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Confrontation between Liberty mayor, resident over Confederate cemetery marker

The public comment session during Monday’s Liberty city council meeting ended with shouting between the mayor and a frequent public speaker at city meetings. The tension centered around a yearslong legal dispute over a Confederate statue, or grave marker as ancestors call it, in Fairview Cemetery.Clay Countians for Inclusion started pressing for the statue’s removal […]

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Enfield mayor to request Gov. Cooper declare state of emergency over racists letters :: WRAL.com

Enfield, N.C. — Enfield Mayor Mondale Robinson announced Saturday he will ask the governor to declare a state of emergency in the wake of what the town is calling domestic terror threats. At the end of August, residents of the town received a letter in a plastic bag with a racial slur. It called on […]

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