Capital Project Sales Tax

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County leaders interested in creating new public access point on lake

There’s something missing from Lake Greenwood. On its north and south banks are five access points allowing for boat launching into the water. But for hundreds of miles along its […]

Public meetings

MONDAY GREENWOOD SCHOOL DISTRICT 50 POLICY COMMITTEE TIME: 5:30 p.m. LOCATION: 400 Glenwood St., Greenwood AGENDA: Board officer term limits. Renaming of school. TUESDAY GREENWOOD COUNTY ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE COMMITTEE […]

Our View: Where we stood and stand on a rather taxing matter

Thursday’s front-page story raises an opportunity to again address Greenwood County’s capital project sales tax and reinforce a couple of this newspaper’s positions. It is true the county intended to […]

County: Capital project sales tax collection running $20M short

More than a third of the capital improvement projects included for funding when voters approved a one-cent penny sales tax in 2016 are now expected to be scrapped after county […]

Our View: On good jams, good deeds and good reporting

Sometimes it’s OK to be in a jam. That is to say, it’s good that testing on jamming cellphone signals at state prison facilities appears to be working, and without […]

Greenwood County Fire Service starts rolling out new trucks

A plan a year in the making is coming to fruition, as new firetrucks make their way into stations throughout Greenwood County. In 2018, County Fire Coordinator Steve Holmes made […]

Our View: Why shoot the messenger when the message is yours?

We will readily admit we are not the best mathematicians, but let’s do a little math anyway. In 2016, the voters of Greenwood County cast a majority “yes” vote in […]

Our View: On fall weather, productive work

  It probably won’t last from here on out, but it is good to feel fall in the air as the week comes to a close. The crisp looking skies […]

Piedmont Tech to expand advising center

Piedmont Technical College’s push to improve student retention seems to be working, the administration reported at Tuesday’s Area Commission meeting. CAREplan is a redesign of the college’s advising plan for […]

Index-Journal withdraws FOI request to county over CPST data

Greenwood’s daily newspaper has rescinded a Freedom of Information Act request to county officials that sought more details about the process used to generate the $87.9 million dollar amount placed […]