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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 […]

Gang symposium urges teens to make good choices

Photo by Jay King
Spartanburg County gang investigator Nick Hullinger, left, illustrates a point with the help of a volunteer during a gang symposium March 9 at The Hangar, Spartanburg First Baptist’s student center.
By Jay King
Hometown News

Contrary to what the popular perception might be, gangs are a growing problem […]

BY JED BLACKWELL
HOMETOWN NEWS

The Middle Tyger Times was the recipient of the prestigious Reid Montgomery Freedom of Information Award at Saturday’s South Carolina Press Association annual awards banquet.

The award, which honors a newspaper’s commitment to the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act, is named for Reid Hood Montgomery, a former secretary-manager for the SCPA. Remembered […]

Possible changes to law raise questions
By Jay King
HOMETOWN NEWS

A new proposal in the state House that would essentially do away with many restrictions for carrying a concealed weapon is generating some concern among local leaders about the law’s effects on public safety.

The measure proposed by Laurens Rep. Michael Pitts is expected to go before the […]

By Jay King
HOMETOWN NEWS

A Wellford mother was charged with child neglect Feb. 15 after a school resource officer and a local school principal discovered the woman’s nine-year-old daughter home alone with her two younger brothers.

Lakusia Shavonne Payne, 29, of 500 Monarch Place Apt. 507, Wellford, was charged with one count of child neglect after deputies […]

Holly Springs in ‘favorable financial shape’
By Jay King
HOMETOWN NEWS
The Holly Springs Fire and Rescue commission tentatively accepted a revised budget totaling $264,327 presented by acting Chief Brent Blackwell at its monthly meeting Feb. 8.
The new proposal is significantly less than the $315,977 budget approved last summer under former chief Lee Jeffcoat with the vast bulk […]