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Volume 138 • Issue 22
Wednesday, June 3, 2026
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SLIPPERY WHEN WET: Bon Jovi Tribute Band to perform in KM on June 6 Live entertainment is back at Patriots Park! The City of Kings Mountain is proud to bring live music to Downtown Kings Mountain, Saturday, June 6, with the 2026 “LIVE Music at Patriots Park” Downtown Concert Series presented by Albemarle. Sing along to all your favorite Bon Jovi hits and experience the energy, ex-
citement, and arena-rock vibes live! Bring your friends, lawn chairs, and your best rock voice for a night you won’t forget. Music by DJ Drew Fulton will begin at 6:00 pm, with Slippery When Wet taking the stage at 7:00 pm. Great music, great food, and a beverage garden too. Saturday, June 6 will be a great night.
Patriots Park is located at 220 South Railroad Avenue, Kings Mountain, NC. For more information, contact the City of Kings Mountain’s Marketing, Tourism, and Events Department at 704-730-2101 or visit their website at www. KingsMountainEvents.com. You may also visit their Facebook page at @cityofkmspecialevents.
Officer terminated after camera footage released During the afternoon hours of Friday, May 29, 2026, protestors gathered outside of the City of Shelby Police Department calling for accountability and transparency. The protest was in response to footage recorded from a doorbell camera of an arrest made earlier that day. The video recording went viral on social media websites like Facebook and TikTok sparking larger public outrage. In the viral video, there appears to be a Shelby Police Officer repeatedly hitting a woman in the head while the woman is saying she does not have a warrant. There also appears to be a second Shelby Police Officer trying to intervene to stop the arresting officer from continuing to use physical force. The video footage and the protests garnered quick attention from both national and local news networks as well, even leading to the event being reported on by CNN and ABC. Swift action was taken by the Shelby Police Chief Brad Fraser. By 6pm, on the same day as the arrest and protest, Fraser issued the following statement saying:
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Karson Hyder “Earlier today, officers with the Shelby Police Department were conducting a criminal investigation when they encountered a suspicious female in the area. As seen in the video currently circulating on social media, the actions taken by one officer during that encounter are disturbing and inappropriate. A second officer can be seen intervening to stop those actions.” “The officer involved in this incident has been placed on Administrative Suspension while an internal investigation is being conducted by our Office of Professional Standards.” Cherrie Moore, 34, was identified as the arrested individual. Moore was arrested on the charges of breaking and entering, resisting arrest, and assault on a government official. The arresting officer was later identified as Karson Hyder. By Saturday, May 30, 2026—shortly after Hyder’s suspension was an-
nounced—Fraser took another swift action announcing in a morning press conference that Hyder had been terminated and the NC State Bureau of Investigations (NCSBI) would be further investigating the matter. Two of the three charges against Moore have been dropped. Some news outlets have reported on a documented history in prior court cases that link Hyder and Moore as recent as last year. As of June 1, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) has charged former Shelby Police Officer Karson Hyder with one count of assault inflicting serious injury. Mr. Hyder, 22, turned himself in to the Cleveland County Detention Center at 10:00 a.m. today. He was processed and released on a $10,000 secured bond. The SBI initiated this investigation following a request from the Shelby Police Chief and the Cleveland County District Attorney. The investigation examined an allegation of excessive use of force. No additional information is available at this time. Any additional information will be shared through the SBI social media platforms.
KMHS’s Miriam Izbicki-Wilson taught incredible class on the Holocaust By Alan Hodge School may be over for this year, but the lessons KMHS students learned in Miriam Izbicki-Wilson’s class on the Holocaust will stay with them for the rest of their lives. If anyone’s qualified to teach a class on the Holocaust, Izbicki-Wilson is it. That’s because, in addition to being an innovative educator, she has a unique link to the Holocaust of WWII that saw the Nazis kill 6 million Jews. “My connection to Holocaust education is very personal to me and to my family,” she says. “My grandfather from Lodz, Poland, was a Holocaust survivor who lost his first family at the hands of the Nazis during World War II. He survived imprisonment and was eventually liberated from Ebensee concentration camp.” Ebensee was a forced labor camp in the Austrian mountains. People sent there were made to dig tunnels where the Nazis planned to build V2 rockets. The camp was liberated in May, 1945 by the U.S. Army. “After the war, he spent time in displaced persons camps in Austria and later Italy before immigrating to the United States with his wife, my grandmother Rosa, along with my father Hyman and my aunts Golda and Lina,” Uzbicki-Wilson said. “The family first spent time in Chicago before eventually settling in Sioux City, Iowa.” Even though she was just 11 years old when her grandfather died in Sioux City, his story found a place in her heart. “Growing up, my grandfather almost never talked about what happened to him during the Holocaust,” she said. “Like many survivors, he carried that trauma quietly. Before he passed away in 1989, he shared very little about his experiences, and for a long time, there were many unanswered questions about our family history. Over the last several years, I have spent a great deal of time researching my grandfather’s story and trying to better understand what he endured before, during, and after the war, but much of what he experienced is still a mystery.
KMHS teacher Miriam Izbicki-Wilson points to a photo of her grandfather Abraham Izbicki who was a Holocaust survivor. (Photos by Alan Hodge)
KMHS student Nathaniel Kaiser and the poster he created for the Holocaust class.
Some of the model Holocaust memorial dioramas that Izbicki-Wilson’s student created.
Shiloh Bridges points to her Holocaust class poster. That journey has had a huge impact on me personally and as an educator.” Izbicki-Wilson determined to create a class at KMHS sharing her knowledge and understanding of the
Holocaust and howimportant it is that such a horror should never happen again. “I truly believe Holocaust education is more important now than ever,” she said. “We See HOLOCAUST, Page 3A
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