High School basketball

Were a month away from the playoffs and three weeks until the conference tournaments.

Volunteers with Rutherford Housing Partnership will tell you that to be able to touch someone’s life by providing much-needed home repairs is powerful — that adding a wheelchair ramp or replacing a roof is truly a labor of love. Since 1995, RHP has provided 1,269 repairs. 

Girl Scouts in Troop 02280 of Ellenboro are living out the Girl Scout Promise this holiday season by giving to others. 

When you put together a group of Cliffside natives who want to plan a fun Christmas event for the community, the result becomes one that goes throughout the day leading into a night of twinkling lights.

The holiday season will officially begin in downtown Forest City Thursday night during the Annual Christmas Lighting Ceremony from 6 to 9 p.m. 

Thomas Jefferson Football Coach Jerry Cash joked last Friday that the season is usually going pretty well if your playing football after Thanksgiving. Consider the goal reached for the Gryphons in 2014.

For the second week in a row, Thomas Jefferson’s football team has won a playoff game.

In September 1964, the citizens of Rutherford County voted nearly 18 to 1 for a bond issue to build the first buildings that would create the campus of Isothermal Community College. Fifty years later, the College has grown to include a campus in Polk County, offers 87 programs of study, provides customized training to area business and is home to Rutherford Early College High School.

Thomas Jefferson has finally won a football playoff game! 

The past two seasons, both have ended in first round playoff losses. This past Friday, Coach Jerry Cash and his players earned the school’s first ever playoff win on the gridiron. The Gryphons Tyler Mitchell came up big when they needed him too. Following South Stanly’s only lead of the game at 8-6 in the first half, Mitchell took an 85-yard kickoff to the house and then he finalized the game with a 50-yard touchdown reception to cap a 33-14 win.

For 75 years, the Union Mills Community House has served as a place for the municipality’s residents to gather and fellowship. On Saturday, November 15 the Community House will again be the center for socializing during an open house. 

There is a new Rutherford County football champion this season. After beating R-S Central on Monday, East Rutherford followed the win up four days later and downed Chase 24-7 to earn the crown.

Before the clash of R-S Central and East Rutherford, East Rutherford football coach Clint Bland said that his club had to win. A little less than four hours later, he got his wish.