Gaston superintendent Eddie West to stay in Gaston
West decided against leaving for Mississippi after a special Gaston school board meeting approved a 6 2 vote of support. He returned the airline ticket and said it would be unfair to waste Mississippi Education officials time. The board will not discuss extension until July.
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Gastonia
Gaston
Eddie West
Mississippi
West
Board of Education
Connie Gibbons
Gaston County
Titus Greene
Greene
Woody Family Builds Easter Crosses in Bessemer City
In Bessemer City Richard Woody rebuilt three crosses on Edgewood Road to mark Easter. His mother Mattie Mae Woody, 74, spent a lifetime in ministry and will be honored as 25 family members gather to picnic sing hymns and hear scripture under the lights.
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Bessemer City
Richard Woody
Mattie Mae Woody
Woody
Edgewood Road
Shirley Woody
Richard
Mattie Woody
Titanic disaster still haunts Gaston family at eighty years
In Gastonia historians recount how the Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage. The Cocker family recalls John James Cocker, who planned to sail in the immigrant section but left early, and later penned a 108 line poem about the tragedy found after his 1964 death.
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North Atlantic
England
Cocker
Lier
Hotel queen jailed for four year tax evasion sentence
Leona Helmsley known as the Queen of Mean reported to federal prison in Kentucky to begin a four year term after the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a bid to reverse the sentence. Her lawyers argued health changes warranted reconsideration, but prosecutors contended the term should stand.
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Hotel Queen
New York
Leona Helmsley
Queen of Mean
Helmsley
Kentucky
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Church of God of Prophecy
Rank Church
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Craig Bell
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Kathy Cocker Sosebee
Ms. Sosebee
John James Cocker
The
U.S
Mrs. Helmsley
Howard Rube
Abby
Dallas
Lincolnton
Charlotte
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