In approximately 30 days, almost the entire West Floyd Baker Boulevard business corridor will become a wireless Internet hot spot. The Gaffney Board of Public Works has been busy in recent days installing 19 wireless fidelity antennas on traffic light crossbars and telephone poles along the busy boulevard, as well as on Hwy. 105 near the Interstate 85 intersection. More...
By SCOTT POWELL Ledger Staff Writer spowell@gaffneyledger.com
Cherokee County Finance Director Mike Vassey moved his office Thursday morning over to the consolidated city/county animal shelter. Vassey was appointed interim manager of the facility, effective Wednesday. He will spend the next few weeks reviewing shelter operations and make recommendations on improvements. More...
The Gaffney Ledger will be closed Monday, May 26, in observance of Memorial Day. The schedule change will not affect your newspaper delivery. We will resume regular business hours at 8 a.m., Tuesday, May 27. More...
Ewing Middle School and Mary Bramlett Elementary were recognized by the state Thursday for creating successful single-gender education programs. The two county schools are among 11 statewide to receive state awards for single-gender education programs. More...
Trysha Blanton will lead organization during 2008-2009 year
The Gaffney Business and Professional Women's Club installed new officers for the 2008-2009 year in a meeting Monday, April 28, at 6:30 p.m. at the House of Pizza. Cyndi Waters, BPW/SC treasurer, installed Patti Greene as treasurer; Elizabeth McDaniel, secretary; Stacey McDaniel Tabor, vice-president; and Trysha Blanton, president. More...
Post 109 manager Jeff Osment was pleased with his team's pitching and defense. Offense and focus were another matter, though. Bobby Jackson pitched and Jake Watson pitched well but the offense mustered just eight hits in a season-opening 8-3 home loss to Cherryville on Wednesday. More...
Volunteer with Blacksburg Fire Department for 50 years
BLACKSBURG - Lawrence Lee Allen, 79, of 1783 N. Mountain St., went home to be with the Lord on Thursday, May 22, 2008, at his residence. Born in Cleveland County, N.C. More...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - When one of the Democratic Party's most astute strategists this week criticized John McCain for attacking Barack Obama's desire to engage Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, I asked what the Republican presidential candidate ought to talk about in this campaign. "Health care and the economy," he replied. More...
The weather heating up, kids getting out of school and more people on the highway ... must mean summer is right around the corner. For most these signs are obvious, with the basketball playoffs and baseball virtually the only things on television. More...
UPS drivers dominate competition