An electrical fire shut down a popular Gaffney business Thursday morning but won't keep it closed for very long. Firefighters raced to the Rug and Home store near Prime Outlets — Gaffney upon reports of a working structure fire at the business. More...
By SCOTT POWELL
Ledger Staff Writer
spowell@gaffneyledger.com
A tractor filled with baskets of peaches made its way Friday morning deep into the peach orchards surrounding the Sunny Slope Farms property off Interstate 85.
Rows of trees filled with ripe peaches are being picked this summer by a peach picking crew in the Sunny Slope Farm orchards in Cherokee County. More...
By JOE L. HUGHES II Ledger Staff Writer joe@gaffneyledger.com
No one could have seen Wednesday's announcement by Gov. Mark Sanford coming; not even longtime family friend and former Cherokee County Republican Party Chairperson Joan Wheeler. "The governor and his family are very dear friends of mine. I hate to see something like this happen to them," Wheeler said. "But this came as such a surprise. More...
Olin Huffman will succeed 25-year chair Gayle Phillips
Bob Peeler was a Democrat, Ronald Reagan was president and Tip O'Neil was ruling the House of Representatives. That was the political environment more than 25 years ago when Gayle Phillips was elected as the Cherokee County Democrat Party chairman. More...
Erica Lynn Overcash and Mark Stephen Phillips were married Saturday, May 16, 2009, at half past five o'clock in a traditional ceremony at Cherokee Avenue Baptist Church. The Rev. Dr. Clyde Thomas officiated. A reception, hosted by the bride's parents, followed at Broad River Electric Auditorium. More...
Former Gaffney High and USC Upstate standout men's golfer Josh Gallman is in elite company. Gallman is ranked 91st among amateur players in the United States, in the latest GOLFWEEK/Amateurgolf.com rankings. If that's not impressive enough, he's ranked 217 in the world amateur rankings and is 144th in the current World Amateur Player of the Year standings. More...
Eloise Horton Ruppe, 82, of 119 Healey Lane, Mooresboro, N.C., passed away Wednesday, June 24, 2009, at Cleveland Regional Medical Center. A native of Cherokee County, she was born July 8, 1926, a daughter of the late John Belton Horton and Maude Hamrick Horton. She was a member of Lavonia Baptist Church. More...
Dear Editor: The Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce is set to host its bi-annual Legislative Breakfast Monday, June 29, at 7:15 at Stephenson Dining Hall on the campus of Limestone College. The panel will include Senator Harvey Peeler; Rep. Dennis Moss; Rep. Lanny Littlejohn; Rep. More...
It goes without saying that this week has been pretty eventful. In the past few days, North Korea has become more bold in its speech toward the West, promising to rain a "nuclear shower" on the U.S. should any of the communist country's upcoming missile tests be intercepted by our military. More...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's governor once cited "moral legitimacy" when he was a congressman voting for President Bill Clinton's impeachment. He became a darling of fiscal conservatives over his ideological opposition to federal stimulus cash. More...
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