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Jed Blackwell, Hometown News 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 […]
Continued… District Five Dedicates Fine Arts Center
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Jed Blackwell, sports editor 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, […]
Continued… Local Swimmers Take Second at YMCA National Championships
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Leon G. Russ, Hometown News 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 […]
Continued… Mims arrested after flight and standoff with NC officers
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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 […]
Continued… Duncan Pet Owner Appalled by Attack
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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 […]
Continued… A Crime Darker than Night - Part II
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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 […]
Continued… Tyger River Park Passes Go
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By Jay King
HOMETOWN NEWS
In the little more than 18 months since its inception, the Spartanburg County Truancy Court has made huge inroads in the problem of chronic absenteeism among the county’s more than 40,000 students.
According to Harry McMillan, the truancy court hearing officer, the feedback from the seven school districts and the schools has been […]
Continued… Truancy Court Reducing Absenteeism in County’s Schools
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By Jay King
HOMETOWN NEWS
Photo courtesy of Coroner’s Office
Spartanburg County Coroner Rusty Clevenger speaks to second graders at Reidville Elementary School last week during a career day presentation designed to help students see the connection between education and real-world jobs. RES Principal Elizabeth Sima said the students were “bubbling” after the presentation of more than 15 […]
Continued… Career Day — Reidville Elementary program brings in diverse group of speakers
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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 […]
Continued… Jobs for Youth at Cowpens Battlefield
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Jay King, Hometown News 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.
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Continued… New Fine Arts Center
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