West Rowan News, Events, and Fun

  Cleveland, NC town board met tonight 4-21-2022 for a special called meeting to discuss budgeting for the coming year. Mayor Pat Phifer, commissioners (Gerald Osborne, Danny Gabriel, Travis Summitt, Richard Taylor, John Bradford), town clerk Kelly Rodgers, finance officer Rebekah Brown, police chief Jon Jessop, and maintenance supervisor Jody Bare were in attendance.  Before discussing budgeting, the board voted to pay a contractor for work in the town park of $2860 or $1680 more than the original estimate for the work. The job was estimated at and approved at $3500 but ran over with a final total of $5180.  Work at the park ended up costing more due to stain needing to be painted on by hand rather than being sprayed on. This increased labor costs.  Since more stain was used, the cost of supplies also increased. The first buckets of stain at Little Shaver's ran $45 per bucket. Prices went up to $75 per bucket on an additional order.  The contractor picked up su...

  Cleveland town commissioners met tonight (Monday 4-11-2022) at 6 pm for the monthly town board meeting. All board members were present as well as both town clerks/officers, the police chief, and four town residents.  The board approved a proclamation to honor Ruth Wood of Cleveland who turns 103 years old on May 13. Wood was born in 1919.  Residents Tommy and Velma Knox were present to see if town commissioners had checked about the light removed from the end of their driveway. They were at the last town board meeting and had not heard back. Mayor Pat Phifer and commissioner Travis Summitt had checked the location. Phifer asked commissioner John Bradford if he had checked the location, but he had not.  When the new decorative lights were installed, the street light at the end of the Knox driveway was removed, leaving the entrance/exit to their property with low visibility. Phifer said that the standard now in Cleveland is that decorative lights will go along all si...

The town of Cleveland, NC will be adding sidewalks on Main Street from School St. down to where Cline's Oil operated across from Freighliner (Dahlemer). Some residents have been wanting sidewalks on the main road for years. Tonight the board voted to install those for $38,000. The portion of Main St. with sidewalks added will also be in the next round of lights added. The plan is to have decorative light poles in any portion of Cleveland with sidewalks.  The vote on sidewalks came near the end of the meeting during the Other New and Unfinished Business portion of the agenda. In addition, Mayor Pat Phifer shared the names of the bands scheduled for Dancing on Depot. They are as follows: April 2022 - Divided by  Four (out of Salisbury) May 2022 - 7 Roads June 2022 - Catalinas (out of Union Grove) July 2022 - Red Dirt Revival August 2022 - a mountain group or maybe gospel   September 2022 - Mother Trucker The cost for the first three bands is $6900, so the board voted ...