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Volume 117 • Issue 5
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Wednesday, February 1, 2023
A group of Osage Mill VIPs with shovels, breaking ground at last week’s event in Bessemer City. (photos provided)
$35 million Winn Development project to transform historic mill into apartments Adaptive reuse effort to create 139 units in mill built by Bessemer City‘s founder BOSTON, MA – WinnCompanies, an award-winning national developer and manager of affordable, mixed-income and market rate apartment communities, broke ground last Thursday, Jan. 26, on its firstever adaptive reuse project in North Carolina, starting construction on a $35 million project that will create 139 affordable apartments in a long-vacant, historic textile mill.
Kings Mountain Fire Chief Tommy Harmon speaks to the crowd at the Monday, Jan. 23, 2023 QRV presentation. (photos by Michael Powell)
City of KM; Gaston Co. partner to provide enhanced EMS service to area residents Kings Mountain; western Gaston County residents will soon see new, bright green QRV unit responding to calls by MICHAEL E. POWELL Editor michael@cfmedia.info
Bessemer City Mayor Becky Smith speaks at last week’s WinnDevelopment project. Bessemer City Mayor, Becky S. Smith, joined WinnSee WINN, Page 10
On Monday, Jan. 23, 2023, the City of Kings Mountain Fire Department and Gaston County Emergency Services (GEMS) partnered with each other to provide a new Quick Response Vehicle, or QRV, to the Kings Mountain Fire Department. One thing is for sure… you WILL see this emergency vehicle coming; it is painted a bright, neon green
The new GEMS QRV, Unit 131, stands at the ready inside the bay of the Kings Mountain Fire Department. and will be VERY visible, noted one of the folks attending the afternoon press and public meeting. The new vehicle, according to KMFD Fire Chief Tommy Harmon and Gaston County EMS Chief Mark Lamphiear, will help the two entities “address EMS response times.”
According to a media release given out at the 11 a.m. meeting at the KMFD Fire Station, “EMS response times in Kings Mountain and western Gaston County have been a significant issue, most notably to industry on Canterbury See EMS, Page 4
Kings Mountain Mayor Scott Neisler delivers his comments at the GEMS QRV vehicle presentation on Monday at the Kings Mountain Fire department.
School Choice Fair is Feb. 3-4, at Gastonia Conference Center GMSF Rime Ice Cleanup at Swinging Bridge – In winter, it’s not uncommon for Grandfather Mountain staff to head to the Mile High Swinging Bridge to clear ice away after a rime ice event. Rime ice occurs when super-cooled water droplets (like from a cloud or fog) freeze to a surface. The result can produce a dramatic effect where the mountain’s windswept evergreens and Swinging Bridge are covered in a dense layer of ice that can be inches thick and have the appearance of spikes. (photo by Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation)
Welcoming guests during Grandfather Mountain’s most extreme season Full disclosure: it’s hard work moving a lot of snow! LINVILLE, N.C. – Grandfather Mountain, the not-for-profit nature park run by the Grandfa-
ther Mountain Stewardship Foundation, is known for its extremes: an impressive rise in elevation above the North Carolina Piedmont, access to some of the South’s most challenging hikes, vast ecological abundance and, at times, wild weather. Winter is the time of year when the weather at Grandfather – one of the most See GRANDFATHER, Page 4
Public Service Academy at John Chavis Middle and Cherryville High among the 22 programs featured by TODD HAGANS Chief Communications Officer Gaston County Schools
The Gaston County Schools’ 2023 School Choice Fair will be held at the Gastonia Conference Center on Friday, Feb. 3 from 5 to 8 p.m., and on Saturday, Feb. 4 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event is an opportunity for students and parents to drop in and learn about the 22-school choice/magnet school programs that are available in Gaston County Schools. Students and parents have the opportunity to visit the individual school booths, meet the principal and other school representatives, and get information about each choice program. The School Choice Fair is free and open to the public; anyone interested in learning about the programs is encouraged to attend. Among the 22 schools
Representatives from John Chavis Middle School (Principal Matt Rikard) and Cherryville High School (Principal Shawn Hubers) participated in last year’s School Choice Fair at the Gastonia Conference Center to promote the Public Service Academy, which gives students an opportunity to explore careers in education/teaching, criminal justice, public safety, emergency medical care, and government. (photos by Sean Corcoran/Gaston County Schools) to be featured at the School Choice Fair are Cherryville High School and John Chavis Middle School. Both the middle school and high school in Cherryville are home to the Gaston County Schools Public Service Academy, which gives students an opportunity to explore promising careers in education/teaching, criminal justice, public safety, emergency medical care, and government. See FAIR, Page 6
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