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By Maria Williamson McMurtury
 
A varied slate of business items and concerns were raised at April’s Town Council Meeting.
Recreation Director David Maness reported that […]

By Maria Williamson
McMurtury
Due to the resignation of Councilman Brock the town is required to hold an election to fill his seat. Candidates who would like to run must complete paper work and turn it in to Carla Taylor at town hall. Filing dates are March 4, 2011 from 12 noon until March 14, 2011 12 […]

By Maria Williamson McMurtury
Contributing Writer
Monday night’s council meeting was filled with citizens concerned about several issues, including the closing of the town’s gymnasium to the youth of Whitmire and the high water bills for the month of December.
Mayor Carroll began the meeting by reading Councilman Brock’s resignation letter and thanking him for his twelve […]

Citizens concerned about council’s actions
By Maria McMurtury
Contributing Writer
Councilman Jimmy Brock resigned Monday,  February 7,  after citizens showed the town council at January’s meeting that Brock’s service on council was in violation of South Carolina Code # 5-7-180, which states that an individual  may not serve as mayor or council and work for the same municipality.
When […]

By Kevin Boozer,
Contributing Writer
 
Newberry County Sheriff Lee Foster warns residents that law enforcement is seeing a dramatic increase in theft of recyclable metal, tractors, 4-wheelers, and other equipment.  According to Sheriff Foster, the increase in metal theft is a trend in South Carolina and across the nation because of our poor economy and the near […]

By Kevin Boozer,
Contributing Writer

For the past six years Jim “Puff” Palmer, who lived in Whitmire from when he was in third grade until his teenage years, has run his own business in downtown Newberry, Palmer’s Signs and Graphics.  Located at 1401 Main Street, his shop creates banners, signs, window graphics, and vehicle wraps.  He also […]

By Kevin Boozer,
Contributing Writer
In December, the $500,000 Community Development Block Grant from the South Carolina Commerce Department came through for the Whitmire War Memorial Library.  These funds will allow the library to improve handicap accessibility, replace heating and air conditioning, and build a 1600 square foot addition that will contain computers and a meeting room. 
The […]

Roger Milliken passes at age 95

By Leon G. Russ
Hometown News

Roger Milliken was at ease whether he was walking from his Converse Heights home to The Skillet for breakfast to dine next to an average Joe or whether he was walking through the Rose Garden on his way to dinner with the country’s president.
He was […]

New Year’s a good day for superstition
By David Stephens
Hometown News

Did you know that during the old frontier days many people like the French-Canadian pioneers used to give gifts on New Year’s Day instead of Christmas? It was only in the 1820s after English speaking Yankees moved into the frontier did the gift - giving tradition […]

By Maria McMurtury
Contributing Writer

The Hospice of Laurens County’s Whitmire store’s  Manager Bonnie Batson and Assistant Manager Sandra Aughtry state that they have loved working in the Whitmire community

The Hospice of Laurens County’s Whitmire store that has served our community since June 2009 is closing. The store is currently open only to finish closing out the […]