Wayne Phillips, 83, and Sovanni Edwards, 4, were the oldest and youngest to take the “Polar Plunge” Sunday afternoon to dive ...

Despite opposition from several trustees, a recently approved $2,000 salary increase moved a step closer Monday to becoming an official policy. School trustees voted 5-4 to approve first reading on a ...

South Carolina Elementary Assistant Principal of the Year Tessie Bridges has been named the new principal at Grassy Pond Elementary. Bridges will begin her tenure immediately and will continue to ...

The Gaffney boys varsity played visiting Riverside on Tuesday. The Indians are coming off a big win over Spartanburg on Friday. Prior to the game, the Gaffney Lady Indians, first place in the region ...

The lowly penny, the forgotten mainstay of coin jars and car cupholders everywhere, may soon be no more. President Donald Trump announced Sunday he’s ordered his administration to cease production of ...

Pictures from the 2025 Golden Peach Awards Reception held February 6 at the Cherokee County Museum. Pictures will continue to be published over the next few weeks.   To continue reading this article, ...

Longtime BPW General Manager Donnie Hardin used the “R” word at Tuesday’s commissioners’ long-range planning workshop. Rather than highlighting Rates, Hardin announced to his commissioners that he ...

Nobel Peach Prizes were awarded Saturday at Glymph Memorial Garden to Lottie Pope Gaffney, Claudia Sanders, Bernice Bonner, Lillian Bonner Sutson and Eva Mae Dawkins. The five civil rights activists ...

I only read Russian writers, Boris Pasternak, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, and my favorite, Alexander Ilyich Solzhenitsyn. Solzhenitsyn wrote of life under Stalin. Solzhenitsyn received the 1970 ...

Developers have another zoning option when it comes to planning their next subdivision in the city. Gaffney City Council last week unanimously passed second reading of an ordinance to add an R-8 ...

Marvin Dewberry, above right, was the $200 end of game winner of The Ledger Big Game contest. The final score was Philadelphia - 40 (Correll Insurance) - Kansas City - 22 (Sub Station). Several others ...

From Southwest Ledger As our Founding Fathers were discussing the creation of the Senate, or upper house in Congress, they had to consider qualifications for members to hold such important positions.