Earlier this month, the Gaffney High boys varsity basketball team beat Blacksburg High School 101- 31 in the first regular season matchup between the local high schools in more than two decades. It apparently will be the last. More...
By TIM GULLA Ledger Staff Writer tim@gaffneyledger.com
Ann Robinson saw her daughter walk on Monday. Her daughter didn't do it alone. She supported herself by gripping safety bars while two people steadied her from the front and behind at a Charlotte rehabilitation center. Yet the steps Cheryl Green took marked a drastic improvement from just two weeks ago, when she still was in a coma. More...
The Limestone College Show Choir performs an African spiritual song a cappella Monday morning at a Martin Luther King Jr. luncheon at Stephenson Dining Hall. More...
North Carolina Sen. John Edwards will bring his "Back Home, Back Roads Barnstorm," campaign tour to Limestone College's Fullerton Auditorium today. The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. and will feature music from Dr. Ralph Stanley of "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?" fame. More...
Gaffney's Peachoid is spotlighted in American Road winter issue
T he Gaffney Peachoid has for more than 35 years stood high above the Cherokee County skyline as a salute to the state's thriving peach industry, becoming one of the more popular attractions for motorists travelling Interstate 85. More...
School has received letters of interest from coaches around state
Now that the opening for a new head football coach has been posted on-line, Blacksburg officials apparently won't have to wait long for the applications to arrive. Blacksburg High Principal Jim Touchberry said the school already has received several letters of interest from coaches around the state. More...
Former owner of Shelby Moving and Storage; retired from Overnite Trucking
BOILING SPRINGS, N.C. - Eugene (Gene) Dimsdale, 70, died Friday, Jan. 11, 2008, at his home. Mr. Dimsdale served in the U.S. Air Force and was of the Baptist faith. He was former owner of Shelby Moving and Storage, was retired from Overnite Trucking after 20 years of service and was a member of the Cleveland County Senior Golf Association. More...
CHARLESTON, S.C. - Sen. John McCain's win over Mike Huckabee in South Carolina was no landslide, but stands as by far the most important win in his quest for the presidency. It means that McCain by any measurement is the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination. He clearly leads in Florida's Jan. More...
I don't pretend to be a political guru and I don't like to argue politics for two reasons: 1.) Nobody wins an argument and one or both sides end up getting mad at one another; 2.) I don't have command of the facts enough to put up a good fight. More...
COLUMBIA - No one disputes that Michael Batchelor should be in prison for getting drunk with his three sons and telling his eldest to drive a pickup truck - a decision that ultimately ended the boys' lives. More...
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