Traffic on Interstate 85 was backed up for eight miles Friday afternoon when a tractor-trailer traveling south ran off the road and clipped the sign for Exit 83 near the Spartanburg-Cherokee County line outside Cowpens. More...
By JOE L. HUGHES II Ledger Staff Writer joe@gaffneyledger.com
Aside from the usual pens, pencils and bookbags needed by students getting ready for the upcoming school year, local shoppers will be more likely to stuff clothing items into shopping carts this weekend. More...
By SCOTT POWELL Ledger Staff Writer spowell@gaffneyledger.com
Ewing Middle School cashed in on its effort to improve student achievement in a big way Wednesday morning, picking up a check for $11,068 from Big Lots. Big Lots CEO Steve Fishman presented Ewing Middle Principal Dr. Denise Wooten with the $10,000 grand prize during a special ceremony at its store on Floyd Baker Boulevard. More...
Blacksburg High School senior football players Ryan Sizemore, Dylan Lowery, Alex Campbell and Brett Lanier carried a board around Saturday while team photos were taken. Coaches asked the seniors to carry the board as a symbol of the legacy left by previous Blacksburg football teams. More...
15 tasty dishes entered in this year's competition
T ricia Pedersen took home the first place $250 cash prize for her "Peach Pecan Delight" concoction in the South Carolina Peach Festival's peach dessert competition sponsored by Abbott Farms. Pedersen operated the Red Clover Inn in Vermont for three years before moving with her husband to Gaffney in 2002. More...
Gaffney High's Andy Strickland already proved he can excel at the collegiate level. Can he do it in the NFL? Strickland is answering that question as the Jacksonville Jaguars opened preseason camp this week. More...
Helen Louise Wilson Upchurch, 73, of 518 Sixth St., went home to be with the Lord on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009, at her residence. Born in Gaffney, she was the wife of Harold Dean Upchurch and daughter of the late George Washington Wilson and Birdie Lou Brown Wilson. Mrs. Upchurch was a homemaker and member of Christian Heights Baptist Church. More...
Even before we stepped into a classroom at some school in this great country of ours, we knew the importance of being obedient to teachers. After all, at that time they were so much bigger than us, along with the added fact these were adults and we were mere children; our parents taught us these people were to receive our respect. More...
Buford Street project on aggressive schedule