Marietta News

Marty Ward now has lucky No 7. Ward, the defending champion who has held the champion's title five times at Greenville Pickens Speedway, snagged his seventh Late Model Stock win of the season Saturday night at the historic half-mile track.

If you've ever wondered what it's like to till soil or pick vegetables right off the vine, here's your chance.

Christy Morris of Greer chose a mild, sunny afternoon to do some strawberry picking at Sandy Flat Berry Patch in Taylors.

June is national great outdoors month, and during this time set aside to focus on the importance of participating in outdoor activities, you'll find an abundance of fun, interesting ways to get your family outdoors and moving.

TRAVELERS REST RESIDENT, J. PATRICK DOWNEY, APPOINTED TO GLASSY MOUNTAIN FIRE SERVICE AREA BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MAY 8, 2009, LANDRUM, SC....The Glassy Mountain Fire Service Area Board of Commissioners' announced the appointment of J. Patrick Downey to fill the unexpired term of Jack Fitzpatrick.

Fletcher Police filed the following charges the weeks of March 23 and March 30: * Kelly Ray Dockery, 34, 149 Forestdale Road, Marietta, S.C., was charged March 23 with misdemeanor possession of schedule IV.

Slater-Marietta Elementary School reorganized its "learning community" and became one of three Title 1 schools statewide that worked its way off the No Child Left Behind list of troubled schools.

You would think that something that stands 100' high would be easy to find.A Certainly, when you're close enough they are very visible.A However, locating lookout tower sites on maps turns out to be harder than ...

James Joseph Barnett, 48, faces charges of assaul4 and batter with intent to kill, kidnapping and robbery, according to warrants.

A Marietta man was charged Monday with driving his 1995 Chevrolet Blazer into a Greenville County sheriff's deputy three times, according to warrants.

Since the holidays are here , I thought it time to do a quick roundup of new and nearly new cookbooks with a local flavor.

A 64 year-old Marietta man died in a fiery crash Tuesday evening when his 1999 Ford pickup slammed into a home on Geer Highway, with the homeowners escaping injury even though their residence was extensively ...

A man from Marietta is dead after driving his truck into the side of a house. Police said the crash happened on Geer Highway at Bates Crossing at about 5:30 p.m. Troopers said 64-year-old Gary Lee Hamilton was ...

A man was killed when his car ran off the road and came to rest inside a house at Geer Highway and Bates Crossing in Marietta tonight, Scott Ramsey, a deputy coroner from the Greenville County Coroner's Office.