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Vehicle runs into house on Spencer Road.

Kiwanis “Terrific Kid” program celebrates thirty years

For 30 years now, the Terrific Kid program has recognized good students.

Les Sigmon, chairman of youth services, for the Eastern Catawba County Kiwanis, has fond memories of the beginning.

Woman to serve 12-19 year sentence for sex offense

Sherry Lyden, 28, of Hickory, will serve an active prison sentence of at least 12 years following her conviction for statutory sex offense with a child during Burke County Superior Court on Tuesday, March 5, 2019.

Grand Re-Opening

The Historical Association of Catawba County will be hosting an open house event at the History Museum located in the former 1924 Courthouse on the square in Newton on Thursday, March 7 from 5:00-6:30 pm.

Single car wreck sends one to the hospital

A single-vehicle wreck involving a Ford halts traffic on Herman Sipe Road Friday. Herman Sipe Road was closed down shortly after 10:00 am on Friday morning after a car overturned. A 2015 Ford, driven be Eva Lucero, of Conover, was traveling at an unsafe rate of speed.

18-wheeler carring lumber overturns near Conover

A transfer truck carrying a shipment of lumber overturned on N.C. 16 near the Oxford School Road intersection around 4:30 on Tuesday.
Read more in the next edition of the O-N-E.

Officials investigate shooting, fire near Newton

Catawba County Sheriff deputies and Newton Fire Department are investigating a shooting and fire that they think are related. The shooting took place on Pine Bark Court while the fire occurred at a home on Fairway Drive.
The suspected shooter is still on the run.

EARLY MORNING ROOF COLLAPSE CLOSES DAYCARE

HICKORY – HICKORY – At approximately 6:47 am Thursday morning, Hickory firefighters were dispatched to a possible partial building collapse at Rainbow Childcare, 1031 Fairgrove Church Road SE. Firefighters responded with two engines, one ladder, one rescue and one command unit.

Vidal Sipe is sworn in as Newton's next chief of police

Vidal Sipe is sworn in as the new chief of police for Newton.

Read more in the weekend edition of the O-N-E.

CCSO: STAR Team responds after man shot by girlfriend

On February 15, 2019 at approximately 2:54 a.m, Catawba County Emergency Communications Center received a call from a male subject stating he had been shot and was at his residence at 7428 Highway 10 West in Vale, located in Southwestern Catawba County.