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Council to hold Q&A session for proposed PD district The Q&A is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 9, and a second public hearing will be held one week later, on Feb. 16 by PATTI STOKES STOKESDALE/SUMMERFIELD – In response to citizen questions and concerns about a proposed text amendment which would add a Planned Development zoning district to the town’s development ordinance, Sum-
merfield Town Council has scheduled a Q&A session on Thursday, Feb. 9. Following two months of discussion by the town’s Planning and Zoning Board, Town Planning Director Carrie Spencer gave about a 45-minute presentation on a proposed PD zoning district at the Dec. 13 town council meeting. The first of two public hearings was subsequently scheduled for the Planning and Zoning Board’s monthly meeting on Jan. 23. Prior to the start
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The U.S. 220/N.C. 68 Connector, one of two sections of the 9.4-mile, four lane I-73 project, will be open to traffic by mid-April, NCDOT Construction Engineer Patty Eason said recently. Shown above is the future I-73 interchange at N.C. 150 in Summerfield, which will open simultaneously with an interchange at N.C. 68.
A reunion of champions, Part 2 The second of a two-part story about Northwest High School’s 1966-67 men’s varsity basketball team, which captured the only state basketball championship in the school’s history. The championship team will be honored in a ceremony on Friday, Feb. 10, during halftime of the varsity men’s last basketball game of the regular season.
by MARC PRUITT Championship seeds were planted during 1965-66 season. When asked if he had a feeling that his 1966-67 team had a chance to be special, former Northwest High School basketball coach Roger Nelson quickly replied “Oh, yes.” “I had coached long enough to realize about what it took to win. I had been to the state playoffs three times before already in 1963, 1964 and 1966.” The 1965-66 team had lost in the
2A state championship game the year before by one point – in double overtime. Ron Shelton, a junior who played on the championship team the following year, said practicing against the previous year’s team had been beneficial. “We didn’t realize it at the time, but we were getting better while we were doing it,” Shelton said. “We were kind of in the making the year before and we didn’t even know it.” David Hunter, a senior post player
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IN THIS ISSUE News in Brief ................................3 Your Questions ............................4 PD Zoning District Q&A...............6 Pets & Critters ..............................7 Eight seconds on a bull .............8 Pet Adoptions ........................... 10 Youth/School News .................. 11 Sports Highlights ...................... 11 Student Profiles ......................... 12 Business Notes .......................... 18 Bits & Pieces .............................. 18 Papa’s Violin .............................20 Community Calendar .............. 21 Crime/Incident Report .............22 Grins & Gripes ...........................24 Letters/Opinions .......................25 Classifieds .................................28 Index of Advertisers ................. 31