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Before Varner's football titles, he coached Woodruff's girls to four state basketball championships in the 1960s (1963, 1964, 1966 and 1967). Part 6 of the Woodruff Times history series.
Read at The Woodruff Times (opens the original story in a new tab)At its final 2020 meeting, council banned first-floor dwellings fronting Main Street in the revitalization district, dropped lot-width and setback minimums for buildings 45 feet or shorter, rezoned about 129 acres for a large housing project, and moved to commission a rates and fees study.
Read at The Woodruff Times (opens the original story in a new tab)The Woodruff Times looks back at Chuck Epps's 1980-81 Woodruff boys' basketball team, which went 24-2 and averaged 88.7 points a game, a South Carolina record that stood for 26 years.
Read at The Woodruff Times (opens the original story in a new tab)At its Nov. 24, 2020 meeting, council gave first-reading approval to selling a small city lot near City Hall for six townhomes, new Main Street zoning limits, and rezoning 129 acres for about 430 homes, while a 24-acre Fountain Inn Rd rezoning failed.
Read at The Woodruff Times (opens the original story in a new tab)In November 2020 the city was building Block 224, an open-air space at 224 S. Main St. with seating, a gas firepit, an arched entry and a stage. The lot was bought for $23,000 in 2018; construction was about $350,000, helped by a $25,000 state grant.
Read at The Woodruff Times (opens the original story in a new tab)At its Oct. 27, 2020 meeting, council gave final approval to reimbursing a developer for two sewer pumps serving a planned 350-home subdivision at Hwy 101 and McElrath Rd, approved a $6,500 Lakewood Dr drainage ditch, and heard a strong annual audit.
Read at The Woodruff Times (opens the original story in a new tab)Part 4 of The Woodruff Times Wolverine history series profiles distance runner Maggie Rhodes and her run of state cross country titles.
Read at The Woodruff Times (opens the original story in a new tab)At its Sept. 29, 2020 meeting, Council finalized a hospitality-tax incentive for a new Bojangles on north Main Street, gave first reading to a sewer-pump incentive for a 350-home community at Highway 101 and McElrath Road, and tightened the animal tethering and shelter rules.
Read at The Woodruff Times (opens the original story in a new tab)Part 3 of The Woodruff Times Wolverine history series looks back at the 2010 volleyball team, which won Woodruff's first region championship and reached the state final.
Read at The Woodruff Times (opens the original story in a new tab)Part 2 of The Woodruff Times Wolverine history series: after a loss to Liberty, Coach Varner changed defenses and the 1980 Wolverines ran off a string of shutouts to a state championship.
Read at The Woodruff Times (opens the original story in a new tab)The Woodruff Times opens its Wolverine history series with Willie Varner, the coach who came for one year in 1953 and built a state-title football tradition.
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