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Kings Mountain annual Easter egg hunt

KINGS MOUNTAIN - The City of Kings Mountain will host the annual Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, April 23rd at 10 am at the Children’s Playground at the YMCA on Highway 161 (Cleveland Avenue).

Other activities, such as games and storytelling, will also be available for the children.

CVS Pharmacy will be available to take pictures of children with the Easter Bunny, and is offering a discount on a 4 x 6 print. They will also provide bottled water to participants and will hold a drawing for an Easter basket for a lucky boy and girl.

One gold egg will be mixed in with the other eggs in each age category and each child that finds the golden egg will receive a $25.00 gift certificate from “Toys R’ Us”.

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Kings Mountain students receive honorable mention

KINGS MOUNTAIN - They may not have won first place, but Mrs. Sharon Brown and her sixth grade Language Arts students at Kings Mountain Intermediate School did receive an honorable mention following a competition to with a Smart Board for their school.

The class entered a video contest on Classworks by Curriculum Advantage, Inc.'s Facebook page. 

NC Baptist men in action in the wake of devastating storms

NC Baptist men in action in the wake of devastating storms

SALISBURY - NC Baptist Men's Director Gaylon Moss provided WBTV with this letter to encourage anyone wanting to help with disaster relief in eastern North Carolina to consider a donation through this organization:

On Saturday, April 16, 2011 a series of devastation tornadoes hit many areas of Central and Eastern North Carolina. NC Baptist disaster relief volunteers began doing assessment and disaster recovery as soon as the storms passed.

There are still many areas where volunteers cannot safely get into due to downed power lines.

Send us your pictures of the severe storms!

Send us your pictures of the severe storms!

For the third time in less then two weeks, severe storms are expected to blanket the WBTV viewing area later today.

We want to see what it looks like in your neck of the woods! Snap some photos and upload them onto WBTV.com, via this webpage.  

Procrastinating on your paperwork? Here's some last minute tax tips

Procrastinating on your paperwork? Here's some last minute tax tips

CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - A local holiday in the nation's capital is the reason you have until Monday, April 18 to file your taxes.

Emancipation Day, marks the anniversary of the signing of the Compensated Emancipation Act, which president Abraham Lincoln signed on April 16, 1862. It is annually held on April 16, but is being observed on the 15, the normal federal income tax deadline.

If you've waited until the last minute to file, you're not alone. But if you're thinking about grabbing a pen and paper to file, you may be one of the few.

The IRS wants people to file their taxes electronically because people either write the wrong social security number, calculate their math incorrectly or simply forget to sign their tax documents.

The federal agency also wants to make filing easier this year with the help of smartphone applications. For the iPhone, users can download an app called SnapTax.

Teachers find national resource to solve local budget issue

CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - Sometimes learning happens when it's disguised by fun. But for teachers like Linda Woolbright, there's no hiding how much these moments mean.

"I already have seen a difference in the skills of the students just using these materials, "she said"

The materials, at first look, seem like ordinary toys, but they're helping Woolbright's kindergarten class develop critical motor skills.

One might think they are standard in every class. Think again.

Woolbright had to make a special request for a basic lesson -- a scenario she's seen more often in school after school. "They would have done everything they could to try to purchase the materials, but as funds are limited, I certainly would have purchased them out of pocket, that's where it would have come from, I would have to buy them myself," Woolbright said.