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The SC Women’s Business Center (SCWBC) and the USC Upstate Continuing Education Programs and the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies are offering two marketing seminars for small businesses.  

For as long as this country’s been here, heroin has been the final stop for illicit drug users. The morphine-derived opioid is generally considered the best high that money can buy, and one of the most affordable. It has also gained a well-deserved reputation as the one of the world’s most dangerous drugs.

Greer saw a historic landmark fall last week.

The former Davenport Junior High School cafeteria came crashing down, ending its stint on West Church Street which lasted more than half a century.

After months of searching, the Greer Commission of Public Works has found a successor for Nick Stegall, the former general manager who retired in September.

Jeff Tuttle, most recently the vice president of gas utilities services principal for G2 Partners, begins his new position as the CPW’s general manager March 3.

Editors Note: This is part of a month-long series celebrating Black History Month and African Americans who have made an impact in the Greer community.

A celebrity boxing match that would have seen rapper DMX aka Earl Simmons square off with George Zimmerman, recently found not guilty in a Florida murder trial, has been cancelled, according to the fight’s promoter Damon Feldman.

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The crown has been passed.

On Feb. 8, former Miss Greater Greer Lanie Hudson passed her title on to Ansley Cartee, a pre-business freshman at Clemson University. This was the first Miss South Carolina preliminary in which Cartee has participated.