With just two weeks to go before Christmas, employees at a FRAM Auto Filter plant in York learned this week they will be losing their jobs in the months ahead. Lake Forest, Ill.-based UCI-FRAM announced Monday the closure of the company’s plant in York next year, with the first of approximately 225 job cuts coming […]
It’s not often where a middle school principal is kept out of the loop on the happenings inside his own school. But for Sullivan Middle School principal Michael Waiksnis, those were exactly the marching orders Tuesday from district officials. Waiksnis, surrounded by his family and colleagues, learned he was the 2013-14 S.C. Association of School […]
Employees at Rock Hill’s Williams and Fudge took time out of a busy Tuesday to help donate toys for WRHI’s Toys for Happiness program. While defying gravity and dodging others, employees at the student loan collection firm bought and subsequently donated nearly 300 kid-size bikes following the company’s annual bike race. “You see the enthusiasm […]
Thanks to an employee family holiday party Tuesday night, Comporium Communications has collected nearly 400 toys as part of the WRHI and United Way of York County’s Toys for Happiness campaign. Comporium’s Paul Kutz says the donations filled an entire van. “I wish we could fill up two vans, but that’s a good start,” Kutz […]
The next time you try to sell an item at your local pawn shop, you may be asked for identification. S.C. Rep. Raye Felder of Fort Mill has prefiled legislation in the General Assembly calling for tighter regulations for South Carolina’s pawn shops, requiring sellers to produce identification before an item is listed for sale. […]
A Rock Hill couple were found dead Monday by a caregiver in their home off Herlong Avenue. James Martin, 91, and Mary Jean Martin, 81 died in an apparent murder-suicide at their home on Huntcliff Drive, York County Coroner Sabrina Gast said. Investigators believe James shot his wife before firing the gun on himself. The […]
This weekend, a South Carolina State Trooper drove twice the posted speed limit on Interstate 77 to catch up with a speeding driver. That driver turned out to be Rock Hill native and University of South Carolina Defensive End Jadeveon Clowney. The traffic stop occurred at about 8:30 p.m. on December 7 after a S.C. […]
