By JOE L. HUGHES II Ledger Staff Writer joe@gaffneyledger.com
A sign outside the Wellstone Mills plant in Gaffney stated it had been 29 days since the factory's last reportable incident. That number will change after Cherokee County firefighters responded to a call regarding a smoldering fire at the plant. More...
By LARRY HILLIARD Ledger Staff Writer larry@gaffneyledger.com
County voters tried to do their part to give former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee a muchneeded victory in the South Carolina Republican Primary on Saturday. In Cherokee County, Huckabee received 1,827 of the 4,561 ballots cast to outdistance second-place finisher Arizona Sen. John McCain, who picke... More...
By SCOTT POWELL Ledger Staff Writer spowell@gaffneyledger.com
A school board building committee will discuss the future Tuesday for one of the oldest school buildings still left in Blacksburg. Blacksburg Academy Street opened in 1956 as an elementary school for black students. After schools were integrated in 1968, the Academy Street School became an annex... More...
The year-long housing market slump didn't let up for the holidays. There were eight new homes starts in Cherokee County in December - down one from the same month a year ago, according to a monthly report issued by the Home Builders Association of Cherokee County. More...
PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Did you know that a family of barn owls consumes over 3,000 rodents per year? An innovative new nest box for barn owls may enhance rodent control programs and help conserve this large white owl around the world. More...
It appeared the Blacksburg Wildcats were poised to post their first region win. But Chaz Proctor and Chapman had other ideas. Proctor scored on a layup with :16 remaining as the Panthers displayed the fortitude to rally from five points down in the last four minutes to beat Blacksburg, 48-46. More...
BLACKSBURG - Evelyn Geneva Roark, 85, of 614 Tribal Road, went home to be with the Lord on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008, at Brookview HealthCare, Gaffney. A native of Cherokee County, she was the widow of Harry P. Roark and daughter of the late Rufus Hatcher Hamrick and Lois Neal Hamrick. She was a me... More...
BIPARTISAN STIMULATION WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Republican Leader John Boehner are working behind the scenes to attempt rare bipartisan cooperation on an economic stimulus package. Pelosi has urged Democratic House members not to load the bill with so much spen... More...
OK, that does it. From now on, I'm relying on my own system of weather forecasting. I was really looking forward to Saturday. I was looking forward to it because they had assured me that it was going to snow. More...
Man sentenced to 30 years SUMTER - A Wedgefield man has been sentenced to 30 years in jail after being convicted of killing another man in 2005. But the jury found 56-yearold Nathaniel Bradley not guilty of possessing a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. More...
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