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WHAT’S HAPPENING Biden’s former doctor takes the fifth in House probe Washington, D.C. President Joe Biden’s White House physician is refusing to answer questions as part of the House Republican investigation into Biden’s health in office. Dr. Kevin O’Connor invoked his rights under the Fifth Amendment during a closed-door interview Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee. Oversight Chair Rep. James Comer of Kentucky says O’Connor’s refusal to testify makes it “clear there was a conspiracy.” Republicans are probing Biden’s actions in office and questioning whether the Democrat’s use of an autopen may have been invalid. Biden has called the claims “ridiculous and false.” The Oversight committee’s top Democrat, Rep. Robert Garcia of California, calls the Republican investigation a waste of time. “The American people demand transparency, but Dr. O’Connor would rather conceal the truth,” Comer said in a statement.

Stanly Schools to add ‘In God we trust’ to district vehicles Yellow school buses won’t receive the new lettering By Jesse Deal Stanly News Journal ALBEMARLE — The Stanly County Board of Education plans to place the national motto, “In God we trust,” on the school district’s activity buses and its maintenance and service vehicles.

At a recent special-called meeting, the school board unanimously passed a motion to move forward with figuring out the distribution process for the motto, targeting the use of magnets and decals rather than paint. “We basically had a local pastor that talked with each board member individually,” Board Chair Robin Whittaker said June 26, explaining the origin of this plan. “In the discus-

sions that I had with the pastor, he really felt that he would be able to get other churches to make donations in order to cover the cost. But we would definitely have to come back to the board with the cost.” Stanly County’s public school district owns 87 vehicles — 24 activity buses and 63 service vehicles — to which this would be applied. Whittaker noted that the vehicles owned by the coun-

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Badin town manager, council inside discuss waterfront park

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ty sheriff’s office currently have the national motto placed on them. “This would not apply to yellow school buses, since those are not owned locally but are owned by the state,” Whittaker added. “There is a strict thing there that the [N.C. Department of Public Instruction] has instructions that strictly prohibit any unauthorized

Plans for the new park are on hold after the town was granted a funding extension By Charles Curcio Stanly News Journal

IN THE COUNCIL member comments section of Tuesday’s Badin Town Council meeting, one council member asked for an update on the town’s waterfront park project. “Where are we on the park out there to get some work done?” council member Dale Ward asked Badin town manager Jay Almond about the park. “We’ve approved money and moved money,

and something needs to be going up.” Almond said the town has had to do a new scope of work for the park because the town could not afford the project’s original scope. A scope of work details the individual tasks involved with a project when funded by a grant. The Badin town manager said he met with a North Carolina Parks and Recreation Trust Grant representative and the contractors to show “this is what we had and this is what we can build.” Almond said he requested and was granted an extension by the trust fund, which required a new scope

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