THE REGALS AND FRIENDS
CONCERT SET AUG. 24
An Evening with The Regals and Friends is set for Thursday, Aug. 24, 7 p.m. at Northwood Baptist Church.
Doors open at 6 p.m., and the concert will feature The Regals with Jeff and Sheri Easter.
The church is located at 888 Ansel School Road in Greer.
GREER CITY CANDIDATE
FILING ENDS AUG. 15
The application window to file for the City of Greer Council, Mayor, and Greer CPW Commissioner seats will close on Tuesday, Aug. 15, at noon.
The Mayor and council seats 1, 3, and 5 are up for reelection for a four-year term.
Lee McMinn of Greenville Technical College (GTC) was recently named winner of a 2023 Catalyst Award for Leading Change.
McMinn is an Academic Program Director of Distance Education Mathematics.
An 18-foot steel beam that was prayed over and signed by North Greenville University (NGU) administrators, faculty, staff, students, and board members on March 2 now serves as a structural piece for the new entrance at the university’s Donnan Administration Building on the Tigerville campus.
The American Red Cross has seen a shortfall of about 25,000 blood donations in the first two months of the summer, which makes it hard to keep hospital shelves stocked with lifesaving blood products. By making an appointment to give blood or platelets in August, donors can keep the national blood supply from falling to shortage levels.
The City of Greer Building and Development Standards Department will once again offer the Greer Professional Development Academy.
Intended for design professionals, developers, contractors and other building and development professionals, this free four-week course will show attendees how to navigate the Development process.
Community members and officials braved the rainy weather and gathered under a tent for the dedication of the Startex Bridge in honor of the late Fitzhugh D. Powers on Thursday.
A Spartanburg County native, Powers was a Constable for Startex Mills and Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office.
A Prisma Health multimedia team member was recently awarded the Southeastern EMMY because of his patient experience video.
The video, just over five minutes long, captures the story of a young cancer patient who was treated at Prisma Health Children’s Hospital in the Midlands.
The City of Wellford approved a rezoning of property at last week’s council meeting.
Council rezoned property from C-1 Transitional Commercial to I-1 Light Industry. The property is located at 10418 Greenville Highway (Hwy. 29), near Wellford Tucapau Road.
Greer resident Kelliesha Lyman is among the first Peace Corps volunteers to return to overseas service since the agency’s unprecedented global evacuation in March 2020.
The Peace Corps suspended global operations and evacuated nearly 7,000 volunteers from more than 60 countries at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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