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You opinion counts:The Question: Do you feel confident that the oil leak is capped?
On newberryobserver.com: • Yes: 36 • No: 35 The response: • Yes: 11 • No: 6 What You said: “If they can’t be sure at that depot, they shouldn’t drill.” —John...
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In Your View: The Question: Would Newberry students benefit more in year-round school?
The response: • Yes, students lose intellectual ground over lazy summer months: 12 • Yes, students need practice for the real world of year-round work: 5 • No, it’s a good long-standing tradition ...
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In your view: The Question: How do you beat the heat?
The response: • Lots of liquids: 2 • Indoor AC: 6 • Pool time: 5 • Another way: 5 ON newberryobserver.com: • Lots of liquids: 8 • Indoor AC: 49 • Pool time: 6 • Another way: 3 What You said: ...
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Your opinion counts: The Question: Should our government extend benefits for jobless Americans?
The response: • Yes: 12 • No: 5 What You said: “Yes, they should if the reason they lost their job is because of the government.” —Ashley Smith “I think if someone is putting an honest effort in...
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In your opinion: The Question: What is the best part of Newberry County?
The response: • Its people: 3 • Opera House: 0 • Southern culture: 2 • Small towns within the county: 3 ON newberryobserver.com: Its people: 47 • Opera House: 11 • Southern culture: 25 • Small to...
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Your Opinion Counts: The Question: Is the county doing a proper job of handling Hill’s murder?
The response: • Yes: 15 • No: 5 On newberryobserver.com: • Yes: 176 • No: 36 This week’s Question: What is the best part of Newberry County? The response: • It’s people: • Opera House: • Souther...
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EDITORIALS
Making a decision? First stop: STOP
by Daniel Rendelman, Guest Columnist
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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...
Not letting a definition define us
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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
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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
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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
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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...
Penny projects: lucky 13? New list goes to County Council
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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...
LETTERS
Looking for the rationale in selling Springfield and JF Hawkins
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Dear Editor: It appears that the Newberry County Council is hell-bent to sell Springfield Place and Jesse Frank Hawkins regardless of the impact on the residents, patients, employees and their fam...
Selling Springfield and JF Hawkins a great loss
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I am a retired physician. A resident of Springfield Place, living in an apartment here. I am 90 years old, my wife, a former educator, public schools and university, 88 years old, an Alzheimers pat...
Identifying useful rhetoric
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Dear Editor: Whether an orchestrated diversion or incidental unintended political happenstance, the unending debate of the location of a mosque location is a useful discussion binding Republican-D...
Did you ever hear such whining...
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Dear Editor: Did you ever hear such whining as that of some elected officials who insist of yet more taking of taxpayer money to support the dismally failing public schools? They continue to tak...
Newberry has fine men to be proud of
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Dear Editor: I would like to say that Newberry has fine men to be proud of. My wife and I had truck problems on Sunday. The idle pulley drive belt messed up on us as we were traveling. We pulled...
Justice is important, but tolerance and understanding are equally important
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About eight weeks ago when I first heard that a man had been shot and killed and his body subsequently was dragged for ten miles, I was horrified and disgusted. I did not think to ask about the sk...
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YOUR OPINION COUNTSThe Question: The Fourth of July is a time primarily for you to... ?
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The response: • Spend time with family and friends: 16 • Reflect on our great nation: 10 • Rest—no work!: 7 ON newberryobserver.com: • Spend time with family and friends: 44 • Reflect on our...
Your opinion counts: The Question: Do you plan on going out of town for vacation or staying around for a “staycation?”
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The response: Outta here!: 16 Staycation: 20 NOTABLE QUOTABLES: We are going out of town, just not too far away. –Ashley Smith I don’t get one, but next year I’m going to Florida. –Corbin M...
In your view: The Question: Which view do you take of the march planned by the Black Panthers in Newberry at the end of the month?
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The response: It raises valuable awareness of hate crimes: 3 It is misguided to have this march in Newberry, as Anthony Hill’s murder is not defined as a hate crime, and it puts stress on the com...
Prosperity passes final budget vote
by Holly Astwood, Editor
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A budget representing very little change over last year, .77 percent, passed for Prosperity Tuesday night after zero public comment. The $2.159 million budget has $570,000 in its general fund and ...
Meeting deadline: Time’s up
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One more paper to put together, this one, and one more story to write – and with those acts, my current time in the newsroom of The Newberry Observer will wrap up. It’s a bittersweet goodbye I am s...
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Our Opinion Counts: The Question: Should the blue laws be repealed? The response: Yes: 18 No: 8 ON The WEB: Yes: 142 No: 31 NOTABLE QUOTABLES: “Yeah, keep the blue law so we can come to ...
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