Archive - Jun 2012
June 27th
A former Hickory High School athlete is aiming tonight to become the first Catawba County resident to compete in the Olympics.
Ryan Hill, a redshirt junior distance runner at N.C. State University this past season, is competing at the United States Track and Field Olympic Trails in Eugene, Ore. for a chance to make the 2012 Olympic team.
In the hot sun of late June, Newton-Conover’s Red Devils football team started heating up summer practice Wednesday.
Betty Lee McAlister Vaughan, age 80, formerly of Maiden passed away unexpectedly Monday, June 25, 2012.
Dr. Ross Nash was heading home to Charlotte after the Mrs. North Carolina Pageant in Newton when disaster hit him almost head-on.
As he drove west on N.C. 10, an oncoming car ran onto the shoulder of the road, before over-correcting and skidding into his lane of travel.
By
The O-N-E Publisher Michael Willard
Almost a year after a Catawba County assistant district attorney was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated, another employee of District Attorney James C. Gaither Jr.’s office was charged with DWI.
June 26th
Wrestling superstar and WWE Hall of Famer Jerry “The King” Lawler visited L.P. Frans Stadium on Saturday at the Hickory Crawdads game against the Greensboro Grasshoppers.
During his time at the game, O-N-E Sports Editor Cody Dalton spoke to Lawler and interviewed him on a variety of topics.
Q: Growing up, did you play a lot of sports or were you involved in sports a lot?
Caldwell County Post 29 avenged a loss earlier in the season to Hickory Post 48, picking up a 7-5 victory at M.S Deal Stadium in Granite Falls on Tuesday.
Hickory (15-2, 10-2) and Caldwell County (16-2, 9-2) are tied atop the Area IV West Division. Both have two Western Division losses.
Post 48 handed Post 29 a 9-0 defeat on June 4, giving Caldwell County its first loss of the season.
Leading 1-0 late in their game Tuesday, the Hickory Crawdads scored six runs in the top of the eighth inning to pull away from the Kannapolis Intimidators, winning on the road, 7-1.
With the victory, the Crawdads' lead in the Northern Division grows to 1.5 games over the Intimidators.
Mary Ann Waulk Thompson, 85, of Austin, Texas, died June 24, 2012 at Palliative CareCenter and Hospice of Catawba Valley. Funeral services will be private.
