LIMESTONE IS HISTORY
By SCOTT POWELL Ledger Staff Writer [email protected] | April 30, 2025
The financial hole was just too big to dig out...
First-year teachers will be paid $50,090; no tax increase in school budget
By SCOTT POWELL Ledger Staff Writer [email protected] | April 30, 2025
Salaries for first-year Cherokee County teachers will start out at...
$263 MILLION PLAN UNVEILED
By LARRY HILLIARD
Ledger Staff Writer
[email protected] | April 28, 2025
Imagine designing your own multi-use indoor and outdoor sports and...

THIS ONE LOOKS GOOD
April 30, 2025
A spring plant sale by horticulture students helped draw a large crowd Saturday morning to a “Spring Fling” held by the Institute of Innovation on the local Spartanburg Community College...
Lake Whelchel Trail expansion to open Thursday
April 30, 2025
Cherokee County is poised to open 2.5 miles of natural surface trail, along with a new trailhead and parking area at Lake Whelchel. The trail expansion brings the total mileage...
Lawmakers question the ‘no grade below 50’ policy in some SC school districts
By SCOTT POWELL Ledger Staff Writer [email protected] | April 30, 2025
Some high school students can’t get a grade less than a 50 in the state, regardless of how poor their work might be in a class. A few lawmakers in...
Argument erupts over chicken
April 30, 2025
City of Gaffney police responded to a Davis Street home following a 911 hangup call on March 23 that was placed due to an argument over fried chicken. The 911...
Conclave to elect a new pope will start on May 7 as cardinals get to know one another
By NICOLE WINFIELD and COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press | April 30, 2025
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic cardinals on Monday set May 7 as the start date for the conclave to elect Pope Francis' successor, delaying the secret voting for two days...

Carroll K’s 10, but Indians fall to Riverside
By LARRY HILLIARD Ledger Sports Editor [email protected] | April 30, 2025
Gaffney starting pitcher Sam Carroll was on his game Monday in the opening game of a pivotal series against Riverside on Monday. The Indians batters weren’t. Carroll fanned 10 and...
Limestone Wise enough to clinch first tourney spot since 2013
STAFF REPORTS | April 30, 2025
After a win on Friday, the Limestone baseball team swept a Saturday doubleheader against South Atlantic Conference rival Virginia-Wise to sweep the three-game series and clinch a spot in the...
Limestone’s Kier wins national title in tumbling aerial pass
STAFF REPORTS | April 30, 2025
Limestone’s Kacie Kier is a national champion. Kier scored a 9.825 in the tumbling aerial pass to take home the individual NCATA National Championship at the National Collegiate Acrobatics &...

Tyrion is a Viking
Former Gaffney great drafted 139 overall in the fifth roundBy LARRY HILLIARD
Ledger Sports Editor
[email protected] | April 28, 2025
It was worth the wait for former Gaffney High great Tyrion Ingram- Dawkins. The former Mr. Football, who played collegiately at Georgia, was drafted Saturday in the fifth round of...