Here's your local news at a glance for Saturday, the 31st of October.
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🏘️ Community
Mooresville will hold Veterans events starting Monday, Nov.
2 at 9 a.m. with a POW/MIA processional and ceremony; schedule includes Veterans Breakfast Nov. 5, luncheon Nov. 7, Glenwood ceremony and Veterans Day parade on Wednesday, Nov. 11 (Main Street closes 10:30 a.m.), and Letters From Home Nov. 22.
🎓 Education
The Iredell-Statesville Schools board will consider proposals to close or combine schools, eliminate 40–50 teaching positions, share staff, and increase grades 6–12 class sizes to 32.
The board meets Monday, Nov. 2 at 4 p.m. at the Unity Center, 1145 Salisbury Road in Statesville; public comments will not be allowed.
🏛️ Government
U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns struck down a CMS rule that would have added an extra test to Medicaid eligibility, protecting about 64,000 North Carolinians with cancer and other serious illnesses from losing coverage.
Broader Medicaid work requirements remain scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, 2027.
🏥 Health
State-approved 2027 ACA rates show individual premiums in North Carolina rising 8.35%–27.36% and small-group rates 18.78%–19.54%; open enrollment runs Nov.
1, 2026–Jan. 15, 2027, with coverage starting Jan. 1 if you enroll by Dec. 15, 2026. For help call NC DOI at (855-408-1212) (weekdays 8 a.m.–5 p.m.).
🏈 Sports
Pine Lake Prep junior Mallory Aull won her third straight 3A singles state tennis title on Oct.
24 in Burlington, and Lake Norman Charter senior Kate Champion won the 4A singles crown the same day. Both schools then competed for dual-team state championships Friday, Oct. 30, in Burlington.
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