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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 ... A $750 million BMW expansion in Greer is expected to create more than 500 job openings for local automotive suppliers. Spartanburg Community College (SCC) has been training Cherokee Technology Center high school students since January to become production operators for automotive suppliers. More ... If there's one thing local members of historically Black fraternity Kappa Alpha Psi wants to get across, it's that they are willing to invest themselves in the success of the community. More ... City police arrested a Gaffney man Friday afternoon following a chase through a wooded area. Joshua E. Wood, 30, of 602 Littlejohn St., is charged with breaking arrest, possession of an unlawful weapon and loitering, according to police documents. More ... HOPKINS - Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009, is Smokey Bear's 65th birthday. Congaree National Park and the USDA Forest Service are joining forces to celebrate America's favorite bear and 65 years of protecting America's forestlands from wildfires. The free event will kick off at 1 p.m. at the area around the Harry Hampton Visitor Center and run until 3:30 p.m. More ... 132 YEARS OLD — "The history of a church is, and rightly should be, directly interwoven into the history of the community of which it is a part, and no church better illustrates this fact than Limestone Presbyterian Church," observed the authors of a short history of this church on its 75th anniversary. The City of Gaffney was only three years old when those few Presbyterians living in the community decided they needed more than occasional sermons from itinerant ministers of their denomination. Answering a request for advice and aid, a commission of the South Carolina Presbytery organized Limestone Presbyterian Church on Aug. 18, 1877 - naming the church after the current postal address of the community and the nearby springs, site of a curative spa in pre-Civil War days. As Limestone Presbyterian Church celebrates its 132nd birthday, its ongoing life confidently reflects these words printed in the 1995 Church Directory: "... Most of all, (its history) is a story of grateful members striving to do God's will by loving Him with all our hearts and minds and strength, and our neighbors as ourselves." More ... Seven electric cooperative families, including one in the Upstate, will win up to $10,000 in energy efficiency upgrades this fall as part of the "Help My House" contest from the Electric Cooperatives of South Carolina. Co-op homeowners are eligible to enter their primary residences in the statewide contest. More ... One of Nashville's premier blues guitarists Rickey Godfrey will make a special appearance Saturday night at Daddy Joe's Beach House & BBQ. Godfrey, a Greenville native, will perform at 7 p.m. in an edition of the restaurant's popular music patio sessions. He is a former member of the popular 1970s band Garfeel Ruff. More ... Piedmont Community Actions Inc. can help local residents with emergency services, including rent, mortgage, medicine, food, utility payment and weatherization. If you can answer yes to any of the following questions, PCA can help: Are you 30 days or more behind on your rent? Are you facing foreclosure? Do you need help with purchasing your much-needed medications? More ... Selected pieces from the Limestone College Student Print Collection will be on display in the Gaffney City Hall Gallery from now until Monday, September 14, 2009. The gallery is on the second floor of the Gaffney City Hall, located at 201 North Limestone Street in Downtown Gaffney. More ... PeachCenter Ministries, a local faithbased nonprofit organization, will begin to provide counseling services to its clients on Thursday, Aug. 13. More ... Carolina Foothills Federal Credit Union CEO Scott Weaver has announced the promotion of Kathy Merlino to the position of Vice President of Development. Merlino joined Carolina Foothills in 2008 as the credit union's Business Development Representative. More ... Danelle Bradley, daughter of Kathy and Mark Bradley of Gaffney, received her pharmaceutical technician degree in July 2009 from Spartanburg Community College in Spartanburg. Her grandparents are Carl and Grace Baker. Danelle has a brother, Blake. More ... LET'S EAT! — County students enjoy a free meal Monday at the Cherokee County Boys and Girls Club. The meals are prepared by school food service employees at Mary Bramlett Elementary for a summer lunch program offered at nine locations by the Cherokee County School District. More ... The allure of joining a gang never seemed to appeal to Kym Mitchell while he was growing up in Gaffney. Never feeling the "thug life" was for him, Mitchell looked on as many of his friends and peers formed gangs with "memberships" primarily based on the part of town where you lived. More ... On your next trip out of town, take a copy of The Ledger along and send a picture of yourself or your group reading the newspaper to: cody@gaffneyledger.com; or editor@gaffneyledger.com. More ... |
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