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By Brandon L. Leonard
HOMETOWN NEWS
Local manufacturing plant Jeffrey Rader will reduce its staff by about half over the next six months as the company shifts production “to be more efficient to react to the growth the company is facing,” a company spokesperson said on Jan. 30.
“We’re redistributing some of the production based on a feasibility […]

Balloon release event raises money for area organization
By Brandon L. Leonard
HOMETOWN NEWS
Dozens of yellow balloons faded into low-hanging clouds on Jan. 21 as area residents gathered to remember and honor babies who lived only a few seconds or minutes after birth.
“I hope everyone in Woodruff knows about Perinatal ComfortCare after today,” said TJ Norris, husband […]

Anonymous letter exemplifies moral lesson
By Brandon L. Leonard
HOMETOWN NEWS
An anonymous letter surprised District Four staff over the Christmas holidays.
The two-sentence note postmarked leaving Greenville on Dec. 16 did not include a name or return address but did include $5.
“Dear Sir,” the letter reads. “I went to the Woodruff Public School in the 1940s. Enclosed is […]

By Brandon L. Leonard
HOMETOWN NEWS

Woodruff resident Tony Kennedy was arrested by deputies on Dec. 28 and charged with criminal domestic violence - first offense, according to the deputy’s report.
Kennedy represents Ward 5 on the Woodruff City Council.
The 50-year-old Woodruff man had been taking "a lot of pills and drinking a lot," according to his wife, […]

Community shares memories
By Brandon L. Leonard
HOMETOWN NEWS
January 11 will mark the 25th anniversary of the Woodruff High School fire.
In memory of the event, The Woodruff News interviewed teachers, a student and a volunteer firefighter who had close ties with the old school.
The fire was the final act of a two-night vandalism spree by a […]

By Brandon L. Leonard
HOMETOWN NEWS
What TJ Sevin asked for as a Christmas gift this year surprised his parents and relatives.
The nine-year-old McCormick, SC boy wanted to use some of his Christmas money to make the wish of a Woodruff resident battling cancer come true.
“I made a Christmas wish come true for someone I love, for […]

By Brandon L. Leonard
HOMETOWN NEWS
Parents and relatives of a missing 21 – month - old experienced a Christmas miracle on Dec. 17 when officers found the toddler alive and sleeping on the banks of the Tyger River after a 25-hour hunt.
“The Lord must have held Jason in the palm of His hand protecting him until […]

By Garrett Mitchell
It wasn’t supposed
to end this way…
After months of workouts, summer passing tournaments in sweltering temperatures, and 13 games of unblemished football, the Wolverines seemed destined to bring home state championship number 11 to Woodruff after a 27 year drought.  It wasn’t meant to be.  The Wolverines fell to the Wolves of Timberland […]

Title game Friday
By Ernie Lambert
HOMETOWN NEWS
It is not a common thing to see tears running down through the eyeblack underneath a player’s eyes, especially when that player is on the winning team.
Yet that is what one could see on Ryan Perkins’ face as he stood under the goalposts and watched the ecstatic […]

Wolverines hope third time is charm
 
By Garrett Mitchell
The Woodruff Wolverines are no strangers to the territory they now find themselves in.  For the second straight year, and for the third time in the past four, the Wolverines will be playing for the Upper-state championship.  Woodruff has fallen twice in this game in 2008 and 2010 […]