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Jamie Woodruff, Miss Woodruff High 2011, submitted her written resignation to WHS principal Aaron Fulmer.  In her letter, she stated, “After prayerful deliberation, I hereby submit my resignation as Miss Woodruff High School 2011.  I realize that I must confront my mistakes and move forward. My resignation will enable me to do that.
“I appreciate the […]

Charles Riddle, a well known resident of Young’s Community between Gray Court and Woodruff, was found stabbed to death last Sunday in his home located at 451 Young Schoolhouse Rd.
According to Laurens County authorities, Riddle’s body was discovered in his home by a friend who was checking on why the 80-year-old man had not […]

Professional canine trainer Mark Shawn trains the Woodruff Police Department’s newest K9, Diesel.  Diesel is the department’s first K9 to ever be trained in apprehension.
Story and Photo by PHIL BUCHHEIT
Woodruff’s newest addition to its police force is prepared to take a bite out of crime.  Unlike any of the other K9s on Woodruff’s police force, […]

By Brandon L. Leonard
HOMETOWN NEWS
What some would count as luck, Vietnam veteran Terry Simmons considers to be divine providence.
“Your life’s just not as sound and secure as you think it is,” Simmons told a group of more than 100 who attended a Veterans Appreciation Service at Bellview Baptist Church in Woodruff on Sunday, May 22. […]

Curtis and Virginia Derrick were determined to make it to Maryland on May 4.
In their eighties, the married couple loaded up their 2002 Ford Explorer that Wednesday morning and made the first leg of their trip to a US Naval Academy memorial ceremony recognizing their late son, Joe Derrick.
“I said, ‘Sweetheart, I’m going,’” […]

Another suspect being sought
By Jay King
HOMETOWN NEWS
Spartanburg sheriff’s investigators have arrested an Enoree woman and are seeking a man living at the same address for manufacturing methamphetamine.
Tesa Lorene Cook, 26, of 4 McGowan St., Enoree, was charged May 3 with one count of manufacturing methamphetamine, according to sheriff’s spokesman Tony Ivey.
Investigators are seeking a […]

By Theron Willis
HOMETOWN NEWS
This year’s Stone Soup Storytelling Festival had all sorts of different flavors to its cauldron of culture from an eclectic batch of storytellers using a wide array of styles to spin their tales to the inaugural cycling and running events.
The event kicked off at noon on Friday, April 29 with the […]

By Theron Willis
HOMETOWN NEWS
Make plans this weekend for the Stone Soup Storytelling Festival on Friday and Saturday, April 29 and 30, which will feature new cycling and running events as well as a wide variety of great storytelling from Native American flutes to puppetry and everything in between.
There will be two cycling events available. […]

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 […]

Money  earmarked for facilities upgrades
By Theron Willis
HOMETOWN NEWS
The District Four Board of Trustees approved a Bond Anticipation Note (BAN) for $1.2 Million, and approved facilities upgrades that will use approximately $600,000 of that BAN. The other $600,000 will be used to pay off the $600,000 BAN that was taken out last year by the district […]