Video from Friday's SW Conference Championship

Saved video stream from Shelby City Council meeting

This video wouldn't work on our new blogging platform, so I'm posting it here.



Comments from the chat room...
Welcome to the 'shelbystar' room
19:27 dunewill : 4 2 yup
19:28 dunewill : and the mayor can keep his friends
19:28 Dicky : now we should pass an ordinance to stop smoking in the cb district
19:29 Dicky : are you going to continue the broadcast
19:29 Beth : only was a handful outside
19:29 Beth : thanks Shelby Star.. this was great.
19:29 dunewill : yes thank you again Shelby star
19:29 bear : Thank star
19:29 Dicky : I would like to see the rest of the meeting
19:30 dunewill : it will be televised wed at 830pm channel 19
19:30 dunewill : twc
19:35 Scooter : Thank you Star... Well done..
19:52 tyree : anyone still here?
19:53 phil3_10 : What was the decision
19:54 phil3_10 : Anyone here?
20:06 SHELBYSTAR : The decision was 4-2 in favor of the measure.
20:07 SHELBYSTAR : Jeanette Patterson and Andrew Hopper voted no.
20:08 SHELBYSTAR : Joel Shores, Larry Ware, Chris Mabry and Mike Royster all voted yes.
20:08 SHELBYSTAR : The mayor said if it had come to a tie, he would have broken it with a no.

Debate it: Decorate or not?

This white poinsettia is about as decorative as I get for the holidays. I love what the holidays stand for, but I'm not a fan of putting up seasonal decorations and taking it down a few weeks later. Seems like a waste to me. Anyone care to debate the pros and cons of holiday decorations?

Nasty stuff

My roommate blogged last week about pork roll. Here's what he paid for the foul smelling meat (term used loosely). Has anyone other than him smelled - or worse yet - eaten this stuff?

Pirates?! Seriously?!

The Associated Press is reporting that pirates took a supertanker loaded with crude oil off the coast of Somalia. Seriously?! There are still pirates out there... and evidently they can take over ships much larger than Jack Sparrow. The story said they took it for ransom, which makes me wonder if large cruise ships are next. Imagine the ransom money they could collect from a boatload of tourists' families...

Read the story here.

Paving in Fallston

They're repaving N.C. 18 in Fallston. Its a minor inconvience now, but the road will be much nicer when crews finish.

No time for lunch?

Evidently people are voting instead of eating. Sub Station II was practically deserted at lunchtime.

Gas for $2.19 a gallon!

I drove through Shelby and upper Cleveland County on Saturday morning. The cheapest gas around was $2.37. The price in Catawba County was $2.25. Sunday evening, I bought gas in Hickory at $2.19 a gallon. I can't remember prices being this low in a long time (even though they're higher here than they are two counties over).

I took a photo with my cell phone camera to prove it.

LOL dogs: Capshun this

I can haz mashed potatoes frum da kfc?

For those of you who haven't seen the Lol Cats and Lol Dogs, you're missing out. Star photographer Brittany Randolph set up this one with Gracie and some potatoes.

Try your hand at captioning the photo a la Lol Dogs in the comments section.

Plz to have capshun? Thx.

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Pumpkin head Gracie really is happy to wear her costume. She knows it makes her cuter and, thus more petable.