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Are you a teenager looking for a challenging summer job? If so you may be interested in working for the National Park Service as a member of the Youth Conservation Corps at Cowpens National Battlefield. The Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) was established by Public Law 93-408 and is a summer employment program for young men […]

With a facility that might be the envy of many colleges and universities and the equal to many professional venues across the area, the District Five fine arts community is looking forward to new possibilities for their programs as the potential for their recently opened fine arts center at Byrnes High School is being contemplated.

During […]

Ingrid Norris, The Humane Education Coordinator of The Spartanburg Humane Society, was at Abner Creek Elementary School last Tuesday to teach students the basic principles of responsible pet ownership.  Therapy dogs,  along with their owners,  were also on hand so that students could interact with the dogs and practice the things that they were taught; […]

Anyone who knows former Byrnes football standout and current Clemson student Stanley Hunter knows about his fighter’s heart and his positive attitude.
Those two attributes have served Hunter well on the fields, in the classroom, and in day-to-day life as he has overcome obstacles to become first a college athlete, then a college student and leader.
Now, […]

With the arrest last week of Spartanburg County Clerk of Court Marc Kitchens on charges that he and an accomplice, Woodruff businessman Terry Lanford,  sold narcotics taken from the evidence locker at the county courthouse, area law enforcement agencies are evaluating the  procedures they have in place to ensure evidence remains secure.

Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck […]

In the grand dance that was the recruiting experience of Marcus Lattimore, South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier knew all the right steps.
Lattimore chose the Gamecocks over Auburn on Tuesday night, in part because of the comfortable feeling he got during his visits at the university.

So, what did Spurrier do to close the deal?

“He did […]

Students in one District 5 neighborhood might be headed to a different elementary school in the coming school year.

The District 5 School Board heard a report Monday night that proposed an attendance area change for the Brookside neighborhood.
Students who live in Brookside now attend Wellford Elementary School and advance to Berry Shoals Intermediate. All […]

FORT McCOY, Wis. – Members of the 174th Engineer Company, many  of whose members are from Spartanburg, Greenville,  Cherokee and Union Counties,   are at Fort McCoy, Wis., preparing for a deployment to support Operation Enduring Freedom.

Since their arrival at Fort McCoy in November, Soldiers from 174th, an Army National Guard unit with its home station […]

A former Duncan town clerk has been arrested in connection with a knife fight in Spartanburg that sent four people to the hospital.

Dabney Frazier Bowen, 36, of 15 Flagstone Ln., Tryon, NC, was arrested on two counts each of assault and battery with intent to kill and assault and battery of a high and aggravated […]

The 2010 Miss Duncan-Lyman-Wellford Scholarship Pageant & Miss Duncan-Lyman-Wellford Teen Pageant is being held this Saturday, January 9 at James F. Byrnes High School at 7 p.m. “A Circus Extraordinaire” is the theme & will feature Morgan Swearington, the reigning Miss Duncan-Lyman-Wellford 2009 along with Amber Cohen, Miss Duncan-Lyman-Wellford Teen 2009.

There are 7 local contestants […]