Briah Lumpkins
Emerging News Reporter at The Charlotte Observer
(bree-uhh) | emerging news reporter @theobserver | @miamiuniversity alumna | ✉️: [email protected]
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2 days ago |
charlotteobserver.com | Briah Lumpkins
Garrick Combs, a volunteer at Saint Luke Missionary Baptist Church on Norris Avenue, waits for bus 10 on Old Steele Creek Road this week. Despite the church being only a 12-minute drive from his home, Combs opts for CATS, which can make the journey take an hour or more. [email protected] Twice a week, Garrick Combs makes his way to St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church to volunteer at its food pantry. The church is only a 12-minute drive from his west Charlotte home.
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1 week ago |
charlotteobserver.com | Briah Lumpkins
The CityLYNX Gold Line, pictured here in a 2021 file photo, is among the transit lines that could see expansion under a plan approved Wednesday. [email protected] Mecklenburg transit leaders on Wednesday chose a regional plan that includes bus improvements and train expansions - but leaves out light rail to Matthews in the immediate future. Metropolitan Transit Committee members chose a fiscally restricted version of the county's transit plan.
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2 weeks ago |
charlotteobserver.com | Briah Lumpkins
Councilwoman Cheryl Littlejohn (left) presents Tasha White (right), lead organizer of EbonyFest, with a city proclamation declaring June 19th as Juneteenth in the City of Gastonia. After an hour of public comment and lengthy discussion on the dais, Gastonia City Council members voted unanimously Tuesday to make a local Juneteenth festival a city event - helping the organizers avoid thousands in fees prompted by a controversial city policy.
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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Briah Lumpkins
After an hour of public comment and lengthy discussion on the dais, Gastonia City Council members voted unanimously Tuesday to make a local Juneteenth festival a city event — helping the organizers avoid thousands in fees prompted by a controversial city policy. The outcry was centered around a 2024 policy change that went into effect this year. The change required non-profit organizers, not the city, to pay for in-kind services such as staffing for police, fire and parks and recreation.
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1 month ago |
charlotteobserver.com | Briah Lumpkins
Jason Tapp looks through a binder of historical information about Biddleville Cemetery in Charlotte last week Tapp recently organized a massive clean up of the cemetery. [email protected] Jason Tapp peers into the leafy, shin-high overgrowth and points to headstones concealed by green weeds in the back of the cemetery. These weren't here a few months ago, Tapp said.
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