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Duncan makes progress with its expansion of sewer services.

At the regular August 15 meeting, Spartanburg County Council approved the request from the town of Duncan to extend sewer services.

A local resident’s request has sparked a traffic study by the City of Greer.

Lyman Town Council unanimously approved the first reading of an ordinance to annex property located at the corner of Pacific St. and Community St. The property is zoned as GBD-1 (General Business District).

“The owner of the property will be building a commercial building on this property,” said Matthew Bullard, Zoning Administrator.

Greer State Bank recently hired Paul Pickhardt as Senior Vice President, SBA Lending Manager.

There was a slowdown in the growth of annual revenue collections for state government’s fiscal year that ended June 30, 2016, according to State Controller Richard Eckstrom. While annual revenues grew by 4.3 percent for the fiscal year, it was significantly less than the 7.3 percent rate of growth experienced a year earlier.

Q: I’m a recently retired widow, and my husband always took care of most of our finances. We never had any debt, but after starting to learn a little bit about how money works, I’m worried that there may be too much of it invested in CDs (certificates of deposit).

Firehouse Subs is inviting guests nationwide to help their local first responders beat the heat in exchange for a sub with the fifth annual H2O for Heroes bottled water collection drive.

Q: My wife and I are on Baby Step 3 of your plan, and we’re about halfway to building our fully funded emergency fund. We don’t like our current home very much, and we’d like to sell and move as soon as possible.