Archive - Feb 9, 2011
And then there were three.
After Tuesday’s State Team Dual tournament opening rounds, only three area teams remain in the hunt for a state championship.
St. Stephens and Fred T. Foard survived in the 3A, while Newton-Conover was the lone team in 2A to make it through.
The added benefit for these teams is that they face different circumstances than their opening contests. Newton-Conover and Fred T. Foard both host matches on Thursday.
St. Stephens will travel, but it will be a much shorter distance, as they head to Foard for their third and fourth round competition.
Several Claremont residents took on the responsibility of keeping the city clean by adopting a street.
Four groups chose to adopt city streets and keep them clear of trash as part of Claremont's Adopt-a-Street program. Claremont City Council presented those groups with signs Tuesday at the council's February meeting.
"We put this program together to help people get more involved in picking up litter," said Henry Helton, of the city's recreation department.
River Bend Middle School students started an awards assembly Wednesday sitting quietly in their seats.
But by the end of the assembly, most students and teachers were out of their seats, singing, laughing and dancing to music.
Unknowing students attended what they thought was an awards assembly, only to be surprised with an "flash mob," where students and teachers, dispersed randomly throughout the audience, performed choreographed dance moves and sang.
William “Bill” Monroe Smith, 64, of Newton, died Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011, at Catawba Valley Medical Center. The Smith family has entrusted funeral arrangements to Drum Funeral Home and Cremation Services in Conover.
John Fredrick “Fred” Thompson, 87, of Maiden, passed away Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. Burke Mortuary in Maiden is serving the Thompson family.
Residents driving around Newton on Wednesday might have noticed police cars from several agencies driving throughout the city.
Police officers from Valdese, Boiling Springs, Boone and many other agencies in western North Carolina were in Newton for radar training activities.
Officers are expected to continue the training for a couple days, and residents can expect to see the police officers and their vehicles throughout the city.
The man charged with being intoxicated during a fatal collision had a pending DWI at the time of the crash.
Brian Todd Hieb, 43, of Sherrills Ford, was allegedly drunk when his pickup truck crashed into another vehicle Tuesday, killing Sandra Fay Campbell, 50, of Denver, instantly.
North Carolina Highway Patrol trooper C.M. Trouille, who investigated the crash, said Hieb has a pending DWI charge in Watauga County stemming from an incident in August 2010.
Tuesday’s game was a special delivery for the Bunker Hill basketball team.
Postman Walker Mehl scored 23 points, including 18 in the second half, to lead Bunker Hill to a critical conference victory over Maiden on Senior night.
The win keeps the Bears (12-11, 6-7) in the fifth spot in the Catawba Valley 2A and two games ahead of South Iredell.
