2019-10-04

Operation Educate will provide inmates with industry training




A three-year grant will allow the Cherokee County Detention Center to build on its education work with inmates waiting for their court dates and subsequent return to society. The Upstate Workforce Investment Board announced Wednesday it has received a $2.1 million grant to fund an Operation Educate program at the Spartanburg, Cherokee and Union jails. Detention center staffs have partnered […]

POLICE REPORTS

Football fan discovers car has been vandalized

The Gaffney Police Department reported that a man’s car was burglarized during a Gaffney High football game Sept. 27. According to the police report, the victim had come back to his residence on Providence Road after watching a football game when he noticed that a magazine for a handgun, and some medication were stolen from his vehicle. l The Gaffney […]

GUEST COLUMNIST

USMCA will spur medical breakthroughs

Mexico recently ratified the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the mammoth trade deal that could replace NAFTA. U.S. lawmakers would be wise to follow suit — the pact could save and improve millions of Americans’ lives by spurring the development of cutting-edge medicines. One of the deal’s most important provisions would strengthen intellectual property protections for an innovative class of medicines called […]

LEDGER COLUMNIST

Thanks for the warm welcome to my new home


For a good amount of my life, I grew up as a military brat with my family moving from one place to another over the years. Even though it was a little chaotic since I always had to learn a new area and new faces every few years, I did find myself enjoying going to so many places. Since both […]

THEIR VIEW

Conspiracy theorists shouldn’t get blessing to endanger the rest of us

Used to be, conspiracy theories and other fringe ideas were out there on the fringe. You had to go looking for them, and most people didn’t. Now, crazy comes looking for us. In innocent Google searches. On cable TV talk shows. In our Facebook feeds. And because we live in a world where people increasingly think it’s perfectly fine to […]

Thank you Daddy Joe’s and all who supported us

Dear Editor: I want to take this opportunity to thank Shag Stepp and his staff at Daddy Joe’s Beach House BBQ as well as all who came out to support us this past Sunday at our Miracle Hill/Daddy Joe’s Fundraiser. Serving more than 600 meals in less than two and a half hours was a real challenge, but Shag and […]

Political Cartoon

‘For I was hungry and you gave me food’




Five years ago the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation was looking for a way to give back to the community when a seventh grader challenged the parish to feed the hungry. “We were looking for a way to make a big impact,” said Jenny Gettys, priest. “That seventh grader stood up and said ‘there’s no reason we can’t build a […]

Thickety Mountain Baptist Woman’s Educational and Missionary Convention to celebrate 100 years

The Thickety Mountain Baptist Woman’s Missionary and Educational Convention, an auxiliary to the (men’s) Thickety Mountain Baptist Missionary Association will celebrate 100 years of mission and support of religious and public education. A commemorative program of praise and thanksgiving will be held Saturday, October 5 at 3 p.m. at Bethel Baptist Church where Dr. James Sanders Jr. is pastor. The […]

Help solve Bugs Macaroni’s murder with the Gaffney Little Theatre

Listen up, you ankles and birds. That’s right, I’m talkin’ to you ladies and gents of Gaffney. Our boss, Bugs Macaroni, has been cut down. Murdered in cold blood! And we wanna know who did it. Who are we? We’re Bugs’, uh, business associates, so to speak, Mickey and Tommy, from the Gaffney Little Theatre. And these dames here are […]