Sherrills Ford News

Wondering what you'll do with your Christmas trees and other natural decorations after the holiday season is over? Catawba County's Landfill staff, in cooperation with Garbage Disposal Service, has an answer for you.

Catawba County will operate the Oxford and Sherrills Ford Convenience Centers during special hours today since convenience centers were closed over the weekend because of the winter storm.

Amount of waste at semi-annual collections grows. DETAILS The semi-annual throwaway events are not the only opportunities for Catawba County residents to dispose of hazardous waste.

A body discovered in Lake Norman over the weekend has been tentatively identified as a Lincoln County resident.

A body was found washed up on shore behind the Lake Norman Motel near Sherrills Ford this afternoon.

Veterans from all branches of the military gathered at Sherrills Ford Elementary on Tuesday morning for a homemade breakfast with a handful of students at the school.

Two people were killed late Sunday after their car crashed into a tree on St. James Church Road.

Area churches will be hosting numerous fall festivals: Coddle Creek ARP, Coddle Creek Hwy., will have a fall festival on Oct.

The years since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have unfurled as quickly as the red, white and blue flags that dotted the nation's landscape in the tearful days and months after the violence.

Kendal Speagle says there is always reason to celebrate, and that The Pecan Tree Inn of Hickory may be the perfect place to do it.

The Lake Norman Covekeepers will hold a meeting for all interested residents of the Lake Norman area on Thursday, September 24th.

Investigators are taking a deeper look at a deadly Catawba County motorcycle crash after witnesses came forward.

A head-on collision left one man dead near Sherrills Ford at about 12:30 a.m. Tuesday morning.

More than 35 people showed up at the Catawba County Board of Commissioners meeting Monday night to protest the rezoning of about five acres in Sherrills Ford.

More than 300 area people joined a growing national debate Monday afternoon when a bus tour opposing President Barack Obama's proposed health-care overhaul made a stop here.

THUMBS UP to Congressman Patrick McHenry who this week co-sponsored a resolution that, if approved, would require members of Congress who vote for the health-care reform plan now being debated in Washington to enroll in the program.

The Cockman Family is one of the more influential bluegrass gospel groups throughout North Carolina and surrounding states.

Catawba Valley Medical Center will refurbish and expand its surgery suite with loan money that comes with refunds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

When it looked as if the Sherrills Ford Convenience Center a ' where residents can take their trash and recyclables a ' was going to close, many did not realize what an active, social center it had become.

A man drowned in the Catawba River Friday morning after his riding lawn mowing flipped on top of him and trapped him under water.