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By CHRIS SHIPMAN
Hometown News
   
Woodruff City Council met Monday night. Council , with all members presnrt except for Tonu Kennedy.  Council unanimously approved a proposal by Fire Chief Steve Quinn to purchase a new fire engine. Whether the county approves a general obligation bond to purchase two new engines, a ladder truck and equipment, build […]

By Jay King
HOMETOWN NEWS
Spartanburg School District Four officials and the Spartanburg Sheriff’s Office are investigating allegations of possible hazing involving members of both the junior varsity and varsity baseball teams.
According to District Four Superintendent Rallie Liston, several sources contacted the administration about concerns of hazing involving the teams.
“At the end of last week three different […]

Oakleys’ ‘crops’ wriggle
on way to market
Story and Photos
by Phil Buchhheit

(Editor’s note: This is the third in a continuing series of articles in which Hometown News will profile farming and farmers in the Upstate.)

In 1996, life got fishy for former chemical engineers Bill and Jean Oakley when they decided they were looking for a […]

STORY and PHOTO
 BY PHIL BUCHHEIT
A Woodruff man is being held at the Spartanburg County Detention Center on $26,000 bond after being charged with kidnapping, 2nd degree burglary, aggravated assault, and trespass after warning.  Dantonio W. Smith 20, of 745 Pearson Road was arrested by Woodruff Police Friday in the parking lot of Woodruff Federal Savings […]

By CHRIS SHIPMAN
Hometown News
Next week, April 20-25, is Community Pride Week in Woodruff. The city is providing volunteers with safety vests, gloves, pick-up sticks, and trash bags. Containers will be placed at four locations on April 17: the Rescue 17 building on Hayne Street, the Abney Mill office, the old Street Department Building on Wofford […]

By CHRIS SHIPMAN
Hometown News
Rev. Clifton Edell Dawkins, Jr., in honor of his work with the homeless in Atlanta, was inducted last week into The Martin Luther King, Jr., Board of Preachers, Sponsors, and Collegium Scholars at Morehouse College.
Dawkins, along with his brother Darrell, who serves as Woodruff’s police chief,  was raised in Enoree and […]

By CHRIS SHIPMAN
Hometown News
Two issues which could have major implications for the city of Woodruff and the surrounding area were brought up in Monday night’s city council meeting: the possibility of moving the city’s administrative and police offices downtown to the soon-to-be-vacated WK&B building on Main Street and that of a county general obligation bond […]

By CHRIS SHIPMAN
Hometown News
Woodruff High School has won two Palmetto Gold Awards for General Performance and Closing the Achievement Gap. More than 400 public schools have earned cash awards recognizing academic achievement, student academic improvement and closing achievement gaps in 2008.  This is the Palmetto Gold and Palmetto Silver Awards’ eighth year. Woodruff High has […]

By CHRIS SHIPMAN
Hometown News
Dusty Ashmore’s family thought it was just a case of strep throat. His older sisters, Hayley, age 6, and Katie, age 5, had gotten it, but after two days on antibiotics were feeling fine. Dusty, age 3, showed no improvement. He looked washed out and pale, his mother, Leila, said. At first, […]

By Leon G. Russ
HOMETOWN NEWS
As Sylvia Jamison recently walked into the gym at Woodruff High School the memories came flooding back to her.  It had been 28 years since she gave her Valedictory address on the Woodruff High football field.
When she entered the gym, the one spot that survived the fire, the one spot that […]