Newberry News

NEWBERRY, SC Crews in Newberry County spent more than 5 hours overnight Monday diffusing a potential explosive situation after a tanker truck full of ammonium nitrate caught fire on a rural road near Chappells.

The first stop will be May 21 at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Newberry. The second stop will be at the Firehouse Conference Center in Newberry on June 13.

The Mid-Carolina soccer player said that Newberry was his first choice and is glad to have a chance to play for the Wolves.

Area nursing and retirement homes will ring with the sound of taps and little voices during the week of May 20 through May 25 as students from S.C. Music and Dance Academy continue a tradition that has spanned more than three decades.

The Newberry Farmer's Market gets a head start May 18 but goes through July 27 in Memorial Square in downtown Newberry.

"He grabbed me on my left breast and I jerked away and said no sir that's not on the menu," said the waitress.

A hearing was held Friday in Newberry on a Freedom of Information Act suit brought by Sue Summer seeking information about the settlement of the estate of singer James Brown.

The future seemed bright for Demond Hammonds in 2009. Hammonds, who was an All-Region linebacker at Ware Shoals, signed a National Letter of Intent to play college football at Newberry College.

Former Newberry College women's soccer player Theresa Berman is continuing her playing career in Iceland, joining Throttur Reykjavik of the Iceland Pepsi-League Women.

Now that the tassels have been moved and the robes put away, what will the newest graduating class of Newberry College miss most about Newberry? Although the answers varied, the common theme was simply that Newberry College had been a wonderful home for its students for the past four years.

Giving recognition to their hard work and service, Newberry City Council recognized five employees of the city at their meeting May 7. Altogether, the employee years of experience totalled 60 years.

Ellett Brothers announces the addition of close to 80 Marine Industry vendors to its January Dealer Show at the South Carolina State Fairgrounds in 2014.

The Richmond County Sheriff's Office confirmed the identity and arrest of one of the suspects in the Riverwalk attack on Wesley Spires and Ashley Solesbee.

Robbey Eugene Moses, 21, of 1904 Lukin Road, Augusta, was arrested around 8:30 p.m. by Newberry County Sheriff's Office deputies, Newberry Police officers and State Law Enforcement Division officers.

Recently we made a trip to Ohio due to the death of my wife's uncle in Akron. We opted to drive, so I had many hours to allow my mind to consider the condition of our economy.

The Ruth S. Pugh Foundation golf tournament will be held May 20 at the Country Club of Newberry with a 9:30 a.m. start time.

Aiken County Coroner Tim Carlton says 28-year-old Dunkan Baker and his 2-year-old daughter died in the fire Saturday morning.

The second suspect in last Friday's brutal attack on Augusta's Riverwalk hasn't just been named.

The Newberry Opera House Guild will host an attic sale in conjunction with Pork in the Park on April 20.

Relay for Life is rescheduled for May 24 at Fairfield Central High School. As I drove into the office this morning, I started thinking about the ways cancer has touched my life in the past week.