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October 14, 2009  RSS feed

Tractor Supply facility will cost $1.2 million
Local residents will soon have a place to go for a wide selection of ranch and farm supplies. More...
WHERE THERE'S SMOKE, THERE ISN'T FIRE

A bad belt on a rooftop air handler filled a Cherokee Avenue restaurant with smoke and a burning smell on Monday but caused no damage. More...

THE STATE OF MANUFACTURING
SCMA president: Over-regulation threatens future
By TIM GULLA Ledger Staff Writer tim@gaffneyledger.com

In many ways, Lewis Gossett works on behalf of a shrinking sector of the economy. In the past 11 years alone, for instance, roughly a third of the people who relied on manufacturing work in South Carolina to put food on the table have lost their jobs. More...

 Local News
• Food Lion signs letter of intent to acquire Bi-Lo
The name outside the Bi-Lo on West Floyd Baker Boulevard could change if a deal working its way through a U.S. Bankruptcy Court ultimately is approved. More...
• POLICE REPORT
• article has image Teen queen launches drive to ‘share the warmth’
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 LifeStyles
• article has image Acoustic duo Jeni and Billy will present library’s October ‘Music Sandwiched-In’ concert
Show will feature selections from new CD, 'Jewell Ridge Coal'
The Cherokee County Public Library will showcase Jeni and Billy on Thursday, Oct. 15, from 12:15-1 p.m. for this month’s Music Sandwiched-In concert. Miners and moonshine, coal dust and methadone, a Tazwell Beauty Queen and the ladies of the Friendly Chapel Church – those are the images that haunt "Jewell Ridge Coal,” the duo’s new CD from Jeni and Billy. More...
• Chapman Center brings in Street Beat
• article has image Old Beaver Dam School holds many special memories for couple celebrating 50th wedding anniversary
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 Sports
• article has image Gaffney in a romp
Burris eclipses 100-yard mark with arm and
The York Cougars won the turnover battle. But that’s about all they won against the Gaffney Indians on Friday. Or all season, for that matter. The Indians lost two fumbles and had an interception but still rolled over the 1-6 Cougars, 55-7, at the Reservation. More...
• Burris, receivers on the same page
• article has image Cavs’ dual threats wear out Blacksburg defense
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 Obituaries
• Sadie P. Bechtler
Employed by Sullivan Carson for 44 years
HICKORY GROVE – Sadie Patterson Bechtler, 78, formerly of Hickory Grove, died Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009, at Upstate Carolina Medical Center in Gaffney. More...
• Joan S. Gordon
• Bennie Owens
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 Columns
• THEIR VIEW
It is unclear this even needs to be sorted out by the court
Once again, the courts are being asked to settle what is essentially a dispute between Gov. Mark Sanford and the Legislature. This time, it’s over the stated intention of the State Ethics Commission to turn over its preliminary investigative report of Mr. Sanford’s travel and expenditures to the House, to use as part of an expected impeachment effort. More...
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• article has image Battlin’ Biddies return to the Roost 40 years later
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 State News
• SC golfer loses arm in alligator attack on course
BEAUFORT (AP) – Part of a man’s arm was bitten off by an alligator as he leaned to retrieve his golf ball at a private South Carolina course, officials said Friday. The man, in his 70s, was bitten by a 10-foot alligator Thursday afternoon at Ocean Creek Golf Course in Beaufort County. His name has not been released. More...
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