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Information on man’s wife’s death still unavailable
BY JANET S. SPENCER
HOMETOWN NEWS
A man shot by a Cherokee County sheriff’s deputy died five days later, and authorities have still not released details about the death of his wife that prompted the confrontation with officers.
Sheriff Steve Mueller said on April 13 deputies were dispatched about 11:30 p.m. with […]

Search underway for 15-year-old
The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office has received a report that a Blacksburg teenager has run away from home and is still missing.
The mother of Laura Pate, 15, told a deputy her daughter left their Tucker Road residence between 11 p.m. on April 4 and 6:50 a.m. on April 5.
Connie Jean Smack said […]

BY JANET S. SPENCER
HOMETOWN NEWS
Two of the 10 unsolved cold cases given increased attention by Cherokee County sheriff’s investigators include two victims of murder from Blacksburg.
Sheila Patterson Manley’s body was found on Dec. 11, 1996, at the 100-mile marker exit ramp off I-85 at Highway 5.
Her husband, Clarence Manley, said at a news conference […]

BY JANET S. SPENCER
HOMETOWN NEWS
A Gaffney man is accused of beating his roommate to death, before he reported both were assaulted by a third person.
Detective Daniel Ward signed an arrest warrant charging Eduardo Enrique Molina, 25, with murder. Molina is being held in the Cherokee County Detention Center, awaiting a bond hearing.
The victim, Efrain Acosta […]

Deputies praised for rescuing disabled occupant

Photo by Johnny Horn.
The Boarding House on Cherokee Avenue in Gaffney was destroyed in an early morning fire on March 9. Investigators continued working this week to determine the cause.

BY JANET S. SPENCER
HOMETOWN NEWS

Cherokee County Sheriff Steve Mueller said an investigation into what caused a fire that destroyed the boarding […]

BY JANET S. SPENCER
HOMETOWN NEWS

When Polly Moore wanted to help her friend Charlene Queen who had been diagnosed with cancer, the two women tuned in the car’s CD player and rode, listened, laughed and cried.

To avert the attention of Charlene from her condition, Polly chose the anecdotes of country entertainer Minnie Pearl to lift her […]

BY JANET S. SPENCER
HOMETOWN NEWS

Blacksburg welcomed a packed house when the 2011 Shining Stars Talent Night came to Iron City Place on South John Street.

Twenty-one performers of vocal, dance, band and monologue renditions entertained a crowd numbering more than 200 in the fundraiser for the Gaffney Little Theatre held Feb. 25.

Members of the Little Theatre […]

BY JANET S. SPENCER
HOMETOWN NEWS

The Cherokee County School Board voted Monday night to designate May 30 and June 3 of this year as makeup days for students and teachers to recoup time lost last month because of snow and ice.

The days will be added to one day, April 22, already in place on the calendar.

Four […]

Former teacher previously filed sexual harassment charges
BY JANET S. SPENCER
HOMETOWN NEWS
A Blacksburg teacher who filed a federal lawsuit last year against the Cherokee County School District and an administrator, claiming sexual harassment, will receive an out of court settlement.
Jenny Stroupe and the district agreed to a payment of $90,000, according to the document signed by […]

BY JANET S. SPENCER
HOMETOWN NEWS

Photo by Janet S. Spencer
 A section of soil where a fertilizer plant operated on North Shelby Street reveals purple or magenta hues caused by contamination from lead and arsenic visible as cleanup continues.
The questions were many and varied at a public meeting last week held by the Environmental Protection Agency to […]