly County Schools updated their COVID-19 quarantine policies after the number of students required to take time off school rose dramatically in the first few weeks of classes. The new

policies keep more students in school by requiring extra precautions during meals, allowing the district to avoid considering mealtimes while contact tracing for exposure.

According to the COVID case and quarantine data on the district’s website, for the week of Aug. 22-28, there were 418 students quarantined for exposure, with 65 of them testing positive, and 67 staff quarantined, with 18 of them positive.

Shortly after, for the week

of Sept. 5-11, there were 1,498 students under quarantine, with 143 of them testing positive. This showed the number of those quarantining rising much quicker than the positive rates.

For staff, the quarantines increased only slightly to 82, and the positive tests dropped slightly from 18 to 14.

The schools with the highest number of quarantined students were East Albemarle Elementary 152; West Stanly High with 140; West Stanly Mid-

dle with 123; and North Stanly High with 121.

On Sept. 16, the district announced it was taking extra precautions during breakfast and lunch, a move that would help reduce the number of students needing to be quarantined.

Since mealtimes are a common time for students in many different classes to mingle, contact tracing that considers these times had likely led to many of See SCS, page 8

Missing Stanly County Albemarle announces Sheriff’s Office K9 found new police chief after disappearance

By David Larson Stanly County Journal

Stanly County Journal staff ALBEMARLE — K9 Luka, a trained police dog with the Stanly County Sheriff’s Office, is back with his department after briefly going missing over the weekend.

On Friday night, the German Shepherd was deployed to catch a suspect running away from authorities when a vehicle chase in Albemarle became a foot chase through the woods next to Cherokee Road.

Germarcus Rashad Sellers, 23, of Albemarle, was eventually caught and charged with assault with a deadly weapon and resisting, delaying or obstructing an officer. However, K9 Luka did not initially come back to Deputy Francisco Porras and was missing throughout the rest of the night.

“Due to reasons unknown, K9 Luka did not return to the handler,” the Stanly County Sheriff’s Office posted on its Facebook page. “There are numerous electric fences in the area that may have injured the K9 causing him to run away. An exhaustive search of the area was conducted by several agencies, however, K9 Luka has not been located.”

An update was posted online by the department on Saturday morning confirming that the dog had been found following the overnight search: “K9 Luka was located by his handler early this morning. He is safe and doing well. Thank you all for your shares and prayers.”

Lt. George Miller of the Stanly County Sheriff’s Office told SCJ that the prolonged disappearance of a police dog during a chase is a rare occurrence, but, thankfully, K9 Luka was still stationed in the same area where the police chase had occurred the night before.

The reason for why the dog didn’t return to his handler on Friday night remains unclear.

“This is the first time I’ve known this to occur here…it was unique to say the least,” Miller said. “The dog was located by the handler because he was just remaining in the area. It’s something called scent saturation, where the dog was able to smell him and reapproach; he came out of a field and walked back up to his car.”

Friday night’s arrest of Sellers isn’t the first time the Albemarle resident has been charged with felonies locally.

Last August, he was charged with trafficking in cocaine; possession with the intent to manufacture, sell or deliver heroin; possession with the intent to manufacture, sell or deliver cocaine; felony possession of marijuana; possession of drug paraphernalia; conspiracy to sell and deliver schedule II; and conspiracy to sell and deliver heroin.

In March of 2019, Sellars was charged by the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office with fleeing to elude arrest after speeding away from a traffic stop, as well as several motor vehicle violations.

ALBEMARLE — Albemarle city manager Michael Ferris announced Tuesday the hiring of Jason T. Bollhorst as the city’s new police chief. Bollhorst will officially begin on Oct. 4. The position had been open since the sudden retirement of Chief David Dulin on June 9, when David Poston was announced as the interim chief.

“We are very excited to have Jason Bollhorst serve as our next Chief of Police,” Ferris said in the announcement. “He was selected after an extensive search and thorough process. It is no small challenge to have made it through the competitive process to be the candidate selected.

We are also fortunate that Chief Bollhorst has selected Albemarle. A consistent characteristic that was demonstrated throughout was his commitment to serving the public and in supporting high-quality, professional law enforcement. More than ever, these traits are critical to the success of anyone serving in this profession. I personally look forward to working with Chief Bollhorst and to what he will bring to the city, department, and the public we serve.”

Bollhorst comes to the city from Newport News, Virginia.

In his 26-year police career, he served in several positions of increasing rank and responsibility.

According to the city’s press release, “Chief Bollhorst held supervisory positions for 10 years in

Patrol Operations, Tactical Operations (SWAT) and Investigations; narcotics, gangs, and criminal enterprises associated with federal task force operations. His leadership at the rank of Captain includes five years of experience in three of the agency’s six Divisions. Chief Bollhorst spent two years with the Professional Standards Division which housed Training and Internal Affairs, over two years as the Commander of South Precinct in the Patrol Division, and one year with the Special Investigations Division.”

Bollhorst and his wife of 29 years, Sherrie, have three daughters: Caitlin, Madison and Sydney. His education and training include an associate’s degree in Police Science from Thomas Nelson Community College, a bachelor’s degree in governmental administration from Christopher Newport University and graduation from the 66th class of the Police Executive Research Forum’s Senior Management Institute.

“It is vital that all members of the Albemarle Police Department support the City’s efforts to establish and maintain a safe and harmonious environment for the citizens, stakeholders and visitors of the city,” Bollhorst said in the statement. “The front line civilian staff, officers, and supervisors are critical in accomplishing our mission. I will continue to promote a positive work environment conducive to internal growth which encourages appropriate levels of coaching and mentoring for all the men and women in the Police Department.”

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Man behind infamous 1970 slayings ends release appeal The Associated Press RALEIGH — A former Army doctor convicted for the infamous 1970 murders of his pregnant wife and two young daughters on a North Carolina base has ended his appeal of a lower court ruling that denied his requested release.

An attorney for Jeffrey MacDonald said in court documents that his client wished to dismiss his appeal to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia. Federal prosecutors did not oppose the dismissal in the “Fatal Vision” case, named for a book about the investigation, and the court granted the dismissal Thursday.

MacDonald, who is serving life in prison, had filed an appeal notice in April, two weeks after District Judge Terrence Boyle refused to release him. His lawyers had asked Boyle to let him leave prison because of his deteriorating health.

Boyle wrote he lacked authority because a law governing compassionate release requests doesn’t apply to those who committed their crimes before a 1987 cutoff.

“After a searching review of the

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In this March 1, 1995, file photo Jeffrey MacDonald gestures at the federal correctional institution in Sheridan, Ore. relevant law, Mr. MacDonald concluded that the decision below was correct as a technical legal matter,” MacDonald’s lawyers said in a statement Friday, referring to Boyle’s order.

MacDonald, 77, is incarcerated at a prison in Cumberland, Mary-

land, and has chronic kidney disease, skin cancer and high blood pressure, according to court documents.

MacDonald was convicted in 1979 for killing his pregnant wife, Colette; 5-year-old daughter, Kimberley; and 2-year-old daughter,

Whitney Rd/yadkin Brick Rd, New London, NC, on 9/18/2021

♦ Taylor, Steven Kelly (W /M/28) Arrest on chrg of 1) Possess Methamphetamine (F), 2) Carrying Concealed Weapon (M), and 3) Possession Of Firearm By Felon (F), at 590 S Oak Ridge Rd, Oakboro, NC, on 9/16/2021

Kristen at their family home at Fort Bragg using a knife and ice pick before stabbing himself. MacDonald has declared his innocence and spent years on appeals.

MacDonald has blamed “drugcrazed hippies” as the killers. But prosecutors said he donned surgical gloves and used his wife’s blood to write the word “PIG” over their bed to imitate the 1969 Charles Mansion murders.

The 4th Circuit refused in late 2018 to grant MacDonald a new trial.

MacDonald “did the unthinkable more than 50 years ago when he murdered his pregnant wife and two daughters in brutal fashion,” Norman Acker, acting U.S. attorney for eastern North Carolina, said in a news release Friday. The Raleigh prosecutor’s office prosecuted MacDonald in a high-profile trial and has defended the convictions since.

“Our office has sought justice on their behalf for decades. That work continues today,” Acker said. “And that work will continue every day until MacDonald’s efforts to escape justice cease for good.”

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DEATH NOTICES ♦ Aaron Demetrius Richardson, 49, of New London, died Sept. 11. ♦ Troy Lee Forsyth, 95, of Norwood, died Sept. 11. ♦ Shirley Jeanette Whitley Edwards, 83, of Oakboro, died Sept. 16. ♦ Guy Welchel Dyar, 97, of Albemarle, died Sept. 16 ♦ William Harold Walker, 75, of Albemarle, died Sept. 16. ♦ Betty Katherine Dennis Lambert, 92, of Albemarle, died Sept. 16. ♦ Esther Dianne Lowder Smith, 74, of Albemarle, died Sept. 16. ♦ Dexter Dulin Coley, 82, of Albemarle, died Sept. 17. ♦ Michael Lee Thompson, 66, of Norwood, died Sept. 18. ♦ Annie Lee Eudy Kinley, 91, of Albemarle, died Sept. 18.

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Betty Haire Hatley Betty Haire Hatley, passed away peacefully at 86 years young.

She is predeceased by her husband Don “Hut” Hatley, sisters: Ann H. Hatley, Shelby H. Hutchins, Maveleen H. Blake, Mary Bryant H. Lambert, Brother: William Craig Haire, and her parents.

She is lovingly remembered by those she lives behind including her daughter Jenny a. Hatley, sister Kay H. (Junior) Dennis, Nephews: Jeremy (Tamara) Dennis, Paul (Penny) Blake Jr., niece Amanda (John) Pickler, great nephews: Graham (Ericka) Hatley, Neil (Lauren) Hatley, and Wyatt Pickler great nieces: Emma and Abby Dennis and Macy Blake.

She was born in Albemarle on December 24 of 1934 to William Bryant and Mary Frick Haire.

Betty was known for her great love of flowers and decorating.

She was an avid bird watcher, gardener, and fabulous cook.

♦ Rose, Jackson James E (W /M/32) Arrest on chrg of Misdemeanor Larceny (M), at 126 W South St, Albemarle, NC, on 9/20/2021 ♦ Simmons, Ian Patrick (W /M/22) Arrest on chrg of Interfere Jail/prison Fire Sys (F), at 126 South Third Street, Albemarle, NC, on 9/20/2021 ♦ Elliott, Ty-shon Jawan (B /M/24) Arrest on chrg of Injury To Personal Property (M), at 126 South Third Street, Albemarle, NC, on 9/20/2021 ♦ Sandifer, Charla Michelle (W /F/35) Arrest on chrg of Breaking Or Entering (m) (M), at Albemarle, Albemarle, NC, on 9/20/2021 ♦ Sandifer, Charla Michelle (W /F/35) Arrest on chrg of Breaking Or Entering (m) (M), at 21180 Nc 24/27 Highway, Albemarle, NC, on 9/20/2021 ♦ Lowery, Elbert Nathaniel (W /M/23) Arrest on chrg of 1) Assault With Deadly Weapon (m) (M), 2) Assault On Female (M), and 3) Communicate Threats (M), at 20068 Silver Rd, Oakboro, NC, on 9/19/2021 ♦ Miller, Jalen Damarius (B /M/23) Arrest on chrg of 1) Trafficking,opium Or Heroin (F), 2) Maintain Veh/dwell/place Cs (f) (F), and 3) Pwimsd Sch I Cs (F), at Turner/main, Norwood, NC, on 9/18/2021 ♦ Swain, Robert Leroy (W /M/46) Arrest on chrg of 1) First Degree Burglary (F), 2) Misdemeanor Larceny (M), and 3) Injury To Personal Property (M), at 28085 Ryan Rd, Richfield, NC, on 9/18/2021 ♦ Furr, Jimmy Ian (W /M/18) Arrest on chrg of Communicate Threats (M), at 44373 Old

Dana “Perch” Sidney Hatley Dana “Perch” Sidney Hatley, 66, of Albemarle, passed away Sunday, September 12, 2021 at Atrium Health Stanly in Albemarle.

Mr. Hatley was born September 22, 1954 in Stanly County to the late Ernest Rufus Hatley and the late Gatha Mae “Dink” Hatley. He was also preceded in death by his brother, Michael Hatley.

There will be a private service at a later date.

He is survived by his wife, Valerie Hatley; children, Samantha Hatley, Falon Hatley, and Bob (Meredith) Cherry, Jr.; grandchildren, Harper Whitley, Kennedy Sciranko, Easton Cherry, and Madilyn Cherry; sister, Reba (Phil) Burleson; sister-in-law, Cathy Hatley; and numerous nieces and nephews.

♦ Frank, Jason Dale J (W /M/20) Arrest on chrg of Driving While Impaired (M), at Highway 24/27, Albemarle, NC, on 9/17/2021 ♦ Simpler, William Arthur (W /M/51) Arrest on chrg of Surrender By Surety (F), at 126 South Third Street, Albemarle, NC, on 9/17/2021 ♦ Lilly, Kenneth Earl (B /M/59) Arrest on chrg of Possession Of Firearm By Felon (F), at North Kendall/west Dock, Norwood, NC, on 9/17/2021 ♦ Simmons, Ian Patrick (W /M/22) Arrest on chrg of 1) Awdwikisi (F) and 2) Assault By Strangulation (F), at 21053 St Martin Rd, Albemarle, NC, on 9/17/2021 ♦ Burch, Jatee Malcolm (B /M/18) Arrest on chrg of 1) Simple Affray (M) and 2) Disorderly Conduct (M), at 507 Sherman St, Badin, NC, on 9/17/2021

♦ Simpler, William Arthur (W /M/51) Arrest on chrg of 1) Misdemeanor Probation Viol (M) and 2) Misdemeanor Probation Viol (M), at Handi Mart, Albemarle, NC, on 9/16/2021 ♦ Woody, Johathan (W /M/33) Arrest on chrg of 1) Fta - Criminal Summons Or Citation (M), 2) Fta - Criminal Summons Or Citation (M), 3) Fta - Criminal Summons Or Citation (M), 4) Fta - Criminal Summons Or Citation (M), 5) Fta - Criminal Summons Or Citation (M), 6) Fta - Criminal Summons Or Citation (M), 7) Fta - Criminal Summons Or Citation (M), and 8) Fta - Criminal Summons Or Citation (M), at 9622 Party Ln, Stanfield, NC, on 9/16/2021 ♦ Calderon, Eddie Leon (U /M/20) Arrest on chrg of Misdemeanor Stalking (M), at 126 S Third St, Albemarle, NC, on 9/16/2021

♦ Benjamin, Marcus Ewing (B /M/34) Arrest on chrg of 1) Civil Order For Arrest - Child Support (M) and 2) Civil Order For Arrest Child Support (M), at Nc 24/27, Albemarle, NC, on 9/17/2021

♦ Williams, Mark Anthony (W /M/32) Arrest on chrg of 1) Communicate Threats (M) and 2) Second Degree Trespass (M), at Rolling Hills Motor Home Park, Albemarle, NC, on 9/16/2021

♦ Sellers, Germarcus Rashad (B /M/23) Arrest on chrg of 1) Assault With Deadly Weapon (m) (M) and 2) Resisting Public Officer (M), at 24639 Nc Hwy 24/27, Albemarle, NC, on 9/17/2021

♦ Thomas, Austin Lane (W /M/23) Arrest on chrg of Driving While Impaired (M), at 186 W Turner St, Norwood, NC, on 9/15/2021

♦ Fesperman, Brian Eugene (W /M/37) Cited on Charge of Poss Marij >1/2 To 1 1/2 Oz (202100706), at 222 N Main St, Norwood, NC, on 9/17/2021

Margaret Lucille Burgess Margaret Lucille Burgess, 100, of Oakboro, passed away Tuesday, September 14, 2021.

Margaret was born June 16, 1921 in North Carolina to the late Arthur Benjamin Allen and the late Mae Bell Allen.

She was also preceded in death by husband, Claude John Burgess; son, Darrell Burgess; sisters, Marie Teeter and Ruby Tucker; and grand-daughter, Debra Lynn Burgess.

Margaret was a loving mother and wife. She was a wonderful gardener, cook and homemaker.

She had a great sense of humor.

Margaret was a firm believer and loved the Lord.

Survivors include son, John Burgess of Oakboro, daughters, Jean Little of Oakboro, Carolyn Carpenter of Norwood, and Judy Hinson of Marshville; and many beloved grand and greatgrandchildren, and one greatgreat grandchild.

♦ Pinkston, Carl Lee (W /M/55) Arrest on chrg of 1) Larceny Motor Vehicle Parts (F), 2) Inj Prop Obt Nonferr Metal-f (F), 3) Felony Conspiracy (F), and 4) Felony Probation Violation (F), at Enforge, Albemarle, NC, on 9/15/2021

Mary Elizabeth “Beth” Japarks King Mary Elizabeth “Beth” Japarks King, 66, of Albemarle, passed away Tuesday, September 14, 2021 at Atrium Health Stanly in Albemarle.

Beth was born June 29, 1955 in North Carolina to the late John Hance Japarks and the late Henrietta Benton Japarks.

She was also preceded in death by husband, Danny Clark King and sister, Linda Gail Ammons.

Survivors include daughter, Jennifer Runion and husband, Steve of Albemarle, NC, son, Danny Clark King, Jr. of Albemarle, NC, grandchildren, Jessica “Jessie” Runion, Nikki Runion, Dakota King, Abigail King, and Joshua King, greatgrandson, Stephen “Pookie” Runion, brother, John Japarks, Jr. of Conway, SC, and Randy Japarks and wife, Jan of Eastover, SC, and sister, Susan Brown and husband, Mark of Salemburg, NC.

♦ Xiong, Kao Nmn (A /M/34) Arrest on chrg of 1) Possess Methamphetamine (F) and 2) Possession Of Firearm By Felon (F), at 126 S Third St, Albemarle, NC, on 9/15/2021 ♦ Thomas, Austin Lane (W /M/23) Cited on Charge of Driving While Impaired (202100697), at 131 W Turner St/blalock St, Norwood, NC, on 9/15/2021 ♦ Foreman, Joshua Shane (W M, 37) Arrest on chrg of Murder, F (F), at 155 W SouthSt, Albemarle, on 09/13/2021 ♦ Carpenter, Naqian Khaliel (B M, 19) Arrest on chrg of Resisting Public Officer, M(M), at 2000 Woodhaven Dr, Albemarle, on 09/11/202 ♦ Palmer, Sherred Edwin (B M, 43) Arrest on chrg of Fugitive From Justice (F), at32239 Nc 24-27 Hwy/canton Rd, Albemarle, on 09/11/2021 ♦ Liles, Leo Thomas (B M, 37) Arrest on chrg of Obtain Property False Pretense (F), at781 Leonard Av, Albemarle, on 09/11/2021 ♦ Miller, Edward Bernard (B M, 23) Arrest on chrg of Possession Of Firearm By Felon(F), at 731 S Fifth St, Albemarle, on 09/15/2021. ♦ Taylor, Alton Demetrice (B M, 53) Arrest on chrg of Break Or Enter Motor Vehicle(F), at 447 Arey Av/lundix St, Albemarle, on 09/15/2021 ♦ Bennett, Trevantae Jaeshoine (B M, 22) Arrest on chrg of Pwimsd Marijuana (F), at231 S Morrow Av, Albemarle, on 09/15/2021

Margaret Stewart Margaret was born on May 27, 1923 in Oakboro, NC. She passed away peacefully on September 14, 2021. She was predeceased by her parents, Giles Edward Crowell, Sr. and Ethel Lee Clayton Crowell; her husband, Edward Pernay Stewart, and daughter, Margaret “Peggy” Stewart Kluttz. Her granddaughter, Stephanie Kluttz Vint, and brother, Giles E. Crowell, Jr. and wife Katy also predeceased Margaret.

She is survived by her daughter Betsy Crowell Stewart Heath and husband David; her granddaughter, Jessica Heath Brinker, and husband Jason and great grandchildren, Abigail and Bodhi Brinker; her grandson, Joe Kluttz and wife, Lisa; great grandsons Jonathan Kluttz and Joshua Kluttz, and wife, Kary and great great granddaughter, Karter Kluttz. Margaret is also survived by her grandson, Neil Kluttz, and wife, Michele and great grandson, Cody Kluttz. She is also survived by many numerous nieces and nephews.

Stanly County Journal for Wednesday, September 22, 2021

OPINION Neal Robbins, publisher | Frank Hill, senior opinion editor VISUAL VOICES

COLUMN | REP. RICHARD HUDSON

The fight to stop Democrats’ reckless spending

Even with unprecedented spending increases, Bernie Sanders and others crafting this bill failed to include a single dollar increase to our Defense Department and Homeland Security — the agency overseeing our border.

INFLATION IS TAXATION. It’s also increased every single month of Joe Biden’s presidency.

You and your family are paying more for everyday items like groceries and gas. Yet instead of addressing the root cause — reckless government spending — this week President Biden and House Democrats took steps to ram through their $3.5 trillion tax, borrow and spending scheme written by Sen. Bernie Sanders.

This is the largest spending bill in American history. In fact, the $3.5 trillion price tag is equal to the Growth Domestic Product (GDP) of Mexico and Canada — combined.

This bill will advance their radical agenda for more government control over energy production and use, health care, and the entire economy. It includes 40 new tax increases on families, workers and businesses. It will also raise our national debt by a whopping $17 trillion in 10 years to $45 trillion overall.

For businesses and workers, it will raise the corporate tax rate to the third highest in the developed world. This will cost an estimated 1 million jobs, according to the National Association of Manufacturers.

It also opens the door for amnesty to 325,00 illegal immigrants in North Carolina alone.

Bottom line: This will only add fuel to America’s skyrocketing inflation, weaken our competitiveness, result in job losses and tax hikes for you and your family, and — as I said in a hearing last week — it will lower the standard of living for our children and grandchildren.

But what’s not included is almost as shocking.

Even with unprecedented spending increases, Bernie Sanders and others crafting this bill failed to include a single dollar increase to our Defense Department and Homeland Security — the agency overseeing our border.

Funding our border has become more important than ever, as we learned last week that nearly 210,000 migrants illegally crossed the border in August. That’s a 21-year-high and the second straight

month with over 200,000 crossings. Despite claims from the president and vice president that the border crisis was “seasonal,” these numbers show that it continues to get worse, even as migrants bring more and more deadly fentanyl and cases of COVID across the border. We must do more to end the Biden border crisis, as well as get inflation under control.

Thanks to the Republican Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, families in North Carolina received an average tax cut of $1,900. We saw what sound economic policies of tax cuts and deregulation led to in 2019: the lowest unemployment in 50 years, record low poverty and the largest reduction in poverty in 50 years, and record high household income including the largest income gains for minority groups. I remain very concerned my Democrat colleagues are completely ignoring the fiscal consequences of their policy choices in Washington D.C. As the August jobs report showed last week, there is still a lot of work to do to rebuild our economy. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) jumped 5.3% in August, which is nearly the fastest pace in 13 years.

That means the stuff you buy costs more. This is not an economy that requires or can handle trillions more in government spending.

Instead, we need to get people back to work and stop the spending.

Earlier this month, I visited the Harnett County regional airport and saw firsthand improvements that are helping our entire local economy. At Edelbrock Performance’s facility in Sanford, which employs more than 90 people, I got to see how businesses like this are building on our great workforce and racing industry. I remain committed to helping create jobs such as those at Edelbrock by advancing common sense solutions like the RPM Act to protect our automotive industry from overregulation.

There are solutions to grow our economy, secure our border, and meet the many other challenges before us. What we don’t need is Bernie Sanders’ $3.5 trillion spending scheme. I will continue to push back against this radical agenda so that the American dream can stay alive for you and your children and grandchildren.

COLUMN | DAVID HARSANYI

Sorry, AOC, the rich already pay their fair share In 2018, the top 1% of income earners made nearly 21% of all income but paid 40% of all federal income taxes.

The top 10% earned 48% of the income and paid 71% of all federal income taxes.

REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ donned an elegant gown with the slogan “Tax the Rich” painted on the back at the Met Gala in New York, where guests selected by Vogue’s Anna Wintour ponied up around $35,000 a pop for tickets. The scene was reminiscent of Tom Wolfe’s “radical chic” — though rather than being guests of the well-heeled in Park Avenue duplexes, today’s revolutionaries own luxury condos and drive around in governmentsubsidized electric cars that most Americans could never afford.

My first question, though, is: Who doesn’t want to “tax the rich”?

Judging from my social-media feed, there seems to be a growing segment of people under the impression that the wealthy pay little or nothing in taxes. When you ask Americans if they support a wealth tax, a majority support the idea. One recent poll found that 80% of voters were annoyed that corporations and the wealthy don’t pay their “fair share.”

Polls rarely ask these people what a “fair share” looks like. Is a quarter of someone’s earnings enough? A third? Because the rich have been shouldering an increasingly larger share of the cost of government. The United States already has one of the most progressive tax systems in the free world. Those who make over $207,350 now pay 35% in income tax. Those who make $518,400 or more pay a 37% income-tax rate. At some point, taxation should be considered theft.

Despite perceptions, the highest-income strata of taxpayers are the only ones who pay a larger share of taxes than their share of income. In 2018, the top 1% of income earners made nearly 21% of all income but paid 40% of all federal income taxes. The top 10% earned 48% of the income and paid 71% of all federal income taxes.

On the other hand, in 2021, Americans making less than $75,000 are projected to have, on average, no tax liability after deductions and credits. The average income-tax rate for those making between $75,000 and $100,000 is expected to be 1.8%. More than 61% of Americans — around 107 million households — owed zero federal income taxes for the year 2020.

You don’t have to agree with me that (over)taxing the wealthy undermines job creation and growth, or that a tax system that relies so heavily on the fortunes of the few creates more cronyism in Washington and more volatility everywhere else. But the idea that the rich don’t pay their “fair share” is absurd.

At this point in the conversation, progressives will set aside their calls for a “wealth tax” and start complaining about capital gains.

Here, we simply have a point of disagreement: Ocasio-Cortez would see investment profits in the hands of Bernie Sanders, head of the Senate budget committee. I would rather see them in venturecapital projects and private-equity funds that churn investment dollars and boost technology and jobs. Progressives grouse about accumulation of wealth and then want policies that dissuade risk.

Those who believe what I do will be accused of being “market fundamentalists” or beholden to the wealthy. Progressives — the kind that like to hang out at Met Galas — believe everyone is as class-obsessed as they are. I don’t give one wit about the wealthy.

In fact, I hope today’s entrepreneurs are tomorrow’s new rich.

We know they will be — without compelled redistribution. How many voters do you think know that nearly 70% of the Forbes 400 richest Americans are self-made? Or that the share of the self-made wealthy had risen from 40% in the 1980s to nearly 70% by the 2010s? How many people who have fallen for the scaremongering worries of “inequality” — another leading reason for the wealth taxation — understand, as economist Mark Perry recently pointed out, that the middle-class isn’t “shrinking” because it’s getting poorer, but rather because of a long-term trend in upper-middle class growth? Ocasio-Cortez’s entire philosophy is a zero-sum fallacy.

No, progressive taxation isn’t socialism. But the policy justifications made for tax hikes these days certainly are. OcasioCortez is a fraud, of course, but it’s her retrograde economic theorizing that’s the real problem. And in this age of populism, increasing numbers of Americans are accepting Marxist conceptions of American life, in which the successful are parasites and everyone else is a victim of their greed.

The reality is that no politician is going to advocate raising middle-class income taxes, despite the ever-increasing cost of government. There is only the rich to tax. Consequently, it’s become easier to pass massive expansions of the state. Everyone expects someone else to foot the bill — either future generations or their wealthier neighbors. Meanwhile, taxation has gone from being a means of funding communal needs and projects to a means of technocratic wealth reallocation. This is no way to run a country.

David Harsanyi is a senior writer at National Review and author of “Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent.”

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Stanly County Journal for Wednesday, September 22, 2021

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SPORTS SIDELINE REPORT COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Campbell’s Hartley throws 6 TDs, Camels force record 10 turnovers Buies Creek Wiley Hartley threw six touchdown passes, Campbell forced a program-record 10 turnovers and the Camels routed Presbyterian 72-0 on Saturday night. Hartley was 22-of-30 passing for 342 yards. Michael Jamerson opened the scoring with a pair of touchdown runs in the first quarter before Hartley threw a TD pass each to six receivers. Jamerson ran 22 times for 101 yards. Campbell (1-2) added a safety and CJ Tillman’s pick-6. Tai Goode capped the scoring with a 1-yard touchdown run. The Camels finished with seven interceptions and recovered three fumbles.

COLLEGE SPORTS

AAC extends commissioner through 2025 Irving, Texas The American Athletic Conference has extended the contract of Commissioner Mike Aresco for three years through June 2025, the league announced Monday.

Aresco, a former CBS Sports executive, was hired as Big East commissioner in 2012 during sweeping conference realignment that ultimately forced the league to rebuild and rebrand. The American was formed in 2013. The conference is again working to rebuild after more realignment. Earlier this month, Houston, Cincinnati and Central Florida announced they would be joining the Big 12 in 2023.

Aresco’s contract was set to expire next June.

NHL

Coyotes put in $1.7B proposal to build arena in Tempe Tempe, Ariz.

The Arizona Coyotes have proposed a $1.7 billion development in Tempe that will include a hockey arena.

The team said the arena would be funded by private investors but would seek city sales tax revenues to help pay for $200 million in additional costs, including infrastructure work. The Coyotes had been leasing Gila River Arena on an annual basis since the Glendale City Council voted to opt out of a multimillion-dollar longterm deal in 2016. Glendale announced recently that it will not renew its agreement with the franchise beyond the 2021-22 season.

WNBA

Liberty back into final playoff spot New York The New York Liberty earned the eighth and final WNBA playoff spot by virtue of losses by Washington and Los Angeles and will play at Phoenix on Thursday in the opening round. Coming into the weekend, Washington had the best chance to reach the postseason despite having so many players missing games this season with injuries. The Mystics lost at New York on Friday and then to Minnesota on Sunday.

The Connecticut Sun have the league’s best record and have homecourt advantage throughout the playoffs.

They earned a bye until the semifinals. Las Vegas also earned a double bye.

MARK HUMPHREY | AP PHOTO

Kyle Larson gets out of his car after winning Saturday night's NASCAR Cup Series race at Bristol.

Larson wins at Bristol while Harvick, Elliott feud Tyler Reddick, Aric Almirola, Kurt Busch and Michael McDowell were all eliminated from the playoffs as the series cut down to 12 postseason participants The Associated Press BRISTOL, Tenn. — Kyle Larson won at Bristol Motor Speedway — not really a big surprise or even the most interesting part of the NASCAR Cup Series’ first playoff elimination race.

The post-race feud between reigning Cup Series champion Chase Elliott and Kevin Harvick stole the show Saturday night, especially when Harvick angrily told the energized crowd: “I’m ready to freakin’ rip somebody’s head off.”

The fickle crowd struggled to pick a side before settling firmly behind Elliott, NASCAR’s most popular driver.

Harvick took the lead from Elliott with 33 laps remaining, but

the hard racing caused contact that cut one of Elliott’s tires. After a quick tire change, Elliott exacted his revenge by deliberately slowing in front of Harvick to give Hendrick Motorsports teammate Kyle Larson a chance to catch Harvick.

Larson made the race-winning pass with four laps to go to earn his sixth win of the year.

Then Harvick and Elliott parked alongside each other on pit road, bounded out their windows, and immediately began jawing at each other.

“Obviously, Harvick and Chase got together. Chase was upset.

Kind of held him up,” Larson said.

“It got Harvick having to move around and use his tires up off the bottom. I started to get some dive-ins working off of (turn) two, got a big run, decided to pull the trigger, slide him, squeeze him a little bit, then he had me jacked up down the frontstretch. It was wild.”

Then came the pit-road confrontation.

Harvick had his helmet on at

“They can boo all they want; I don’t care.”

Kevin Harvick after his postrace confrontation with Chase Elliott first and Elliott wagged his finger in Harvick’s face. There was brief shoving, Harvick slammed his helmet in anger, and both drivers blamed the other even after the verbal sparring moved inside Elliott’s hauler for a private conversation.

“We were racing for the frickin’ win at Bristol, we’re three-wide in the middle, and he throws a temper tantrum like I was just trying to get the lead and race him hard,” Harvick fumed. “Then he pulled up in front of me and just sits there until I lose the whole lead.”

The crowd at that moment was very decidedly on Elliott’s side.

“They can boo all they want; I don’t care,” Harvick said.

Clemson’s offense struggling heading into NC State game The Tigers have scored just 17 total points against two Power Five opponents this season

By Pete Iacobelli The Associated Press CLEMSON, S.C. — No. 9 Clemson can’t find the end zone, something that had come so easily for the Tigers the past few seasons.

Clemson (2-1, 1-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) was among top five in points scored from 201820, averaging almost 44 points a game. That’s not been the case this season. The Tigers have managed only 17 points combined in their two contests against Power Five conference teams, including a 14-8 win over Georgia Tech last Saturday where they were favored by four touchdowns.

“Critical penalties and missed opportunities,” Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said. “It almost cost us big time.”

If things don’t improve, it could cost the Tigers their perch atop the ACC. Clemson has slid from No. 3 in August to nearly out of the top 10 — and far out of position for a seventh consecutive trip to the College Football Playoff.

JOHN BAZEMORE | AP PHOTO

Quarterback D.J. Uiagalelei and the Clemson offense have struggled this season.

The Tigers look gear things up when they head to NCState (2-1).

The Wolfpack are opening ACC play on Saturday.

It’s been a frustrating start for Clemson, which has grown accustomed to mauling opponents who can’t keep up. A season ago, they defeated the Yellow Jackets 73-7 yet needed a goal-line stand Saturday in the closing seconds to es-

cape with the win.

Clemson’s offense gained 285 yards, the second time in three games it was held under 300 yards. The Tigers didn’t have a game with fewer than 400 yards in 2020.

First-year quarterback starter D.J. Uiagalelei has had missed connections with his receivers.

Turnovers and mistakes cost the

Elliott, meanwhile, indicated Harvick pushes people around on the track and the pattern must stop.

“It’s something he does all the time. He runs into your left side constantly at other tracks and sometimes it does cut down your left side and other times it doesn’t,” Elliott said. “He did it to me in Darlington a few weeks ago because he was tired of racing with me and whether he did it on purpose it doesn’t matter.

“I don’t care who he is or how long he’s been doing it. I am going to stand up for myself and my team and go on down the road.”

Meanwhile Larson, the top seed and the favorite to win the Cup, basked in the victory.

“I love this place. This is by far my favorite track. This is why,” Larson told the crowd. “You guys are amazing, loud. We feel the energy while we’re out there racing.

Thanks, everyone, for spending your hard-earned money to come watch us putting on a show.”

Elliott had led a race-high 175 laps but finished 25th. Harvick, winless after last year’s series-leading nine victories, was looking to snap a 36-race winless streak on the anniversary of his final win in 2020. He instead finished second.

Tyler Reddick, Aric Almirola, Kurt Busch and Michael McDowell were eliminated from the postseason.

Tigers in a 10-3 loss to Georgia and nearly undid them this past week, too.

The difference in the game against No. 2 Georgia was Uiagalelei’s pick-six interception just before halftime.

There were several errors down the stretch against Georgia Tech, from a failure to convert a late onside kick in a one-score game to freshman Will Shipley’s fumble in the end zone with the Tigers needing one crisp snap to run out the clock.

Shipley recovered the ball for a safety and Clemson held on. There hasn’t been so much late drama in most of Clemson’s ACC games the past few years.

The Tigers’ only regular season league loss came last year at Notre Dame, a one-season ACC member due to COVID-19. Clemson has gone 24-1 in the conference the previous three years with an average margin of victory of 30 points.

“That’s definitely the standard at Clemson,” Uiagalelei said Monday. “We put up massive amounts of yards, massive amounts of points.”

Uiagalelei takes the blame for the early season offensive drought.

The QB said he must be sharper in the pocket and more decisive in leading the attack.

Center Matt Bockhorst said there’s plenty of blame to share and he believes Uiagalelei will get the attack running as effectively as NFL No. 1 overall draft pick Trevor Lawrence did much of the previous three seasons.

“D.J. is our leader and we have full faith in him,” Bockhorst said.

Stanly County Journal for Wednesday, September 22, 2021

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Stricker’s biggest issue at Ryder Cup is getting back trophy

Randleman beat North Stanly 31-28 on a controversial end-of-game touchdown Friday in New London.

The U.S. has lost nine of the last 12 against Europe The Associated Press

AP PHOTO

North Stanly drops home thriller on controversial call Randleman was credited with a winning touchdown on the final play from scrimmage

By Jesse Deal Stanly County Journal NEW LONDON — A call in the final moments of Friday’s matchup between North Stanly and Randleman led to the referees being escorted by police out of the football stadium as Comets fans yelled in their direction.

With 10 seconds left in the game, Randleman (1-3, 0-0 PAC-7) was trailing by four points and down to its final play. Quarterback Christian Long heaved the ball into the end zone where a Comets defender knocked it out of the hands of a Tigers receiver, triggering a shortlived celebration.

The play, however, was not yet finished as the ball bounced into the hands of Randleman’s Jozey Akines. After a lengthy discussion between the officiating crew, a touchdown was signaled with the ruling that the ball had bounced off a player’s foot instead of the ground to give the Tigers a 31-28 road win over the Comets (1-3, 0-0 Yadkin Valley).

“I thought it was incomplete — it hit the ground,” North Stanly coach Scott Crisco said of the Tigers’ final pass.

The loss erased the merits of a strong second-half performance from the Comets. Facing a 17-7 deficit entering the second half, North Stanly rallied past the Tigers in the third quarter and led the game going into the fourth.

The Comets started their comeback just after halftime when receiver B.A. Harris caught a pass from quarterback Luke Shaver and eluded several Tigers defenders for a 71-yard touchdown.

The Comets then took their first lead when junior running back Cameron Smith scored on a 5-yard touchdown run at 3:53 of the third quarter to put North Stanly ahead 21-17.

Halfway through the fourth quarter, the Tigers came within a yard of getting the go-ahead score, but Long stepped out of bounds just short of the pylon and Randleman came away empty-handed following a 75-yard drive. Then with four minutes to play, the Tigers recorded their second interception of the night to set up a 3-yard touchdown run from running back Thomas Dobias.

But North Stanly rallied again, and senior Stefan Harris’ 33-yard

touchdown run reclaimed the lead for the Comets.

That set up Akines’ game-winning score and the controversial call.

“This is the biggest challenge we’ve had, and the game got taken from us,” Crisco said. “I was proud of how our offense and defense responded in the second half, but it’s sad a grown man can take something away from high school kids like that.”

The Tigers were able to strike first by taking advantage of Shaver’s first interception four minutes into the game. A minute later, Randleman’s Akines put the Tigers on the board with his 7-yard touchdown run.

The Comets responded at the 10:48 mark in the second quarter when Shaver converted on a 1-yard quarterback sneak to tie the game.

On the ensuing drive, running back Ervodd Cassady had a 2-yard touchdown run to give the Tigers a 14-7 lead, and Randleman senior kicker Chris Gentry added a 41-yard field goal with 38 seconds left in the second quarter to extend Randleman’s lead to 10 at halftime.

After a bye week, North Stanly’s conference play is set to begin on Oct. 1 as the Comets travel to Monroe to take on winless Union Academy (0-5, 0-0 Yadkin Valley).

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — Padraig Harrington had a tight grip on Ryder Cup trophy Monday as the European captain walked through a white-tented corridor toward the stage for the opening press conference.

That was a fitting start to matches that are a year overdue.

Europe is the defending champion, a winner of nine of the last 12, and it doesn’t want to give up possession of that 17-inch trophy.

“Obviously, there will be plenty of unknowns during the week,” Harrington said. “But at this “We are stage, we are prepared for everything and ready worried to go.”

U.S. captain Steve Stricker has been preach- about this ing the importance of being even more prepared, one, and just though his unknowns are a little more obvious.

Brooks Koepka injured his left wrist again trying to win during the final round of the Tour Championship, this one.” and then he attracted the wrong kind of attention from a magazine interview that raised quesSteve Stricker, tions how much he really enjoys the Ryder Cup. He has cooled his spat with Bryson DeCham- U.S. Ryder Cup beau, who has been training as much for a Long captain Drive competition right after the Ryder Cup. Issues? Only one matters to Stricker, and it’s wrestling away the Ryder Cup from Europe.

“Europe brings a strong team and they play well and are tough, and we always have tough matches that seem to have gone their way more times than ours lately,” Stricker said. “But we look to try to change that this week and move on.

“We are worried about this one, and just trying to win this one.”

The Americans have six rookies, their most for a Ryder Cup since winning at Valhalla in 2008, and Stricker likes the enthusiasm. He also doesn’t mind that so many of his players — six rookies and three players having played only once — haven’t accumulated too much scar tissue from a long history of losing.

Harrington counters with experience. Europe has half as many rookies, and Harrington filled out his team with Sergio Garcia and Ian Poulter, who have combined for 15 Ryder Cups and a 42-18-9 record.

The matches were scheduled for the final weekend of September in 2020 until being postponed one year when it was clear the coronavirus pandemic would not allow for spectators.

Now the noise is expected to be one-sided, especially with international travel difficulties.

“Our players play for the glory of this event,” Harrington said. “If there was 40,000 U.S. fans and no Europeans, we’d prefer that than having no fans. We want the noise.

We want the excitement. We want the buzz of it all. Yes, the players will have to deal with it and yes, they will have to embrace it. But they wouldn’t want the alternative. Having no fans is no fun.

“They will enjoy it.”

BEN GRAY | AP PHOTO

Officials toured Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Friday as part of the FIFA World Cup 2026 Candidate Host City Tour.

Atlanta, other U.S. cities make pitch for 2026 World Cup Canada and Mexico are also co-hosting soccer’s biggest event The Associated Press ATLANTA — After being slowed by the pandemic, the race among 17 U.S. cities to land a coveted spot hosting the 2026 World Cup is back on.

Two FIFA inspectors were in Atlanta Friday to get a look at 72,000-seat Mercedes-Benz Stadium, home of a record-setting Major League Soccer team and centerpiece of the city’s bid.

FIFA vice president Victor Montagliani, who also leads region-

al governing body CONCACAF, joked that Atlanta is now “a football city, as in the real football that is played globally.”

Atlanta is counting on its retractable-roof stadium, which opened in 2017, and history of staging everything from the Summer Olympics to the Super Bowl to help it land what is arguably the biggest worldwide spectacle of them all.

Montagliani and Colin Smith, FIFA’s chief tournament and events officer, already visited Boston and Nashville. Over the next week, they’re planning stops in Orlando, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, New York City, Philadelphia and Miami.

In the next two months, FIFA will compete its site visits to the remaining U.S. finalists: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Kansas City, Houston, Dallas and Cincinnati.

The United States won hosting rights along with Mexico and Canada in what will be the first World Cup staged in three nations.

The site visits were delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, pushing back a final decision on the host cities to early 2022.

There’s not much venue suspense in the neighboring countries.

Mexico put up three cities — Mexico City, Monterrey and Guadalajara — that are all expected to

host. Canada had also submitted three cities, but Montreal dropped out recently after the provincial government declined to pick up the rising costs. That left Toronto and Edmonton as that country’s sites.

It’s not known how many U.S. cities will be selected. The consensus was 10 before Montreal withdrew, which could create an opening for an 11th pick.

“There is never a stipulation of exactly how many we’re going to have in each country,” Montagliani said. “At the end of the day, we’re going to make the best decision for the World Cup itself, whatever that number may be.”

Mercedes-Benz Stadium is one several U.S. candidates that will

require the artificial turf to be replaced with a grass surface for the duration of the World Cup. That won’t be an issue, according to Smith.

“There’s a lot of technology that exists these days,” he said. “We just have to get it right.”

Atlanta hopes to benefit from the compact footprint around Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Unlike prospective cites such as Dallas, Washington, Boston and San Francisco, which have suburban stadiums, Mercedes-Benz is just a couple of blocks from downtown and part of a complex that also includes Centennial Olympic Park, State Farm Arena and the massive Georgia World Congress Center.

ment. area.”

EMPHIS, Tenn. — Faced For Nutbush resident He also cited a widespread fear the threat of overburdened of being unnecessarily exposed to fear of contracting the itals, states across the country matched with the worry th the 22, virus. onverting convention centers, Stanly County Journal for Wednesday, September 2021 “All around, people are scared,” could lose stores that are ts facilities and performance the neighborhood. Offici he said. es into backup treatment sites Their fears are not unfounded. ven’t said if stores would oronavirus patients. lawmakers and used an extremely Gateway was In this majority-black citybroad along What some Memphis, Tenbrush the to paint the 2018facility GenIf they did, shopping wo the Mississippi River, lawmakers e, residents don’t get is why in eral Assembly with the same toxic come and community leaders have been paint,” Poovey wrote.more difficult for re r city, a shopping center in the the panel’s majority especially for wrote those who ar sounding the alarm over whatBut they dle of a predominantly black, that while they found no legislasee as a disturbing trend of the vi- have no means of transpo income residential neighbortor harboring racial animus torus killing African Americans at a to stores located farther aw d has been chosen. ward black voters, Republicans tar“Forbased people who don’t higher rate. ty and state officials are congeted voters “who, on race, court had previously blocked the The Associated Press what do majorthey do?” ask Nutbush resident Patricia Hared that an influx of patients were unlikelycar, to vote for the law’s enforcement last year. The law ity party” as ris, the federal court also RALEIGH — nearby North Carolina remains unenforceable with this who spoke to The Ass ris wondered aloud if city officials m Memphis, as well as ruledthe in 2016.Press while lugging a bott struck and down rural the state’s lat- ruling. were “trying to contaminate” sissippi, judges Arkansas About three dozen astates have of bott With a similar lawsuit in federal est photo identification tergent, package neighborhood.

Tennessee, willvoter strain hospi- law on laws requesting or requiring voters court set to go to trial this January Friday. and other items from t Activist Earle Fisher, an Afri-someter Their fears are to show form of identification Two of echoed the threeacross trial judges de- and another state court lawsuit now ADRIAN SAINZ | AP PHOTO A Lot to She note can American Memphis pastor, country:clared Governors, mayors at the polls, and abouther halfcar. want the December 2018 law is on appeal, it’s looking more unlikely grocery store recently clos understands the anxiety.

“This health unconstitutional, experts in numerous This April 3, 2020 photo, photo ID only, according to the Nathat the current voter ID law will be shows Gateway Shopping Center even though it Friday, tional Conference of State Legislaenforced in the 2022 elections. was designed to implement a phoher house and she already is anGARY honest and reasonable cones are also researching and in Memphis, Tenn.

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Allison Riggs, an attorney at the voter ID mandate added to the cern and skepticism,” Fisher said. travel farther to get to Gat tructingto makeshift medical Six voters — five black and one North Carolina Constitution in a left-leaning Southern Coalition for In this June 14, 2021, file photo, Allison Riggs, co-executive director “When we do things “I think it’s par for the course for ities. referendum just weeks earlier. They Social Justice and the plaintiffs’ of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, biracial — sued in Wake County at podium, speaks at a got to day consider the people black people to be righteously a Chinese restaurant and other Lee has disclosed a few: the Mun New York City, they’re turncourt on the same GOP lawsaid the law was rushed and inten- lead attorney, praised the decision. news conference outside the Legislative Building in Raleigh. neighborhood,” she said. “W skeptical of governmentalmakers inter-overrode sic City Center in ruling Nashville, o the Javits Center convention Democratic Gov. Riggs said the reflects the “how businesses. tionally discriminates against black Roywith Cooper’sneed veto oftothemake 2018 votthe neighb the state’s Republican-controlled voters, violating their equal protecLocating a treatment center for vention that did not consult Chattanooga Convention Center, in Chicago, the McCormick “liberal judgeson have defied the will carried out briefly in 2016 primary legislatureExpo undeniably implementtions. Center; and in the Knoxville people the ground first.”er ID bill. worse than it already is.” patients there posCenter — all coronavirus e Convention at tri- Cohen, of North Doug Carolinians on election in-city’sSome elections. ed this legislation to maintain TheMountain law “was motivated least away U.S.testified Rep. Steve McGowen, the chief plaintiffs two problems, residents say: from residential neigh-its es dy, Utah, the Amer- at sites GOP legislative leaders and their tegrity” with the decision. Moore al about difficulties obtaining an in part by an unconstitutional in- power by targeting voters of color.” said the d operating said could disagreed, potentially expose borhoods.

Expo Center. or voting phis when Democrat, the earlier phoand Senate leader officer, Phil Berger aretheIDGatesaying the lat-them Republicans have said voter ID Itattorneys tent to target African American doesn’t make sense. way site was being considered beto the virus amid concerns that The Gateway Shopping Cenhe U.S. voters,” Army Superior Corps of Engito ID law was in effect. Lawyers for Court Judges Mi- laws are needed to build public con- est ID rules were approved with among defendants in the lawsuit. sure there cause it could potentially accomare contracting COVID-19 “Photo the Nutbush neighborhood s has been locations GOP said all“I’m voters would con-are othe voter ID laws are de- the noteworthy Democratic support in elections and to prevent blacks chaelscouting O’Foghludha and Vinceter Ro-in fidence tinue to be able to vote under theand they signed to bolster confidence in elecand improved to retain ballot acvoter fraud. zier wrote in their 102-page order.

Tennessee, and officials here of Memphis is different. The cen- at higher rates; and it could force modate hundreds of beds. He said that would work, 2018 law. tions.

Calling this law irredeemably cess while ensuring only legal citiIn July 2016, a federal appeals “Other, less restrictive voter ID compiled a list of 35 possi- ter features a Save A Lot grocery some of the stores they rely on to if it were converted to a treatment have used those rather t The plaintiffs’ emphasized neighbo racist site, does the exact opposite,” Sen. mildly struck down several portions zens can vote. laws would sufficed to achieve a residential it would hold only ill into case store, court a Rent-A-Center, a Fami- close. backup sites.

Theyhave haven’t reThe categories of qualifying IDs Paul Newton of Cabarrus County the state’s history of discriminatothe legitimate nonracial purposes of a 2013 North Carolina law that Cohen said. be laws, Nutbush commua beauty shop, ed the whole list, but Gov. Bill ly Dollar, ry voting as well as an analsaid. coronavirus patients who could were greatly resident expanded and compared included a voter IDsupply mandate. of implementing the constitution-

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NC judges strike down state’s voter ID law

al amendment requiring voter ID, deterring fraud, or enhancing voter confidence,” the judges added.

The majority decision, which followed a three-week trial in April, will be appealed, Republicans at the legislature said. A state appeals

Lawyers for the voters who sued over the 2018 law said it suffered from similar racial defects as the 2013 law — which they alleged weakened African American voting as a way to retain control the General Assembly. The 2013 law was

to the 2013 law to include college student and government-employee IDs. Free IDs also were made available, and people without IDs can still vote if they fill out a form.

Sam Hayes, an attorney for House Speaker Tim Moore, said

In the dissenting opinion, Judge Nathaniel Poovey wrote there was “not one scintilla of evidence” presented that any legislator acted with racially discriminatory intent.

The plaintiffs’ evidence relied “heavily on the past history of other

ysis from a University of Michigan professor who said black voters are 39% more likely to lack a qualifying photo ID than white registered voters. The analysis, however, left out data on some categories of qualifying IDs.

PEC, oil nations agree o nearly 10M barrel cut Land agency moving back to DC, reversing Trump-era decision

bin Salman, a son of King Salman, assented to the deal.

“I go with the consent, so I UBAI, United Arab Emiragree,” the prince said, chuckling, — OPEC,WASHINGTON, Russia and other D.C. — Indrawing a round of applause from roducing nations on Sunday terior Secretary Deb Haaland is the national headquarters ized anmoving unprecedented pro- those on the video call.

Bureau Land ManageBut it had not been smiles and ion cut ofofthe nearly 10ofmillion ment back to the nation’s capital laughs for weeks after the soels, or a 10th of global supply, after two years in Colorado, recalled OPEC+ group of OPEC opes of boosting crashing versing a decision bypricformer Presimembers and other nations failed mid the coronavirus pandemic dent Donald Trump’s administrain to March to reach an agreement a price war, officials said. tion to move the agency closer the region This could be theit serves. largest re- on production cuts, sending pricThe land from management es tumbling. Saudi Arabia sharply ion in production OPEC bureau, oversees nearly one-fifth of Russia days earlier over perhaps which a decade, maybe lon- criticized the nation’s public lands, lost nearwhat it described as comments said U.S. Energy Secretary ly 300 employees to retirement or critical of the kingdom, which Brouillette, who resignation aftercredited its headquarters finds itself trying to appease ident Donald Trump’s per-Junction, was moved to Grand Colorado, in 2019. duelGrand JuncTrump, a longtime OPEC critic. l involvement in getting tion willtable be rechristened Even U.S. senators had warned parties to the and help-the agen“western headquarters,” HaaSaudi Arabia to find a way to to end cy’s a price war between land said in a news release, and boost prices as American shale di Arabia“have andan Russia. important role to play in firms face far-higher production il pricesthe have collapsed as the outdoor bureau’s clean energy, sci- American troops had been navirus recreation, and the conservation, COVID-19 andcosts.

SAUDI ENERGY entific missions.” ss it causes have largely halt- deployed to the kingdom for the With control of 245 million lobal travel and slowed down first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, In this photo released by Saudi Energy Ministry, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al-Saud, Minist acres, the agency has broad inattacks over concerns of Irani- Energy of Saudi Arabia, third right, chairs a virtual summit of the Group of 20 energy minister r energy-chugging sectors fluence over energy development an retaliation amid regional ten- his office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Friday, April 10, 2020, to coordinate a response to plummet as manufacturing. has western and agriculture It in the stated U.S., the managing oil industry prices due to an oversupply in the market and a downturn in global demand due to the pandem publicin landssions. for uses now ranging from more fossil-fuel ex“They’ve spent over the last U.S., which pumps traction, month waging war on American e than any otherrenewable country. power development and grazing, to recreation oil producers while we are defend- that Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the deal but its president, Andrés praise. ut some and producers have been wilderness.

EVAN VUCCI PHOTO “The pure| APsize of the cu ing theirs. This is not how friends the United Arab Emirates would Manuel López Obrador, had said ctant to ease supply.

The carTrump’s first interior secretary, precedented, but, then ag Friday that he had agreed with cut another 2 million barrels of treat friends,” said Sen. Kevin nd other nations on Sunday Ryan Zinke, initiated the head- In this April 23, 2021, file photo, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland speaks during a news briefing at the White House in Washington. quarters move and called it Cramer, a Republican from North oil a day between them atop the Trump that the U.S. will compen- is the impact the corona ed to allow Mexico towest cut only a needed reorganization put OPEC+ deal. The three countries sate what Mexico cannot add to having on demand,” said M before the OPEC+ deal.

000 barrels a month, a stick-thatDakota, aide will continue to grow, reau, former looper The Trumpacknowledge adminis- the West headquarters July after did topan agency officials closer to the medDemocratic Ghulam, an energy an the proposed cuts. notsaid. immediately U.S.orado producers havein already point for accord initially Tracy Stone-Manning, who republic lands it oversees. The move being confirmed as interior sec- tration “scattered jobs” through- she added.

Raymond James.

“The big Oil Deal with OPEC cut themselves, though Zan- Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso, ceived no Republican support in been reducing output. The Amer- the hed Friday after a marathon out the region and assigned only was completed under David Ber- retary.

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Haaland herdeal, statement wanted the headistration energy in atwo tweet.

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BLM the Bureau “will help ensure reer employees. similar mass everycall Senate Republican at of ana belongs in the West, closer to the should presence fully but functioning agency exodus after two production Ag- have acuts, Nysveen, theplus head Vladimir Putin held a joint “Thishave willa leadership enable the rebalancwas able to ed at just overoccurred $31 a barrel leastSalone Democratic lawmaker resources managesand and the peo-King in Washington, D.C. — like all the thatobvious understands the West.” riculture Rystad Energy.

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obituaries Julia Ann Clontz Hinson

Coy Richard Thompson

Coy Richard Thompson, Julia Ann ClontzJason Hinson, 83, of Tony 84, of Albemarle, passed away Monroe, passed away Thursday, Wednesday, September 15, 2021 in September 16, 2021Efird at her home in Smith his home. His funeral service will Monroe.

ASON EUGENE “GENE” MONROE SMITH, 72, of be 2pm ONY Saturday, September 18, Julia was born February 18, 1938 EFIRD, 94, went home to be with Rockwell, NC, went to be with 2021 at Immanuel Baptist in North Carolina to the late Theron his Lord Tuesday, April 7, 2020, at his his Lord and Savior JesusChurch Christ withon Stephen Smith officiating.

Clontz home and the late Ona Lee Little in Stanfield.

Wednesday, April 8, 2020 at Burial follow in the Ridgecrest Clontz. Gene was born October 9, 1925, in hiswill home surrounded by family. A family will receive She Cabarrus was also preceded in death County to the late SimeonCemetery. privateThe family service will be held. on Friday evening 6pm by husband, Warren Jason Efird andPliney the lateHinson; Sarah Ella friends Online condolences can from be made at untilstanlyfuneralhome.com 7:30pm at Stanly Funeral and sisters,Burris Florine Clontz Crook to his Efird.

In addition in Albemarle. parents, was preceded in death byCremation TonyCare was born August 11, 1947 and Mary AliceheBlackman; and his wife, Jewell in Stanly County to the lateMay Pearlie Mr. Thompson was born granddaughter, AnnaLittle York.Efird; sisters, Mary Lambert, Fannie Almond, 14, 1937 Asbury Smith and Emmer Lee in Stanly County to the Survivors include daughter, Furr, Wilma Burleson and late,Smith. was the son in law of Pat SwinkHe Thompson and Lucy GlendaMinnie (Phil) Parker of Monroe, NC; Aileen Huskey; andHinson brothers, and Mick Cagle he worked at He waswhere a member son, Leon C. (Harriette) ofHomerThompson.

Efird, and Wayne the fish house for many years until Baptist Church for Monroe, NC;Getus sister,Efird Beverly CarnesEfird,of Immanuel Sr. he opened Anchor twenty five years and House servedSeafood as a and brother, David (Audrey) Clontz A private funeral service will be in Rockwell. He and his wife Becky Church Deacon. and sister-in-law, Blanche Clontz all held on Saturday, April 11, 2020 owned and operated Anchor House Coy by his wife,in 2009. of Monroe; grandchildren, at Love’ s Grove UnitedRobert Methodist for is 25survived years before retiring Martha Furr Thompson ofmember the (Kara)Church Hinson,Cemetery Rachel (John) in Stanfield Mr. Smith was a charter fordeacon 65 years.

Other survivors Baucom, Callie (David) Green, officiated

by Rev. Jim White. Burialhome and at Open Door Baptist include a son, Grover Thompson Joshuawill Rape, andatJosiah Rape; follow the Love’ s Grove United Church in Richfield.

He loved the two Laura Tony and great-grandchildren, Harper 4360 of Locust; Methodist Church Cemetery, Lord and hisdaughters, family abundantly.

T. Troutman of Newhusband, Londonfather, and Hinson, Hiram Jaxon Polk Ford Hinson, Road, Stanfield. was a wonderful include son Gerald and could fix anything and grandfather Ellen M. Gaskins of Locust; Baucom, Survivors Oliver Green, and Carter he putRonnie his hands on.

Thompson of Green.Wayne (Gail) Efird of Albemarle; a brother, daughter Lisa Efird (Mark) HartsellAlbemarle; Mr. Smith is survived bySmith his wife a sister, Hazel T. of Stanfield; granddaughters, Becky Cagle Smith of the home, of Albemarle; nine grandchildren Kelly Efird Barbee and Lauren sons Walter Smith and Robbie and fifteen great grandchildren.

Hartsell (Justin) Crump; and great- Coy Smith; daughter Kayla was also preceded in Henderson death by a grandsons, Ian Patrick Simmons and (Brandon); grandchildren Danielle, brother, Marvin “Jack” Thompson, Elliot Jacob Simmons.

Dustin, and Steele Smith, Keaton Dennis andDavid Memorials may be made to Love’sa daughter, and EllaWendy Henderson; brother Stamper.

Grove United Methodist Church, POgranddaughter, Smith; sistersTangi Kay Kriechbaum,

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Box 276, Stanfield, NC 28163-0276.

Karen Stevenson, Ruby Eudy, and Dorothy Smith (Nick).

He is preceded in death by brothers Joe Smith, Wayne Smith, Claude Smith, Wade Smith, Robert Smith, and sister Mary Morris.

Memorial contributions can be made to Open Door Baptist Church at 44563 Hwy 52, Richfield, NC 28137 or to Hospice & Palliative Care of Cabarrus County at 5003 Hospice Lane, Kannapolis, NC 28081.

Ruby Austin Napier

On September 16, 2021, Ruby Pauline Austin Napier passed away peacefully at her home after a Tucker period of declining health. Born AULINE January 27, 1932, toELIZABETH Walter and ALMOND Nellie Lowder Austin,TUCKER, Ruby 98, passed Guy Welchel Dyar, 97, of away peacefully at parents, Trinity Place, was predeceased by her Albemarle, NC on April 11, 2020. Albemarle, passed away Thursday, her husband of 65 years James Pauline was born on March 22, September 16, 2021.

Napier,1922 her brothers JB Austin, in Cabarrus County, NC to the Mr. Dyar was born October Dan Austin, Leo Austin, Haroldand Alice29, 1923 in Georgia to the late late John Richard Almond “Bud” Austin, and her sister Callie Guy and EdithShirley Cox Dyer. In Ada Ann Lambert Almond.

“Beanie” Austin.

Ruby isbysurvived addition to his parents, he was She is survived her three Haire by children Stan (Nancy) Napier daughters, Gay Michel (Jack), also preceded in death by his and Phillip (Ruby) Napier of New Oak Island, NC; Pamela Rushing wife, Lillian Dyar and son, Steven HIRLEY MAE HAIRE, 73, London(Foreman), and grandchildren Chase Oakboro, NC; Kathy Wallace of Dyar.

Albemarle passed away on (Marc), Albemarle, NC; her (Maria)Hunt Napier, Lauren (Quentin) Guy served inat the United States April 11, 2020 Atrium Health son, Chris Tucker (Chris Lear), Tyson, Wayne (Chasidy) Napier, and Stanly.

TheWWII family will a private Army during as hold a member DC. She be greatlyof the JessicaWashington, (Mark) Morgan.

Shewill leaves graveside forengineers.

Mrs. Haire. specialservice core of missed by her five grandchildren, great-grandchildren Sophia Napier, Shirley was bornfollower December He was a faithful of12, Rushing Chaney (Shannon), 1946 in Washington, DC to the BishopHeather Tyson, Isaac Napier, Raegan Christ and a member of St. Luke Rushing, Elizabeth Michel late Charles Richard Bateman and Napier,Michael and Ava-Lee Morgan, along Methodist Church.

Hartzog (Craig), Jack Michel, Jr. United Mae Mulligan with several nieces and nephews, AElizabeth memorial service willBateman. be held (Jenn), and Woody Hunt as well as Shirley is survived by her husband especially her niece Cynthia Austin, September 20, 2021, seven great-grandchildren. She also on Monday, of 30 years Vaughn Smith of her caretaker and “daughter pm, atsister Hartsell Funeral leaves behind cherishedshe nieces and at 4:00 Albemarle; Sandra Painter never had.”

Ruby served her Lord at Home’s Lefler Memorial Chapel, nephews. of Gainesville, VA; half-brother Second Street Presbyterian The family expressesChurch its sincere 522 Robert N. 2ndBateman Street, of Albemarle, Stevensville, as organist and choir gratitude to the director staff and for caregivers officiated

by Rev. BillHeather Baldwin.

MD; step-children Smith over 60atyears.

God gifted hercare to be Trinity Place for the they Guy is survivedFL byand hisDavid daughter, of Jacksonville, Pauline. an avidprovided gardener, exquisite cook, Edith Johnson adopted Smith of Newand London, NC; 4 graveside and giver A ofprivate hospitality.

Sheservice was will befamily step-grandchildren; Cyndi members, Johnnieces and Mandy heldcreative, on Monday, April 13, 2020. A Scardina extremely especially with Hentschel Leesburg, VA and andoffamily. celebration of Pauline’ s lifeThe and legacy Cheryl Hardy of Aylett, VA; 16 grandfloral arrangements and bows. will held this summer. nieces and nephews; and Gus the epitome of be toughness, Ruby did not In lieu of flowers, the family dog. Stanly Funeral and Cremation let her vision impairment deter her requests donations be made to the Care of Albemarle is serving the from doing what she loved, and she BrightFocus Foundation at www.

Haire family. could outwork most people even into brightfocus.org. her 80’s. Ruby was most generous and went out of her way to make sure birthdays and holidays were special.

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Shirley Jeanette Whitley Edwards

Shirley Jeanette Whitley Merle Edwards, 83, of Oakboro, passed Helms away Thursday, September 16, 2021 atERLE Atrium Health in LORRAINEStanly AUSTIN Albemarle.

HELMS, 72, of Marshville, Shirley was born June 27,8, passed away Wednesday, April 1938 County to the late 2020in atStanly McWhorter Hospice House Theron Roosevelt Whitley and the in Monroe. born AprilWhitley.

28, 1947 lateLorraine Minniewas June Taylor inShe Monroe to the late David is survived byHomer her beloved Austin andRickey Jewell Delphia-Jane children, Edwards, Austin. She(Chris) was also preceded in Jeannene Gilbert, Greg death by brothers, A.D. and Teddy Edwards, Kevin Edwards, Austin; and sister, JoyHatley; Austin. and Marsha (Wes) The family will receive friends grandchildren, Justin (Heather) from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm, Friday, Gilbert, Ryan Gilbert, Autumn April 10, 2020 at Hartsell Funeral Hatley; Home ofgreat-grandchild, Albemarle. The funeral Tenley to be serviceGilbert; will be at soon 11:00 am on greatgrandchild, Ellena Hill Gilbert; aunt, Saturday at Pleasant Baptist Jane Honeycutt; andofficiated numerous Church in Marshville, cousins.

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Joseph Salvatore Curella

Reverend Nathaniel Wilkerson Danny Jerry Joseph Salvatore Curella, Sr., Fox of Norwood, North Carolina 63, of Stanfield, NC, passed away Luther Fincher passed into his loving Savior’s Tuesday, September 14, 2021 in arms withPAUL peace and grace on ANNY LUTHER, ERRY FINCHER passed from his home.

There will be no funeral Thursday, September 16th at the 65, of Norwood, passed away this life onor April 3, 2020 at 8:05 service visitation. age of 93. Thursday, April 9, unexpectedly pm. HeBorn was surrounded his family March 21,by1958 in Dade Born on February 22, 1928 2020 at Atrium Health Stanly in in and County, holding the hand of the love of FL to the late Bernard Roxboro, NC he was the son of his life. Jerry is preceded in death Albemarle.

Curella, Sr. and Jessie Clyde Hoyle the Nathaniel and by three Mr.late Luther was bornHassell March 27, siblings, two brothers, Billy Curella. He had previously drove 1955 to the late Robert FultonFox. and He Gilbert Fincher, and Larry Richard Irma Lenora Wilkerson a school bus for Lee County, Helen Tuckerthe Luther.

Fincher, and one sister, Barbra Joyce FL. accepted Lord June 30th, Joseph was a Christian and he Danny was survived by his wife, Moore.

1939 at age 11 during revival loved his family.

He was huge Denise Burleson LutherChurch. of Norwood; He is survived by his wife, Eleanor at Antioch Baptist He Star Trek fan.

Joseph also sang sons, Jeremy (Karen) Luther and Kate Fincher of the home, daughter, was baptized July 9th, 1939. He with his brothers in a band, “The Jody Luther; step-sons, Bryan Cindy Fincher Jacobs of Wingate attended North Carolina State Curella Brothers”.

Whitley and Gregg (Anita) Whitley; NC., son and daughter in law, Tommy University and Wake Forest Grandchildren, Daniel Luther and (Tiffany) Fincher of Newby London He is survived his wife, College to receive his B.A. in Hunter Zado, as well as his brother, NC.,Melody Step Children, JimmyCurella (Lisa) of the Ann Aney Religion.

Afterward, Nathan Bob Luther Jr (Lorena), uncle Jack Lanier of Locust NC, Wanda (Bob) home.

Other survivors include went and to Southwestern Baptist Luther several other loved nieces, Krimminger of Locust NC., Eric two sons, Joseph Salvatore Theological Seminary in Fort nephews and cousins.

(Sharon) Lanier NC.,NC and Curella, Jr.ofofCharlotte Stanfield, Worth, Texas where received Grandchildren-Trey Danny recently retiredhe from (Gera) Whitson Aaron Giovonni Curella (Ashley) his Master Divinity.

Whitley. She will lie in state for 30 Charlotte Pipeof and FoundryHe afterwas of Midland, Step-grandchildren, of Greencastle,IN; a daughter, at years Roxboro Baptist minutes prior to the service. She will aordained dedicated 37 and worked Zach (Brittney) Washington, Aaron Angelina MarieCaleb Smith (Steven) be laid to rest in the church cemetery. there with on his December sons and several Washington, (Nayeli) Church 4th,other 1949 (Kinsey) of Stanfield, NC; a brother, She is survived by her beloved friends and family members. at age 20, Washington, Beth (Robbie) Setzer, and began his ministry Bernard Curella of Bainbridge, husband of 47 years, Paul Helms Danny lovedFront spending timeBaptist at Matthew ( April ) Wallace, Step organizing Street IN; a sister, Angeline Salisbury of the home; son, Alex (Deanna) his lake house with his family and great-grandchildren, Britlyn-Eve Church in Roxboro. He pastored (Hal, Sr.) of Bainbridge, IN.; Helms of Pageland; daughter, Paula friends as well as vacationing with his Washington, Robert Setzer, George several churches before becoming grandchildren, Lyliana (Cristin Brandt) Helms of Mint Hill; family.

Danny and Deniseofenjoyed Setzer, Tracy (Rob) SetzerMartin the founding pastor Memorial (Sara) grandchildren, Mason, Grant, and listening to beach music and loved to KatieTN, Underwood, of Cleveland, Alyssa Smith Baptist Church for 23 years. SinceBumgardener, Raegan Helms; brothers, Boyce, shag dance every chance they could Andrew Underwood, Step great Smith of Stanfield, NC, Arabella retiring, served over 24 Royce, Tim Austin; and sisters, get.

He washe an has amazing father, loving greatofgrandchild, Waylon George Stanfield, NC, Axel Curella of interim pastorates.

Patricia Mullis, and Angel Tarleton. grandfather and great friend to Setzer and brother Donald Lewis Greencastle, IN and Alexander Nathan survived by daughterFincher of Albemarle, NC. Memorials may be made to the many.

He willis never be forgotten.

Curella of Greencastle, IN; nieces Anne Fox Cooper son: Alzheimer’s Association, 4600 Park A celebration of life (Charles), will be Jerry will be laid toSalvatore rest on andFincher nephews, Jessica & Reverendonce George Nathaniel Fox Wednesday Rd., Suite 250, Charlotte, NC 28209. announced the current April 8,2020 at 11:00 am husband, Hal Salisbury & wife, (Anita); grandchildren: Joshua at Canton Baptist Church. Anyone COVID-19 restrictions are lifted.

Matthew Salisbury, Teresa See Hartsell(Jennifer), Funeral Home of Cooper interested in attending, please RSVP Cooper Jeremy & husband,Dr. Anthony Curella,Jr., Albemarle is serving Taylor), the Luther Phil McCray (Fiancé Carolyn David at 704-796-2412.

Marie Hubner & husband and family. and Pastor Tommy Fincher will Cooper (Lauren), Anna Wickham Bernard Curella & wife; sister (Everett), and Josiah Fox; great- officiate. in law, Pam Curella. Mr. Curella grandchildren: Madelynn, was also preceded in death by a Nathaniel, Presley, and Bodie Sylvia Burke entered the gates Cooper, step great-grandchildren: brother, Anthony Curella. of heaven on September 16, 2021 Anna Walker and Abigail Bruce; after a long battle with cancer and sisters: Mary Jane Fox Ould and short battle with COVID. She was Carol Rogers Fox; brother: Lewis a warrior and beat the odds so Howard Fox. He is preceded in many times when the doctors said death by his loving wife of 44 she would not survive. Her strong years Mary Alice Starkey Fox, faith kept herLinda going. great granddaughter Bexley Grace She was born August 16, 1935 Cooper; and brother Jerry Hassel Hatley to the late William and Beulah Fox. Hitch in Jacksonville, NC. She INDA TUCKER HATLEY, 69, of married Stonypassed Burleson 1954 Albemarle, awayinMonday, and they had three daughters.

April 13, 2020.

She Linda was preceded in death by was born September 18,her 1950 in Concord in to the lateher Jacob and loving husband 1970, eldest Claris Tucker.

She wasin also preceded daughter, Stephanie 2014, in death her brother, Terry Lee and manybybrothers and sisters.

Tucker, and her twin sister, Brenda She loved being involved in the Tucker and Strickland.

We know Brenda church was a part of the choir, and Linda are in Heaven watching ladies circle, and participated us and laughing. inover numerous church activities.

Linda was a loving mother, sister, She was always very artistic with and “Nana.” She was a very giving ceramics, needlepoint, and loving person. Lindacrosswould stitch and sewing and making always do anything she could for beautiful and unique Christmas others, especially her family.

She ornaments.

Her at grandchildren, enjoyed working FastShop #5, Alexandra, Lee, and Danielle were Locust. Linda will be forever loved the of her life. She cherished andlight greatly missed.

Survivors include her son, every moment she was able to Alan Hatley and wife, of to spend with them.

SheAngela, was able Celebrate the life of your loved Albemarle; brother, Ronnie Tucker celebrate her 86th birthday with Linda, of alland of wife, her family byMidland; her side last ones. Submit obituaries and granddaughter, Leslie Hatley; 1 month. niece; and 2 nephews. death notices to be published in She is survived by her daughters The family will receive friends Cheryl Burleson-Davis of from 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm, Thursday, SCJ at obits@stanlyjournal.com Charlotte and at Alison Cline (Rudy) April 16, 2020 Hartsell Funeral ofHome Ocean Shores, WA, her three in Albemarle. Linda will grandchildren, Alexandra be laid to rest during a privateCline Ewell (Zahran) ofatMarysville, committal service Bethel United WA, Danielle Davis, and Lee Methodist Church, Midland.

Davis of Charlotte, her brother, In lieu of flowers, please consider a memorial donation to Bethel UMC, Robert Hitch of Jacksonville, NC 12700 Idlebrook Rd, Midland, and NC and many nieces, nephews, 28107. Services will be held at a cousins. later date in October.

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STATE & NATION

New redistricting commissions splinter along partisan lines

By David A. Lieb The Associated Press WHEN VOTERS in some states created new commissions to handle the politically thorny process of redistricting, the hope was that the bipartisan panelists could work together to draw new voting districts free of partisan gerrymandering.

Instead, cooperation has proved elusive.

In New York, Ohio and Virginia, commissions meeting for the first time this year have splintered into partisan camps to craft competing redistricting maps based on 2020 census data.

As a result, new state House and Senate districts in Republican-led Ohio will still favor the GOP. Democrats who control New York could still draw maps as they wish. And a potential stalemate in Virginia could eventually kick the process to the courts.

“It’s probably predictable that this is sort of how it’s panned out,” said Alex Keena, a political scientist at Virginia Commonwealth University who has analyzed redistricting and gerrymandering.

Redistricting can carry significant consequences. Subtle changes in district lines can solidify a

STEVE HELBER | AP PHOTO

In this Oct. 6, 2020, file photo, redistricting reform advocate Brian Cannon poses with some of his yard signs and bumper stickers in his office in Richmond, Va. majority of voters for a particular party or split its opponents among multiple districts to dilute their influence. Republicans need to net just five seats to regain the U.S. House in the 2022 elections, which could determine the fate of President Joe Biden’s remaining agenda.

Throughout most of American history, redistricting has been

handled by state lawmakers and governors. But as public attention to gerrymandering has grown in recent decades, voters in some states have shifted the task to socalled special commissions.

Some commissions — such as those in Arizona, California, Colorado and Michigan — consist solely of citizens who hold the final say on what maps to en-

act. But others, such as in Ohio and Virginia, include politicians among their members or require their maps to be submitted to the legislature for final approval, as is the case in New York, Virginia and Utah.

If New York’s Democratic-led Legislature rejects the work of the new commission (consisting for four Democrats, four Republicans and two independents), then lawmakers can draft and pass their own redistricting plans.

The prospects of that increased last week, when Democrats and Republicans on the commission failed to agree and instead released competing versions of new maps for the U.S. House, state Senate and state Assembly.

State Republican Party Chairman Nick Langworthy blasted the Democratic maps as “wildly gerrymandered” and accused Democratic commissioners of refusing to compromise.

State Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs countered that there was no reason to “bend over backwards” to try to draw as many Republican seats as possible. He added: “We’ll be fair, but to a point.”

The commission’s division frustrated Jennifer Wilson, deputy director of the League of Women Voters of New York. The organization supported the 2014 ballot measure that created the commission and encouraged people to testify at the panel’s public hearings this year.

“It almost feels like a slap in the face to us and to all those people who spent the time to go and sub-

mit comments -- took time out of their daily lives to do that -- when it’s very obvious there was no regard for any of those comments,” Wilson said.

Michigan’s citizen redistricting commission released its first draft of a new state Senate and U.S. House map this past week and is still working on a state House map. It’s planning to take more public comment on its proposals with a goal of finalizing maps by the end of the year — blowing past the Nov. 1 deadline set in the constitutional amendment approved by voters.

In Virginia, two separate mapmakers hired for Democrats and Republicans are to submit rival plans for consideration this coming week by the 16-member commission, which has four lawmakers and four citizens from each major party. If the commission can’t agree — or the Democratic-led General Assembly rejects its maps — the decision will fall to the state Supreme Court, which is dominated by GOP-appointed judges.

How commissioners respond to the two maps will determine whether the reform effort works, said Liz White, executive director of OneVirginia2021, which supported last year’s ballot measure creating the commission.

She hopes panelists find a way “to marry” the two proposals.

“We’re going to be able to look back on this sort of experiment and see what works and what doesn’t work,” White said. “Hopefully, that will lead to better reforms in the future.”

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Law enforcement officials investigate home of a young man wanted for questioning in the disappearance of his girlfriend, Gabby Petito, on Monday, Sept. 20, 2021, in North Port, Fla.

FBI searches Florida home of Gabby Petito’s boyfriend

By Curt Anderson The Associated Press NORTH PORT, Fla. — FBI agents and police Monday searched the home of the boyfriend wanted for questioning in the death of 22-year-old Gabby Petito, whose body was discovered over the weekend at a Wyoming national park months after the couple set out on a cross-country road trip.

The FBI gave no details on the search by at least a dozen law enforcement officers, but agents removed several boxes and towed away a car that neighbors said was typically used by 23-year-old Brian Laundrie’s mother. Local media said Laundrie’s parents were seen getting into a police vehicle.

Laundrie and Petito had been living with his parents at the North Port home before the road trip on which she died.

The young couple had set out in July in a converted van to visit national parks in the West. They

SCS from page 1 the exposure determinations.

“Due to these additional strategies, breakfast and lunch will no longer be considered during contact tracing for K-12 students,” the district’s announcement said.

got into a fight along the way, and Laundrie was alone when he returned in the van to his parents’ home on Sept. 1, police said.

In Wyoming, the FBI announced on Sunday that agents had discovered a body on the edge of Grand Teton National Park, which the couple had visited. No details on the cause of death were released. An autopsy was set for Tuesday.

“Full forensic identification has not been completed to confirm 100% that we found Gabby, but her family has been notified,” FBI agent Charles Jones said.

Laundrie has been named a person of interest in the case, but his whereabouts in recent days were unknown.

Petito’s father, Joseph, posted on social media an image of a broken heart above a picture of his daughter, with the message: “She touched the world.”

In an interview broadcast Monday on TV’s “Dr. Phil” show, Joseph Petito said Laundrie and

his daughter had dated for 2 1/2 years, and Laundrie was “always respectful.” During the interview, which was recorded before his daughter’s body was found, Petito said the couple had taken a previous road trip to California in her car and there were no problems.

“If there were, I would have discouraged going on the trip,” Petito said.

Petito said his family began worrying after several days without hearing from their daughter.

“We called Brian, we called the mom, we called the dad, we called the sister, we called every number that we could find,” Petito said.

“No phone calls were picked up, no text messages were returned.”

Petito said he wants Laundrie to be held accountable for whatever part he played in Gabby’s disappearance, along with his family for protecting him.

“I hope they get what’s coming, and that includes his folks,” Petito said. “Because I’ll tell you, right now, they are just as complicit, in

my book.”

The FBI said investigators are seeking information from anyone who may have seen the couple around Grand Teton.

Police looking for Laundrie searched a 24,000-acre Florida nature preserve over the weekend without success. Investigators had focused intently on the area after Laundrie’s parents told police he may have gone there.

Petito and Laundrie were childhood sweethearts who met while growing up on New York’s Long Island. His parents later moved to North Port, about 35 miles south of Sarasota.

A man who saw Petito and Laundrie fighting in Moab, Utah, on Aug. 12 called 911 to report a domestic violence incident, according to a recording of the call obtained from the Grand County Sheriff’s Office. The man said that he saw Laundrie slap Petito while walking through the town and proceeded to hit her before the two got in their van and drove off.

Video released by the Moab police showed that an officer pulled the couple’s van over on the same day after it was seen speeding and hitting a curb near Arches National Park. The body-camera footage showed an upset Petito.

Laundrie said on the video that the couple had gotten into a scuffle after he climbed into the van with dirty feet. He said he did not want to pursue a domestic violence charge against Petito, who officers decided was the aggressor.

Moab police separated the couple for the night, with Laundrie checking into a motel and Petito remaining with the van.

In the footage, Gabby Petito cried as she told the officer that she and Laundrie had been arguing over her excessive cleaning of the van. She told the officer she has OCD — obsessive compulsive disorder.

On “Dr. Phil,” her father said that wasn’t literally true. She just likes to keep her living area orderly and was using slang, he said.

The announcement also described an option they are making available for a shortened quarantine period of seven days rather than 14 days. The option, which is only available upon request, allows a student to take a COVID test on the fifth day

of quarantine and, if the result comes back negative, they can return to school after the seventh day.

A Sept. 7 Stanly County Board of Education meeting had extended public comment from parents and other residents on the issue.

Many commenters pushed back on board members who said at the beginning of the school year that masks were being required to keep students in class, asking why so many were being quarantined if the masks were supposed to prevent that. Others were up-

set by sports teams being quarantined and games canceled.

“Athletics is a big factor in quarantines thus far,” Stanly Schools Superintendent Jarrod Dennis said at the meeting. “We have two cheerleading teams and six football teams [impacted].”

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Class of 2021

Wake Forest inducted six new members into the school’s athletics hall of fame on Friday night. The group was headlined by current NBA star Chris Paul and also included all-time winningest quarterback Riley Skinner, Olympic medalist Michael Bingham, placekicker Sam Swank, women’s golf coach Dianne Dailey, and five-time ACC swimming and diving champion Drew Taylor.

WHAT’S HAPPENING Three shootings result in one death Forsyth County One of three people shot in separate incidents has died.

Winston-Salem police said Charles Edward Anderson Jr., 27, died at a local hospital after he was shot. Officers responding to a report of a shooting found Anderson inside an apartment with a gunshot wound. Investigators think the shooting stemmed from a robbery. A second shooting resulted from a robbery. Dwane Dereece Stokes, Jr., 28, was expected to recover. In the third shooting, Rigney McCarter Williams, 58, was shot for unknown reasons by a juvenile who fled before police arrived. Williams also is expected to recover.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Man pleads guilty to role in 2018 beating death Forsyth County Quincy Devorice Valentine, 31, in pleaded guilty to the brutal beating of a man. Valentine pled guilty to several charges, including accessory after the fact to second-degree murder.

Curtis Jermaine Farrow, 40, was beaten by several men on Jan. 19, 2018, after being told to choose between picking one person to fight or a beating by multiple people. Farrow’s body was found in a dumpster. He died from multiple blunt-force injuries to his head. A judge sentenced Valentine to at least 93 months and dismissed firstdegree murder charges. Two other men face first-degree murder charges in Farrow’s death.

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Lawsuit: Blind man, guide dog forced from N. Carolina mall

By Tom Foreman Jr. The Associated Press RALEIGH — Police officers violated civil rights law when they forced a blind man and his service dog to leave a mall and threatened to arrest him for trespassing if he didn’t, according to a lawsuit filed by a North Carolina advocacy group.

“Civil rights are severely weakened when police departments treat blind shoppers as trespassers based on a store’s discriminatory desire to have them removed for using a guide dog,” said Chris Hodgson, an attorney for Disability Rights North Carolina and lead attorney on the case, in a statement.

“When this happens, shoppers are

doubly discriminated against, first, by the stores, and then, by the police departments that fail to respect and uphold rights we guarantee to our blind citizenry.”

A spokesperson for the police department declined comment Thursday afternoon, adding that the city would issue a statement.

The lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Middle District by Disability Rights North Carolina says that during a visit to Hanes Mall in Winston-Salem in November 2020, Wilmer Oliva visited a store to take advantage of post-Thanksgiving sales. The store manager tried to have Oliva removed because of his dog, the lawsuit said.

Although mall security officers

Ex-Georgetown tennis coach to plead guilty in college scam Former Wake Forest volleyball coach was co-defendant in upcoming trial The Associated Press BOSTON — A former Georgetown University tennis coach accused of accepting more than $2 million in bribes to help kids get into the school will plead guilty in the sweeping college admissions scandal, according to court documents filed Wednesday.

Gordon Ernst’s decision to plead guilty comes as the first trial in the massive case that ensnared wealthy parents and athletic coaches across the country is being held in Boston’s federal court.

Ernst, who was scheduled to go on trial in November, agreed to

admit to charges including conspiracy to commit federal programs bribery, according to the court records.

Prosecutors agreed to recommend a sentence of no more than four years in prison, according to the plea agreement. Ernst has promised to ask for no less than a year behind bars.

Ernst, who was the head men and women’s tennis coach at Georgetown, was arrested in March 2019 along with more than four dozen others in the so-called “Operation Varsity Blues” case that revealed a scheme to get undeserving kids into elite universities with rigged test scores or bogus athletic credentials.

Ernst was charged with getting bribes from the admissions consultant at the center of the scheme, Rick Singer, in exchange for designating multiple appli-

said Oliva had a right to have the dog inside the store, responding officers with the Winston-Salem Police Department told Oliva he could either leave the store with a warning, or be arrested, handcuffed and charged with trespassing, according to the lawsuit. Oliva told one of the responding officers that requiring him to leave because of his service animal was discrimination, the lawsuit said.

In January, an attorney for Oliva informed the police department of his rights under the Americans With Disabilities Act and asked that the city lift its ongoing threat to arrest him for trespass, the lawsuit said. In March, the city said there was no wrongdoing by police officers and said they appropriately

cants as Georgetown tennis recruits.

Ernst, who also was the personal tennis coach for former first lady Michelle Obama and her daughters, left Georgetown in 2018 after an internal investigation launched over what the school described as “irregularities in the athletic credentials” of students he was recruiting concluded that he violated admissions rules.

He was later hired by the University of Rhode Island, which claimed it wasn’t told about the admissions rules violations. He resigned from that school shortly after his arrest.

Ernst had been fighting the charges for more than two years and was set to stand trial alongside the former senior associate athletic director at the University of Southern California, Donna Heinel, and two other coaches: exUSC water polo coach Jovan Vavic and former Wake Forest University women’s volleyball coach William Ferguson.

A total of 57 people have been charged in the case and nearly four dozen have already pleaded guilty.

The longest sentence handed out so far has been nine months given to the former CEO of the

“Civil rights are severely weakened when police departments treat blind shoppers as trespassers based on a store’s discriminatory desire to have them removed for using a guide dog.”

Chris Hodgson, attorney for Disability Rights North Carolina applied trespass rules, according to the lawsuit.

Oliva’s attorney sent a response to the city in late March reiterating its obligation to avoid discrimination regarding service animals, but the lawsuit says the city did not reply.

The lawsuit seeks a jury trial and compensatory damages not specified in the lawsuit.

Ernst was arrested in March 2019 along with more than four dozen others in the so-called “Operation Varsity Blues” case that revealed a scheme to get undeserving kids into elite universities with rigged test scores or bogus athletic credentials.

Pacific Investment Management Co., Douglas Hodge, who paid bribes totaling $850,000 to get four of his children into USC and Georgetown as athletic recruits.

The trial is expected to last several weeks. Defense lawyers told jurors during their opening statements on Monday that the parents were duped by Singer and led to believe that their payments were legitimate donations.

Singer, who began cooperating with investigators in 2018 and secretly recorded his phone calls with the parents, was expected to be a key witness for the government. But prosecutors told jurors on Monday they will not call him to the stand.

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COLUMN | DAVID HARSANYI

Sorry, AOC, the rich already pay their fair share Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez donned an elegant gown with the slogan “Tax the Rich” painted on the back at the Met Gala in New York, where guests selected by Vogue’s Anna Wintour ponied up around $35,000 a pop for tickets. The scene was reminiscent of Tom Wolfe’s “radical chic” — though rather than being guests of the well-heeled in Park Avenue duplexes, today’s revolutionaries own luxury condos and drive around in government-subsidized electric cars that most Americans could never afford.

My first question, though, is: Who doesn’t want to “tax the rich”? Judging from my socialmedia feed, there seems to be a growing segment of people under the impression that the wealthy pay little or nothing in taxes. When you ask Americans if they support a wealth tax, a majority support the idea. One recent poll found that 80% of voters were annoyed that corporations and the wealthy don’t pay their “fair share.”

Polls rarely ask these people what a “fair share” looks like. Is a quarter of someone’s earnings enough? A third? Because the rich have been shouldering an increasingly larger share of the cost of government. The United States already has one of the most progressive tax systems in the free world. Those who make over $207,350 now pay 35% in income tax. Those who make $518,400 or more pay a 37% income-tax rate. At some point, taxation should be considered theft.

Despite perceptions, the highest-income strata of taxpayers are the only ones who pay a larger share of taxes than their share of income. In 2018, the top 1% of income earners made nearly 21% of all income but paid 40% of all federal income taxes. The top 10% earned 48% of the income and

paid 71% of all federal income taxes.

On the other hand, in 2021, Americans making less than $75,000 are projected to have, on average, no tax liability after deductions and credits. The average income-tax rate for those making between $75,000 and $100,000 is expected to be 1.8%. More than 61% of Americans — around 107 million households — owed zero federal income taxes for the year 2020.

You don’t have to agree with me that (over) taxing the wealthy undermines job creation and growth, or that a tax system that relies so heavily on the fortunes of the few creates more cronyism in Washington and more volatility everywhere else. But the idea that the rich don’t pay their “fair share” is absurd.

At this point in the conversation, progressives will set aside their calls for a “wealth tax” and start complaining about capital gains. Here, we simply have a point of disagreement: OcasioCortez would see investment profits in the hands of Bernie Sanders, head of the Senate budget committee. I would rather see them in venturecapital projects and private-equity funds that churn investment dollars and boost technology and jobs. Progressives grouse about accumulation of wealth and then want policies that dissuade risk.

Those who believe what I do will be accused of being “market fundamentalists” or beholden to the wealthy. Progressives — the kind that like to hang out at Met Galas — believe everyone is as class-obsessed as they are. I don’t give one wit about the wealthy. In fact, I hope today’s entrepreneurs are tomorrow’s new rich. We know they will be — without compelled redistribution.

How many voters do you think know that nearly

♦ Barker, Kevin Dwayne (M/42) Arrest on chrg of Weap-poss By Felon (F), at 5909 Robinhood Rd/cutters Creek Dr, Pfafftown, NC, on 9/18/2021 19:15. ♦ Bean, Casey Dean (M/28) Arrest on chrg of 1) Vand-personal Prop (M) and 2) False Alarm-fire (M), at 201 North Church St, Winston-salem, NC, on 9/19/2021 00:35. ♦ BRIDGES, BRYAN MICHAEL was arrested on a charge of ASSAULTSIMPLE at 5719 UNIVERSITY PW on 9/19/2021 ♦ BRYAN, ARMAHN RAISHAWN was arrested on a charge of IMPAIRED DRIVING DWI at 2479 KONNOAK DR/ CLOISTER DR on 9/18/2021 ♦ Cole, Obie Jr (M/36) Arrest on chrg of Fugitive (F), at 201 N Church St, Winston-salem, NC, on 9/17/2021 01:07. ♦ Cole, Obie Jr (M/36) Arrest on chrg of 1) Assault On Female (M), 2) Battery On An Unborn Child (M), 3) Interfering With Emergency Communication (M), 4) Fail To Appear/compl (M), 5) Fail To Appear/compl (M), 6) Fail To Appear/ compl (M), 7) Fail To Appear/compl (M), and 8) Fail To Appear/compl (M), at 4600 Perry St, Winston-salem, NC, on 9/16/2021 21:52. ♦ Conrad, Mayo Eugene (M/58) Arrest on chrg of Adw - Inflict Injury, M (M), at 1499 Lynndale Dr/robinhood Rd, Winston-salem, NC, on 9/18/2021 19:00. ♦ COOK, ANTONIO LAMONT was arrested on a charge of DRUGSPOSS CONTROLLED SUBSTANCEMETHAMPHETAMINE>LESS THAN 1 at 514 WEST ST on 9/20/2021 ♦ COVINGTON, DARNELL WILLIAM was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 780 N MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DR on 9/19/2021

David Harsanyi is a senior writer at National Review and author of “Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent.”

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WEEKLY CRIME LOG ♦ ANDREWS, LEVERN JR was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT ON FEMALE at 800 RAMS DR on 9/19/2021

70% of the Forbes 400 richest Americans are selfmade? Or that the share of the self-made wealthy had risen from 40% in the 1980s to nearly 70% by the 2010s? How many people who have fallen for the scaremongering worries of “inequality” — another leading reason for the wealth taxation — understand, as economist Mark Perry recently pointed out, that the middle-class isn’t “shrinking” because it’s getting poorer, but rather because of a long-term trend in upper-middle class growth? Ocasio-Cortez’s entire philosophy is a zero-sum fallacy.

No, progressive taxation isn’t socialism. But the policy justifications made for tax hikes these days certainly are. Ocasio-Cortez is a fraud, of course, but it’s her retrograde economic theorizing that’s the real problem. And in this age of populism, increasing numbers of Americans are accepting Marxist conceptions of American life, in which the successful are parasites and everyone else is a victim of their greed.

The reality is that no politician is going to advocate raising middle-class income taxes, despite the ever-increasing cost of government.

There is only the rich to tax. Consequently, it’s become easier to pass massive expansions of the state. Everyone expects someone else to foot the bill — either future generations or their wealthier neighbors. Meanwhile, taxation has gone from being a means of funding communal needs and projects to a means of technocratic wealth reallocation. This is no way to run a country.

DEGREE TRESPASS at 1840 TRELLIS LN on 9/18/2021 ♦ Eastridge, Phoenix Jeremiah (M/24) Arrest on chrg of 1) Drugsposs Controlled Substancemethamphetamine>less Than 1 (M) and 2) Drug Paraphernalia (M), at 4800 Harley Dr, Walkertown, NC, on 9/17/2021 02:36. ♦ FLYNN, LUCAS MICHAEL was arrested on a charge of IMPAIRED DRIVING DWI at 1539 N PEACE HAVEN RD/ SCARSBOROUGH DR on 9/19/2021 ♦ HAWKS, CORY EVERETTE was arrested on a charge of DISCHARGING FIREARMS at 4546 HERRY ST on 9/19/2021 ♦ HERNANDEZ ANALCO, YESSENIA was arrested on a charge of ASSAULTSIMPLE at 201 N CHURCH ST on 9/19/2021

WALKERTOWN RD on 9/18/2021 ♦ Myers, John Franklin (M/35) Arrest on chrg of 1) Breaking/larc-felony (F) and 2) Mv Theft (F), at 3335 N Patterson Av, Winston-salem, NC, on 9/15/2021 13:32. ♦ PACK, JOEL MICHAEL was arrested on a charge of ASSAULT ON FEMALE at 7910 NORTH POINT BV on 9/18/2021 ♦ PATTERSON, DAWN was arrested on a charge of IMPAIRED DRIVING DWI at 719 RAMS DR/S RESEARCH PW on 9/18/2021 ♦ REYESMORENO, EDUARDO CESAR was arrested on a charge of IMPAIRED DRIVING DWI at 598 PETERS CREEK PW/W ACADEMY ST on 9/18/2021 ♦ Rochelle, Norris Dwayne (M/23) Arrest on chrg of Aslt Leo/inflic Injury (F), at 201 N Church St, Winston-salem, NC, on 9/19/2021 20:30.

♦ Betty Zoe Agee, 90 died September 18, 2021.

Christine Peak Astrop, 89, of Winston-Salem, died September 16, 2021. ♦ Bonnie Fulp Billings, 57, of Forsyth County, died September 17, 2021. ♦ Larry Everette Boles, 80, died September 18, 2021. ♦ Michelle Costakis, 49, of Kernersville, died September 7, 2021. ♦ Cary Falconer Driver, 79, of Winston-Salem, died September 16, 2021. ♦ Wendy Ellsworth, 59, of Whitsett, died September 15, 2021. ♦ Homer “Burch” Idol, 97, of Colfax, died September 18, 2021. ♦ Barbara Stanwyck Kelly Ingram, 89, of Selma, died September 15, 2021.

♦ Holmes, Terry (M/30) Arrest on chrg of 1) Breaking/larc-felony (F) and 2) Accessory-after Fact (F), at 3335 N Patterson Av, Winston-salem, NC, on 9/15/2021 14:32.

♦ Rogers, Stephanie Marie (F/44) Arrest on chrg of Assault-simple (M), at 1095 Pine Knolls Rd, Kernersville, NC, on 9/18/2021 04:34.

♦ Jackson, Earl Jay (M/46) Arrest on chrg of Assault On Female (M), at 6013 Cain Forest Dr, Walkertown, NC, on 9/19/2021 02:07.

♦ SCALES, DARREKA UNIQUE was arrested on a charge of DISCH FA/ OCC DWELL at 2826 THOMASVILLE RD on 9/20/2021

♦ Jarrett, Kevin Ray (M/62) Arrest on chrg of 1) Assault On Female (M) and 2) Interfering With Emergency Communication (M), at 2415 Sedalia Dr, Clemmons, NC, on 9/19/2021 19:44.

♦ Schmidt, Elijah Gary (M/34) Arrest on chrg of Vio. Protective Order By Courts Another (M), at 200 N Main St, Winston-salem, NC, on 9/16/2021 10:35.

♦ Linda Ellis Lampkin, 79, of Clemmons, died September 15, 2021.

♦ Shelton, Derrion Marquis (M/27) Arrest on chrg of P/w/i/s/d Marijuana (F), at 5023 Baux Mountain Rd, Winston-salem, NC, on 9/17/2021 12:45.

♦ Tony Randall “Randy” Merritt, 50, of Asheboro, died September 17, 2021.

♦ SMITH, MAKENNA GRACE was arrested on a charge of ASSAULTSIMPLE at 201 N CHURCH ST on 9/19/2021

♦ Barbara Hemrick Reich, 90, of WinstonSalem, died September 18, 2021.

♦ Johnson, Gilbert Alfonso (M/44) Arrest on chrg of Possession Control Substance Jail (F), at 201 N Church St, Winston Salem, NC, on 9/17/2021 22:10. ♦ Johnson, Gilbert Alfonso (M/44) Arrest on chrg of 1) Asslt On Off/st Emp (M), 2) Communicate Threats (M), 3) Drunk / Disruptive (M), and 4) Resisting Arrest (M), at Wb 40/ lewisville-clemmons Rd, Clemmons, NC, on 9/16/2021 23:35.

♦ Covington, Javon Tavarse (M/38) Arrest on chrg of 1) Child Abuse (M), 2) Drug Trafficking (F), 3) P/w/i/s/d Sched Ii (F), 4) Maintain Dwelling (F), 5) Drug Paraphernalia (M), 6) Drug Paraphernalia (M), and 7) Weapposs By Felon (F), at 102 East Drive, Winston Salem, NC, on 9/15/2021 10:00.

♦ Lowery, Danielle Nysia (F/21) Arrest on chrg of Drug Trafficking (F), at 5023 Baux Mountain Rd, Winston-salem, NC, on 9/17/2021 12:46.

♦ Craighead, Andrew Lechaz (M/33) Arrest on chrg of Impaired Driving Dwi (M), at 5198 Reidsville Rd, Walkertown, NC, on 9/19/2021 02:26.

♦ MCCLELLAND, JULIAN DEMARCUS was arrested on a charge of KIDNAPPING at 1508 OAKSHIRE CT on 9/19/2021

♦ CUTHBERTSON, TIMOTHY MAURICE was arrested on a charge of 2ND

♦ MCKEE, LATRESSA YVETTE was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 1475 NEW

♦ LULE, CARLOS BRAVO was arrested on a charge of IMPAIRED DRIVING DWI at 400 PETERS CREEK PW on 9/19/2021

♦ Washington, Tanisha Martha (F/34) Arrest on chrg of 1) Affray (M) and 2) Vand-real Property (M), at 2400 Lewisville-clemmons Rd, Clemmons, NC, on 9/20/2021 15:15. ♦ Whorley, Vernice Shaneil (F/38) Arrest on chrg of 1) Assault-simple (M) and 2) Assault-simple (M), at 3000 S Stratford Rd, Winston-salem, NC, on 9/17/2021 21:47. ♦ WILLIAMSON, VINCENT ANTONIO was arrested on a charge of IMPAIRED DRIVING DWI at 1427 W FIRST ST on 9/18/2021 ♦ WILSON, JOHN ALAN was arrested on a charge of 2ND DEGREE TRESPASS at 3331 THOMASVILLE RD on 9/19/2021

♦ Faye Shropshire Kiser, 73, of Winston-Salem, died September 16, 2021. ♦ Roberta “Sis” Isley Knott, 93, of Kernersville, died September 17, 2021. ♦ James “Jim” L Konkle, 80, of Kernersville, died September 19, 2021.

♦ Roy Lamar Medlin, 67, of Kernersville, died September 18, 2021.

♦ Barbara Ann Hendrix Montgomery, 80, of Winston-Salem, died September 15, 2021.

♦ James Lee Sexton, 62, died September 17, 2021. ♦ Richard Layne “Rick” Shoaf, 69, of Farmington, died September 16, 2021. ♦ Lori Elizabeth Tener, 37, of Guilford County, died September 19, 2021. ♦ Carolyn Louise Lancaster Triplett, 77, of Forsyth County, died September 17, 2021. ♦ James Wallace, 87, of Kernersville, died September 15, 2021. ♦ Nancy McBride Warner, 87, of WinstonSalem, died September 18, 2021. ♦ David William Wright, 80, of Clemmons, died September 17, 2021. ♦ Rita D’Agostino Wright, 55, of Mocksville, died September 15, 2021.

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Campbell’s Hartley throws 6 TDs, Camels force record 10 turnovers Buies Creek Wiley Hartley threw six touchdown passes, Campbell forced a program-record 10 turnovers and the Camels routed Presbyterian 72-0 on Saturday night. Hartley was 22-of-30 passing for 342 yards. Michael Jamerson opened the scoring with a pair of touchdown runs in the first quarter before Hartley threw a TD pass each to six receivers. Jamerson ran 22 times for 101 yards. Campbell (1-2) added a safety and CJ Tillman’s pick-6. Tai Goode capped the scoring with a 1-yard touchdown run. The Camels finished with seven interceptions and recovered three fumbles.

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Kyle Larson gets out of his car after winning Saturday night's NASCAR Cup Series race at Bristol.

COLLEGE SPORTS

AAC extends commissioner through 2025 Irving, Texas The American Athletic Conference has extended the contract of Commissioner Mike Aresco for three years through June 2025, the league announced Monday.

Aresco, a former CBS Sports executive, was hired as Big East commissioner in 2012 during sweeping conference realignment that ultimately forced the league to rebuild and rebrand. The American was formed in 2013. The conference is again working to rebuild after more realignment. Earlier this month, Houston, Cincinnati and Central Florida announced they would be joining the Big 12 in 2023.

Aresco’s contract was set to expire next June.

NHL

Coyotes put in $1.7B proposal to build arena in Tempe Tempe, Ariz.

The Arizona Coyotes have proposed a $1.7 billion development in Tempe that will include a hockey arena.

The team said the arena would be funded by private investors but would seek city sales tax revenues to help pay for $200 million in additional costs, including infrastructure work. The Coyotes had been leasing Gila River Arena on an annual basis since the Glendale City Council voted to opt out of a multimillion-dollar longterm deal in 2016. Glendale announced recently that it will not renew its agreement with the franchise beyond the 2021-22 season.

WNBA

Liberty back into final playoff spot New York The New York Liberty earned the eighth and final WNBA playoff spot by virtue of losses by Washington and Los Angeles and will play at Phoenix on Thursday in the opening round. Coming into the weekend, Washington had the best chance to reach the postseason despite having so many players missing games this season with injuries. The Mystics lost at New York on Friday and then to Minnesota on Sunday.

The Connecticut Sun have the league’s best record and have homecourt advantage throughout the playoffs.

They earned a bye until the semifinals. Las Vegas also earned a double bye.

Larson wins at Bristol while Harvick, Elliott feud Tyler Reddick, Aric Almirola, Kurt Busch and Michael McDowell were all eliminated from the playoffs as the series cut down to 12 postseason participants

The Associated Press BRISTOL, Tenn. — Kyle Larson won at Bristol Motor Speedway — not really a big surprise or even the most interesting part of the NASCAR Cup Series’ first playoff elimination race.

The post-race feud between reigning Cup Series champion Chase Elliott and Kevin Harvick stole the show Saturday night, especially when Harvick angrily told the energized crowd: “I’m ready to freakin’ rip somebody’s head off.”

The fickle crowd struggled to pick a side before settling firmly behind Elliott, NASCAR’s most popular driver.

Harvick took the lead from Elliott with 33 laps remaining, but

the hard racing caused contact that cut one of Elliott’s tires. After a quick tire change, Elliott exacted his revenge by deliberately slowing in front of Harvick to give Hendrick Motorsports teammate Kyle Larson a chance to catch Harvick.

Larson made the race-winning pass with four laps to go to earn his sixth win of the year.

Then Harvick and Elliott parked alongside each other on pit road, bounded out their windows, and immediately began jawing at each other.

“Obviously, Harvick and Chase got together. Chase was upset.

Kind of held him up,” Larson said.

“It got Harvick having to move around and use his tires up off the bottom. I started to get some dive-ins working off of (turn) two, got a big run, decided to pull the trigger, slide him, squeeze him a little bit, then he had me jacked up down the frontstretch. It was wild.”

Then came the pit-road confrontation.

Harvick had his helmet on at

“They can boo all the want, I don’t care.”

Kevin Harvick after his postrace confrontation with Chase Elliott first and Elliott wagged his finger in Harvick’s face. There was brief shoving, Harvick slammed his helmet in anger, and both drivers blamed the other even after the verbal sparring moved inside Elliott’s hauler for a private conversation.

“We were racing for the frickin’ win at Bristol, we’re three-wide in the middle, and he throws a temper tantrum like I was just trying to get the lead and race him hard,” Harvick fumed. “Then he pulled up in front of me and just sits there until I lose the whole lead.”

The crowd at that moment was very decidedly on Elliott’s side.

“They can boo all the want, I don’t care,” Harvick said.

Clemson’s offense struggling heading into NC State game The Tigers have scored just 17 total points against two Power Five opponents this season

By Pete Iacobelli The Associated Press CLEMSON, S.C. — No. 9 Clemson can’t find the end zone, something that had come so easily for the Tigers the past few seasons.

Clemson (2-1, 1-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) was among top five in points scored from 201820, averaging almost 44 points a game. That’s not been the case this season. The Tigers have managed only 17 points combined in their two contests against Power Five conference teams, including a 14-8 win over Georgia Tech last Saturday where they were favored by four touchdowns.

“Critical penalties and missed opportunities,” Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said. “It almost cost us big time.”

If things don’t improve, it could cost the Tigers their perch atop the ACC. Clemson has slid from No. 3 in August to nearly out of the top 10 — and far out of position for a seventh consecutive trip to the College Football Playoff.

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Quarterback D.J. Uiagalelei and the Clemson offense have struggled this season.

The Tigers look gear things up when they head to NCState (2-1).

The Wolfpack are opening ACC play on Saturday.

It’s been a frustrating start for Clemson, which has grown accustomed to mauling opponents who can’t keep up. A season ago, they defeated the Yellow Jackets 73-7 yet needed a goal-line stand Saturday in the closing seconds to es-

cape with the win.

Clemson’s offense gained 285 yards, the second time in three games it was held under 300 yards. The Tigers didn’t have a game with fewer than 400 yards in 2020.

First-year quarterback starter D.J. Uiagalelei has had missed connections with his receivers.

Turnovers and mistakes cost the

Elliott, meanwhile, indicated Harvick pushes people around on the track and the pattern must stop.

“It’s something he does all the time. He runs into your left side constantly at other tracks and sometimes it does cut down your left side and other times it doesn’t,” Elliott said. “He did it to me in Darlington a few weeks ago because he was tired of racing with me and whether he did it on purpose it doesn’t matter.

“I don’t care who he is or how long he’s been doing it. I am going to stand up for myself and my team and go on down the road.”

Meanwhile Larson, the top seed and the favorite to win the Cup, basked in the victory.

“I love this place. This is by far my favorite track. This is why,” Larson told the crowd. “You guys are amazing, loud. We feel the energy while we’re out there racing.

Thanks, everyone, for spending your hard-earned money to come watch us putting on a show.”

Elliott had led a race-high 175 laps but finished 25th. Harvick, winless after last year’s series-leading nine victories, was looking to snap a 36-race winless streak on the anniversary of his final win in 2020. He instead finished second.

Tyler Reddick, Aric Almirola, Kurt Busch and Michael McDowell were eliminated from the postseason.

Tigers in a 10-3 loss to Georgia and nearly undid them this past week, too.

The difference in the game against No. 2 Georgia was Uiagalelei’s pick-six interception just before halftime.

There were several errors down the stretch against Georgia Tech, from a failure to convert a late onside kick in a one-score game to freshman Will Shipley’s fumble in the end zone with the Tigers needing one crisp snap to run out the clock.

Shipley recovered the ball for a safety and Clemson held on. There hasn’t been so much late drama in most of Clemson’s ACC games the past few years.

The Tigers’ only regular season league loss came last year at Notre Dame, a one-season ACC member due to COVID-19. Clemson has gone 24-1 in the conference the previous three years with an average margin of victory of 30 points.

“That’s definitely the standard at Clemson,” Uiagalelei said Monday. “We put up massive amounts of yards, massive amounts of points.”

Uiagalelei takes the blame for the early season offensive drought.

The QB said he must be sharper in the pocket and more decisive in leading the attack.

Center Matt Bockhorst said there’s plenty of blame to share and he believes Uiagalelei will get the attack running as effectively as NFL No. 1 overall draft pick Trevor Lawrence did much of the previous three seasons.

“D.J. is our leader and we have full faith in him,” Bockhorst said.

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STATE & NATION

New redistricting commissions splinter along partisan lines

By David A. Lieb The Associated Press WHEN VOTERS in some states created new commissions to handle the politically thorny process of redistricting, the hope was that the bipartisan panelists could work together to draw new voting districts free of partisan gerrymandering.

Instead, cooperation has proved elusive.

In New York, Ohio and Virginia, commissions meeting for the first time this year have splintered into partisan camps to craft competing redistricting maps based on 2020 census data.

As a result, new state House and Senate districts in Republican-led Ohio will still favor the GOP. Democrats who control New York could still draw maps as they wish. And a potential stalemate in Virginia could eventually kick the process to the courts.

“It’s probably predictable that this is sort of how it’s panned out,” said Alex Keena, a political scientist at Virginia Commonwealth University who has analyzed redistricting and gerrymandering.

Redistricting can carry significant consequences. Subtle changes in district lines can solidify a

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In this Oct. 6, 2020 file photo, redistricting reform advocate Brian Cannon poses with some of his yard signs and bumper stickers in his office in Richmond, Va. majority of voters for a particular party or split its opponents among multiple districts to dilute their influence. Republicans need to net just five seats to regain the U.S. House in the 2022 elections, which could determine the fate of President Joe Biden’s remaining agenda.

Throughout most of American history, redistricting has been

handled by state lawmakers and governors. But as public attention to gerrymandering has grown in recent decades, voters in some states have shifted the task to socalled special commissions.

Some commissions — such as those in Arizona, California, Colorado and Michigan — consist solely of citizens who hold the final say on what maps to en-

act. But others, such as in Ohio and Virginia, include politicians among their members or require their maps to be submitted to the legislature for final approval, as is the case in New York, Virginia and Utah.

If New York’s Democratic-led Legislature rejects the work of the new commission (consisting for four Democrats, four Republicans and two independents), then lawmakers can draft and pass their own redistricting plans.

The prospects of that increased last week, when Democrats and Republicans on the commission failed to agree and instead released competing versions of new maps for the U.S. House, state Senate and state Assembly.

State Republican Party Chairman Nick Langworthy blasted the Democratic maps as “wildly gerrymandered” and accused Democratic commissioners of refusing to compromise.

State Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs countered that there was no reason to “bend over backwards” to try to draw as many Republican seats as possible. He added: “We’ll be fair, but to a point.”

The commission’s division frustrated Jennifer Wilson, deputy director of the League of Women Voters of New York. The organization supported the 2014 ballot measure that created the commission and encouraged people to testify at the panel’s public hearings this year.

“It almost feels like a slap in the face to us and to all those people who spent the time to go and sub-

mit comments -- took time out of their daily lives to do that -- when it’s very obvious there was no regard for any of those comments,” Wilson said.

Michigan’s citizen redistricting commission released its first draft of a new state Senate and U.S. House map this past week and is still working on a state House map. It’s planning to take more public comment on its proposals with a goal of finalizing maps by the end of the year — blowing past the Nov. 1 deadline set in the constitutional amendment approved by voters.

In Virginia, two separate mapmakers hired for Democrats and Republicans are to submit rival plans for consideration this coming week by the 16-member commission, which has four lawmakers and four citizens from each major party. If the commission can’t agree — or the Democratic-led General Assembly rejects its maps — the decision will fall to the state Supreme Court, which is dominated by GOP-appointed judges.

How commissioners respond to the two maps will determine whether the reform effort works, said Liz White, executive director of OneVirginia2021, which supported last year’s ballot measure creating the commission.

She hopes panelists find a way “to marry” the two proposals.

“We’re going to be able to look back on this sort of experiment and see what works and what doesn’t work,” White said. “Hopefully, that will lead to better reforms in the future.”

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Law enforcement officials investigate home of a young man wanted for questioning in the disappearance of his girlfriend, Gabby Petito, on Monday, Sept. 20, 2021 in North Port, Fla.

FBI searches Florida home of Gabby Petito’s boyfriend

By Curt Anderson The Associated Press NORTH PORT, Fla. — FBI agents and police Monday searched the home of the boyfriend wanted for questioning in the death of 22-year-old Gabby Petito, whose body was discovered over the weekend at a Wyoming national park months after the couple set out on a cross-country road trip.

The FBI gave no details on the search by at least a dozen law enforcement officers, but agents removed several boxes and towed away a car that neighbors said was typically used by 23-year-old Brian Laundrie’s mother. Local media said Laundrie’s parents were seen getting into a police vehicle.

Laundrie and Petito had been living with his parents at the North Port home before the road trip on which she died.

The young couple had set out in July in a converted van to visit national parks in the West. They

got into a fight along the way, and Laundrie was alone when he returned in the van to his parents’ home on Sept. 1, police said.

In Wyoming, the FBI announced on Sunday that agents had discovered a body on the edge of Grand Teton National Park, which the couple had visited. No details on the cause of death were released. An autopsy was set for Tuesday.

“Full forensic identification has not been completed to confirm 100% that we found Gabby, but her family has been notified,” FBI agent Charles Jones said.

Laundrie has been named a person of interest in the case, but his whereabouts in recent days were unknown.

Petito’s father, Joseph, posted on social media an image of a broken heart above a picture of his daughter, with the message: “She touched the world.”

In an interview broadcast Monday on TV’s “Dr. Phil” show, Joseph Petito said Laundrie and

his daughter had dated for 2 1/2 years, and Laundrie was “always respectful.” During the interview, which was recorded before his daughter’s body was found, Petito said the couple had taken a previous road trip to California in her car and there were no problems.

“If there were, I would have discouraged going on the trip,” Petito said.

Petito said his family began worrying after several days without hearing from their daughter.

“We called Brian, we called the mom, we called the dad, we called the sister, we called every number that we could find,” Petito said.

“No phone calls were picked up, no text messages were returned.”

Petito said he wants Laundrie to be held accountable for whatever part he played in Gabby’s disappearance, along with his family for protecting him.

“I hope they get what’s coming, and that includes his folks,” Petito said. “Because I’ll tell you, right now, they are just as complicit, in

my book.”

The FBI said investigators are seeking information from anyone who may have seen the couple around Grand Teton.

Police looking for Laundrie searched a 24,000-acre Florida nature preserve over the weekend without success. Investigators had focused intently on the area after Laundrie’s parents told police he may have gone there.

Petito and Laundrie were childhood sweethearts who met while growing up on New York’s Long Island. His parents later moved to North Port, about 35 miles south of Sarasota.

A man who saw Petito and Laundrie fighting in Moab, Utah, on Aug. 12 called 911 to report a domestic violence incident, according to a recording of the call obtained from the Grand County Sheriff’s Office. The man said that he saw Laundrie slap Petito while walking through the town and proceeded to hit her before the two got in their van and drove off.

Video released by the Moab police showed that an officer pulled the couple’s van over on the same day after it was seen speeding and hitting a curb near Arches National Park. The body-camera footage showed an upset Petito.

Laundrie said on the video that the couple had gotten into a scuffle after he climbed into the van with dirty feet. He said he did not want to pursue a domestic violence charge against Petito, who officers decided was the aggressor.

Moab police separated the couple for the night, with Laundrie checking into a motel and Petito remaining with the van.

In the footage, Gabby Petito cried as she told the officer that she and Laundrie had been arguing over her excessive cleaning of the van. She told the officer she has OCD — obsessive compulsive disorder.

On “Dr. Phil,” her father said that wasn’t literally true. She just likes to keep her living area orderly and was using slang, he said.

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Water main break in Asheboro An Asheboro City water truck sprays water to clean the streets from a 10 inch water main break under the Asheboro City water tower created a sinkhole in which a Verizon sub station building fell into at Academy and South Church street in Asheboro on September 20, 2021.

COUNTY NEWS County school extends superintendent’s contract The Randolph County Board of Education met Monday and voted to extend the contract of system superintendent Stephen Gainey. The board members said in a release they appreciated the difficulty of navigating the delivery of education during the Covid-19 pandemic and applauded Gainey’s dedication, long hours, and focus during the constantly changing situation.

The board extended his contract through June 30, 2025, and awarded him a salary increase of 4%.

Musician explores history behind a centuries-old ballad With a street named after her in Randolph County, Naomi Wise is likely a familiar name to local residents. A centuriesold ballad about her serves as a sad and cautionary tale of her life and untimely death in Randleman and has been covered by Bob Dylan, among others. Musician Donna Hughes was inspired by the account of Randolph County native and Duke professor Braxton Craven to revisit the story of Wise. The original ballad’s origin can be traced to around the time of Wise’s death in 1808. Hughes wrote her own musical version of the story, with an elaborate music video and an upcoming film about Wise.

Zoo collecting cell phones … for gorillas The North Carolina Zoo is asking people to donate old cell phones, tablets or music players such as iPods to help gorillas around the world. The initiative, known as Gorillas on the Line … Answer the Call, is part of a worldwide project to protect gorilla habitats. A key component to cell phone electronics is a metal called coltan. One of the few places it can be mined is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the mining destroys habitats.

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Asheboro festival nixed amid pandemic concerns Autumn staple taken off slate for second yearin a row

By Bob Sutton Randolph Record ASHEBORO — Next month’s Asheboro Fall Festival has been called off amid concerns about the coronavirus pandemic.

“We critically and thoughtfully made this decision,” said Carolyn Isley, president of the Randolph Arts Guild. “Above all was the health and safety of the Randolph County community.”

So it marks the second year in a row that an event that had been a staple in the community for nearly a half-century won’t be held in downtown Asheboro. It had been scheduled for Oct. 2-3.

This is an event that had drawn up to 60,000 people in some years.

There had been considerable promotion regarding the festival this year until last week’s announced cancelation, a decision that Isley said was rooted in moral and eth-

ical concerns as the guild’s board sought to be compassionate and responsible.

Meanwhile, the Ramseur Eastern Randolph Chamber of Commerce will hold its festival Oct. 16 in downtown Ramseur. J.C. Parrish of the chamber said spaces are available and vendors from the Asheboro Fall Festival are welcome.

Isley said the scope of the festival in Asheboro would be too large to monitor or enforce any mask-wearing initiatives and subsequent contract tracing if COVID-related cases were linked to the event. She said festival goers are across all age groups.

“As a board, we’ve been vigorously monitoring the statistics,” Isley said. “We also took the advice of the health leaders in our community.”

She said information from Randolph Health indicating the local hospital was at capacity along with a 60 percent increase in positive coronavirus tests across a twoweek period were factors. She also said with at least two area schools

ceasing some in-person instruction that concerns were raised.

“We just felt like (this could be) a super-spreader event,” Isley said.

“We would be devastated if something happened to anyone in our community because of the festival.”

Prior to the cancellation, plans had included more spacing between booths to reduce some close contacts.

More than 185 vendors had registered for this year’s festival. That doesn’t include some nonprofits involved in selling food and music and entertainment personnel that would be on site.

The decision to call off the festival was announced more than two weeks before the scheduled event.

Isley said it was important to give vendors and volunteers as much advance notice as possible.

“These vendors take a lot of time and put in a lot of planning,” she said.

Isley said the board also noted that festivals with various themes were called off in Lexington, Salis-

bury and Wilmington.

The first Fall Festival was in 1972 with 30-35 vendors. It had been held every year until a hurricane caused the 2015 version to be called off. Now, it’s nixed for the second year in a row.

When making the announcement, the statement from Randolph Arts Guild read, in part: “Ongoing discussions have been difficult and complex. Sadly, we have ultimately decided that it is in the best interest of the community to cancel. The Fall Festival is an essential economic driver for local non-profits, community groups, small businesses, and vendors. We understand the disappointment that this may bring, as many in the city of Asheboro and throughout Randolph County look forward to this great event. But the current health statistics within Randolph County and surrounding areas created challenges for safely managing and hosting this traditional family-friendly festival for the city of Asheboro and Randolph County.”

According to the Asheboro/ Randolph Chamber of Commerce, annual attendance for recent versions of the vestal attracted 40,000 to 60,000 for the two-day event.

Vendor registration fees will be available for reimbursement beginning in October.

The 2022 fall festival is scheduled for Oct. 1-2.

County gives go-ahead Asheboro inductees represent special era to explore projects

By Bob Sutton Randolph Record ASHEBORO -- The Randolph County commissioners gave the go-ahead for collaboration to pursue projects in three different votes at the September meeting.

Crystal Gettys of the Randolph County Economic Development Corporation made presentations for each of the situations.

There’s a feasibility study on water and sewer for a site off I-74 and N.C. 311 near Wall Brothers Road.

This is a potential industrial park involving about 260,000 acres.

Gettys, the business recruitment director for Randolph County EDC, said it’s a marketable site for an industrial park.

The $30,000 cost of the study will be split three ways between the City of Randleman, Randolph County EDC and Randolph County.

“A great first step,” county commissioner Kenny Kidd said.

On another matter, Gettys provided information on what was identified as a marketable Archdale location. Commissioners approved funds to move forward

with engineer studies to prepare the site and enter a design phase.

“I’m glad to work with Archdale as well,” Kidd said.

This is a four-way partnership involving the City of Archdale, Randolph County EDC, Samet Corp. and the county. The price tag is $31,200 for each entity.

County commissioners also gave the go-ahead for a building use grant involving Mickey Truck Bodies Inc. The county didn’t need to match this grant with funds, just provide approval.

Mickey Truck Bodies is a manufacturer that provides transportation equipment for the food and beverage industry. It’s based in High Point.

The property at issue is just outside Trinity city limits, with an Archdale address. There’s a building encompassing about 17,280 square feet.

Mickey Truck Bodies is committed to creating 20 new jobs in Randolph County with an average pay of $52,000 annually.

Company CEO Matt Sink said the location is “absolutely necessary to support our growth plans for 2022 and beyond.”

New Hall of Fame class members hold precious memories

By Bob Sutton Randolph Record ASHEBORO – At the time about 15 years ago, it might not have been clear to a group of Asheboro High School athletes that they were involved in a special era for the school’s athletics department.

It might be more apparent now.

Three of the newest additions to the school’s Athletics Hall of Fame are from that time frame, with Lindsay Cross from the Class of 2006 and the following year’s graduates Mike Eddy and Neal Pritchard.

“Maybe I’m biased, but the period I was going through, there were great athletes,” Eddy said. “It really was special to be a part of.

You realize now that those were special teams.”

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First Methodist Church The varsity cheerleader says demic round of in-person shows is in the automobile business sponsors a drive-up food kicked off with limited crowds at Strider GMC Buick Subarau her career goals include becoming a nurse and continuing to and mother Julie who is a teachand celebrity displays.

The annudonation event on the last RANDOLPH COMMUNITY COLLEGE al display of high fashion also in- er. “Josie has had years of train- participate in performing arts.

Saturday of each month cluded a Randolph County native ing with competition dance and Perdue said she enjoyed experiunder the covered drive at the making her fashion week runway most recently pageantry so there encing New York City when she church’s Family Life Center. debut. Southwestern Randolph was little I had to help her with,” wasn’t on the stage. Her family High School junior Josie Perdue, said Julie. “I wanted our trip to toured Central Park and Times Donated items benefit local 16, stepped onto the catwalk for New York to be really special for Square. Her mother admitted to non-profits like CUOC, Our designer Marc Defang in the Ed- her so we explored the city. My “taking way too many pictures of Daily Bread Soup Kitchen goal was to help build her confi- her modeling in different locaison Ballroom on September 12.

By Bob Sutton there’s enrollment before those classes start. of Asheboro, Lindley Park tions.”sion, Perdue said she laughed of 915. dence so she would feel comfortDefang produced nine shows Randolph Record That’s off slightly the usual said there’s an when ef- “people were tryingfrom to figthe runway.” during the 2021 fashion week. able onWilliams Elementary School, Your that ranges up to 1,000, “There has never been a fort togot bolster enrollment.

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Perdue two trips down the Perdue modeled in Defang’s final Choices Randolph, and Williams said. ed the ASHEBORO — Enrollment has provided Perdue andRCC said Commitment she enjoyed theGrant,Defang show — HiTechMODA. “Each runway better opportunity to attend others.

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“Overall, we’re stillconnected seeing a de-proud students in the five local Beginning with the fall semes- registration for the fall semester cline in enrollment comparing to area elementary schools. 114 previous years prior to the pan- ter, qualifying full-time students runs through Aug. 10, with classTrindale Rd, Archdale. demic,” Williams said. “I don’t will be eligible for up to $1,000 es beginning Aug. 16.

Still dealing with adjustments know if we’ll get to numbers we’ve per semester.

That makes attending RCC made because of the coronavirus seen in previous fall semesters. …

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LOWmusic 53 His theme blared through the PRECIP arena, and 7% nearly 19,000 fans hanging from the rafters roared when the wrestler hoisted his bad-guy weapon-ofSUNDAY SEPT and 26 struck choice sledgehammer the bell.

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The fight to stop Democrats’ reckless spending

Even with unprecedented spending increases, Bernie Sanders and others crafting this bill failed to include a single dollar increase to our Defense Department and Homeland Security — the agency overseeing our border.

INFLATION IS TAXATION. It’s also increased every single month of Joe Biden’s presidency.

You and your family are paying more for everyday items like groceries and gas. Yet instead of addressing the root cause — reckless government spending — this week President Biden and House Democrats took steps to ram through their $3.5 trillion tax, borrow and spending scheme written by Sen. Bernie Sanders.

This is the largest spending bill in American history. In fact, the $3.5 trillion price tag is equal to the Growth Domestic Product (GDP) of Mexico and Canada — combined.

This bill will advance their radical agenda for more government control over energy production and use, health care, and the entire economy. It includes 40 new tax increases on families, workers and businesses. It will also raise our national debt by a whopping $17 trillion in 10 years to $45 trillion overall.

For businesses and workers, it will raise the corporate tax rate to the third highest in the developed world. This will cost an estimated 1 million jobs, according to the National Association of Manufacturers.

It also opens the door for amnesty to 325,00 illegal immigrants in North Carolina alone.

Bottom line: This will only add fuel to America’s skyrocketing inflation, weaken our competitiveness, result in job losses and tax hikes for you and your family, and — as I said in a hearing last week — it will lower the standard of living for our children and grandchildren.

But what’s not included is almost as shocking.

Even with unprecedented spending increases, Bernie Sanders and others crafting this bill failed to include a single dollar increase to our Defense Department and Homeland Security — the agency overseeing our border.

Funding our border has become more important than ever, as we learned last week that nearly 210,000 migrants illegally crossed the border in August. That’s a 21-year-high and the second straight

month with over 200,000 crossings. Despite claims from the president and vice president that the border crisis was “seasonal,” these numbers show that it continues to get worse, even as migrants bring more and more deadly fentanyl and cases of COVID across the border. We must do more to end the Biden border crisis, as well as get inflation under control.

Thanks to the Republican Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, families in North Carolina received an average tax cut of $1,900. We saw what sound economic policies of tax cuts and deregulation led to in 2019: the lowest unemployment in 50 years, record low poverty and the largest reduction in poverty in 50 years, and record high household income including the largest income gains for minority groups. I remain very concerned my Democrat colleagues are completely ignoring the fiscal consequences of their policy choices in Washington D.C. As the August jobs report showed last week, there is still a lot of work to do to rebuild our economy. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) jumped 5.3% in August, which is nearly the fastest pace in 13 years.

That means the stuff you buy costs more. This is not an economy that requires or can handle trillions more in government spending.

Instead, we need to get people back to work and stop the spending.

Earlier this month, I visited the Harnett County regional airport and saw firsthand improvements that are helping our entire local economy. At Edelbrock Performance’s facility in Sanford, which employs more than 90 people, I got to see how businesses like this are building on our great workforce and racing industry. I remain committed to helping create jobs such as those at Edelbrock by advancing common sense solutions like the RPM Act to protect our automotive industry from overregulation.

There are solutions to grow our economy, secure our border, and meet the many other challenges before us. What we don’t need is Bernie Sanders’ $3.5 trillion spending scheme. I will continue to push back against this radical agenda so that the American dream can stay alive for you and your children and grandchildren.

COLUMN | DAVID HARSANYI

Sorry, AOC, the rich already pay their fair share In 2018, the top 1% of income earners made nearly 21% of all income but paid 40% of all federal income taxes.

The top 10% earned 48% of the income and paid 71% of all federal income taxes.

REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ donned an elegant gown with the slogan “Tax the Rich” painted on the back at the Met Gala in New York, where guests selected by Vogue’s Anna Wintour ponied up around $35,000 a pop for tickets. The scene was reminiscent of Tom Wolfe’s “radical chic” — though rather than being guests of the well-heeled in Park Avenue duplexes, today’s revolutionaries own luxury condos and drive around in governmentsubsidized electric cars that most Americans could never afford.

My first question, though, is: Who doesn’t want to “tax the rich”?

Judging from my social-media feed, there seems to be a growing segment of people under the impression that the wealthy pay little or nothing in taxes. When you ask Americans if they support a wealth tax, a majority support the idea. One recent poll found that 80% of voters were annoyed that corporations and the wealthy don’t pay their “fair share.”

Polls rarely ask these people what a “fair share” looks like. Is a quarter of someone’s earnings enough? A third? Because the rich have been shouldering an increasingly larger share of the cost of government. The United States already has one of the most progressive tax systems in the free world. Those who make over $207,350 now pay 35% in income tax. Those who make $518,400 or more pay a 37% income-tax rate. At some point, taxation should be considered theft.

Despite perceptions, the highest-income strata of taxpayers are the only ones who pay a larger share of taxes than their share of income. In 2018, the top 1% of income earners made nearly 21% of all income but paid 40% of all federal income taxes. The top 10% earned 48% of the income and paid 71% of all federal income taxes.

On the other hand, in 2021, Americans making less than $75,000 are projected to have, on average, no tax liability after deductions and credits. The average income-tax rate for those making between $75,000 and $100,000 is expected to be 1.8%. More than 61% of Americans — around 107 million households — owed zero federal income taxes for the year 2020.

You don’t have to agree with me that (over)taxing the wealthy undermines job creation and growth, or that a tax system that relies so heavily on the fortunes of the few creates more cronyism in Washington and more volatility everywhere else. But the idea that the rich don’t pay their “fair share” is absurd.

At this point in the conversation, progressives will set aside their calls for a “wealth tax” and start complaining about capital gains.

Here, we simply have a point of disagreement: Ocasio-Cortez would see investment profits in the hands of Bernie Sanders, head of the Senate budget committee. I would rather see them in venturecapital projects and private-equity funds that churn investment dollars and boost technology and jobs. Progressives grouse about accumulation of wealth and then want policies that dissuade risk.

Those who believe what I do will be accused of being “market fundamentalists” or beholden to the wealthy. Progressives — the kind that like to hang out at Met Galas — believe everyone is as class-obsessed as they are. I don’t give one wit about the wealthy.

In fact, I hope today’s entrepreneurs are tomorrow’s new rich.

We know they will be — without compelled redistribution. How many voters do you think know that nearly 70% of the Forbes 400 richest Americans are self-made? Or that the share of the self-made wealthy had risen from 40% in the 1980s to nearly 70% by the 2010s? How many people who have fallen for the scaremongering worries of “inequality” — another leading reason for the wealth taxation — understand, as economist Mark Perry recently pointed out, that the middle-class isn’t “shrinking” because it’s getting poorer, but rather because of a long-term trend in upper-middle class growth? Ocasio-Cortez’s entire philosophy is a zero-sum fallacy.

No, progressive taxation isn’t socialism. But the policy justifications made for tax hikes these days certainly are. OcasioCortez is a fraud, of course, but it’s her retrograde economic theorizing that’s the real problem. And in this age of populism, increasing numbers of Americans are accepting Marxist conceptions of American life, in which the successful are parasites and everyone else is a victim of their greed.

The reality is that no politician is going to advocate raising middle-class income taxes, despite the ever-increasing cost of government. There is only the rich to tax. Consequently, it’s become easier to pass massive expansions of the state. Everyone expects someone else to foot the bill — either future generations or their wealthier neighbors. Meanwhile, taxation has gone from being a means of funding communal needs and projects to a means of technocratic wealth reallocation. This is no way to run a country.

David Harsanyi is a senior writer at National Review and author of “Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent.”

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SPORTS SIDELINE REPORT LOCAL AUTO RACING

Hirschman affirms spot for North-South Shootout Thornyburg, Va. Matt Hirschman is firmly in place for a spot in the NorthSouth Shootout.

Hirschman won Saturday night’s qualifying event at Dominion Raceway in Thornburg, Va. Hirschman, who’s from Northampton, Pa., already was in the field for the NorthSouth Shootout on Nov. 6 at Caraway Speedway in Sophia. He has won two of the four qualifying events so far, initially reserving a spot in July.

Burt Myers of WinstonSalem was the runner-up and his brother, Jason Myers, placed third.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Campbell’s Hartley throws 6 TDs, Camels force record 10 turnovers Buies Creek Wiley Hartley threw six touchdown passes, Campbell forced a program-record 10 turnovers and the Camels routed Presbyterian 72-0 on Saturday night. Hartley was 22-of-30 passing for 342 yards. Michael Jamerson opened the scoring with a pair of touchdown runs in the first quarter before Hartley threw a TD pass each to six receivers. Jamerson ran 22 times for 101 yards. Campbell (1-2) added a safety and CJ Tillman’s pick-6. Tai Goode capped the scoring with a 1-yard touchdown run. The Camels finished with seven interceptions and recovered three fumbles.

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AAC extends commissioner through 2025

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Kyle Larson gets out of his car after winning Saturday night's NASCAR Cup Series race at Bristol.

Larson wins at Bristol while Harvick, Elliott feud Tyler Reddick, Aric Almirola, Kurt Busch and Michael McDowell were all eliminated from the playoffs as the series cut down to 12 postseason participants The Associated Press BRISTOL, Tenn. — Kyle Larson won at Bristol Motor Speedway — not really a big surprise or even the most interesting part of the NASCAR Cup Series’ first playoff elimination race.

The post-race feud between reigning Cup Series champion Chase Elliott and Kevin Harvick stole the show Saturday night, especially when Harvick angrily told the energized crowd: “I’m ready to freakin’ rip somebody’s head off.”

The fickle crowd struggled to pick a side before settling firmly behind Elliott, NASCAR’s most popular driver.

Harvick took the lead from Elliott with 33 laps remaining, but

the hard racing caused contact that cut one of Elliott’s tires. After a quick tire change, Elliott exacted his revenge by deliberately slowing in front of Harvick to give Hendrick Motorsports teammate Kyle Larson a chance to catch Harvick.

Larson made the race-winning pass with four laps to go to earn his sixth win of the year.

Then Harvick and Elliott parked alongside each other on pit road, bounded out their windows, and immediately began jawing at each other.

“Obviously, Harvick and Chase got together. Chase was upset.

Kind of held him up,” Larson said.

“It got Harvick having to move around and use his tires up off the bottom. I started to get some dive-ins working off of (turn) two, got a big run, decided to pull the trigger, slide him, squeeze him a little bit, then he had me jacked up down the frontstretch. It was wild.”

Then came the pit-road confrontation.

Harvick had his helmet on at

“They can boo all the want, I don’t care.”

Kevin Harvick after his postrace confrontation with Chase Elliott first and Elliott wagged his finger in Harvick’s face. There was brief shoving, Harvick slammed his helmet in anger, and both drivers blamed the other even after the verbal sparring moved inside Elliott’s hauler for a private conversation.

“We were racing for the frickin’ win at Bristol, we’re three-wide in the middle, and he throws a temper tantrum like I was just trying to get the lead and race him hard,” Harvick fumed. “Then he pulled up in front of me and just sits there until I lose the whole lead.”

The crowd at that moment was very decidedly on Elliott’s side.

“They can boo all the want, I don’t care,” Harvick said.

Irving, Texas The American Athletic Conference has extended the contract of Commissioner Mike Aresco for three years through June 2025, the league announced Monday.

Aresco, a former CBS Sports executive, was hired as Big East commissioner in 2012 during sweeping conference realignment that ultimately forced the league to rebuild and rebrand. The American was formed in 2013. The conference is again working to rebuild after more realignment. Earlier this month, Houston, Cincinnati and Central Florida announced they would be joining the Big 12 in 2023.

Aresco’s contract was set to expire next June.

Clemson’s offense struggling heading into NC State game

NHL

By Pete Iacobelli The Associated Press

Coyotes put in $1.7B proposal to build arena in Tempe Tempe, Ariz.

The Arizona Coyotes have proposed a $1.7 billion development in Tempe that will include a hockey arena.

The team said the arena would be funded by private investors but would seek city sales tax revenues to help pay for $200 million in additional costs, including infrastructure work. The Coyotes had been leasing Gila River Arena on an annual basis since the Glendale City Council voted to opt out of a multimillion-dollar longterm deal in 2016. Glendale announced recently that it will not renew its agreement with the franchise beyond the 2021-22 season.

The Tigers have scored just 17 total points against two Power Five opponents this season

CLEMSON, S.C. — No. 9 Clemson can’t find the end zone, something that had come so easily for the Tigers the past few seasons.

Clemson (2-1, 1-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) was among top five in points scored from 201820, averaging almost 44 points a game. That’s not been the case this season. The Tigers have managed only 17 points combined in their two contests against Power Five conference teams, including a 14-8 win over Georgia Tech last Saturday where they were favored by four touchdowns.

“Critical penalties and missed opportunities,” Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said. “It almost cost us big time.”

If things don’t improve, it could cost the Tigers their perch atop the ACC. Clemson has slid from No. 3 in August to nearly out of the top 10 — and far out of position for a seventh consecutive trip to the College Football Playoff.

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Quarterback D.J. Uiagalelei and the Clemson offense have struggled this season.

The Tigers look gear things up when they head to NCState (2-1).

The Wolfpack are opening ACC play on Saturday.

It’s been a frustrating start for Clemson, which has grown accustomed to mauling opponents who can’t keep up. A season ago, they defeated the Yellow Jackets 73-7 yet needed a goal-line stand Saturday in the closing seconds to es-

cape with the win.

Clemson’s offense gained 285 yards, the second time in three games it was held under 300 yards. The Tigers didn’t have a game with fewer than 400 yards in 2020.

First-year quarterback starter D.J. Uiagalelei has had missed connections with his receivers.

Turnovers and mistakes cost the

Elliott, meanwhile, indicated Harvick pushes people around on the track and the pattern must stop.

“It’s something he does all the time. He runs into your left side constantly at other tracks and sometimes it does cut down your left side and other times it doesn’t,” Elliott said. “He did it to me in Darlington a few weeks ago because he was tired of racing with me and whether he did it on purpose it doesn’t matter.

“I don’t care who he is or how long he’s been doing it. I am going to stand up for myself and my team and go on down the road.”

Meanwhile Larson, the top seed and the favorite to win the Cup, basked in the victory.

“I love this place. This is by far my favorite track. This is why,” Larson told the crowd. “You guys are amazing, loud. We feel the energy while we’re out there racing.

Thanks, everyone, for spending your hard-earned money to come watch us putting on a show.”

Elliott had led a race-high 175 laps but finished 25th. Harvick, winless after last year’s series-leading nine victories, was looking to snap a 36-race winless streak on the anniversary of his final win in 2020. He instead finished second.

Tyler Reddick, Aric Almirola, Kurt Busch and Michael McDowell were eliminated from the postseason.

Tigers in a 10-3 loss to Georgia and nearly undid them this past week, too.

The difference in the game against No. 2 Georgia was Uiagalelei’s pick-six interception just before halftime.

There were several errors down the stretch against Georgia Tech, from a failure to convert a late onside kick in a one-score game to freshman Will Shipley’s fumble in the end zone with the Tigers needing one crisp snap to run out the clock.

Shipley recovered the ball for a safety and Clemson held on. There hasn’t been so much late drama in most of Clemson’s ACC games the past few years.

The Tigers’ only regular season league loss came last year at Notre Dame, a one-season ACC member due to COVID-19. Clemson has gone 24-1 in the conference the previous three years with an average margin of victory of 30 points.

“That’s definitely the standard at Clemson,” Uiagalelei said Monday. “We put up massive amounts of yards, massive amounts of points.”

Uiagalelei takes the blame for the early season offensive drought.

The QB said he must be sharper in the pocket and more decisive in leading the attack.

Center Matt Bockhorst said there’s plenty of blame to share and he believes Uiagalelei will get the attack running as effectively as NFL No. 1 overall draft pick Trevor Lawrence did much of the previous three seasons.

“D.J. is our leader and we have full faith in him,” Bockhorst said.

Randolph Record for Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Cougars keep it going with strong offense Randolph Record staff SOUTHWESTERN Randolph’s football team kept the big offensive numbers coming.

The Cougars topped visiting Starmount 42-30 on Friday night in a non-league game.

The matchup was a late schedule addition when Southwestern Randolph’s scheduled matchup with Albemarle was nixed. The Cougars have scored more than 40 points in their last three games.

Southwestern Randolph has boosted its record to 4-0.

Keaton Reed accounted for 250 yards of total offense in the Starmount game. He rushed for two touchdowns and threw for another, with the pass going to Bryson Reid.

Adam Cole scored touchdowns on a punt return and an interception return. He also forced a fumble and came up with a fumble recovery. Easton Clapp scored a touchdown, but made a big impact on defense with 10 tackles (three of those for losses).

The Cougars overcame Luke Kimmer’s two touchdown passes and Zack Dezern’s 180 rushing yards for Starmount (1-3), which racked up more points than in its first three games combined.

Southwestern Randolph heads to Asheboro for Friday night’s game to conclude its non-conference schedule.

“Being unbeaten coming to us, they’re going to have a lot of confidence,” Asheboro coach Blake Brewer said.

• Wheatmore 34, Asheboro

FRIDAY NIGHT’S GAMES Randleman at Montgomery Central, 6:30 Southwestern Randolph at Asheboro, 7:30 West Stanly at Eastern Randolph, 7:30 Ledford at Wheatmore, cancelled

32: At Asheboro, Reece Linton’s pass to Jonathan Kelly for 31 yards resulted in the winning points with 25 seconds remaining.

Linton, normally a wideout, made the key pass. Starting quarterback Ben Walker exited with a knee injury earlier.

“We knew coming in it probably was going to be a shootout,” Wheatmore coach Philip Yarbrough said. “We got to stop them one more time than they stop us.

We’ve got to score one more time than they score. I guess they made me a prophet.”

A potential winning touchdown catch for Asheboro was nullified by an offensive interference penalty.

Wheatmore (3-1), which pulled off several fourth-down conversions, also was boosted on offense

by Walker’s three touchdown passes, with Dylan Weil catching two of those and Porter Grimes grabbing the other. Grimes also returned a fumble for a touchdown.

For Asheboro (1-3), Michael Brady and Khyland Hadley-Lindsay ran for two touchdowns apiece, while Tony McRae scored a touchdown on a reception.

“I thought this was a game we

really had to win, looking at our schedule,” Brewer said. “I’m broken hearted for (our players).”

• Ledford 34, Providence Grove 14: At Climax, the Patriots lost the home game in non-league play, unable to set a school record for most wins to begin a season.

Ledford (4-0) erased a 14-7 halftime deficit by posting 20 points in the third quarter. Alex Sanford rushed for 132 yards and two touchdowns.

Caleb Rogers had 110 yards of total offense and Zane Cheek rushed for 73 yards for Providence Grove (4-1). Luke Thomas was intercepted three times, but threw for 112 yards. Chase Whitaker returned an interception for a Providence Grove touchdown.

• Randleman 31, North Stanly 28: At New London, the Tigers pulled out their first victory of the season on Christian Long’s 18-yard go-ahead pass to Jozey Akines.

Thomas Dobias ran for touchdowns from 8 and 3 yards for Randleman (1-3), which was in a road game for the first time. Ervodd Cassady had a 3-yard scoring run and Chris Gentry kicked a 42yard field goal.

Randleman’s defense intercepted three passes, two of those by Akines and the other by Micah Thurston. North Stanly fell to 1-3.

• Trinity 48, Carrboro 8: At Trinity, the Bulldogs are 3-1 after the convincing home victory.

Trinity has won its past two games by a combined score of 9614. The Bulldogs won a total of one game the past two seasons.

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BEST OVERALL ATHLETE OF THE WEEK

Payton Shiflet

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Southwestern Randolph, volleyball

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Asheboro’s Michael Brady breaks away for a touchdown in the fourth quarter against Wheatmore during Friday night’s non-conference game in Asheboro.

Shiflet, a senior, posted the 1,000th kill of her career when the Cougars knocked off Central Davidson in four sets. It was part of her 34-kill, nine-dig outing as Southwestern Randolph won for the 12th time in 16 matches this season, with Raegan LeRoy’s 56 assists providing a boost to Shiflet’s efforts. It was the team’s second victory of the week after earlier sweeping Wheatmore.

Atlanta, other U.S. cities make pitch for 2026 World Cup Canada and Mexico are also co-hosting soccer’s biggest event The Associated Press ATLANTA — After being slowed by the pandemic, the race among 17 U.S. cities to land a coveted spot hosting the 2026 World Cup is back on.

Two FIFA inspectors were in Atlanta Friday to get a look at 72,000-seat Mercedes-Benz Stadium, home of a record-setting Major League Soccer team and centerpiece of the city’s bid.

FIFA vice president Victor Montagliani, who also leads region-

HOF from page 1 the cross-country team. Eddy was an elite runner in track and field and also was a busy kicker on the football team. Pritchard excelled in basketball and baseball on the way to a professional career.

They’ll be among five inductees during Friday night’s football game against visiting Southwestern Randolph. They’re joined in the induction class by DeNeal McNair, a football and track and field standout from the Class of 1984, and John Thornburg, a wrestler, football and baseball player from the Class of 2012.

“I remember there being some really good teams,” Pritchard said.

Cross likes the idea of being part of an induction class that seems familiar. She said she knows the Thornburg family from church activities and has known McNair’s son since middle school.

“It’s special to be inducted in a class where I know the others,” she said.

The admiration for the Blue Comets is a theme for the inductees.

“I really loved my time at Asheboro High,” Eddy said. “Being on the teams at Asheboro High was really a formative experience for

al governing body CONCACAF, joked that Atlanta is now “a football city, as in the real football that is played globally.”

Atlanta is counting on its retractable-roof stadium, which opened in 2017, and history of staging everything from the Summer Olympics to the Super Bowl to help it land what is arguably the biggest worldwide spectacle of them all.

Montagliani and Colin Smith, FIFA’s chief tournament and events officer, already visited Boston and Nashville. Over the next week, they’re planning stops in Orlando, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, New York City, Philadelphia and Miami.

In the next two months, FIFA will compete its site visits to the remaining U.S. finalists: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Kansas City, Houston, Dallas and Cincinnati.

The United States won hosting rights along with Mexico and Canada in what will be the first World Cup staged in three nations.

The site visits were delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, pushing back a final decision on the host cities to early 2022.

There’s not much venue suspense in the neighboring countries.

Mexico put up three cities — Mexico City, Monterrey and Guadalajara — that are all expected to

host. Canada had also submitted three cities, but Montreal dropped out recently after the provincial government declined to pick up the rising costs. That left Toronto and Edmonton as that country’s sites.

It’s not known how many U.S. cities will be selected. The consensus was 10 before Montreal withdrew, which could create an opening for an 11th pick.

“There is never a stipulation of exactly how many we’re going to have in each country,” Montagliani said. “At the end of the day, we’re going to make the best decision for the World Cup itself, whatever that number may be.”

Mercedes-Benz Stadium is one several U.S. candidates that will

require the artificial turf to be replaced with a grass surface for the duration of the World Cup. That won’t be an issue, according to Smith.

“There’s a lot of technology that exists these days,” he said. “We just have to get it right.”

Atlanta hopes to benefit from the compact footprint around Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Unlike prospective cites such as Dallas, Washington, Boston and San Francisco, which have suburban stadiums, Mercedes-Benz is just a couple of blocks from downtown and part of a complex that also includes Centennial Olympic Park, State Farm Arena and the massive Georgia World Congress Center.

me.”

Eddy was Class 3-A state champion in the 400 meters, reaching the state team in all four seasons.

He also won a state title in the 500 in indoor track and field.

“He ran like a deer,” Pritchard said. “That boy could run for days.”

That parlayed into a four-year career with distinction on Princeton’s track and field team.

Yet it was on the football field for the Blue Comets that left a particular impression. He racked up 136 points – a total believed to be a school record.

“When I went to the high school, for whatever reason they didn’t have a kicker,” Eddy said.

“So I get pulled over to the varsity (as a freshman). … The offense scored a lot, so I got to collect a lot of extra points.”

Eddy also practiced as a wide receiver, but he said he wasn’t needed much for that role. He said the team was stacked with leaders, including quarterback Blake Brewer (who’s now Asheboro’s coach). He said the list of quality athletes was impressive for a team undefeated in the regular season.

“And we didn’t have (Pritchard) on that team,” Eddy said.

Eddy said Pierce Neel, an assistant coach for the football team,

made a positive impression as his track and field coach. Eddy is a professor in geology at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. He’ll cherish returning home to relive some of the memories this weekend.

“We all came together on those sports teams and in a place like Asheboro you come together and that helps form a community,” Eddy said.

Pritchard said he was grateful for the support he received as an Asheboro athlete. He said he received valuable coaching throughout high school, then capped in his final years by Brian Nance (basketball) and Tim Murray (baseball).

“They brought in more people to help the athletes,” Pritchard said. “I felt like I was blessed with some great coaches along the way.

I’ve always been appreciative of that.”

Prichard was a conference Player of the Year twice in basketball and baseball. That’s something no other Asheboro athlete has accomplished.

“I look back and I can’t remember many of the personal accomplishments,” Pritchard said. “I guess it was exciting, but I always judged it by ‘how did we do as a

team?’”

Pritchard said basketball always seemed like a primer for the baseball season. He went on to play collegiately as a shortstop for Elon. From there, he was a member of the St. Louis Cardinals organization for three seasons, twice playing on minor-league teams that won league championships.

“As long as I can remember, playing baseball was my dream,” Pritchard said. “I’m not sure if I would have gone to college if it wasn’t for baseball. That was my path.”

Pritchard, who lives in Randleman, gives hitting lessons and coaches a travel youth baseball team. He works with family in a trucking and grading business.

Cross became Asheboro’s first all-state softball player, receiving that distinction twice as a first baseman. She was an all-conference player in basketball, while also running for the cross-country team.

“Basketball was definitely my favorite sport, but I was probably better at softball,” Cross said.

Cross said her parents made it possible to go from one venue to another while playing multiple sports growing up. Those activi-

ties helped her build friendships with athletes from other schools as well.

“Playing with them on the weekend, you have these friendships,” she said, noting Asheboro’s tight-knit community. “Then you’re (playing against) them. We still wanted to win for Asheboro.”

After high school, Cross had a standout career in basketball and softball at Randolph College.

“It’s a little tricky,” she said.

“Those seasons kind of overlap in college.”

Cross, who also has a degree from UNC Greensboro, is a social worker for the Winston-Salem / Forsyth County Schools.

McNair was a two-time all-conference selection in football and three-time All-County participant in track and field. He became a member of a North Carolina A&T championship football team.

More recently, he was a successful track and field coach for Asheboro and has served as a pastor for Vision of Unity Outreach Ministries in Asheboro.

Thornburg won a state championship in wrestling as well as receiving all-conference recognition in baseball. He works for Trane in Raleigh after graduating from North Carolina State.

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In step to shut Guantanamo, President NC judges strike down Biden state’s transfers voter ID lawMoroccan home

By Dino Hazell The Associated Press The Associated Press WASHINGTON, D.C. — The RALEIGH — North Biden administration took Carolina a step judgesits struck the state’s lattoward goal down of shutting down est photo voter identification law the Guantánamo Bay detentionon Friday. center for international terror susthe threereleasing trial judges depectsTwo on ofMonday, into clared the December 2018 law the custody of his home country a is unconstitutional, evenheld though Moroccan who’d been with- it was designed to implement a phoout charge almost since the U.S. to voter ID mandate added to the opened the facility 19 years ago.

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Nasser’s attorney in Morocco, Khalil Idrissi, said the years Nasser spent in Guantánamo “were unjustified and outside the law, and what he suffered remains a stain of disgrace on the forehead of the American system.”

The State Department said in a statement that President Joe Biden’s administration would continue “a deliberate and thorough

court had previously blocked the law’s enforcement last year. The law remains unenforceable with this ruling.

With a similar lawsuit in federal court set to go to trial this January and another state court lawsuit now on appeal, it’s looking more unlikely that the current voter ID law will be enforced in the 2022 elections.

GARY D. ROBERTSON | AP PHOTO Allison Riggs, an attorney at the left-leaning Southern Coalition for In this June 14, 2021, file photo, Allison Riggs, co-executive director Social Justice and the plaintiffs’ of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, at podium, speaks at a lead attorney, praised the decision. news conference outside the Legislative Building in Raleigh.

Riggs said the ruling reflects “how the state’s Republican-controlled legislature undeniably implement- carried out briefly in 2016 primary “liberal judges have defied the will of North Carolinians on election ined this legislation to maintain its elections.

GOP legislative leaders and their tegrity” with the decision. Moore power by targeting voters of color.”

Republicans have said voter ID attorneys disagreed, saying the lat- and Senate leader Phil Berger are laws are needed to build public con- est ID rules were approved with among defendants in the lawsuit.

“Photo voter laws | are defidence in elections and to prevent noteworthy Democratic support ALEXID BRANDON AP PHOTO and improved to retain ballot ac- signed to bolster confidence in elecvoter fraud.

In this 2019, filecess photo reviewed by only U.S.legal military the control tower is seen tions. Calling this law irredeemably while ensuring citi- officials, In Wednesday, July 2016, a April federal17,appeals through the razor inside the Camp VIcan detention Naval Base,opposite,” Cuba. Sen. racistBay does the exact zens vote. facility in Guantanamo court struck downwire several portions The categories of qualifying IDs Paul Newton of Cabarrus County of a 2013 North Carolina law that were greatly expanded compared said. included a voter ID mandate. fight,” set up a process enhow law it would handle the the In process” aimedfor at reducing the dethe dissenting opinion,to Judge to the 2013 to include college Lawyers the voters who address sure those repatriated or resettled ongoing effort to prosecute five tainee population at Guantánamo. sued over the 2018 law said it suf- student and government-employee Nathaniel Poovey wrote there was third noevidence” longer posed foravailthe in White House pressracial secretary Jenas men “not onecountries scintilla of preIDs.held Free at IDsGuantánamo also were made fered from similar defects threat. that It alsoany planned to try some attacks. also hasIDs to rePsaki had law said— inwhich February was Sept. legislator acted able, 11and peopleItwithout can asented the 2013 they italleged theracially men in discriminatory federal court. intent. whatif it will detain- of the “intention” of theAmerican Biden adminwith still vote they filldo outwith a form. weakened African voting solve But closure effort relied was Obamaan administration istration thecontrol detention fa- ees that The the plaintiffs’ evidence Samthe Hayes, attorney for as a waytotoclose retain the Genthwarted when Congress barred particularly struggled with, eicility, something President Barack eral Assembly. The 2013 law was House Speaker Tim Moore, said “heavily on the past history of other Obama pledged to do within a year ther because their home countries the transfer of prisoners from shortly after he took office in Janu- were not considered secure enough Guantánamo to the U.S., including to return them to, or because they for prosecution or medical care. ary 2009.

The prisoner transfer process Almost 800 detainees have were refused by third-party counstalled under Trump, who said passed through Guantanamo. Of tries.

The detention center opened in even before taking office there the 39 remaining, 10 are eligible to be transferred out, 17 are eligible to 2002. Bush’s administration trans- should be no further releases. go through the review process for formed what had been a quiet Navy “These are extremely dangerous possible transfer, another 10 are in- outpost on Cuba’s southeastern tip people and should not be allowed volved in the military commission into a place to interrogate and im- back onto the battlefield,” Trump process used to prosecute detain- prison people suspected of links to said.

Under Trump, only one prisonees and two have been convicted, al-Qaida and the Taliban.

The Obama administration, er, a Saudi, was transferred to Sauanother senior administration ofseeking to allay concerns that some di Arabia to serve the remainder ficial said.

The Biden administration didn’t of those released had “returned to of his sentence after he agreed to a

plea bargain.

Under Obama, 197 were transferred to other countries. lawmakers and used that an extremely The possibility former broad brush toprisoners paint the 2018 GenGuantánamo would reeral Assembly the same sume hostile with activities has toxic long paint,”aPoovey wrote. been concern that has played But panel’s majority into thethe debate over releases.wrote The that while found ofnoNational legislaoffice of thethey Director tor harboring animus toIntelligence saidracial in a 2016 report wardabout black 17% voters, tarthat of Republicans the 728 detaingeted voters on race, ees who had“who, been based released were were unlikely to vote for the “confirmed” and 12% weremajor“susity party” the federalincourt pected” of as reengaging suchalso acruled in 2016. tivities.

About states have But thethree vast dozen majority of those laws requesting oroccurred requiring voters reengagements with to show prisoners some formwho of identification former did not go at the polls, aboutreview half want through the and security that photo IDup only, according to the Nawas set under Obama.

A task tional Conference of State Legislaforce that included agencies such tures. as the Defense Department and Six voters — five black and one the CIA analyzed who was held at biracial — sued in Wake County Guantánamo and determined who court on the same day GOP lawcould be released and who should makers overrode Democratic Gov. continue in detention.

Roy Cooper’s veto of the 2018 votThe U.S. thanked Morocco for er ID bill. facilitating Nasser’s transfer.

Some plaintiffs testified at triStates commends al “The aboutUnited difficulties obtaining an the Kingdom of Morocco its ID or voting when the earlierfor pholong-time partnership in securto ID law was in effect. Lawyers for ing both said countries’ national the GOP all voters wouldsecuconrity interests,” the Pentagon statetinue to be able to vote under the ment said.

2018 law.

In a statement, the public proseThe plaintiffs’ case emphasized cutor at the Court of Appeal in Rathe state’s history of discriminatobat said the National of ry voting laws, as well Division as an analthe Police in of Casablanca ysis Judicial from a University Michigan had been instructed to open an are inprofessor who said black voters vestigation into to Nasser suspi39% more likely lack a “on qualifying cion ofID committing acts.” photo than whiteterrorist registered votIdrissi, Nasser’s attorney, ers. The analysis, however, leftsaid out judicial authorities should not data on some categories of qualify“take measures that prolong his ing IDs. torment and suffering, especially since he lived through the hell of Guantánamo.”

Nasser’s journey to the Cuban prison was a long one. He was a member of a nonviolent but illegal Moroccan Sufi Islam group in the 1980s, according to his Pentagon file. In 1996, he was recruited to fight in Chechnya but ended up in Afghanistan, where he trained at an al-Qaida camp. He was captured after fighting U.S. forces there and was sent to Guantánamo in May 2002.

Garland lets immigration judges put off deportation cases court calendar following Sessions’ decision.

Since the 2018 fiscal year, the number of cases pending in the U.S. ATTORNEY General Merimmigration courts has risen 74%, rick Garland tossed a Trump adto 1.3 million, according to data ministration policy that barred from the Transactional Records immigration judges from putting Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse off the deportation cases of immiUniversity. grants waiting on green cards and FILE PHOTOS Gene Hamilton, a key architect visas.

Left, the overruled white bloom of a southern magnolia at Crowder County Park in Apex, North Carolina. Right, a Northern Cardinal male in an Eastern Redbud. of many of Trump’s immigration Garland a decision by policies who served in the Justice then-Attorney General Jeff SesDepartment, said he believes Garsions that judges could not temmon shrubs lookletfor are Fothto shortest, “vertical layers” refers land’s decisiontowill immigrants porarily shelve those cases — a ergilla, Inkberry, Coral Honto canopy trees, understory trees, stay in the countryand indefinitely depractice known as administrative eysuckle.

Lastly, you can fill in the shrubs, and finally, flowers and spite facing deportation. closure. layer” of yourjudges plantground cover. Canopy trees, oaks final But“vertical some immigration Immigration judges, who are ing with perennial flowers and in particular, can support hunsaid they can only use the practice employees of Garland’s Departgroundcover.

Plant of flowers and Native trees and shrubs offer ad- scape. Woody plants can be very dreds of species. These trees are in

By Annie Millssaid the practice a limited number cases and ment of Justice, groundcover groups and swaths ditional advantages compared to long-lived if chosen, planted, and foraging hubs and a very import- that For them the Randolph it makesinthe courts more efhelps manageRecord their dockets of three to four feet for pollinators. ant source of food for caterpillar maintained correctly, so think non-native species and should be ficient, not less. Without it, some more efficiently by letting them foJust a few native to conadded into landscapes when pos- carefully before purchasing. Eval- species (which rarely threaten tree immigrants LATE is an excellent haveperennials wound up filcus on casesFALL that are ready to gotime to sider are: Green and Gold, Eastern to plant treesdragging and shrubs in the sible. Native plants have evolved uate the space above ground, root health). Chickadees are caterpillar ing applications for asylum or apcourt and avoid in immiColumbine, Bluestar, Baptisia, Joe south.

Cooler fall days a pleas- closely with native organisms over space available below ground, the specialists and a single nest can re- peal simply to buy more time while grants and attorneys for are unnecesPye Weed, varithousands of years in a given area duration and intensity of sunlight, quire 6,000-10,000 caterpillars to waiting anthearings. time forThat’s us work outdoors, on Goldenrod, their greenAsters, card applisary critical in a ous milkweed species, and Switchplus a fall planting gives roots and many native organisms feed and characteristics of shade in the rear juvenile birds which require cation, Marks said. backlogged system where immigrass.

The goal to have at with least protein for proper development. area.

Carefully consider proximity on a narrow range of plant spetime to establish, giving you a bet“It clutters upisthe system grants already wait years to get a three types filings of flowers bloom ter date. performing plant next sum- cies, especially insects. As natu- to structures, lowest temperature unnecessary and in unnecescourt SEMANSKY | AP PHOTO eachhearings,” season from early spring to Natives mer than one in the spring. ral areas become developed, habi- points in the yard, strong winds, CommonPATRICK sary she said.

“It helps us planted clear our dockets late fall. and microclimates.

If you have tat for native organisms and plants More frequent gentle rains also The move also restores autonso we’re dealing with cases that In this June 25, 2021 file photo, Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a news conference on Learn more about this topic A few commonly planted and omy not had your soil tested in the last is lostrights or diminished.

Native plants willfornot have to said spend voting to the country’s immigraaremean reallyyou ready hearings,” at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. from the North Carolina Extenare commonly replaced by non-na- two to three years, consider hav- commercially available native can- tion as much time and labor waterjudges over how they manage Immigration Judge Dana Leigh sion Master Gardener Handbook ing new plants. Woody plants pro- tive trees, shrubs and flowers that ing a soil test done to evaluate the opy trees include: River Birch, Red their dockets, said Jeremy McKinMarks, president emerita and exvide a multitude of functions in do not necessarily sustain the or- pH and the nutrients your site. You Maple, Black Gum, Southern Mag- https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/executive vice president of the Na- said immigration judges too often migrants fleeing violence to quali- courts, is making rules related to ney, president elect of the Ameriyour landscape, so take some time ganisms that traditionally occur can find soil testing supplies at any nolia, Pin Oak, and White Oak. tension-gardener-handbook, the administrative closure and will al- can Immigration Lawyers Associtional Association of Immigration let people stay in the country lon- fy for asylum. to think about what purpose you in that landscape. As homeowners North Carolina Cooperative Ex- Next, we go to the understory trees North Carolina Extension GarIn the decision on immigration low the practice in the meantime, ation. Immigration judges clashed ger than they should in a sort of leJudges. and shrubs. These are prime nest- dener Plant Toolbox https://plants. might want your new tree or shrub you can help replace native plants tension office. repeatedly with the Trump adjudges, Garland wrote that three the attorney general wrote.

For many immigrants, admin- gal purgatory.

In addition to choosing the right ing sites for birds and offer a range ces.ncsu.edu/, and Landscaping for to serve before planting. Trees and in the landscape and help keep the decrying measures During the Trump administra- ministration, The decision is one of several federal appeals courts had already istrative closure was seen as a lifeshrubs help modify climate by pro- balance of pests and beneficial or- site, best practices for choosing na- of food for organisms by providing Wildlife with Native Plants https:// they said limited their indepention, the number of cases in the rejected Sessions’ 2018 policy, sayBiden administration reline that shielded them from de- recent tives include choosing a diversity of flowers, fruits, and berries. A few content.ces.ncsu.edu/landscapingviding shade or by diverting wind, ganisms in check. courts surged, partthe judges had athe authoriof former President Donportation while they awaited for-wildlife-with-native-plants. common native understory trees dence. species that supply range of food immigration Choosing the right plant and site ing they can promote visual word appeal versals “To say the immigration judgas some of theDogwood, hundreds of thouto decide they wanted to lyare: onby their applications for legal staRedbud, Serviceshelter how for organisms.

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obituaries

Sheila Dianna McBride McCain

1952 - 2021 Sheila Dianna McBride McCain, age 69, of Sophia passed away on Monday, September 13, 2021 at Randolph Hospice House.

Mrs. McCain was born in Randolph County on August 22, 1952 to Willis and Irene Hughes McBride. She was a 1970 graduate of Farmer High School and a graduate of Appalachian State University. Sheila was formerly employed with Randolph Community College. She then went on to teach Braille with Guilford County Schools and Asheboro City Schools, where she retired after 16 years. Sheila loved music and enjoyed playing the piano at Charlotte United Methodist Church where she was a member. In addition to her parents, Sheila was preceded in death by her brother, Charles Anthony McBride. Sheila enjoyed doing crafts, crocheting, and needlework.

She is survived by her husband of 48 years, Branson McCain; son, Jonathan McCain and fiancée Denise House of Sophia; numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren; brother, Hurley McBride and wife Susan of Farmer; special friend, Cindy Cranford; and her pet bird, Jobie.

Sheila’s body will lie in repose on Friday, September 17, 2021 from 9:00 am-5:00 pm at Pugh Funeral Home, 437 Sunset Avenue in Asheboro. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, September 18, 2021 at 11:00 am at Charlotte United Methodist Church, 1182 Charlotte Church Road in Asheboro with Rev. Cindy Ramirez officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.

Memorials may be made to Charlotte United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 2576, Asheboro, NC 27204 or Hospice of Randolph, 416 Vision Dr., Asheboro, NC 27203 or charity of donor’s choice.

Davis Gordon Rutledge

1999 - 2021 Davis Gordon Rutledge, age 22, of Trinity, passed away Monday, September 13, 2021.

Davis was a 2017 graduate of Wheatmore High School and employed by Ace Avant of Archdale. He had a great smile and special love for his son.

Davis enjoyed being and working outside. He loved being a biker and his grandma Louise’s pickles.

He also loved gardening and fishing. Davis is preceded in death by his father, Ronald Rutledge.

He is survived by his son Elijah Rutledge; mother, Kimberly Hodgin King and step father, Donnie of Trinity; sister Savannah Rutledge of the home; step brothers and sister: Daniel King of Winston-Salem, Buddy King (Ann) of Randleman, Kody King (Jackie) of Yuma, Az., and Kylee King of the home; (Davis’ love and mother of his son Elijah, Madalynne Conard); maternal grandparents, R.J. and Louise Brim of Sophia and Johnny Hodgin of Sophia.

The family will receive friends Friday, September 17, 2021 from 12:30 pm to 1:45 pm at Pugh Funeral Home, 600 South Main Street, Randleman, NC. The funeral service will follow at 2:00 pm in the chapel, with Pastor J.B. Whitfield officiating. Burial will follow at Old Union United Methodist Church Cemetery, Sophia.

Robin Renee Kaminski Saturday, September 18, 2021 Robin Renee Kaminski, known to all as Renee, lost her fight with cancer September 18, 2021. She was born July 9, 1968 in Marion, NC to David Hawkins and Alice Jones Hawkins. A 1986 graduate of McDowell (NC) High School, Renee also earned an AAS degree in 1993 and a bachelor of science degree from Gardner-Webb University in 1996 while working full-time.

The majority of her life’s work was in law enforcement and the court system. Among her employers were the McDowell County Sheriff’s Department, McDowell County District Attorney, Moore County District Attorney, Moore County Clerk of Court, and the North Carolina Department of Corrections. While also working full-time, she and her husband opened and operated The Vintage Warehouse vintage decor shop in Sanford, NC and later Randleman, NC. She was known for her outstanding work ethic, love of family and friends, and love of her cats.

She is survived by husband Dan Kaminski of Franklinville, NC, sons, Daniel Kaminski III of Gibsonville, NC and Chandler Kaminski of Franklinville, and parents, David and Alice Hawkins and “second mother” Janice Carpenter, all of Marion, NC. At Renee’s request no service will be held. Family and friends may wish to donate to their feline rescue organizations in Renee’s name, and when you think of Renee, do so with a laugh and a smile.

Rebecca Smith Chriscoe

1946 - 2021 Rebecca Smith Chriscoe, age 75, passed away on Tuesday, September 14, 2021, at Duke University Medical Center in Durham.

Mrs. Chriscoe was born in Randolph County on September 2, 1946, to Aaron Wesley and Allene Davis Smith. She was co-owner of Chriscoe Game Farm and an active member of her church; teaching Sunday School, the CYC director for children, choir director and church secretary.

She is preceded in death by her parents.

She is survived by her husband; Bradley Chriscoe of the home and sons, Wesley Chriscoe of Seagrove, and Stephen Chriscoe (Julie) of Apex; sisters, Shirley Criscoe (William) of Seagrove, Nancy Sanders of Seagrove, Ann Sanders (Garland) of Eagle Springs, Pat Hussey (Paul) of Seagrove, Darlene Smith-Pugh of Seagrove and grandchildren, Dylan, Katie, and Ryan.

Mrs. Chriscoe’s body will lie in repose from 1:00-5:00 pm on Saturday, September 18, at Phillips Funeral Home.

A graveside service will be held on Sunday, September 19 at 2:00 pm at Mt. Zion Wesleyan Church in Seagrove with the Rev. Derrick Britt and Rev. Wayne Byrd officiating.

In lieu of flowers memorial can be made to Mt. Zion Wesleyan Church- 445 Mt. Zion Church Rd, Seagrove, NC 27341.

Online condolences may be left at www.phillipsfh.com.

The Chriscoe family is being served by Phillips Funeral Home in Star.

Joseph Earl VanBencoten, Sr.

James Milton “Jim” Walton

1941 - 2021 James Milton “Jim” Walton, age 80, of Franklinville passed away on Sunday, September 19, 2021 at his home.

Mr. Walton was born in Randolph County on August 21, 1941 to James and Mildred Milks Walton. Jim served his country in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War. He retired as a Captain with the Asheboro Fire Department after over 30 years of service. Jim, along with his wife Janice, owned and operated Walton’s Lock and Key. He was a member of First Baptist Church of Franklinville and a Mason with Lodges 128 & 699.

In addition to his parents, Jim was preceded in death by his canine companion, Elvis. Jim enjoyed traveling with his family, especially to Gatlinburg.

He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Janice Walton; son, Jimmy Walton of Franklinville; grandsons, Taylor, Alex, and Nicholas Walton; and sister, Margaret Ann Ward of Asheboro.

A graveside service will be held on Saturday, September 25, 2021 at 2:00 pm at the First Baptist Church of Franklinville Cemetery with Rev. Joe Edwards officiating.

1962 - 2021 Joseph Earl VanBencoten, Sr. age 59, of Asheboro passed away on Wednesday, September 15, 2021 at Randolph Health.

Mr. VanBencoten was born in Elmira, NY on July 31, 1962 to Earl and Jeanette VanBencoten.

In addition to his parents, Joseph was preceded in death by his sister, Sandy Gilbert and his brother-in-law, Bob Carpenter.

Joseph was a loving husband, father, and grandfather, and Godly Christian man and a very hard worker. He loved his church family at Bethel Baptist Church and loved hunting.

He is survived by his wife of 37 years, Diane Hughes VanBencoten; his fuzzy babies, Sparky and Buddy; daughter, Crystal VanBencoten of Asheboro; grandsons, Ryan VanBencoten and John Caden VanBencoten; sisters, Paula Usack (Dan) of Elmira, NY and Joyce Carpenter of Elmira, NY; along with several nieces and nephews.

Joe was a crane operator of 17 years for Steel Supply of Asheboro.

The family will receive friends on Saturday, September 25, 2021 from 11:30 am-12:30 pm at Bethel Baptist Church, 4836 Robbins Circle Road in Asheboro.

A graveside service will follow on Saturday at 1:00 pm at the Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery with Dr. Jody Harrison and Pastor Brian Cole officiating.

Memorials may be made to Wounded Warrior Project P.O., PO Box 758517, Topeka, KS 66675, https://support. woundedwarriorproject.org/ or Shriner’s Children’s Hospital, 950 West Faris Rd., Greenville, SC 29605.

Fay Delene Jessup Brogan

1934 - 2021 Fay Beal Jessup Brogan, 87, of Goldston went home to be with the Lord on Friday, September 17, 2021 at Genesis Siler City Center.

Mrs. Brogan was born in Chatham County on January 16, 1934, the daughter of Joe and Florence Hilliard Beal.

Fay was a Registered Nurse.

She graduated as an Honor Student at CCCC College in Sanford. She loved her work and her children. Fay taught Sunday School classes for many years at Brush Creek Baptist Church.

In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husbands: Aubrey Jessup, Johnny Welch, and Roger Brogan; daughters: Joanna Jessup Harris, and Judy Jessup Burns; brothers, Loy, Vernie, Byrd, Glen “Doc”, and Forest Beal; and sisters, Josie Pickard, Violet Yow, Gertie Headen, and Gola Hammer.

She is survived by her daughter: Jenny Oldham and husband Terry of Pittsboro; brother, Freeman Beal of WA; grandchildren, Christy Holt, Sara Burns, Holly and Haven Barth, and Randa Brady; several great grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.

Fay will Lie in Repose on Monday, September 20, 2021 from 1:00 - 5:00 PM at Smith & Buckner Funeral Home, 230 North Second Avenue, Siler City, NC. A graveside service will be held at 2:00 PM on Tuesday, September 21, 2021 at Brush Creek Baptist Church Cemetery, 5345 Airport Road, Bear Creek with Rev. Frank Taylor officiating.

Rachel Edwards Moon

1926 - 2021 Rachel Lee Edwards Moon, 95, of Snow Camp went to be with her Heavenly Father on Sunday, September 19, 2021 at Liberty Commons Nursing & Rehab Center of Alamance County, Burlington.

Mrs. Moon was born in Chatham County on August 26, 1926, the daughter of Charlie R. and Lucy Siler Edwards.

Rachel was the oldest member of Plainfield Friends Meeting Church, where she attended the Sunshine Sunday School Class. She was a member of the Ellen Payne Missionary Society and served on the Library Committee. Rachel loved flowers, and she was a fantastic cook. She adored her family and spent her years as a homemaker taking great care of them. In addition to her parents, Rachel is preceded in death by her husband, A.W. Moon, Jr. She is survived by her daughters, Anne M. Stout of Graham, Karen M. Caudle and husband Coy of Bear Creek, Sue M. Butler and husband Forrester of Greensboro, and June M. Swaney and husband Jerry of Staley; grandchildren, Emily Coble and husband Rodney, Laurie Paige and husband Shane, Kathryn Hackney and fiancé Clint Perry, Kim Clark and husband Justin, Jennifer Gonzalez and husband Luis, Jonathan Pickett, Sarah Kiser and husband Nathan; and great grandchildren, Allee Coble, Hasten and Anderson Paige, Kaitlyn and Avery Clark.

Rachel will Lie in Repose on Thursday, September 23, 2021 from 12:00-5:00 pm at Smith & Buckner Funeral Home, 230 North Second Avenue, Siler City, NC. A graveside service will be held at 2:00 pm on Friday, September 24, 2021 at Plainfield Friends Meeting Church Cemetery, 1956 Plainfield Church Road, Siler City with Wayne Lamb and Nathan Kiser officiating.

Smith & Buckner Funeral Home is assisting the Moon family.

2 Carson Curtis Lemons

1948 - 2021 Carson Curtis Lemons, age 73, passed away on Saturday, September 18, 2021, at his residence.

Mr. Lemons was born in Moore County on April 24, 1948, to Carson and Lula Mae Butler Lemons. He was a route supervisor for Reddy Ice. He is preceded in death by his parents.

He is survived by his wife, Patricia Lemons of the home; daughters, Heather White (Phillip) of Biscoe, and Leslie Parsons (Daniel Kellis) of Jackson Springs; son, Michael Lemons (Kimberly) of Troy. Sisters, Margaret Lemons of Troy, Elaine Sanders (Ronald) of Troy, Marie Callicutt (Charlie) of Troy. Grandchildren, Alex Lemons (Emily), Brittany Monore (Jeremy), Carson Lemons, Daniel Lemons, Cady White, Taylon White, Riley Parsons, Tucker Kellis and great grandchildren, Chase Lemons, Emma Lemons, Grace Lemons and Lyla Monroe, Dawson Monroe.

A Celebration of Life service will be held on Wednesday, September 22 at 2:00 pm at Bethel Church of God (1183 Chriscoe Road, Seagrove, NC) with Pastor Larry May officiating.

In lieu of flowers memorials can be made to Pat Lemons574 Dover Church Rd, Star, NC 27356.

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STATE & NATION

New redistricting commissions splinter along partisan lines

By David A. Lieb The Associated Press WHEN VOTERS in some states created new commissions to handle the politically thorny process of redistricting, the hope was that the bipartisan panelists could work together to draw new voting districts free of partisan gerrymandering.

Instead, cooperation has proved elusive.

In New York, Ohio and Virginia, commissions meeting for the first time this year have splintered into partisan camps to craft competing redistricting maps based on 2020 census data.

As a result, new state House and Senate districts in Republican-led Ohio will still favor the GOP. Democrats who control New York could still draw maps as they wish. And a potential stalemate in Virginia could eventually kick the process to the courts.

“It’s probably predictable that this is sort of how it’s panned out,” said Alex Keena, a political scientist at Virginia Commonwealth University who has analyzed redistricting and gerrymandering.

Redistricting can carry significant consequences. Subtle changes in district lines can solidify a

STEVE HELBER | AP PHOTO

In this Oct. 6, 2020 file photo, redistricting reform advocate Brian Cannon poses with some of his yard signs and bumper stickers in his office in Richmond, Va. majority of voters for a particular party or split its opponents among multiple districts to dilute their influence. Republicans need to net just five seats to regain the U.S. House in the 2022 elections, which could determine the fate of President Joe Biden’s remaining agenda.

Throughout most of American history, redistricting has been

handled by state lawmakers and governors. But as public attention to gerrymandering has grown in recent decades, voters in some states have shifted the task to socalled special commissions.

Some commissions — such as those in Arizona, California, Colorado and Michigan — consist solely of citizens who hold the final say on what maps to en-

act. But others, such as in Ohio and Virginia, include politicians among their members or require their maps to be submitted to the legislature for final approval, as is the case in New York, Virginia and Utah.

If New York’s Democratic-led Legislature rejects the work of the new commission (consisting for four Democrats, four Republicans and two independents), then lawmakers can draft and pass their own redistricting plans.

The prospects of that increased last week, when Democrats and Republicans on the commission failed to agree and instead released competing versions of new maps for the U.S. House, state Senate and state Assembly.

State Republican Party Chairman Nick Langworthy blasted the Democratic maps as “wildly gerrymandered” and accused Democratic commissioners of refusing to compromise.

State Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs countered that there was no reason to “bend over backwards” to try to draw as many Republican seats as possible. He added: “We’ll be fair, but to a point.”

The commission’s division frustrated Jennifer Wilson, deputy director of the League of Women Voters of New York. The organization supported the 2014 ballot measure that created the commission and encouraged people to testify at the panel’s public hearings this year.

“It almost feels like a slap in the face to us and to all those people who spent the time to go and sub-

mit comments -- took time out of their daily lives to do that -- when it’s very obvious there was no regard for any of those comments,” Wilson said.

Michigan’s citizen redistricting commission released its first draft of a new state Senate and U.S. House map this past week and is still working on a state House map. It’s planning to take more public comment on its proposals with a goal of finalizing maps by the end of the year — blowing past the Nov. 1 deadline set in the constitutional amendment approved by voters.

In Virginia, two separate mapmakers hired for Democrats and Republicans are to submit rival plans for consideration this coming week by the 16-member commission, which has four lawmakers and four citizens from each major party. If the commission can’t agree — or the Democratic-led General Assembly rejects its maps — the decision will fall to the state Supreme Court, which is dominated by GOP-appointed judges.

How commissioners respond to the two maps will determine whether the reform effort works, said Liz White, executive director of OneVirginia2021, which supported last year’s ballot measure creating the commission.

She hopes panelists find a way “to marry” the two proposals.

“We’re going to be able to look back on this sort of experiment and see what works and what doesn’t work,” White said. “Hopefully, that will lead to better reforms in the future.”

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Law enforcement officials investigate home of a young man wanted for questioning in the disappearance of his girlfriend, Gabby Petito, on Monday, Sept. 20, 2021 in North Port, Fla.

FBI searches Florida home of Gabby Petito’s boyfriend

By Curt Anderson The Associated Press NORTH PORT, Fla. — FBI agents and police Monday searched the home of the boyfriend wanted for questioning in the death of 22-year-old Gabby Petito, whose body was discovered over the weekend at a Wyoming national park months after the couple set out on a cross-country road trip.

The FBI gave no details on the search by at least a dozen law enforcement officers, but agents removed several boxes and towed away a car that neighbors said was typically used by 23-year-old Brian Laundrie’s mother. Local media said Laundrie’s parents were seen getting into a police vehicle.

Laundrie and Petito had been living with his parents at the North Port home before the road trip on which she died.

The young couple had set out in July in a converted van to visit national parks in the West. They

got into a fight along the way, and Laundrie was alone when he returned in the van to his parents’ home on Sept. 1, police said.

In Wyoming, the FBI announced on Sunday that agents had discovered a body on the edge of Grand Teton National Park, which the couple had visited. No details on the cause of death were released. An autopsy was set for Tuesday.

“Full forensic identification has not been completed to confirm 100% that we found Gabby, but her family has been notified,” FBI agent Charles Jones said.

Laundrie has been named a person of interest in the case, but his whereabouts in recent days were unknown.

Petito’s father, Joseph, posted on social media an image of a broken heart above a picture of his daughter, with the message: “She touched the world.”

In an interview broadcast Monday on TV’s “Dr. Phil” show, Joseph Petito said Laundrie and

his daughter had dated for 2 1/2 years, and Laundrie was “always respectful.” During the interview, which was recorded before his daughter’s body was found, Petito said the couple had taken a previous road trip to California in her car and there were no problems.

“If there were, I would have discouraged going on the trip,” Petito said.

Petito said his family began worrying after several days without hearing from their daughter.

“We called Brian, we called the mom, we called the dad, we called the sister, we called every number that we could find,” Petito said.

“No phone calls were picked up, no text messages were returned.”

Petito said he wants Laundrie to be held accountable for whatever part he played in Gabby’s disappearance, along with his family for protecting him.

“I hope they get what’s coming, and that includes his folks,” Petito said. “Because I’ll tell you, right now, they are just as complicit, in

my book.”

The FBI said investigators are seeking information from anyone who may have seen the couple around Grand Teton.

Police looking for Laundrie searched a 24,000-acre Florida nature preserve over the weekend without success. Investigators had focused intently on the area after Laundrie’s parents told police he may have gone there.

Petito and Laundrie were childhood sweethearts who met while growing up on New York’s Long Island. His parents later moved to North Port, about 35 miles south of Sarasota.

A man who saw Petito and Laundrie fighting in Moab, Utah, on Aug. 12 called 911 to report a domestic violence incident, according to a recording of the call obtained from the Grand County Sheriff’s Office. The man said that he saw Laundrie slap Petito while walking through the town and proceeded to hit her before the two got in their van and drove off.

Video released by the Moab police showed that an officer pulled the couple’s van over on the same day after it was seen speeding and hitting a curb near Arches National Park. The body-camera footage showed an upset Petito.

Laundrie said on the video that the couple had gotten into a scuffle after he climbed into the van with dirty feet. He said he did not want to pursue a domestic violence charge against Petito, who officers decided was the aggressor.

Moab police separated the couple for the night, with Laundrie checking into a motel and Petito remaining with the van.

In the footage, Gabby Petito cried as she told the officer that she and Laundrie had been arguing over her excessive cleaning of the van. She told the officer she has OCD — obsessive compulsive disorder.

On “Dr. Phil,” her father said that wasn’t literally true. She just likes to keep her living area orderly and was using slang, he said.