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Last weekend,  Tab Patton,  the latest owner of the Northside School Property on East Peachtree St.,  demolished the Old Northside School Building. The building was purchased by the school district from the Brandon Corporation (owner of Abney Mill) in 1935 and was used as a school until 1976.  (See next week’s Woodruff News for an […]

Man’s Home is His Castle… Literally

By Theron Willis
HOMETOWN NEWS
Those who have recently driven past the old Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church on West Georgia St may have noticed some curious new wording on the sign out front reading “Paul’s Palace”. The property’s  new owner,  Paul Kaminer is planning to literally make the old church his  […]

Akierrian Gilliam finds himself in a familiar place as his opponent tries to squirm free.  The referee drops to the mat looking for space between the shoulders of Gilliam’s ‘ opponent and the mat.  Three seconds later he slaps the mat and the crowd erupts.  Gilliam jumps up to shake his victim’s hand barely showing […]

Pays $8,740 in Fines
On Monday March 8th, embattled Woodruff realtor Terry Lanford, appeared before the Woodruff Municipal Court and  was finally dismissed as th owner of record of the  Old Northside School Building on E. Peachtree St. after showing transfer of ownership to Tab Patton and paying $8,740 in fees.

Since February 16, Lanford has been […]

In the early morning hours of Tuesday, February 23, residents of the Three Pines Country Club community had their sense of security shattered with several cars being broken into with items such as money, GPS systems and clothing stolen from many of the cars.
A 9mm handgun was also stolen from one of the vehicles. […]

Woodruff’s wait to wrestle for the 2A state championship is finally over.
After a delay of nearly two weeks, the Wolverines will take to the mat Thursday at 7 p.m. at Ridge View High School. Woodruff will face the Loris Lions in the state championship match.
Loris originally lost the Lower State final to Hanahan, but was […]

When Woodruff senior Jeremy Phillips pinned his opponent in the next to last match in Wednesday’s upper-state title match against region 2 2A foe Palmetto, an already raucous Wolverine crowd erupted into pandemonium.  Phillips (125) dispatched the Mustangs’ Vincent Espinoza midway through the second period, capping off the Wolverines’ come-from-behind victory that sent Woodruff to […]

A fight last Wednesday between two sixteen-year-old juveniles caused a chaotic scene at the Woodruff Public Library. 

According to Woodruff Police reports, officers were dispatched to the library last Wednesday in reference to a cell phone being stolen.  Upon arrival, officers were talking to the complainant when they noticed two juveniles walking around the library’s computers […]

Around midday on Monday, February 1, a meth lab was discovered in a house on 220 Park St, which is in close proximity to the Church of God. Woodruff Police were assisting the Laurens County Sheriff’s Office in serving an arrest warrant on James T Koon and during the service of the warrant officers noticed […]

The pastor of Cedar Shoals Baptist Church and two church members cycled to Columbia last Monday, January 18 in fulfillment of a promise made to the congregation.

In an effort to encourage the church to give sacrificially for 2009’s Lottie Moon Christmas Offering, an annual offering collected at all Southern Baptist churches for international missions, Pastor […]