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Council members raise questions about spending
Jay King
Hometown News
The growing dissention between Spartanburg County Council and the Spartanburg Parks Commission is expected to come to a head this week during a special council meeting scheduled for Tuesday.
The agenda for the meeting released just before press time Monday lists an item under the […]

By Jay King
HOMETOWN NEWS
The Spartanburg County Council got its first look at a $154.3 million budget proposal that absorbs yet another significant cut in revenue from the state during the council’s monthly meeting Monday.
County Administrator Glenn Breed told the council during his briefing that producing a balanced budget continues to be a challenge with the […]

By Jay King
HOMETOWN NEWS
Spartanburg County budget planners are dealing with yet another significant reduction in revenue from the state as administrators try to craft a budget for fiscal year 2011-2012.
County Administrator Glenn Breed said Friday that the county has received a 12-percent cut in its revenue from the state amounting to about $1 million and […]

A Spartanburg man received a life prison sentence last Thursday after a jury decided he sexually assaulted a teenage girl.

Joseph Gabriel Cobb, 46, was found guilty of second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor at the conclusion of a two-day trial. Jurors deliberated less than 2 hours before deciding that Cobb was guilty. Circuit Judge […]

By Lou Sedgwick McMillan
HOMETOWN NEWS

Cowpens residents and the Cowpens Town Council have much to look forward to.

Mayor Mike Hamrick showed, and explained the preliminary drawings for the much anticipated Community Center.  The exciting news about those plans, which were discussed at the monthly Town Council Meeting were that prospects for an early start on it […]

By Leon G. Russ
HOMETOWN NEWS
The Spartanburg School District 3 Board of Trustees held their monthly meeting at the District’s Administration Building on Thursday, February 17 and heard a gloomy budget report from Assistant Superintendent for Finance and Operations, Greg Mack.

Mack opened by telling the board, “I wish I had better news but things are kind […]

By Leon G. Russ
HOMETOWN NEWS

Photo by Leon G. Russ
Ashley Wade, Alex Rothschild, and Nan Miles work on a stained glass window as part of Pine Street Elementary School’s 20th Annual Artists in Residence Week last week.
Seven Upstate artists participated in Pine Street Elementary School’s 20th Annual Artists in Residence Week last week.
Pine Street students spent […]

Teen’s mother, neighbor also charged
HOMETOWN NEWS

A Spartanburg teen was arrested Dec. 29 in connection with complaints he had improper sexual contact with four minor age boys since January 2010, and his mother and a neighbor have also been charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
According to sheriff’s investigators, Keith Adger Smyth, 16, of […]

Roger Milliken passes at age 95

By Leon G. Russ
Hometown News

Roger Milliken was at ease whether he was walking from his Converse Heights home to The Skillet for breakfast to dine next to an average Joe or whether he was walking through the Rose Garden on his way to dinner with the country’s president.
He was […]

A year in the life of our community
By Leon G. Russ
Hometown News

Following are some of the leading stories published in your Spartanburg Coutnty News in 2010.
JANUARY
Spartanburg Sees New Mayor, First Term Council Members
The City of Spartanburg entered a new era on Monday, January 4, when Junie White was sworn in as Mayor along with […]