Sep 2, 2020 | Features
By Carol Stiffler Students, sharpen your pencils. School is back in session on Tuesday, September 8, and will see young learners reunited in classrooms again. That is, unless they will be online learners who will be studying from home. In either case, attendance will...
Aug 19, 2020 | Features
By Carol Stiffler Shirley Clark will turn 80 in September. She just lost her husband, Carl, and is now planning his memorial. And she is running The Berry Patch restaurant in Paradise, a place she has owned for 19 years and has made famous for its cinnamon rolls and...
Aug 12, 2020 | Features
By Carol Stiffler As of Sunday, August 9, 27 inmates and two staff members had tested positive for COVID-19 in a new outbreak at the Newberry Correctional Facility. The first case was found in a staff member on August 1; prisoner testing began on August 4. The...
Aug 5, 2020 | Features
By Carol Stiffler When school resumes on September 8, not all students will leave home. Some parents have already decided that the group setting isn’t safe, and their students will learn from home. Other parents are stocking up on “cute” face masks and are planning to...
Jul 29, 2020 | Features
Congratulations, NHS Class of 2020! Thirty-four members of the Class of 2020 attended their belated graduation on Friday, July 24. With girls in white and boys in orange, the class met up one final time to celebrate finishing high school. Spaced out six feet apart on...
Jul 22, 2020 | Features
By Carol Stiffler As school districts make plans, back-up plans, and even more back-up plans to get back to school, checking in with the community was a must. The state required it as part of the Return to Learn plan. Stacy Price, superintendent and high school...
