A Shelby, N.C., man was flown for emergency medical treatment after he crashed during a police chase that involved the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office and South Carolina Highway Patrol Saturday night. The incident began at 11:49 p.m. on North Limestone Street where a Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office deputy tried to stop the driver of a 2003 Toyota minivan allegedly traveling […]
Grads earn $13.6 million in scholarships
Blacksburg and Gaffney High senior classes graduated Thursday with $13.6 million in college scholarship money. Scholarships offered to the Gaffney High Class of 2016 are valued at $10,350,850 over a 4- year period. Blacksburg High graduates were offered $3,296,531. Gaffney High Principal Dr. Raashad Fitzpatrick and Blacksburg High Principal Craig Bramlett announced the scholarship totals during graduation ceremonies. This is […]
Summer learning sites offered
KNOW(2) will offer summer learning programs at the Gaffney Housing Authority and five other community sites so students can continue learning while school is out. St. Paul’s Lutheran Church will open the first summer learning program site June 7 followed by Concord Baptist Church on June 8. Alma Elementary and Bethel Baptist Church start June 13 while the Boys and […]
Sheriff’s ride scheduled for June 4
Area motorcyclists are being invited once again to shine up their chrome for a good cause. On Saturday, June 4, the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office will hold its 12th annual Sheriff’s Ride for the Relay, one of the most well-attended motorcycle rides in the region. The event attracts several hundred riders each year. Once again, the ride will start at […]
Cherokee County site included in Duke’s readiness program
It didn’t take Cherokee County Development Board Director Jim Cook long to respond to Duke Power’s request to participate in its site readiness program. “From time to time, they ask us to participate,” Cook said. “We do because it adds value to the piece of property.” The site readiness program identifies “high-quality” industrial sites in the company’s services area, and […]
Signup for school board election is underway; incumbents have filed for re-election
Filing period for the Cherokee County School Board elections began Friday. Candidates may file by appointment through noon, June 10, at the Cherokee County Election Commission office in the county administration building on Railroad Avenue. School board members J.J. Sarratt (District 2), Mark Nix (District 4), Robin Duncan Harper (District 6), Cheryll Smith (District 8) and Billy Blackwell (District 9) […]
THANK YOU
More than 100 church youngsters were treated to a pizza party by My Downtown Gaffney with an ice cream bar and games Wednesday in the parking lot beside the Michael Gaffney cabin. The volunteer appreciation event was held to thank the participants who helped clean up the downtown in a community service project during Impact weekend in March.
THEIR VIEW
The Citadel, not student, being treated unfairlyDavid Lauderdale writes a column for The Island Packet of Hilton Head- Bluffton. Lauderdale has won many awards over many years for his words about the people, culture, traditions and issues of the South Carolina Lowcountry. His columns are good, the type of stuff that makes the newspaper reader clip and save. Many columns are humorous. Some are provocative. All […]
DAVID LIMBAUGH
At this point, it should make all the differenceHillary Clinton has been groping around for a campaign slogan. She’s just unveiled her seventh meaningless catchphrase. How about “Still lying and breaking all the rules”? That one probably wouldn’t help her campaign much — though with leftist voters these days, you have to wonder — but it has the virtue of being more accurate than her latest mealy-mouthed rallying […]
IT’S JUST ME
Memories of biscuits and motorcycle trips?The summer before he passed away, we set up a video camera and got daddy to talking about his life, about when he met momma, about what it was like growing up, about his kids and a whole bunch of other topics. He mentioned his mother at one point, prompting my oldest sister to say, “If Ma Jordan didn’t make […]
