Running barefoot through the Southern Piedmont is how 1961 Greer High School graduate Buddy Bowman grew up––right here in Greer, no shoes, from the time he was in second grade to a couple years after high school.
On Saturday, August 19, the Strap Em Up Boot Camp cadets and members of the Solutions Recovery Ministry of Greenville, participated in an Aluminum Can Drive at the Taylors Fire and Rescue in Taylors. Strap Em Up Boot Camp is a non-profit organization that promotes the mental, physical, and social development of youth cadets.
The Azalea Garden Club awarded a Residential and Commercial Yard of the Month for August.
He was in James Browne’s first band, was one of Muddy Waters’ best friends by age 25 and spent four years in LA playing bass on the set of Soul Train. He backed up the Temptations, played with Clapton and BB King, and has made a living playing music since he was 15.
Those at Small Impressions Child Development Center are ending this summer proudly as the children within their seasonal programs had a successful reading-filled summer and have been active in the community.
Daily Bread Ministries Soup Kitchen in Greer had a successful summer of feeding local children in the Chandler Creek area, and Martha Bennett said it keeps growing year after year.
Bennett, Director of Daily Bread Ministries, said the Lunch Buddies program feeds local children three times a week for the duration of the summer.
Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of a story about the old WEAB/WPJM radio station building on Tryon Street set for demolition later this year. The scenic parcel of land where the station stood for the better part of a century will soon be developed as housing.
A traveling comedian is coming to Spartanburg next month to bring a little laughter to families and individuals of all ages.
Comedian Mickey Bell, of Alabama, is visiting the Spartanburg District 3 Community Auditorium on August 10 to share his testimony of finding faith in his darkest moments––and learning to laugh through the pain.
The Greater Greer Chamber of Commerce held its 12th annual Public Safety Appreciation Luncheon to honor police, fire, and EMS last Wednesday at the Historic Greer Depot.
The old radio station building at 305 North Tryon St. Extension in Greer sits rotting, stripped and deserted on the same little hill it’s occupied for 80 years. The transmission tower is gone, the rusty satellite dish lies half buried in the back of the building, and the trees that once shadowed the 6.5-acre lot have been reduced to nubs.
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