For more than a year, Lyman officials have been researching potential ways to clean up an old mill site downtown.
As a result of a recommendation, Mayor Larry Chappell connected with the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to do a free site assessment.
The Town of Duncan is looking to finance new rescue equipment, adding a boat to the municipality’s inventory.
The boat is just one of multiple items requested by the fire department to replace 20-year-old equipment and to prepare for future incidents.
Greer City Council is mulling residential use of intermodal containers, like the ones at the Greer Inland Port, following recent requests.
CresCom Bank has added four new members to its team.
In Greer, Stefanie Norman has joined the bank as an item processing specialist. Previously, Norman worked as a collections loss mitigation specialist at TD Bank.
Norman holds a Bachelor of Arts in mass communications from the University of South Carolina Upstate.
New York City lost 343 firefighters during the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
The loss of life did not stop there, however.
Thousands of Greenville and Spartanburg County residents were left without power Tuesday morning following wind and rain associated with Hurricane Irma.
In Greenville County, Duke Energy reported that 31,747 customers were impacted by power outages.
Lieutenant Jimmy Holcombe is retiring from the Greer Police Department after 25 years of service.
The change will take place this Thursday and Lt. Patrick Fortenberry will take over as Public Information Officer (PIO) for the department.
The Greer Commission of Public Works (CPW) is continuing infrastructure improvement efforts downtown, beginning a project on Victoria Street that is expected to span 45 days.
Greer CPW and its contractor, Howard Construction, began water line replacement along Victoria Street between School Street and East Poinsett Street last week.
So far in 2017, 72 South Carolina residents have lost their lives to fire related causes. Should that trend continue, the state will almost certainly exceed the number of fire deaths from 2016 (77).
A Lyman man will serve life in prison without parole today after he admitted to stabbing a woman to death and kidnapping her four-year-old daughter.
Justin P. Paris, 35, pleaded guilty to murder, kidnapping and armed robbery after authorities say he repeatedly stabbed 38-year-old Amie Cordova on April 14, 2015.
