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By Megan Anderson
HOMETOWN NEWS
 Get out your calendars because Blacksburg will be honoring its past with the fifth annual Iron City Festival on Saturday, April 17, 2010.
The Blacksburg Business Association-sponsored event will have plenty of entertainment options. A street festival, featuring live bands, food and craft vendors, a heath fair, and a car show, will be […]

Child Abuse: An Inconvenient Truth
By Theron Willis
HOMETOWN NEWS

 
Forensic interviewer Lynn McMillan (left) and executive director Bill Herrick  at a meeting at the Children’s Advocacy Center.
(Editor’s Note: This is the second in a two-part series  in which Hometown News focused on  child abuse in the Upstate.)
Before there were children’s advocacy centers,  an investigation of a […]

Love of language and children is Clark’s recipe for success

Pamela Clark - English Language Arts

By Megan Anderson
HOMETOWN NEWS

Middle schoolers might gush about their latest crush, but few are overly enthusiastic about the people responsible for giving tests, grading papers, and assigning homework. 
Savannah Earls, though, is one of the exceptions because she has Pamela Clark […]

The Town of Blacksburg plans to be debt-free soon thanks to a substantial windfall.
Selling the town’s gas company to the York County Natural Gas Authority netted the municipality $2.5 million, which the town is expected to receive this week.

Town Administrator Trudy Martin had the task of determining the best use of the revenue. After considering […]

Photo by Megan Anderson
Members of the Blacksburg Town Council - from left to right - Joe Ross, Mayor David Hogue, Mike Patterson, and Darren Janesky, unanimously passed the town’s 2011 budget on Tuesday night. Councilwoman Janie Wilson did not attend the meeting.
Members of the Blacksburg Town Council passed the town’s 2011 budget on Tuesday, […]

Amateur national motocross is scheduled to come to the Blacksburg track of Iron City MX  on March 19 - 21. 

The event is the Southeast Area Qualifier for the AMA Amateur National
Motocross Championship which is held in August at the Loretta Lynn’s Ranch in Hurricane Mills, TN.

The event will bring riders from 10 states trying to […]

American Idol doesn’t have a monopoly on young, talented musicians. If you were lucky enough to see Blacksburg High School’s annual Talent Show, then you know that there are plenty of them located right here in Blacksburg.
“True North”, a band comprised of freshmen Matthew Bourgoin and Ethan Snipes, and sophomore Malory Sanders, took top […]

Superintendent Bill James ended weeks of confusion and controversy surrounding the Cherokee County School Board on Monday evening by asking for permission to retire early.
James made the request after members of the board failed to reach an agreement on his evaluation after several attempts.
Discussion about James’ evaluation and future contract with the school district began […]

Ron Long, Athletic Director of the Shrine Bowl Of The Carolina’s announced Monday the Coaches selections for the 2010 South Carolina Sandlappers. 

Leading the South Carolina squad this year will be Head Coach Michael “Mickey” Moss of Blacksburg High.  Assisting him will be Carlos Cave of Battery Creek, Scott Earley of Chapin, Scott Jones of Lugoff-Elgin, […]

After serving as Cherokee County Sheriff for almost two decades, Bill Blanton announced Monday that he is ready to hang up his badge.

He told his staff that he would not be seeking re-election, before releasing a brief statement to area media. 

“After careful thought and prayer with my wife,  Pam, I have decided not to seek […]