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April 30th, 2013
The Carolina Panthers were busy on Tuesday, agreeing to terms with 13 undrafted rookie free agents.
Many deem this signing period after the NFL Draft as the "eighth round," where teams agree to terms with players who were not selected during last week's draft.
About two and a half months ago, Mia Fowler suffered a painful Achilles injury, but that hasn’t slowed her down.
The Maiden freshman continues to excel in gymnastics despite being limited by hardened fluid in her right Achilles tendon.
April 29th
Mary Jane Wilson Hefner, 95, of Newton died Sunday, April 28, 2013 at Catawba Regional Hospice in Newton. The Hefner family has entrusted funeral arrangements to Drum Funeral Home & Cremations in Conover.
Hickory Springs Manufacturing Company, one of the nation’s largest integrated solutions companies and international supplier of components to the transportation, furniture, bedding and a growing number of diversified markets, recently broke ground for a new, 10,000-square-foot foam tech lab in Conover.
Three prep tennis teams from across Catawba County are in the 2A and 3A dual team playoffs.
Newton-Conover and Bandys qualified from the CVAC, while Hickory made the 3A playoffs.
The North Carolina High School Athletic Association released the pairings officially on Monday.
Weather has forced several changes in the prep sports schedule around Catawba County today. Below are all postponements:
Prep baseball
Bunker Hill at Bandys, ppd., 7 p.m. Tuesday
Maiden at Draughn, ppd., 7 p.m. Tuesday
W. Caldwell at Newton-Conover, ppd., 7 p.m. Tuesday
Prep softball
Bunker Hill at Bandys, ppd., 5 p.m. Tuesday
April 27th
The Carolina Panthers sought after the best overall value players in the third and final day of the 2013 NFL Draft on Saturday.
The team drafted Valdosta State guard Edmund Kugbila in the fourth round, selected Iowa State linebacker A.J. Klein in the fifth round and chose Oregon running back Kenjon Barner in the sixth round.
April 26th
A Newton man was arrested Wednesday after he was found with 16 ounces of methamphetamine.
The total value of the methamphetamine seized is estimated at $24,000.
To read more of this story, pick up the weekend edition of Catawba County's community newspaper, The Observer News Enterprise, at newsstands throughout the county.
Saira McDonald expected her dad home in June, so Friday was just an ordinary day at Tuttle Elementary School.
Until he walked out to meet her class at recess.
To read more of this story, pick up the weekend edition of Catawba County's community newspaper, The Observer News Enterprise, at newsstands throughout the county.
Guests, volunteers and athletes from across Catawba County flooded into Gurley Stadium at Newton-Conover High School to celebrate the Catawba County Special Olympics.
Events were held on the high school’s track and baseball field on Friday, April 26 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
