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By Jay King
HOMETOWN NEWS

Following a directive from the Spartanburg County Council, the county Parks and Recreation Commission has advanced the planning stage for the Holston Creek Regional Park on New Cut Road near Inman and will soon be soliciting community input for park plans.
According to PRC Executive Director Jeff Caton, the timeline for the park […]

By Jay King
HOMETOWN NEWS

Despite some concerns made by two members, the Spartanburg County Council voted 4-3 to approve a new invocation policy at its monthly meeting Monday.
The new policy is in keeping with state’s Public Invocation Act and stipulates that the designated chaplain will offer a prayer that does not “proselytize or advance” any one […]

By Jay King
HOMETOWN NEWS

With the addition of 100 new chicks less than two weeks ago, Paul Undra Jeter is moving forward with plans to reach a total of 500 cage-free hens. Although most produce eggs, Jeter does raise some meat birds but only sells them live to customers and thus avoids the added expense, time […]

 
 
First time FOI criminal provisions applied in SC
For the first time in South Carolina history, public officials are facing charges under the criminal provisions of the state’s Freedom of Information Act.
Judge William H. Womble Jr. found probable cause for violations of the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act at a secret meeting June 16 during […]

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 […]

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 Jed Blackwell
Editor

Photo By Jed Blackwell
Henry Gramling of Gramling Farms shows off a can of Gramling peaches. Gramling recalled his family’s canning operations and detailed the peach industry for a Peach History Tour group on Saturday morning.

The millions of peach trees that once produced a riot of pinks and whites along the highways of Spartanburg […]

By Jay King
Staff Writer
Discussions about the budget during two back-to-back meetings by the Holly Springs Fire and Rescue Commission have failed to answer the question of whether the department can afford a fulltime chief, at least as far as most of the commissioners are concerned.
A budget workshop Friday at which Chief Lee Jeffcoat presented figures […]