Racetrack on its last legs?????
Dave Risdon forced out of High Rock Raceway development, by Steve Huffman, Salisbury Post, June 16, 2009
Risdon: Funding 'not there' for proposed High Rock Raceway, by Steve Huffman, Salisbury Post, June 17, 2009
Raceway on skids: Former Color-Tex workers back to square one, by Jessie Burchette, Salisbury Post, June 18, 2009
Former Color-Tex employees aren't banking on seeing money they're owed, staff reports, Salisbury Post, June 18, 2009
High Rock Raceway timeline, Salisbury Post, June 18, 2009
Editorial: Race track stalls out, Salisbury Post, June 18, 2009
Letter: Risdon: Sorry about workers' lost wages, Salisbury Post, June 19, 2009
Letter: Brownlee: Risdon has only himself to blame, Salisbury Post, June 22, 2009
High Rock Raceway still hunting for funding, by Jessie Burchette, Salisbury Post, July 22, 2009
High Rock Raceway investors seek answers as plans fizzle, by Jessie Burchette, Salisbury Post, July 25, 2009

Raceway property up for sale Friday, by Jessie Burchette, Salisbury Post, December 3, 2009
Raceway property auctioned for $800, by Jessie Burchatte, Salisbury Post, Decenber 5, 2009
Bid for High Rock Raceway rises, by Jessie Burchette, Salisbury Post, December 16, 2009
Another bid for raceway, staff report, Salisbury Post, December 21, 2009
Court-ordered restraining order repeatedly stops unpermitted racetrack work --
Stop-work order issued on racetrack in Town of Spencer, by William Keesler, Lexington Dispatch, August 28, 2007
Work stopped at proposed racetrack: Officials say owner doesn't have permit to allow grading, by Jessie Burchette, Salisbury Post, August 28, 2007
Race track red flagged: Restraining order stops work at Spencer site, by Jessie Burchette, Salisbury Post, September 27, 2007
Race track owner agrees to stop work: sludge removal, erosion control plan at center of battle with county, by Jessie Burchette, Salisbury Post, October 9, 2007
Race track project on hold again, Staff report, Salisbury Post, February 15, 2008
Developer fined for violations at troubled track, by Jessie Burchette, Salisbury Post, May 23, 2008
Racetrack avoids contamination issues --
Risdon:
Critics have exaggerated raceway problems; Environmental officials say
Risdon has a lot of work to do before he can redevelop it, by Frank DeLoache and Holly Lee, Salisbury Post, August 31, 2007
Draft inactive Brownfield agreement drawn up in 2005 but never finalized
For further information, see News, and search the archives of the Salisbury Post and the Lexington Dispatch, or visit the racetrack's own website: High Rock Raceway
Civil War Preservation
Trust names Yadkin River Bridge one of America's 25 Most Endangered
Civil War Battlefields in 2008 and 2009
Development of High Rock Raceway would build parking lots and a racetrack on 200 acres of the heart of the Yadkin River Bridge Civil War battlefield. This project also would block access to the 1818 Ithiel Town Bridge, the Ferry crossed by Jefferson Davis at the close of the Civil War, as well as disturb a stream along which Revolutionary War armies camped in the fall of 1780.
All information on this webpage accurate as of December 3, 2009. Racetrack Watchdog.
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