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By  David Stephens
Hometown News

Mountainview Baptist Church Pastor Tyler Kirby and wife Kay with their children, Goldie, Andrew, John Tyler, and Brock.
After having two children,  some medical complications prevented Mountainview Baptist Church Pastor Tyler Kirby and his wife Kay from having more children. They also came to the conclusion that they were not ready to stop […]

By Jed Blackwell

Photo By Jed Blackwell
A group of Boiling Springs students proudly support their Bulldogs at last week’s game against Gaffney. The members of “Bulldog Nation” turned out in full force to support the team.
As the clock ticked toward kickoff last Friday night at Boiling Springs High School Stadium, red-and-black clad Bulldog faithful continued to […]

Dutch teenager honored by local veterans
By  David Stephens
Hometown News

Sebastiaan Vonk (center), flanked by Harold and Faye McManus, was honored at an American Legion luncheon on August 7, 2010.
Sebastiaan Vonk is a 17 year old from the Handinxvelo-Giessendam region of the Netherlands. Since the age of 13 Vonk has belonged to the Adopt A Grave organization […]

By  David Stephens
Hometown News

Boiling Springs Kennels owners Kestutis and Rasa Vandys
Kestutis and Rasa Vandys, the owners of Boiling Springs Kennels, immigrated to the United States from Lituania nine years ago and originally settled in the Duncan area where they had friends. For the last six years they have lived in Lyman where they bought a […]

Former area resident pictures Charleston’s sacred places
By Theron Willis
HOMETOWN NEWS

Photo by Diana Deaver
Steven Hyatt with his Nikon D3S standing on the steeple of St Michael’s Episcopal with St. Philip’s Episcopal in the background. 
Former area resident Steven Hyatt is gaining some artistic fame in the low country for his stunning photography of the historic […]

Issue Drawing National Interest
By Theron Willis
HOMETOWN NEWS
Woodruff City Council voted unanimously in favor of an official invocation policy for city council meetings at a special council meeting on Tuesday, August 3 at 6 p.m. called for the specific purpose of reviewing the policy of prayer at city council, in which television crews and members of […]

By Jay King
HOMETOWN NEWS
The ongoing fracas involving the Holly Springs Fire and Rescue Department’s budget and whether or not the department can afford a fulltime chief highlights a basic misunderstanding on the part of the commission on how government budgeting works.
The situation has the county auditor’s office both puzzled and frustrated, especially after members of […]

By Jed Blackwell
HOMETOWN NEWS

Photos by Jed Blackwell
An angry citizen has words for Carrol Bradley, who spoke in support of the Holly Springs Fire Commissioners last Friday. Many citizens were angry about not being given the opportunity to be put on the agenda to speak at Friday’s meeting, which ended with the termination of Chief Lee […]

Letters from long-ago war reveal a young and tragic love

STORY AND PHOTOGRAPH by Theron Willis
HOMETOWN NEWS

Pam Whitehead looks through the letters that she hasn’t read in over 40 years that were sent to her from a special someone who fought in the Vietnam War.
Sometimes the opening of an old dusty envelope hidden away in […]

By  David Stephens
Hometown News

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New Boiling Springs Elementary School principal Luann Cartee.
When school opens in August at Boiling Springs Elementary School,  new principal Luann Cartee will find  herself at a different school, but she is certainly no stranger to District Two having been in the district since 1985. She was at Mayo Elementary from 1985 […]