Mebane White wins Hickory Public Schools spelling bee

January 4, 2018 Catawba Careers 0

Grandview Middle’s Mebane White won this year’s Hickory Public Schools district spelling bee. She battled past 18 other elementary and middle school students in seven rounds to finally clinch the championship. With the district win, […]

Greenworks Tools Announces 187 New Jobs

December 21, 2017 Catawba Careers 0

BURKE COUNTY, N.C. (December 21, 2017) – Sunrise Global Marketing LLC, manufacturers of Greenworks Tools, the leader in battery-powered outdoor power tools for DIY-consumers and landscaping professionals, will locate a distribution facility and bring 187 […]

Hickory High JROTC students send care packages to soldiers

November 28, 2017 Catawba Careers 0

Members of the Hickory High School Army JROTC expressed their thanks to active duty service members earlier this week by sending more than 100 care packages to troops in Afghanistan. The idea developed after the […]

Made in the USA: Dead or Alive?

November 15, 2017 Catawba Careers 0

When the International Textile Group (ITG) announced last month that its Cone Mills White Oak selvedge denim plant in Greensboro, North Carolina — the last in the US — would close at the end of […]

Foothills Digest concept wins Edison Project

November 14, 2017 Catawba Careers 0

Monday night at Market on Main, Carmen Eckard was annonced the winner of the 2017 Edison Project Competition with her business concept for Foothills Digest, a publication and website focused on coverage of the foothills […]

Shurtape binds Hickory’s Shuford family

November 2, 2017 Catawba Careers 0

Like many business owners facing the worst recession in decades, brothers Jim and Stephen Shuford became crisis managers as consumer confidence, net worths and jobs began to rapidly vanish. It was early 2009, and their […]

Claremont home to industrial growth

October 19, 2017 Catawba Careers 0

Although Catawba County has seen a decline in textiles, there are other industries quietly growing in places throughout the region. Claremont, home to the International Business Park, houses a variety of industries and has seen […]

Clyde Campbell students take inaugural trip to LITeracy Trail

October 6, 2017 Catawba Careers 0

Second-grade students from Clyde Campbell Elementary School gathered at St. Stephens Park on Monday morning as the first visitors of the new LITeracy Trail. The LITeracy Trail is a project by the 2017 Catawba County […]

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