I am appalled at the folks who keep saying President Obama is cleaning up the mess caused by President Bush. They don’t seem to know the last two years of the Bush administration was controlled ...
Making a decision? First stop: STOP
All of life’s decisions can be filtered through a simple four-step Biblical process called STOP. This method, for both major and minor issues, reveals the most beneficial choice from an eternal pe...
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Daniel Rendelman, Guest ColumnistThe Newberry Observer
Not letting a definition define us Congress has defined a hate crime as a “criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender's bias against a race, religion, disability, ethnic origin or sexu...
TIME TO REEXAMINE GRADUATION I write not only as a concerned parent, but as a Newberry County graduate and resident. This is a concern in which I feel requires you immediate attention. The topic: Newberry County high school gr...
In our view: Stay in school, it pays Tonight, the last of about 400 high school seniors in Newberry County finish walking across stage and receiving diplomas. During that time, those same seniors will hear lots of speeches on what the...
In our view: ‘Memorial’ is about remembering
Newberry County has 91 more veterans of military service who have died this Memorial Day. It is sobering to think of how many have given their lives over to service in protecting our rights as Amer...
With a mix of purely practical projects and a healthy dose of long-range hope for our county’s quality of life and attractions — the penny projects list is on its way to the last vote before it mee...
We need to blaze a trail to safety in our county. The first, and most important, step to getting on this path is a grassroots effort to installing and maintaining smoke detectors in homes. Accordi...
It may be the end of an era, but the Newberry Community Players are definitely looking to the future as they move toward letting go of a piece of their past — The Ritz Theater. It can be very diff...
County Council is right to inspect all possible areas to cap spending in the upcoming budget, even if it means some dreams delayed – as hard as that may be to accept. It is hard to hear of the pos...
The main feed to 911 was cut around high noon on Monday. For nine and a half hours, the people that we all reach out to in case of emergency, any emergency, had an emergency of their own. And the f...
Six people, three more meetings and $17 million in requests to deny, $20 million to approve - right now, the Capital Penny Sales Tax Commission is no appointment to envy. Sure, by being appointed ...
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