Sandwiched between the fastest and the eighth-fastest growing counties in South Carolina, Cherokee County ended 2007 with positive population growth but a middle-of-the-pack ranking, according to the newest population estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau. More...
Cherokee County school employees would get a pay raise in the proposed $59 million budget the school board will discuss Monday. A budget workshop is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. in the school board meeting room in the district office. Cherokee County School Superintendent Dr. More...
Ledger photo / JOE L. HUGHES II EGG HUNTERS - Leilani Ballenger (left) and Lindy Hawkins were among a number of attendees at Saturday's Easter egg hunt at Restoration Church of Gaffney. More...
Limestone College student alumni will hold a benefit run Saturday, April 12, to help support the Cherokee County First Steps program. The benefit 5K and one mile runs will begin at 9:30 a.m. at the Emmie Evans Rector Tennis Center on the Limestone College campus. Registration begins at 8:15 a.m. More...
Members of the L'Etoile Club recently gathered for a tea to honor their senior members and welcome new members. The event was held at The Magnolia Tea Room in Gaffney. Senior officers for the 2007-2008 year are Tessie Woodlief, president; Hannah Wood, treasurer; Keely Coyle, secretary; and Sally ... More...
The Gaffney High baseball team mixed in some gutty pitching by Cameron Culp and some timely hits from Dylan Jolley and Michael Hughey to pick up its first region win with a 7-4 victory over visiting Mauldin on Friday. Culp allowed just five hits and struck out six in his first varsity start. More...
Wilburn Metz Phillips, 83, formerly of Cowpens, passed away Saturday evening, March 22, 2008, at Brookview Healthcare. Mr. Phillips was the son of the late Claude Jefferies Phillips and the late Mattie Fowler Phillips. A native of Cowpens, he was retired from Gaffney Manufacturing Company and was... More...
MCCAIN'S MISTAKE WASHINGTON, D.C. - Even before Sen. John McCain got mixed up by saying Sunni al-Qaida terrorists have been brought out of Iraq to be trained in Shiite Iran, Republican insiders felt he was in the wrong place at the wrong time on his visit to the war zone. More...
So I was sitting there watching this NCAA Basketball Tournament thing Saturday and I wasn't really all that interested in it. I think I was just watching it out of habit, watching it just because I have been watching 'em for all these years and you're supposed to watch 'em. More...
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