Newberry News

Plenty of beauty queens rode down Main Street in style Saturday night. Here, Miss Newberry High waves to the crowd.

Newberry Middle School was designated as a Liberty Tree Memorial site by the Liberty Tree Society and was made official by the City of Newberry last week on Arbor Day, Dec. 6. The gift was made possible by a grant from the Armstrong Foundation through Elm Research Institute located in New Hampshire.

An inmate at the Newberry County Detention Center was found dead in his cell yesterday afternoon as a result of an apparent suicide.

Ernest Eugene Williams Jr., 45, was found guilty of armed robbery and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime and sentenced to 18 years in prison.

In the early 1980s, I answered an ad in The News and Courier for a position overseeing the restoration of the Joseph Aiken House at 20 Charlotte Street.

Santa Claus is coming to downtown Newberry on Saturday along with plenty of other groups and individuals marching in the annual Newberry Christmas parade.

The year is quickly coming to a close. The final month of 2013 is here. Parties and plays, plans and presents - oh yes, many presents.

The excitement is building. This time every year we become aware of the fact that Christmas is just around the corner.

A federal court has ended two years of legal wrangling in South Carolina courts by releasing the Wingate contract, the legal retention agreement under which former trustees of the James Brown estate were sued in 2010.

The holiday season can be one of the happiest times of the year, but for many senior citizens, it can also be a lonely time.

The ObserverEddie and Cindy Long were announced as Rotary Club of Newberry's Laypersons of the Year on Tuesday morning at Lutheran Chur... The ObserverEddie and Cindy Long were announced as Rotary Club of Newberry's Laypersons of the Year on Tuesday morning at Lutheran Chur... The ObserverStephen Graves was the guest speaker at the Rotary prayer ... (more)

City staff, along with members of the Newberry College Student Government Association, planted a dogwood tree near Holland Hall on the college's campus Monday in observance of Arbor Day, which is Dec. 6. Arbor Day is a national holiday created to recognize the importance of trees.

The year was 1959 and I was 11 years old and a sixth grader at Drayton Street Elementary School.

Virginia Maclure was infused with an entrepreneurial spirit at a very young age.

The morning of November 22, 2013, Newberry, S.C. business owner Alton Piester received a frantic call from one of his customers-a local farmer.

The holiday season is one of the happiest times of the year, but for many senior citizens it can be a very lonely time.

Peggy Joyce Sanders Hyman, 76, of 802 James Street Newberry, widow of Billy Hyman, died Thursday, November 21, 2013, at her home.

The number one concern of Mayor Billy Hollingsworth and Whitmire Town Council on Tuesday was financial information concerning the town's recreation department.

Newberry is one of three towns named a grand winner for the 2013 South Carolina Traffic Safe Communities by the AAA Carolinas Foundation for Traffic Safety.

Fifty years ago, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated Nov. 22, 1963 in Dealy Plaza in Dallas, Texas.