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Yadkin appoints new county manager
A former Lincoln County manager has been appointed manager of Yadkin County.
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Lydall consolidation to benefit Yadkin
Yadkin County once again is gaining jobs from a manufacturer's decision to consolidate domestic production.
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Regional Briefs: 2 Yadkinville gas stations get subpoenas
N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper issued three additional subpoenas today to the owners of three gas stations, including two in Yadkinville.
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Paperless: Yadkin system raises efficiency
When officials from other North Carolina counties come to visit, they often walk through the lobby of the Yadkin County Department of Social Services and wonder why so few people are waiting.
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Student was dedicated to volunteer fire work
Adam Ryan Howard, a senior East Carolina University student majoring in construction management, had recently moved into his parents' home in Deep Run near Kinston so he could be back with the volunteer fire department where he was a captain.
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Two are killed in skydiving accident
Two people were killed while skydiving in Yadkin County yesterday, authorities said. A skydiver and the skydiver's instructor died while making a tandem jump shortly after noon at Swan Creek Airport in Jonesville, said Kathleen Bergen, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration in Atlanta.
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Two killed in Yadkin County skydiving accident
Two people were killed while skydiving in Yadkin County today, authorities said.
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Yadkin residents turn down proposal to allow alcohol sales
Voters in Yadkin County rejected a proposal yesterday that would have made it legal to sell alcohol throughout the county -- an issue that had set off a debate in this small rural county.
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Alcohol vote splits Yadkin
Days before a countywide alcohol referendum, Yadkin residents who oppose the idea are putting up signs on the side of roads asking people to vote no, and local pastors are networking to make sure people go to the polls Tuesday.
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Test results raise flags
Yadkin County Schools might have done poorly on federal No Child Left Behind measures, but according to ABC scores released last month by the state, all Yadkin schools met expected growth in 2007-08.
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Truck driver accepts deal in '07 deaths
A Connecticut truck driver pleaded guilty yesterday in Yadkin Superior Court to two counts of misdemeanor death by motor vehicle in connection with an accident in July 2007 in which a Thurmond couple were killed when their car was caught between two tractor-trailers.
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Man gets 2 life terms
A Yadkin County man with a history of anxiety and paranoia pleaded guilty yesterday to shooting his sleeping wife to death last year, and then killing a neighbor as he slept.
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Commissioners' candidate reports for paper
A candidate for Yadkin County commissioner who recently won a lawsuit against the county is working as a correspondent for a local newspaper and covered the board of commissioners' meeting last week. Kevin Austin said he wrote the article published Thursday in The Yadkin Ripple under a "staff report" byline after staff at the paper contacted him to gather information because they were short staffed.
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Four at the Door: Meals on Wheels in Surry and Yadkin counties change weekly delivery schedule to save on gas
A community-action agency that delivers Meals on Wheels to 260 people in Surry and Yadkin counties has cut the delivery schedule from five days a week to four to reduce transportation costs.
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Expert: No penalties for revealing meeting details
County Commissioner Brady Wooten maintains that he hasn't leaked any information about the county jail from the Yadkin County commissioners' closed sessions, despite his colleagues' claims that he has.
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Judge warns Yadkin commissioner
A Yadkin Superior Court judge urged a county commissioner yesterday to stop using "delay tactics" and "disseminating misinformation" to block a plan to build a new county jail.
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Judge tells Yadkin commissioners to move forward on jail
Judge says commissioner should stop using tactics to delay plan to build jail
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Interim manager picked
Yadkin County commissioners have hired Randy Darden to be the interim county manager.
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Yadkin commissioners hire interim county manager
Yadkin County commissioners have hired Randy Darden to be the interim county manager.
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Yadkin leaders again pick site
After a heated debate yesterday morning, the Yadkin County Board of Commissioners voted to again designate a site on Hoots Road for the new county jail.
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Yadkin commissioners vote to put jail at controversial site
After a heated debate this morning, the Yadkin County Board of Commissioners voted to again designate a site on Hoots Road for the new county jail.The decision comes less than two weeks after a Yadkin Superior Court judge ruled in favor of residents in a lawsuit seeking to block the county from building the $7 million jail on Hoots Road. On July 23, Judge Richard Doughton said that the county's rezoning of the property four miles from town was not proper because of some procedural errors.
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Yadkin schools fall short
Yadkin County Schools fell sharply this year in meeting Adequate Yearly Progress, from 36.4 percent to 18.2 percent, prompting the school system's administrators to begin discussing whether some schools will be facing sanctions.
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Yadkin erred in rezoning for jail on Hoots Road, judge decides
A Yadkin Superior Court judge ruled yesterday in favor of residents trying to block the county from building a $7 million jail on Hoots Road, saying that the county's rezoning of the property four miles from town was not proper.
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Yadkin commissioners vote to fire manager
The Yadkin County Board of Commissioners fired county manager Eric Williams last night, saying that the board wanted to go in a different direction.
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Yadkin will have vote on alcohol sales
A countywide referendum on alcohol is coming to Yadkin County in September, setting off debate about greater access to liquor and beer.
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