THE SHELBY INDEPENDENT

By Chuck Thompson | The Shelby Independent Philip Steffen | photo provided by Philip Steffen In the wake of the March 2026 County Commissioners’ public meeting, where it was revealed that the county audit was extremely past due, the county finance director has since been terminated from his position. During the March 17 meeting, the county commissioners seemed surprised to learn from an Local Government Commission (LGC) representative that the audit was past due. The bl

By Chuck Thompson | The Shelby Independent The Cleveland County Administrative Building | Chuck Thompson An alleged botched protocol after a bomb threat and a late county audit put County Manager David Cotton in the hot seat last Tuesday evening. The March Cleveland County Commissioners’ meeting was going as expected until during the public comments section, Angelica Haslam spoke to the commissioners about the prank bomb threat made to the county administration building,