Clover News

July 14 meeting about Wylie Rotary LAKE WYLIE -- The Clover Rotary Club Committee for Sponsoring a Lake Wylie Club met last week for lunch at T-Bones on the Lake to discuss establishing a new charter for prospective members.

A Fort Mill man faces decades in jail after police discovered what they described as a marijuana farm complete with a ventilation system in his bedroom, officials said.

The Eta Alpha Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. held its Spring Debutante Cotillion at 7 p.m. June 7 in the Richard Sandifer Family Life Center at Boyd Hill Baptist Church.

Two cases involving fraud or forgery recently hit area businesses and Shelby Police are investigating both.

Sales are soaring like bottle rockets at House of Fireworks as local residents seek the most bang for their buck during tough economic times.

Cleveland County residents barely have to cross the South Carolina border for everything they need to light up the Fourth of July.

Saturday's Lake Wylie Arts and Crafts Festival pretty much guarantees visitors will see something they've never seen before.

In front of a record crowd at East Lincoln Speedway, Buddy Smith showed his veteran savvy by scoring the $1,000 win in the GM Performance Late Model Special Saturday night.

After a week-long string of construction burglaries, a Hickory Grove man led detectives through impound lots and neighborhoods in York and Clover to find more than $66,000 of equipment he'd stolen from local businesses.

A team of National Weather Service meteorologists determined a tornado did touch down near York.

York County leaders have approved plans for a land swap with Crescent Resources that could mean more land for the county and Clover schools - but district officials haven't sealed the deal.

Gastonia police arrested a South Carolina driver for allegedly fleeing the scene of a two-vehicle wreck that injured two women last week.

Town Council members gave unanimous approval to a plan that will allow Stephanie Pierce, owner and director of It's a Small World Daycare center at 107 Guinn St.

A potentially violent incident was avoided at Clover Junior High last week after a student was caught with a cache of weapons on school grounds.

In an argument over money, police say a Clover man caused severe injuries to his 70-year-old father, hitting him over the head with a metal chair and trying to pull off his prosthetic leg.

Lovers of all things plaid will want to check out Clover Memorial Stadium on Saturday, when the annual Scotch-Irish festival, Feis Chlobhair, returns for its 13th year.

Editor's note: As York, Chester and Lancaster county high schools graduate, The Herald has been publishing a profile of each area school, spotlighting a graduating senior and taking a look at the school and its year.

Two grandsons rescued their grandmother from a burning house early Friday morning by pulling her out a bedroom window.

Arvol and Harvey Farris were born on the same day, Dec. 8, two years apart, in 1920 and 1922.

A shoe drive planned next week in York County involves more than handing out free sneakers.