By PHYLLIS BRITT 2/22/2012 5:01 PM   

Every day's a good day for Wayne Swiger, and last Thursday was particularly good. The retired special education teacher was in attendance at a four-school outing at Northside Lanes, which paired special needs kids with other students, as well as pare ... View story

By PHYLLIS BRITT 2/22/2012 5:00 PM   

Twenty years ago, Karen Whitehead Powell left an upwardly mobile position as a district manager over a number of pharmacies to become a hometown pharmacist in locally-owned Parks Pharmacy. And she's never looked back. Last week the staff at Parks P ... View story

By BILL BENGTSON 2/22/2012 5:00 PM   

Stories of fond memories and high hopes filled Saturday evening at The Wesley Center, with the North Augusta Sports Hall of Fame's seventh annual induction ceremony touching on several local generations of action in football, basketball, baseball and ... View story

By PHYLLIS BRITT 2/22/2012 5:00 PM   

Last Saturday saw the return of a long-standing tradition with North Augusta Council of Garden Clubs - a tea and fashion show. The Council once held a tea and fashion show each spring, but for the last couple of years the event was not held. This y ... View story

Staff reports 2/22/2012 4:59 PM   

Clemson Mayor Larry Abernathy died on Saturday afternoon. Mayor Pro Tem Butch Trent, a close friend of Abernathy who will assume the duties of the mayor until a new mayor can be selected, said his friend's health had deteriorated in the past two yea ... View story

Staff Reports 2/22/2012 4:57 PM   

Rosemary Inn Bed & Breakfast has been named in the top 10 romantic inns for 2012 in the United States by American Historic Inns and iLoveInns.com These Top 10 Romantic Inns "provide landmark locations, landscapes for lingering, lavish accommodati ... View story

By BILL BENGTSON 2/13/2012 4:17 PM   

Saturday evening's "traffic" at North Augusta's Chick-fil-A had a decidedly different atmosphere, with the restaurant playing host to Daddy-Daughter Date Night - an event that dozens of other Chick-fil-As also observed, possibly due to the success of ... View story

By PHYLLIS BRITT 2/13/2012 4:16 PM   

It began with a vision, a picture and a dream, explained North Augusta Elementary School principal Laurie Reese at the official dedication of the school's new Outdoor Classroom last Wednesday Ceremonies included a ribbon cutting and attendance by ma ... View story

By ROB NOVIT 2/13/2012 4:16 PM   

For more than 40 years, North Augusta High School annually has named 10 seniors to its Hall of Fame. During each ceremony, parents of the recipients would sit in a designated section among the entire student body as the winners were announced. For t ... View story

By BILL BENGTSON 2/13/2012 4:15 PM   

Hundreds of North Augusta High School students got some food for thought along with their lunch last week, with help from the South Carolina Highway Patrol, the Subway restaurant chain and a Greenville woman who had a brush with death. Sharing her s ... View story

By PHYLLIS BRITT 2/13/2012 4:14 PM   

It has been 12 years since 65 North Augusta area leaders got together to establish a community foundation that could help address certain projects directed at improving the quality of life in the city. North Augusta 2000 was the result, and its initi ... View story

By KAREN DAILY 2/10/2012 11:14 AM   

The owner of Liberty Tax in North Augusta said there's no pursuit of happiness for him. Cuylor Leverett explained that he pays what he calls "wavers" to dress up as the Statue of Liberty each day and stand on the sidewalk to drum up attention for his ... View story

By BILL BENGTSON 2/5/2012 4:45 PM   

Deloris Bodie is going to Disney World - for real. Orlando is indeed on the near horizon for Bodie, as she is retiring this week, wrapping up almost 17 years of secretarial service in the North Augusta Department of Parks, Recreation and Leisure Serv ... View story

By PHYLLIS BRITT 2/5/2012 4:43 PM   

It's not unusual to see various water fowl feeding in Jackson Pond, a small body of water that sits along side Jackson Avenue. But it is unusual for Judy Koon, whose property borders the City of North Augusta pond, to find a full-grown Great Blue He ... View story

By KAREN DAILY 2/5/2012 4:43 PM   

The man now charged with the Saturday shooting death of an Aiken Public Safety officer grew up in North Augusta and attended North Augusta High School as a freshman before reportedly being caught with a weapon on campus, according to reliable sources ... View story

By BILL BENGTSON 2/5/2012 4:42 PM   

Watson and Lisa Dorn came up with an idea for spreading the word about Hickory Hill Milk a few years ago, with help from neighbors in the Merriwether area, and a Wednesday tradition - rain or shine - has been the result. A weekly mini market is held ... View story

By PHYLLIS BRITT 1/30/2012 7:38 PM   

The rain did not deter voters or special visitors from North Augusta Precinct 27 during Saturday's Republican Primary. A steady stream of voters was surprised to find the local election process under the scrutiny of a representative from a budding d ... View story

Staff reports 1/30/2012 7:38 PM   

North Augusta High School ended its first round of Region 5-AAAA basketball games on a pair of rough notes Friday evening, losing both of its games at Orangeburg-Wilkinson. The opener had North Augusta's girls sustaining one of their worst beatings ... View story

By PHYLLIS BRITT 1/30/2012 7:37 PM   

North Augusta's Brick Pond Park has become the area's premier living study in an ecosystem where plants, animals, birds and humans all work together to keep a balance that continues to be a friendly environment for the wildlife natural to the area. ... View story

By KAREN DAILY and PHYLLIS BRITT 1/30/2012 7:36 PM   

Two South Carolina men were taken to a Georgia hospital early Friday after making it partially across the Sixth Street railroad trestle in downtown Augusta before crashing a Ford F150 into a support beam, officials report. Richmond County deputies s ... View story