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By Leon G. Russ
HOMETOWN NEWS
Children, parents, business and community leaders came together to celebrate the success and necessity for after school programs for area children during the Lights On After School rally on Morgan Square on Friday, October 21.
The area rally was just one of 7,500 such events across the nation […]

By David Stephens
Hometown News
On the evening of October 10 Chesnee Mayor Max Cash convened city council in monthly session with all council members present.
After approval of the September minutes Chesnee resident Etta Mae Culbreth was given the floor for a public comment. Culbreth said that she “wants to thank the council for the work […]

By David Stephens
Hometown News
Melissa Turner Lee grew up in the Cooley Springs suburb of Chesnee and attended school in District Two, graduating from Chesnee High School in 1994. Lee later earned a degree in journalism and marketing from what was then USC Spartanburg (now Upstate). Lee married, worked temporary assignments for a while, had children […]

By David Stephens
Hometown News
Spartanburg resident Sonya Gray is the latest volunteer to join the staff at the Upstate Family Resource Center. Gray is a graduate of Converse College with a degree in early childhood development and is doing postgraduate work there to obtain a degree in psychology. Gray also is planning in the future to […]

By David Stephens
Hometown News
When 16-year-old Chesnee High School junior Gracin Watson decided she wanted to learn how to fly planes, she had to choose between a traveling cheerleading squad or take flying lessons over the summer. Watson chose the lessons and now has recently successfully completed her first solo flight after only a little over […]

By David Stephens
Hometown News
On September 12, 2011, Mayor Max Cash convened Chesnee City Council in monthly session with all council members present.
After August minutes were approved City Administrator Becki Hood reported that August revenues had been down, but that expenses had been down also. Hood announced that bids for the Streetscape II project would […]

By David Stephens
Hometown News
The South Carolina Search and Rescue Dog Association (SCSARDA) is a team of professionals who dedicate their time and resources to search for lost and missing persons using specially trained search K-9s. SCSARDA is a non-profit organization whose non-paid members believe in family values, and who maintain standards of excellence with on-going […]

By David Stephens
Hometown News
The Chesnee Mill Village, like many other similar villages in South Carolina, is a product of the heyday of the textiles when mill employees lived near their work. Homes there dating back to 1910 and possibly older are sturdily built and the homeowners are proud to live there.
Now, ahead of the […]

By Jay King
HOMETOWN NEWS
The Spartanburg County sheriff’s deputy accused of assaulting a man in his custody resigned last week, according to the sheriff’s office.
Clayton Bradley voluntarily resigned early last week, according to sheriff’s spokesman Lt. Tony Ivey. Ivey said that the SLED investigation into the allegations against Bradley was still open and that the sheriff […]

By David Stephens
Hometown News
According to a history of the first 50 years of Chesnee published in 1961 and written by Chesnee resident Helen Hicks Ezell, the town was given their charter on March 7, 1911. Currently, a celebration in September 2011 is being organized to celebrate the town’s centennial birthday.
Co-organizer Dennis Harris said, “We […]