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West Shore Home, a home improvement company, is now operating in Greer.

The Greer office, located at 2824 Old Woodruff Road, provides office space, sales training facilities and a warehouse for custom bath, window and door products. It will add dozens of jobs to the region, according to officials.

It was a story book ending for the Byrnes softball team.

Senior Haylee Whitesides had 14 strikeouts and pitched a shut out to help Byrnes secure its fifth state championship last Thursday.

A small group of dedicated military veterans gathered at the Greer City Cemetery last Tuesday to honor the lives of the servicemen buried there.

Twenty-eight gravestones were cleaned and the surrounding grass was trimmed, as a new American flag was pressed into duty.

Greer resident and local garden club member, Kelly Long, shares about raising Monarchs before releasing the first set of 22 butterflies on Tuesday at the new Kids Planet butterfly garden.

Former Yellow Jacket and current Carolina Panther, Troy Pride Jr. (pictured right), hosted the first TPJ Day of Play at Dooley Field last Saturday. See more from the event on B1.

Greer’s Partnership For Tomorrow (PFT) could soon consolidate into the Greer Development Corporation (GDC).

GDC Director Reno Deaton recently presented a proposal to bring the Partnership For Tomorrow under the GDC Board of Directors.

City of Greer residents will see a tax increase this year.

Greer City Council approved a motion (5-2) to include a 1.2 mill increase in the 2021-22 budget.

Council members Wayne Griffin and Judy Albert opposed the tax increase, which equates to approximately a $9 increase annually per $200,000 home owner.

Police are still investigating after a man was run over during a “road rage” incident in Greer on Sunday night.

According to the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office, officials responded to the Exxon parking lot on North Highway 101 at Milford Church Road where someone had been struck by a vehicle around 11:20 p.m.