Published: Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008 / Updated: Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008 04:08 PM
Take a trip down memory lane with the top Fort Mill 11s from the past:
2007
1. Jim Bagley and the never-ending drought
2. Beverley Bowman and Nation Ford High School
3. Bayles Mack
4. Danny Funderburk
5. Karen Paulson
6. Fort Mill High School
athletics
7. School bond committee
8. Ralph Hughes
9. Residents oppose Blue Dot
10. Rick Joyner
11. Kathy Faris and
Indian Land High School
2006
1. Myron George and local bypass projects
2. PMC President Charlie Miller
3. Lancaster County Councilman Bryan Vaughn
4. Fort Mill School Board members Michael Johnson and Patrick White
5. The Carolina Heelsplitter
6. Sun City Carolina Lakes
7. Town Planning Director Andy Merriman and Police Officer Tonya Ervin
8. Larry Keeter (recovering from spinal injury)
9. FMHS football coach Rusty Jester
10. The Stans Family
11. Jeff Updike
2005
1. DHEC Director of Health Facilities Joel Grice
2. Fraudulent donor William Trumble and the YMCA
3. Grant Duffield
4. Sun City Carolina Lakes
5. Fort Mill Mayor
Charles Powers
6. Hurricane Katrina
and the relief effort
7. Local high school
state champs
8. Earl Coulston
9. Debbie Quillen
10. Springs Global
11. Henry Eldridge
2004
1. Wal-Mart
2. Fort Mill Town Councilwoman Guynn Savage
3. Former Fort Mill Superintendent TEC Dowling
4. Heritage USA property
5. Fort Mill Town Manager David Hudspeth
6. York County Planning Director Eric Greenway
7. Olympic medalist and Van Wyck native Shawn Crawford
8. State House Rep. Ralph Norman and the Republicans
9. Fort Mill High School Principal David Damm
10. Indian Land High's
champion softball team
11. Fort Mill's Paradise
resident Tamala McFadden
2003
1. TEC Dowling and Becky Richardson
2. Iraq war hero Jesse Lanter
3. Fort Mill's planned second high school
4. Springs Industries
5. Developers and growth
6. Roadwork
7. Fort Mill High School Marching Band
8. November elections
9. Champion Fort Mill swimmer Jessica Burkhard
10. The Humane Society of York County
11. Bikini car wash girls
2002
1. Fort Mill Assistant
Superintendent of
Finance Karen Puthoff
2. Calpine Industries
3. Tega Cay elections
4. Bob Runde and the POA
5. Roadwork
6. Crime on the upswing
7. The drought
8. Bob Jones
9. The annexation debate
in Tega Cay
10. Fort Mill High School champion baseball team
11. Tega Cay's tax troubles
2001
1. Jim Britton
2. Crandall Bowles
3. Karen Puthoff
4. Steve and Gerry
5. Banks Street School complex
6. Adult Day Care Center
7. Greg Jacoy
8. Herman Stone
9. Sept. 11 attacks
10. The census
11. Charlie Lisk
2000
1. Dale Holden
2. DHEC
3. Josh and Sarah
4. TEC Dowling
5. Gary Parker
6. Charlotte Commuters
7. Karen Puthoff
8. Mark Madden
9. Mark Farris
10. Stan Smith
11. Tim Newman