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Catawba Valley Camera Club announces winner of competition

The Catawba Valley Camera Club has announced the winners of its photographic competition for the June 7, 2017 meeting. The competition was for projection images with the assigned topic of “Glass”.

Winners from the June 7 Projection Competition are:

VIDEO: California sixth grader wins National Spelling Bee with 'marocain'

Ananya Vinay, a 12-year-old from Fresno, California, took the Scripps National Spelling Bee trophy home on Thursday night. After many rounds, the sixth grader won by spelling 'marocain' correctly. Vinay and Rohan Rajeev were the last two standing of the initial 291 spellers.

Season Comes in for a Landing with Boeing Boeing

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Catawba County Library This Week @ Your Library Jun 3-10th

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Carolina Style Chorus committed to bringing musical joy

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Conover- Carolina Style Chorus, a women’s 4 part a cappella singing organization based in Conover, has completed phase two of their commitment to bring musical joy to those confined to long-term care at Abernethy Laurels, Newton.

VIDEO: Millennials Are Expected To Take Over 25,000 Selfies in a Lifetime

Selfies have by now become an epidemic, seems like everywhere we turn there’s someone with a camera trying to catch the perfect angle to snap the photo

Hickory Choral Society Holds Auditions for New Singers

Hickory Choral Society will hold auditions for the 2017 - 2018 season on Monday evening, May 22, 2017. Openings are available for Sopranos, Altos, Tenors, and Basses. Know that reading musical scores is important. Be prepared to sing the first verse of America (My Country Tis of Thee).

Reports: Police say Chris Cornell found dead in hotel

DETROIT (AP) — The Latest on the death of musician Chris Cornell in Detroit (all times local):
11:35 a.m.
Two Detroit newspapers citing a police spokesman are reporting that the body of Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell was found with "a band around his neck."

Roger Ailes, media guru and political strategist, dies at 77

Roger Ailes, the communications maestro who transformed television news and America's political conversation by creating and ruling Fox News Channel for two decades before being ousted last year for alleged sexual harassment, died Thursday, according to his wife, Elizabeth Ailes. He was 77.

Relay for Life Benefit Concert featuring Benton Blount

North Carolina native and America’s Got Talent finalist Benton Blount performed a concert benefiting Relay for Life at Southside Park in Newton on Saturday.