Two major traffic accidents on Interstate 85 Thursday evening left one man dead and snarled traffic for hours. The first of the two accidents occurred at 5:39 p.m. near mile marker 97, a short distance from the Shelby Highway intersection. More...
By TIM GULLA Ledger Staff Writer tim@gaffneyledger.com
A former employee of the Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation in Gaffney has been indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of wire fraud for an alleged scheme that cost Freightliner an estimated $1.5 million. According to a release from the U.S. More...
By SCOTT POWELL Ledger Staff Writer spowell@gaffneyledger.com
An old milk bottle is propped alongside a photo of Humphries Dairy Farm inside a display case at the Cherokee County museum. The dairy farm was operated by the Humphries family in the 1920s and 1930s off Old Post Road. This is among 250 images photographer June Carr captured on glass plate negatives after moving to Gaffney from Charlottesville, Va., in 1902. More...
U.S. Marine Cpl. Thurman D. Mills, who served in the Vietnam War, will be inducted into the Cherokee County Hall of Bravery May 26 in a Memorial Day ceremony planned for downtown Gaffney. Mills will be recognized at the 10:30 a.m. service at the war memorial in front of the Cherokee County Administration Building. More...
Donna McKinney Southgate of Gaffney and Michael Keith Woods of Inman were married Saturday, May 10, 2008, at Cherokee Avenue Baptist Church Family Life Center. The bride's father, the Rev. Alester McKinney, and Dr. Clyde Thomas officiated the double ring ceremony at 11:30 a.m. A reception, given by the bride's parents, followed. More...
Growing up in the football hotbed of Gaffney and as the daughter of Gaffney High assistant football coach Dan Jones, it seemed only natural for Claire Jones - despite her gender - to want to play for a youth football team. But gymnastics? No high school or even college in the state offers the sport. More...
Frank Brown Myers, 87, formerly of West Wind Village Apartments, widower of Velda T. Myers, passed away Wednesday, May 14, 2008, in Peachtree Centre. Born in China Grove, N.C., Mr. Myers was a son of the late Jefferson Franklin and Lola Mae Garwood Myers. He was a retired textile employee and of the Baptist faith. More...
Dear Editor: Thank you so much to your readers who wrote to The Gaffney Ledger about the situation at the Cherokee County Consolidated Animal Shelter. For those of us who have been trying to get positive changes made, it often feels like we are up against a brick wall, with little support from the community. More...
More than 400 Cherokee County high school graduates will walk across the stage June 5 to receive their diplomas. An invisible key will turn and close the door permanently on this chapter of their life. Nostalgia always sets in for me at this time in the year. More...
'Lizard Man' attack may have been dog BISHOPVILLE - DNA testing has shown an attack on a family van some blamed on the legendary Lizard Man appears to have been actually done by a domestic dog. Something chewed up the front fender of Bob and Dixie Rawson's van in February. More...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Educators across South Carolina will undergo training on how to prevent, identify and report cases of students being abused by adults at school or elsewhere, officials announced Wednesday. More...
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