John Gossett grew up in a small farmhouse on Shiloh Church Road bordering the Camp Croft World War II training site, where his dad was an engineer and mom was a post command driver.
At 83, the retired Army colonel still recalls vividly as a child watching from his bedroom window where many of the estimated 250,000 soldiers who trained there during World War II used live artillery fire. That hill there and all the way back to Pauline was maneuver areas, where troops moved and ran tactics, he said, pointing past the fence line that contains his cattle. Course, we haven t had any worry about it. Soon as the war was over, we went right back (to) farming.
Spartanburg’s police officers could receive a long-awaited gift from the city just in time for the holidays.
When the city council meets Monday night for the last time in 2020, they will vote on a budget allocation that, if approved, would give police officers a pay raise.
The wage increase would put Spartanburg’s police department more in line with other agencies within the county and neighboring counties in terms of pay, according to agenda documents.
But police officers aren’t the only city employees that could see a pay boost as the calendar flips over into 2021. City staff is recommending that a one-time supplemental compensation disbursement be provided to 270 other full-time employees.
A Spartanburg man has died from injuries received during a shooting in October.
Timothy Keith Thompson, 37, of Walden Circle, died at 6:50 p.m., Friday at Spartanburg Medical Center, according to a statement from the Spartanburg County Coroner s Office.
The Coroner s Office said the Spartanburg County Sheriff s Office is investigating the shooting as a homicide.
A forensic examination is scheduled for Saturday.
Thompson is the second person to die from injuries involving the shooting on Oct. 25 at the home on Walden Circle.
When the Spartanburg County Sheriff s Office responded to the scene in October, the Herald-Journal reported deputies found two people injured and one was pronounced dead.
Two arrests were made Thursday in connection to a case in which two girls said they were sexually abused.
Aaron Eugene Dodson, 65, and Andy Lee Dunbar, 41, both of 101 Vass St., Spartanburg were each charged with eight counts of criminal sexual conduct with a minor first degree, attempted criminal sexual conduct with a minor, sexual exploitation of a minor first degree, unlawful neglect of a child and incest.
Dunbar also was charged with two additional counts of criminal sexual conduct with a minor first degree.
Spartanburg County Sheriff s Office spokesman Lt. Kevin Bobo said in a statement the two girls were among 15 living at a residence in Woodruff in 2014 with eight different adults when they were placed into protective custody by the Special Victims Unit of the Spartanburg County Sheriff s Office.