Multimillion dollar scholarship totals have become a rite of passage for Blacksburg and Gaffney High graduation classes over the past decade. This year's senior classes graduated Thursday with nearly $9 million in college scholarship money over the next four years. More...
By TIM GULLA Ledger Staff Writer tim@gaffneyledger.com
Thursday's high temperatures gave Gaffney Police Department reason to pause a series of safety checkpoints on city streets but Police Chief John O'Donald promises more are planned. Police set up six different public safety checkpoints during daylight hours Tuesday and Wednesday. They issued approximately 40 tickets and made one arrest. More...
By TIM GULLA Ledger Staff Writer tim@gaffneyledger.com
Cherokee County Sheriff's Office investigators didn't need directions to a Kings Creek home on Wednesday because they had been there before. For a second time since 2005, investigators allege they have shut down an illegal liquor distillery in a barn behind the 159 Billy Misty Road home of Charles Edward Martin. More...
Madison McCraw and Hannah Wood have been a couple since before the two Gaffney High graduates were old enough to drive. McCraw and Wood have been together since November of 2004. In an unusual twist, the boyfriend and girlfriend are the top two 2008 graduates at GHS. More...
Long-time educator always encouraged young people to study hard and never give up
The Mary Gaffney Knuckles Education Foundation is offering a $500 scholarship to a graduating Blacksburg or Gaffney high school senior for the college fall term. Monetary gifts were made in Mrs. Knuckles' memory at her passing in November, 2007. More...
David Haselden and Post 28 delivered a message on Wednesday - they'll be hard to beat. Baffling the Post 109 hitters with late movement and sharp curves, Haselden allowed just two hits and struck out eight over eight innings as Spartanburg beat homestanding Post 109, 4-0, in a matchup of the top two teams from last season. More...
Daisy Elaise Elliott, 80, of 949 Old Post Road ,went home to be with the Lord on Tuesday, June 3, 2008, at Upstate Carolina Medical Center. Born in Startex, she was the wife of Francis L. Elliott and daughter of the late David Lowery and Floy McElvey Lowery. Mrs. Elliott was retired from Oxford Industries of Gaffney and was a member of Midway Baptist Church. More...
They should have their mouths washed out with soap
Did your parents ever wash your mouth out with soap when you were little? I am not sure how common mouth soap washing is in households with small children today. I think this is a good practice for curbing the trend towards overuse of bad language that has become an epidemic in today's society. More...
School burglary suspect had 'Scared Straight' educational video in his backpack