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Says she aims to keep improving City of Wellford
By Jay King
HOMETOWN NEWS
Wellford Mayor Sallie Peake said she aims to continue to build upon the progress that has been made in the city during the 16 years she’s held the chief executive’s seat.
She said there are a number of projects underway designed to improve the lives […]

By Jay King
HOMETOWN NEWS
In the upcoming Wellford municipal election June 7, retired law enforcement officer and mayoral candidate Tommy Watson believes it’s time for a change.
He said if elected he would work to provide a city government that is transparent and accountable to the citizens.
“We’ve got to have a government that is honest and open […]

Holly Springs Fire Commission settles Jeffcoat lawsuit
Nearly a year after the Holly Springs community burst into an uproar over the termination of former Chief Lee Jeffcoat, and barely a week after three current and one former commissioners were found not guilty for willfully violating the state Freedom of Information Act, the embattled fire commission unanimously […]

Public accounting of actions still considered ‘victory’ for citizenry
By Jed Blackwell
Hometown News
Four Holly Springs Fire Commissioners were found not guilty of violating the state’s Freedom of Information Act in South Carolina’s first-ever criminal FOIA trial last week.
Current commissioners Roscoe Kyle, Ryan Phillips, and Kelly Waters and former commissioner Clarence Gibbs had been charged with FOIA […]

By Jay King
HOMETOWN NEWS
Second only to reining in the county parks department, Spartanburg County Council has set a priority in finding solutions to the overcrowding and staffing issues at Spartanburg County Detention Center (SCDC) as the county contemplates the new fiscal year starting in July.
County Administrator Glenn Breed said the issues of overcrowding and staffing […]

Event educates hundreds about water resources
By Jay King
HOMETOWN NEWS
A partnership between the Spartanburg Parks Commission and multiple agencies and organizations to promote awareness of water resource issues came together this past Saturday at Lyman Lake in the “Discover Your Watershed” day of fun and activities.
SPC spokeswoman Nisha Patel said the event was a huge success […]

By Jay King
HOMETOWN NEWS
A Woodruff city employee has been charged with murder after an Irby Street shooting early Saturday night that left one woman dead and another victim hospitalized.
Jessie Goggins, 57, of 320 Irby St. Apt.1, Woodruff, has been charged with one count of murder and one count of attempted murder following the shooting shortly […]

By Jay King
HOMETOWN NEWS
Tragedy has again visited a Wellford family already visited by loss after a head-on collision claimed the life of Byrnes High Senior Aaron Shawn Hill last Thursday along the same stretch of road honoring the father he lost to a roadside bomb in Afghanistan in 2008.
Hill was pronounced dead at the scene […]

By Theron Willis
HOMETOWN NEWS
Saturday evening, April 16 at the District 5 Fine Arts Center will be the first “District 5 Alumni and Friends” Concert and will feature two internationally acclaimed musicians in order to raise scholarship money for District 5 Band students.
It will be an evening of piano and voice featuring the bass-baritone voice […]

Beloved Byrnes High School teacher reflects on decades in classroom
By Jay King
HOMETOWN NEWS
For Jo Lynn Allen, 46 years of shaping young minds in the classroom have brought changes to the building and the world outside the school but have shown teens are fundamentally the same in 2011 as they were in 1965 when she first […]