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Water main break leads to boil advisory for residents in Ridge Spring
RIDGE SPRING, S.C. — Residents of Ridge Spring should take extra precautions before using their water following a pipe break that officials confirmed on Saturday afternoon. According to a town statement, residents should boil their water before using it for cooking or drinking for the next 48 hours due to a main break.
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 Q&A: Updates from the Mayor’s office
Q. Main Street really rides and looks good since it was repaved. What other roads will be repaved?. A. SCDOT announced the roads they’ll repave in each county for 2024. On the edge of the city, they will repave the 34-Bypass from Wilson Road to Nance Street. Hwy #121 will be repaved from I-26 to Hwy. #176. Other projects will include parts of—with distances varying from 1 mile to 3 miles—Hwy. #39 in Chappells, Hwy. #66 in Whitmire, Clara Brown Road, Island Ford Road, New Hope Road and Mount Bethel Garmany Road near the interstate.
Newberry High named SC winner in STEM Competition
NEWBERRY — Newberry High School was selected as the South Carolina state winner for the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow STEM Competition and has moved into the national competition. Newberry High School was selected because of teacher Heather Herzog Alexander’s class, who noticed that the trash cans around the school...
Two Reuben Elem. students have book published statewide
NEWBERRY — On Friday, March 22, two fifth graders at Reuben Elementary School were recognized by the Newberry Electric Cooperative for writing and illustrating the best book and winning the the2024 enLIGHTenSC Children’s Book Challenge. Students Ali Chapman and Harper Rowe, with the help from their teacher Kevin...
Celebrate young children, their teachers and caregivers
NEWBERRY — The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) recognizes one week each year to honor young children, early childhood educators, and all those who make a difference in children’s lives. Mayor Foster Senn signed a proclamation designating April 6-12 as the “Week of the Young Child” and April as the “Month of the Young Child.”
City of Newberry recognized for mutual aid assistance
NEWBERRY – City utility staff received a visit Tuesday, March 19, from Gregg Griffin, general manager of the Bamberg Board of Public Works. Griffin presented several staff members with a plaque in appreciation of mutual aid assistance following a recent tornado that affected their community. The plaque reads, “In...
City Council hears from Newberry Housing Authority
NEWBERRY – Executive Director Jessica Holcomb of the Newberry Housing Authority provided Newberry City Council with an update Tuesday night. Holcomb shared that the housing authority was established by city council on October 17, 1968 and is run by a board of directors that is appointed by council. Currently, they serve over 606 families in Newberry County.
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