 City Council in Lowell in Gaston County today holding a special meeting to formally accept the resignation of the city manager, Scott Attaway. He is leaving after eight years as city manager and planning director in Lowell. A replacement has not been named. And in Raleigh, Governor Roy Cooper signing into law House Bill 942, a new law targeting anti-Semitism known as the Shalom Act. Bill passed the General Assembly almost unanimously with support from every Republican and nearly every Democrat.