Ann Salway’s third grade class at Abner Creek Academy is one of two grand-prize winners of the national DreamBox Learning Fall Math Challenge.
“Last year, I didn’t push dream box until the contest,” said Ann Salway, who is a second-year winner. “This year, I started dream box from day one.”
A popular music festival is making its way to downtown Greer this winter.
The Albino Skunk Music Festival will host its first-ever indoor WinterSkunk Music Fest from 2-11:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 11, at The Spinning Jenny, located at 107 Cannon St, Greer.
He was the most caring man. If he could do anything for anybody, he’d do it.”
That’s how Delores Boroughs will remember her husband, Sonny, who passed away in November after a long battle with cancer.
That’s how many other members of the Greer community will remember him, too.
Fifth Grade Students at Berry Shoals Intermediate School welcomed in the new year with Letters to 2017.
Dear 2017,
Local daycare students brought Christmas cheer to a nursing home in Greer last week.
Three and four-year-olds from Country Day School visited Brushy Creek Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center last Wednesday to sing Christmas carols and deliver ornaments.
Moms, dads, grandparents and other family members formed a line that wrapped around a local Greer business Saturday morning.
It may have been cold and wet, but complaints weren’t heard. Inside, the little children they brought with them were being given Christmas early as the annual Cops for Tots was taking place.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year…to compete.
Eight local residents are competing for cash during Greer CPW’s annual Holiday Light contest, which takes place this week.
The third annual contest runs through Friday, with judging taking place from 6-8 p.m. nightly.
Taking in an exchange student hasn’t always been easy for independent business owner Stephania Talley-Priester, but it has always been rewarding.
Talley-Priester, owner of Total Life Changes, has been hosting an exchange student from Japan for the 2016-2017 school year.
Greer’s annual Christmas Tree Lighting drew crowds to Greer City Park last Friday night, Dec. 2, while the rain brought out the umbrellas during the Greer Christmas Parade on Sunday, Dec. 4.
Upstate Southern Lit fans got a special treat this month when novelist Cassandra King brought her book tour to Greenville’s Poinsett Club. King, who’d been married to legendary author Pat Conroy 20 years at the time of his death last March, signed copies of her own books as well as a posthumous volume of Conroy non-fiction.
