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according to animal control officer Michael Herman. Hyder wins clerk of court seat Polk County Acting Clerk of Superior Court Pam Hyder (D) won the race to keep her position while other local democrats running for state offices lost. Hyder received 5,453 votes compared to republican challenger Marche Pittman’s 4,626 votes. “The 1940s Radio Hour” opens The Tryon Little Theater’s “1940s Radio Hour” opened at the Workshop Nov. 8-11 and 15-18. Historic Tryon Depot wins 2012 Main Street Award The North Carolina Department of Commerce’s Division of Community Assistance and Office of Urban Development announced Nov. 2 that Tryon’s Historic 1906 Depot renovation project had been awarded the prestigious 2012 North Carolina Small Town Main Street Award in the category of Economic Restructuring. Progress continues on Phase I of Tryon Fine Arts expansion Work continued on the hillside campus at Tryon Fine Arts Center as Hudson Stone Works constructed more than 5,700 square feet of stone walls outlining the new access path and driveway. The 8-foot-wide pathway was designed to improve handicap access from parking lots to the front door of the 44-year-old arts center. Inaugural Tryon Beer Festival welcomes crowd Nov. 10 Tap workers poured libations enthusiastically Saturday, Nov. 10 as more than 400 people, including at least 100 out-of-town visitors, enjoyed the first annual Tryon Beer Fest at the Tryon Depot Plaza. Peniel/Walker roadwork to end Nov. 30 Work was underway in early November along Peniel Road and Walker Street in Columbus as part of the N.C. Department of Transportation (NCDOT) secondary road improvement project. The project, which repaved the area was completed Nov. 30, according to the NCDOT. O.P. Earle unveils Quilt Trail
Friday, January 4, 2013
In Memoriam
Millicent (Milly) King Chin Lucille H. Durham Vicki Jean Rowe Louise T. Staton Robert Lewis Wilkins Jr. Katherine Fox Canady James T. “Curly” Newsome Peggy Kuykendall Dowda McSwain Wiley E. Gainus James Mickey Fain Betty Bates Richard H. Klerk II Mary Ethel McGuinn Bonnie Lawter Pack Emmie Louise Bissinnar Swedenberg Nelson Williamson Ruth Sudduth Bruce
block O.P. Earle Elementary School held a dedication ceremony Nov. 13 to unveil the fourth public block on the Foothills Quilt Trail. The Mary F. Kessler Fund of the Polk County Community Foundation funded this block. Hwy. 108 bridgework resumes Work on the rehabilitation of the bridge over I-26 in Columbus resumed mid-November. The project is scheduled for a completion date of April 30, 2013. The work is part of the N.C. Department of Transportation‘s (NCDOT) $2.4 million contract to rehab several bridges in Polk and Henderson Counties. Deer hunting season opened in Polk County Deer hunting opened in Polk County Nov. 19 without the extended season some hunters had hoped for last year. Despite a unanimous vote by Polk County commissioners in October 2011 to extend the deer-hunting season in Polk County by two weeks, the state regulatory commission had not approved the change before the open of this season. Saluda School celebrates Blue Ribbon honor (Continued on page 12)