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An observant Whitmire Police Department officer initiated an investigation that put a stop to the illegal sale of alcohol and liquor at the home of 71-year-old Ulyses Prather of 161 Duckett Street on Sunday, March 7th, when he noticed that there was a heavy traffic flow going to and from the Prather’s home.
According the incident […]

Annette Hunter and her husband are proud parents of four very talented young people. All four of their children are musicians, and all of them are part of the band program at the school. The youngest one, Yaunna, is in her first year of band, and her oldest brother Tanoy has been in the band […]

Relay for Life is an annual community outreach project for the students, faculty, staff, and administration of Whitmire Community School. The Student Council begins early in February promoting the project and raising money to fight cancer through research and other means.
Relay for life is more than a fundraiser - it is a community-owned, volunteer-driven activity […]

A joint investigation by the Newberry County Sheriff’s Office and Newberry Police Department has left investigators searching for a Newberry man who has been illegally giving tattoos to minors.
Jesus Lopez Lopez, 25, of 1146 U.S. Highway 176, Little Mountain, SC has been giving tattoos to people at different homes in Newberry County.  Lopez has his […]

The town of Whitmire would like to welcome OTR Wheel Engineering, Inc., an assembly operation that will open in a vacant 16,000 square foot building adjacent to the town limits of Whitmire and that expects to be fully operational by March 1st.  The announcement was made February 2 by the Newberry County Economic Development Board […]

Whitmire Community School recently held its first  school-wide Geography Bee for Grades 4 - 8.. The event was coordinated by Coach McGlohorn, a social studies teacher for grades 6 to 8. He worked with the fourth and fifth grade elementary teachers in promoting the bee and conducted classroom bees in his social studies classes.

Principal Joey […]

It takes a lot to succeed in the business word in the best of times, but it takes even more in hard economic times like the ones we are facing in our world, our nation, our state, and our town.

Many small businesses have declared bankruptcy, and others have been forced to cut back drastically. Yet […]

The PTSO of Whitmire Community School depends on its fundraisers to make money for the school’s special activities, and the children work hard to win the prizes provided by the PTSO. However, some of them get more of prize than they think they are going to get. The top sellers get to go for a […]

Friendship Baptist Church at 503 Duckett Street is having a Southern Gospel program on January 17th at 6:00 p.m. They would like for you to join them as Naomi and the Segos shares their Southern Gospel music filled with Biblical lyrics.

Naomi and the Segos is a group that has spanned 50 years of Southern Gospel […]

A man who is suspected of  carjacking a vehicle at gunpoint in Prosperity just before 9:00 p.m. on December 31 was taken into custody last Friday after being pursued across three counties in South Carolina.

The suspect, Christopher Marquel Brown aka Christopher Marquel Wise, 21, approached the driver of a Green Ford Explorer at a gas […]