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The College, The Observer and the Little Free Library
NEWBERRY — A new Little Free Library has been set up at the edge of the Setzler Field parking lot by College Street, marking it as the eighth Little Free Library to be built in Newberry. Little Free Libraries are small book exchanges where anyone can add or take...
Newberry College raising funds to repair Wiles Chapel organ
NEWBERRY — The pipe organ in Newberry College’s Wiles Chapel has seen a lot — 57 years of commencements, convocations, weddings, funerals, concerts and much more. It has provided musical counsel and melodious enhancement in some of life’s grandest and most sacred moments. After decades of...
Runners impress at PTC Foundation’s Spring Forward 5K
NEWBERRY — A relatively unknown (for now) road race in Greenwood attracted some serious competitors at the Piedmont Technical College (PTC) Foundation’s 3rd Annual Spring Forward for Student Success 5K Run/Walk on March 23, 2024. Top overall male finisher Aaron King, 34, of Greenwood completed the 5K distance in an impressive 17:11.60, keeping an average pace of 5:32 per mile. Top overall female finisher Lacy Latham, 19, of North Augusta covered the distance in 24:06.97, with an average pace of 7:46 per mile. Fifty-four (54) runners and more than 40 walkers went the distance in near-perfect-though-damp conditions. As if on cue, the sun broke through the clouds during the awards ceremony.
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