Clover News

This summer vacation , read Jonathan Miller's new book to your preschooler. The book is called, "The Adventures of Sammy the Wonder Dachshund: Sammy in Space".

Food donations may be dropped off from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday and Wednesday and 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Thursday at 1130 S.C. 55 E. courtesy of Beth Wedge - Faye Wlodyka's piano students performed a recital May 19 for family and friends at River Hills Country Club.

The Lake Wylie Chamber of Commerce's annual Splash Dash 10K and 5K event was held June 8 running through River Hills Plantation and finishing at Camp Thunderbird.

A $5 million addition and renovation of Lake Wylie's Crowders Creek Elementary School is designed to improve security and create a more efficient office and administrative area.

School is out for summer, but activity is just heating up for one local group aimed at giving students a different kind of break.

George Smith, who is finishing his first year in Clover, is moving from Larne Elementary to Crowders Creek Elementary where he will re-join Georgia Westmoreland.

The York County Council on Aging is in need of volunteers to deliver meals to frail, homebound seniors in Clover.

Police allege Cameron James Scobie, of Clover, S.C., was with his girlfriend in Gastonia at 7001 Union Road when he became violent, punching her in the face.

Town officials this week took possession of the former National Guard Armory and began a discussion of plans to turn it into a community center for indoor recreation, special events, meetings and more.

Aisles of cereal, juice and bread wrap around canned goods and shopping carts. A freezer section packed with poultry lets out a brisk puff each time a door is opened.

George Smith, who is finishing his first year in Clover, is moving from Larne Elementary to Crowders Creek Elementary where he will re-join Georgia Westmoreland.

York County libraries, including the branches in York and Clover, will offer summer reading programs for all ages beginning June 10, featuring online registration for the first time.

Elementary school teacher Jeff Crouch enjoys long, hard days of lifting and tossing weights.

Bill Pratt, assistant principal at Griggs Road Elementary for the past three years, has been named principal of Bethany Elementary.

Krista Kowalczyk admits she had to study hard to earn the honor of being valedictorian of her Clover High School class of 470 students.

Two Clover High School graduates – Brittany La'Shawn Carothers of Lake Wylie and Cassie Black of Clover – were awarded a total of $6,000 in college scholarships on May 23 from the Clover Lake Wylie Republican Women's Club.

Eighty-eight Confederate flags, placed on the graves of Civil War veterans buried in the cemetery at Bethany ARP Church near Clover, were removed and tossed in the woods after an observance there, authorities say.

Nationally, the fall in per-student public education spending is an unprecedented trend.

The Lake Wylie Rotary Club hosted its second annual Celebration of Service Awards ceremony on May 19 at Good Samaritan United Methodist Church.

The Clover school district would hire about 37 more teachers and other employees, expand prekindergarten education and launch a high school program in manufacturing technology under a $69.1 million budget approved last week by the school board.