SALISBURY - During its meeting on Tuesday, the Salisbury City Council voted to hold a public hearing dealing with what one city inspector sees as problems being created by the Okey Dokey store at 126 E. Innes St.

Code Services Division Manager Chris Branham told council that Okey Dokey was ignoring orders to clean up behind the store and that if the business won't do it, the City would.

When discussing the area behind the building, Branham wrote: "there continues to be a large amount of debris and storage material that harbors an environment that is unsafe and does not contribute positively towards maintaining public health and general welfare."

SALISBURY - A crowd of up to 60,000 is expected for this weekend's annual Autumn Jubilee at Dan Nicholas Park off Bringle Ferry Road in Rowan County.

On Friday dozens of craft and food vendors were setting up tents in the parking lot near the putt putt course and playground.  Hundreds of tables and chairs are in place, and park workers were scurrying to have everything in place for the big crowds that are expected.

The festival will be on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m.

KANNAPOLIS - N.C. State University’s Plants for Human Health Institute continues its expansion efforts by adding another established scientist to its team at the N.C. Research Campus in Kannapolis. Dr. Tzung-Fu Hsieh (pronounced: “Zung Foo Shay”) joined the institute in August 2012 and is developing a research program centered on the biological systems of flowering plants, including fruits and vegetables.

With the addition of Hsieh, N.C. State now employs nearly 50 faculty and staff in Kannapolis.

Dr. Tzung-Fu Hsieh specializes in systems biology, a relatively new field of research that studies the interactions between the components of biological systems, and how those relationships impact the functions and behaviors of the systems. His area of focus is known as epigenetics, which aims to understand changes in gene behaviors that are caused by factors other than mutations in DNA. Epigenetics plays an important role in plant development.