Columns & Letters

BY DEBORAH L. WALDROP
For The Greer Citizen

Mother and daughter team Vickie Graydon and Kayla Graham are expanding their business, Southern Threader, to a second location.

A Grand Opening celebration for the new storefront is set for Friday and Saturday, August 6-7, at 6019 Wade Hampton Boulevard, Taylors.

To the editor,

I read, with amusement, John Hanson’s June 30th rebuttal to the Citizen’s excellent June 16th editorial. It was highly entertaining, but I’d be remiss not to address a couple things that surfaced among that lengthy, inchoate word salad.

Local commuters will want to take note of a bridge closing that will impact traffic for the next month or two.

The Blackwell Road bridge will be closing this week for 4-6 weeks for repairs, according to City of Greer officials.

By Josh Lanier
For The Greer Citizen

A series of unfortunate events had led to a gnarly hole in the bottom of my kayak, big enough to put three fingers in. I won’t go into the details here, but I’ll just say be careful who (my son) you loan your most prized possessions to.

To the editor

As a resident of Greer, I greatly appreciated the Citizen’s June 16th editorial that encouraged readers to “take in multiple sources. Do as much of your own research as you can. Come to your own conclusions.”

Here’s something to consider: have a mental plan in place in the event you see a child left in a car.

According to the nhtsa.gov, “If an unattended child is not responsive and appears to be in distress, attempt to get into the car to assist the child-even if that means breaking a window.”  

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