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Thursday, June 8, 2006 Vol. 118 No. 23 Since 1889 50 Cents
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KMHS graduation
Tuesday
City will probably
increase tax rate
by four cents
Kings Mountain City Council
will conduct a public hearing
on the proposed 2006-2007 city
budget Tuesday night at 7 p.m.
at city hall. Input is invited
from the public.
For the first time in 12 years,
the budget calls for a four cent
property tax increase ( from 36 5
to 40 cents per $100 property EC
valuation) which interim city
manager Marilyn Sellers says is
due to the soaring costs of gas
and which city officials cite as
the lowest rate of area munici-
palities.
The proposed budget of $29.4
million reflects an increase of -
A . RONNY FUNDERBURKE 998,863. 1
IS Thursday night Kings Mountain High's women’s softball team won its second straight state title Friday and Saturday in : Citizens can view the budget i o
Raleigh. Front row, left to right, Lauren Gaffney and Courtney Tate; second row, Jessica Yarbro, Chasiti Falls, before Tuesday night by visit-
Ca er Amber Milwood, Casey Camp, Morgan Childers and Heather Hale. Back, coaches Don Sweezy and Suzanne ing the city clerk’s office at city j 7
A rayson, Kristyn Funderburke, Kristin Cogdili, LaRonda McClain, Brittney Thornburg, Haley Barrett and Kala hall or at Maun M ial }
the 2006 graduating class of Buchanan. Read more about the championship on pages 4 and 5A and 18. Libor EY eInona
Kings Mountain High School
will be held at John Gamble
Stadium on Thursday, June 8th,
at 7 pm. A little over 200 gradu-
ates will take their final march
on the field to receive a diploma
they have worked so hard and
for 13 years to obtain. All of the
parking lots, practice fields and
behind the middle school will be
open for guests, who are urged
to arrive early to find a good
space.
The ninth grade band will play
“Pomp and Circumstance” as the
For citizens, the only utility
increase proposed in the budg-
et means that a typical inside
city resident who uses 8,000 3
gallons of sewer will pay an
additional 65 cents a month for
both landfill use and sewer. For
sewer only, the inside city resi-
dent would pay 35 cents more Ke
monthly or 1.2 cents a day and ®
the outside city resident would oe
pay double that amount or 70 Cc
cents a month extra. There is no :
water or electric increase ‘pro-
posed in the budget for the new
Three wins in 37 innings give Lady Mounties
second straight NCHSAA 3A softball crown
gstewart@kingsmountainherald.com
Kings Mountain High women’s softball coach
Suzanne Grayson described last weekend's state
championship series at Walnut Creek Softball
Complex in Raleigh more like a “case of survivors”
honorable graduates take the rather than a series of ball games. fiscal year
field. After the Pledge of In what took 37 innings in basically a 29-hour peri- Son pr ojections in the pro-
Allegiance and welcome, the od interrupted by rain, the Lady Mountaineers won posed budget include:
three straight 1-0 ball games to claim their second
straight North Carolina High School Athletic
Association championship.
Morgan Childers pitched all 37 innings for the
Mountaineers and was voted the tournament MVP
for the second year in a row.
Kings Mountain went 16 innings to defeat a good
Southwest Randolph team 1-0 in the opening round
for the Western NC championship. The game, which
began at 5 p.m., was suspended because of rain and
lightning with SW Randolph coming to bat in the
bottom of the eighth. The game resumed Saturday at
11 a.m.
Kings Mountain, as it did in every game, scored an
unearned run in its last at-bat to win.
Casey Camp reached base on a throwing error that
got past the SW Randolph first baseman and rolled
all the way to the right field corner. Camp made it all
: See Back, 1B
KMHS Chorus will be joined by
graduating choral members as
they sing a tribute to the parting
class. Senior class officers, SPO
President Angelica Adams,
Valedictorian Cody Barrett,
Salutatorian Trey Robinson, and
Principal John Yarbro will serve
as speakers for the commence-
ment exercises.
The senior class officers of
2005-2006 are: SPO President:
Angelica Adams, SPO Vice
President: Trey Robinson, SPO
Secretary / Treasurer: Cody
Barrett; Senior Class President:
Susie Potter, Senior Class Vice
President: Andrew Haskett and
Senior Class Secretary / Treasurer:
Natara Fowler.
No cost of living increase for
employees but they will be eli-
gible for merit increases up to 4
percent based on performance;
5 percent commercial landfill
increase;
$50 increase in cemetery lots;
The sewer increase, 2 percent
inside residential, 4 percent
outside residential, 1 percent
inside industrial and 2 percent
outside industrial.
The new tax rate, if adopted
Tuesday, would mean that the
owner of a $100,000 home
would pay $40 more annually
or 11 cents more a day in city
property taxes. |
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A SP PS:
RONNY FUNDERBURKE PHOTO
Kings Mountain pitcher Morgan Childers is excited
after striking out two batters with the bases
. loaded to get out of a jam in state tournament
game with Southwestern Randolph.
KM schools rank high | Robinson, Funderburke
in end of grade tests | named KM Top Seniors
Norman Donaldson, 58
Loraine Jones, 94
Coming Next Week:
Seniors of Summer
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80 percent; and Bethware came in
4th at 745 percent. Kings
Mountain Middle and Kings
Mountain High ranked 2nd and
3rd in the Writing Assessments of
middle and high schools through-
with 96.4 percent, and Bethware
ranked 6th with 94.9 percent.
“I could not be more pleased
with our students” performance,”
said West Elementary Principal
See Tests, 8A
Kristyn Funderburke was
awarded Outstanding Senior
Girl and Trey Robinson was
awarded the American Legion
Outstanding Senior Boy.
service, leadership, and patriot-
ism in home, school and commu-
nity.
+ The ‘complete list of awards’
and scholarship winners will be ;
in next week's Herald.
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Mary Helen Patrick
Peggy Davis Page 6A { EMILY WEAVER out the region. EMILY WEAVER The Kiwanis Good Citizen
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Classified 2C Lifestyles 7A sions on A) a with 94.3 percent, East ranked 3rd LY a irk 5 is ant Graduate Research Excellence.
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Police 6A Schools 6B schools to be at the top of the class. ranked 4th with 92 percent, and | \jioht on Tuesday, June 6th in the American Revolution (DAR) B®
Sports 1B Worship 8A In the Writing Assessment among ‘North ranked 6th with 91.1 per- BN Barnes FH Good Citizen Award went to 1
= elementary schools: East ranked cent. From the 4th Grade Reading Over 200 awards an d scholar. NaTara Fowler. DAR Good A
“This week's advertising sections: highest in the region with a profi- scores, East led the county with the ships were given to students Citizen Awards are given to stu-
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CVS/Pharmacy ranked 2nd highest with a level of (100 percent), West ranked dth their academic careers. good citizenship: dependability, B