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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 […]

By Jed Blackwell
Sports Editor

Photo by Leon G. Russ
Byrnes’ Daniel Gossett struck out 13, walked three and allowed just one run on three hits in eight innings, as the Rebels squeaked past the Spring Valley Vikings 2-1 on May 5 to win the District IV Region Championship. 

 Trailing 7-5 in the sixth inning of Monday’s 4A […]

Mrs. Clara Edwards, standing before one of her quilts, was honored recently in Columbia by Rep. Rita Allison and the SC House of Representatives.
Mrs. Clara Edwards was honored in Columbia at the South Carolina State House on Thursday, March 25,2010, by Rep. Rita Allison and the SC House of Representatives.  Mrs. Edwards was honored […]

With lots of help from the students who will benefit from it, the District Five Fine Arts Center was officially dedicated on Sunday.
The $10.8 million facility is the final piece of a district-wide building project that spanned five years. As part of the project, D.R. Hill Middle School, Abner Creek Elementary School and Lyman Elementary […]

 A local swimming team recently made a big splash at the national level. The Y-Spartaquatics team based at the Middle Tyger YMCA took their second straight second-place finish at the YMCA Short Course National Championships. The team competed against 210 YMCAs and over 1,500 athletes from around the country. They finished behind the Sarasota, […]

Duncan Murder, Arson Suspect Arrested in NC
A Duncan arson and murder set Arthur Duval Mims, 45, on a 145-mile flight from police Tuesday morning.

According to a statement released by the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office late Tuesday morning, the Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a shooting at 823 Terrace Creek Drive in Duncan at  […]

Neighbor repeatedly stabs chained dog
By Jay King
HOMETOWN NEWS

A Duncan pet owner remains angry and appalled that her dog was stabbed repeatedly while chained on his own property by the owner of another dog after the man’s dog had wandered onto the property and began fighting with the Duncan woman’s dog.
Crystal Tyler is still upset by […]

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 […]

 
More than 12 years after the county purchased the 143-acre piece of property and after two years of design and planning, county leaders finally broke ground on the Tyger River Park between Dillard and Gano roads in Reidville Wednesday, March 24. The  $13.5 million project is expected to be complete by fall of 2011.
For the […]