Five contestants will compete for the 2018 Greer Idol crown this summer.
The competition, which kicked off last Friday, will take place in the coming weeks during Tunes in the Park at the city’s amphitheater.
A once-in-a-lifetime bloom has the neighbors of Alvin and Betty Arms taking notice.
The Arms residence is home to a century plant, a cactus-like plant that blooms several feet high.
“They only bloom every hundred years,” Nancy Wilson, a neighbor, said.
Editor’s Note: The following article is part of a series on the men and women that worked at the SC State Hospital in Columbia. Look for further stories on Bull Street to appear this summer in The Greer Citizen.
Editor’s note: The following article is Part 2 of a series on the Hall family that began in last week’s edition (May 30). Look for further stories on Bull Street to appear this summer in The Greer Citizen.
In its two centuries on Bull Street, the South Carolina State Hospital only produced one true icon.
A garden does not yield its harvest overnight.
It takes time and dedication from willing hands to tend the new plantings until they prosper.
That will be the mission of volunteers working in Daily Bread Ministries’ new “Giving Garden,” installed last Friday behind the Greer Soup Kitchen.
“All I did was a job.”
That’s how Taylors veteran Clarence Layton Epps described his military service last Tuesday, when he was honored by Patriot Healthcare with a pinning ceremony in his home.
Greer Soup Kitchen workers donned red noses last Thursday to help raise awareness for children in need.
For the fifth year now, Daily Bread Ministries participated in Red Nose Day, an international marketing campaign to shed light on childhood poverty.
Editor’s note: The following article is part of a series on the men and women that worked at the SC State Hospital in Columbia. Look for further stories on Bull Street to appear this summer in The Greer Citizen.
In its two centuries on Bull Street, the SC State Hospital only produced one true icon.
Editor’s Note: The following article is part of a series Buchheit is writing on the men and women that worked at the SC State Hospital in Columbia. Look for further stories on Bull Street to appear this summer in The Greer Citizen.
1961 was not a good year to work at the SC State Hospital.
Bella Muntean may not be playing the flute when the Pride of Riverside marching band takes the field this fall, but her spirit will still ring through the notes.
Muntean had studied flute with Riverside Middle teacher Kevin Styles and Riverside High teacher Kris Bence for four years before passing away from osteosarcoma last month.
