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After 15-year wait, cutting edge facility serves entire Upstate
By Jay King
HOMETOWN NEWS

As part of the dedication of the S.C. Vocational Rehabilitation Department’s new Bryant Center in Lyman Friday, Rep. Rita Allison and Sen. Lee Bright present former SCVRD Commissioner Larry Bryant with a flag flown over the State House and a proclamation honoring him for […]

By Jay King
Staff Writer

  
District Six county council candidate Roger Nutt said that in the worst economic crisis in modern memory, the county must ease the tax burden on its citizens if it wants to contribute to an economic turnaround and help its citizens.
Nutt said that the recent state and national economic meltdown and […]

By Jay King
HOMETOWN NEWS

Photo by Steve Blackwell
Team Spirit: Taras Kryzalka, of Stamford, Connecticut, is carried by his team members from Harrisonburg, Virginia.  Each SWAT team was assigned a Wounded Warrior and had to complete an obstacle course.  Since Taras has no use of his left arm, his teammates carried him so he could touch […]

By Jay King
HOMETOWN NEWS

Former Woodruff city clerk Beverly Maddox pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $44,000 in city funds last Thursday before Circuit Judge Mark Hayes and presented the court with a check to repay the missing money.
Maddox, 57, was sentenced to 10 years suspended to one year home detention followed by four years of […]

Program brings seniors, students together
By Jed Blackwell
Editor

Photo By Jed Blackwell
Margaret Keith presents Alexis Steadman with her stuffed bear at Camp Care Nursing Home on Monday. Inman Elementary students received bears as part of a program in conjunction with National Nursing Home Week.

Second-grade students at Inman Elementary School made new friends on Monday. They also had […]

Inman man charged with Assault and Battery
By Phil Buchheit
Hometown News
Reserve Welford Police Officer Larry E. Jackson Jr., 25, of 120 Casa Loma Street, Inman,  has been charged with assault and battery after he reportedly bullied and assaulted a man in what appears to be a property dispute. Jackson’s father, Larry E. Jackson Sr., 63, […]

Broyles, Newman take Council Seats
By Jed Blackwell
Editor
City councilman Bo Cantrell defeated incumbent mayor Wright Gaines at the polls on Tuesday, winning the mayor’s seat by a 152-109 margin.
Two council seats were also at stake, with incumbent Kevin Newman taking 198 votes and former council member Caroline Broyles gathering 156 votes. Ronnie Wilder collected 92 votes […]

It is not precisely known how long students during their instruction time at H.B. Swofford Career Center have been building houses that are later auctioned to the public, but Tommy Campbell has been the director for 20 years and he said, “It has happened each one of those 20 years.”

Now the latest home is ready […]

By  David Stephens
Hometown News

It was all for the Kops Kids in Chesnee on April 2, 2010, as the stars of American Professional Wrestling and the Southern Wrestling Association squared off in the ring in a “Brawl for it All” wrestling show. Kops Kids helps needy children and families every year at Christmas time. Wrestlers like […]

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 […]