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Catawba County plans to testcharging non-residents a fee topark at its parks.
The Catawba County Boardof Commissioners suggested afee for out-of-county residentsvisiting the county’s parks. Thedesire is to bring income in fromthose not paying property taxes.On Monday, county staff pro-posed a $5 fee per car parked atRiverbend or Bakers Mountainparks.
“The goal of the fee would beto give citizens a sense of exclu-sivity of the use of the parks andto recoup money for those who
do not pay property taxes whouse the park,” county Budget andManagement Director JenniferMace said.
The fee would also meancounty residents would haveto show proof of residence inCatawba County, Mace said at
Monday’s board of commission-ers subcommittee meeting. Res-idents would be required to showproof of residency with a driver’slicense, a vehicle registration, abill or other documentation toreceive a county resident park-ing pass. They would be able toget the pass online or in personat the park ranger stations or thecounty’s planning office.
Non-residents would also beable to get their $5-per-day passonline or in person. There wouldalso be a $60 annual pass avail-able, Mace said.
The pass would be requiredfor Bakers Mountain Park andRiverbend Park. When Moun-tain Creek Park in Sherrills Fordopens next year, the fee couldapply there as well.
The members of the subcom-mittee — commissioners SherryButler and Kitty Barnes — ap-proved the test program. The fullboard will vote at their regular
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Forty new COVID-19 caseswere reported in CatawbaCounty on Monday, the fifth timein the past seven days the countyhas seen a daily increase of 40 ormore.
The latest cases put the coun-ty’s seven-day average of dailynew cases at 38.6, according tothe data from Catawba CountyPublic Health. The highestweek-long average the countyhas seen was about 41 averagecases per day in mid-July.
There have been 270 new casesin the past seven days and 3,631cases since the pandemic began.About 84 percent of the casesare considered recovered. Theremaining cases have not metthe criteria to be considered re-covered.$5 fee for parks?
ERIC MILLSAPS PHOTOS, HICKORY DAILY RECORD
The parking area at Riverbend. County leaders are discussing a charge for out-of-town visitors to the county’s two parks.
40 newviruscases
KRISTEN [email protected]
A Maiden man was charged inAlexander County after a victimwas stabbed in the neck Sundayaround 11 p.m.
Vaughn Paul Mitchell III, 29, ofMaiden, was arrested and chargedwith felony assault with a deadlyweapon with intent to inflict se-rious injury.
Officers responded to the sceneat a residence on Stony PointSchool Road. The victim told themthat an altercation occurred fol-lowing a verbal disagreement withMitchell, according to a press re-lease from the Alexander County
Sheriff’s Office.The victim was
transported byAlexander CountyEMS to IredellMemorial Hospi-tal.
N.C. StateHighway Patrolwas contacted to
help locate the suspect who leftthe scene on foot. They found
Mitchell walking down StonyPoint School Road and detainedhim.
According to the release,Mitchell was in possession of aknife, narcotics and drug para-phernalia, including marijuanaand methamphetamine. He wasalso charged with felony posses-sion with intent to manufacture/sell/deliver methamphetamine,misdemeanor simple possession
Schedule IV Controlled Sub-stance, misdemeanor drug par-aphernalia and misdemeanorpossession of marijuana para-phernalia.
Mitchell also had outstand-ing warrants including: failureto appear in Catawba County formisdemeanor failure to returnrental property; failure to appear
1 charged in stabbing
KEVIN [email protected]
In addition to the major con-tested races this year, there areseveral candidates running un-opposed.
Catawba County Register ofDeeds Donna Hicks Spencer isheaded for another term in theoffice after defeating two oppo-nents in the Republican primary.
Severalcandidatesface noopponent
Maiden man arrested,placed under$134,000 bond
Mitchell
COVID-19
Catawba Countydeath total reaches 60
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Commissioners lookto charge out-of-townusers for visitingRiverbend, BakersMountain
A tree overtakes a trail sign at Riverbend Park, which sits just insidethe Catawba County line and is separated from Alexander County bythe Catawba River. County leaders are planning to charge out-of-countyvisitors $5 to use county parks.
Please see UNOPPOSED, Page A3Please see PARKS, Page A3
Please see VIRUS, Page A3
Please see ARREST, Page A3
