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Newspaper
The Gaston Gazette
Location
Gastonia, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 2016
Page
1
A brief blaze in the basement of the American and Efird warehouse on Grover Street Gastonia was contained with no damage to machinery or productivity. Firefighters arrived quickly and put out the fire in about 15 minutes. No injuries reported and cause not determined.
North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality granted the permit allowing Duke Energy to construct and operate a lined landfill at the Dan River power plant. The project would move coal ash from two unlined pits on site to protect the river after the spill two years ago.
Obituary notices list Melvin Martin 77 Leroy Birmingham Jr 73 Belmont Mary Harris 87 Sumter Oscar Sellers 68 Walterboro Tommy Blalock 78 Gastonia Barbara Wallace 77 Mount Holly Walter Standley 82 Cherryville Bill Becheler 96 Shelby Larry Hoffman 83 Gastonia Christopher O Hare 23 Gastonia Elvin Rozzelle Jr 67 Iron Station with a reference to Page B3 for full obituaries and classified details including a D7-10 Lottery volume 137 issue 301 header.
A Belmont woman, 69, was killed when a fire swept her home on South Point Road Wednesday morning. A volunteer firefighter sighted smoke while returning from work, alerted others, and responders found Shirlene Daughtridge dead in the heavily damaged living room after extinguishing the blaze. Fire officials believe she was home alone at the time.
Tyrone Walker laments lack of answers as detectives link Justin Walker, a Marine Reserve sergeant, and Rebecca Jones with a fatal Wilmington death. Police say Walker strangled Jones and died by suicide after the crime, following a Christmas engagement and a church wedding registry.
Gastonia Budget Inn owner Jayesh Patel defends his 800 W. Franklin Blvd hotel against a state probe into alleged price hikes during Hurricane Matthew. He asserts logs show no $300 nightly charges and joins Belmont’s C-Mart in denying misconduct amid investigations into crisis pricing.
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