Megan Collins took a novel approach when it came time to turn in her pumpkin for a Halloween project in English. In the spirit of Halloween, Blacksburg High English teacher Pam Hughes asked her students to paint and dress up pumpkins to look like popular characters from books. More...

Disney's Beauty and the Beast will begin a twoweekend run Thursday, Nov. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in Fullerton Auditorium. Presented by Limestone college in association with the Cherokee County Arts council and the Gaffney little Theatre, other evening performances are set for Nov. 14-15 and Nov. 20-22. There will be three matinee performances at 3 p.m. on Nov. 15, 16 and 22. More...

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Jimmy Lee Lanier, 67, of 250 Hampshire Drive, went home to be with the Lord on Monday, Nov. 10, 2008, at his home. Born in Cherokee County, he was the husband of Evelyn Parris Lanier and son of the late June Lanier and Coleen Wilson Lanier. He was retired from Johns Manville and was a member of Freedom Fellowship Baptist Church. More...

"Excuse me, sir. Are you from around here?" I had just paid for some gas at Old Post General Store when the young man (I say young because he was obviously younger than I, but by how much I have not a clue) approached me. "Well, yes. Yes I am. More...

CRAMERTON, N.C. (AP) _ Police say a North Carolina teenager listening to his MP3 music player didn't hear a train approaching before he was struck and killed. The Charlotte Observer reports 16-year-old Joshua Lee Phillips was walking along the train tracks Monday afternoon on his way home from South Point High School in Cramerton. More...