Whiting’s Writings: It’s what we do and why we’re here

Greenwood County Council strikes a sidewalk for parking spaces deal with Palmetto Crossing.

Greenwood City Council gives its OK to some rezoning requests, one that will bring a mixed development to the area of Marshall Road, the other for a planned development around Uptown.

There was another 5k Race the Helix event Saturday on the Greenwood Genetic Center campus.

Greenwood Community Theatre launched its latest Penguin Project play, “Winnie the Pooh KIDS,” on Thursday and the Arts Center had a reception for its running exhibition celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month.

Oh. And there was all sorts of live music performed between Thursday and Saturday.

Last Friday, Abbeville High rolled over Ninety Six High with a 49-28 win. Greenwood High won against Lexington, 14-0, while crosstown high school Emerald barely lost to Broome, 28-27.

Of course, those were not the only area football games played and, since this is being written ahead of Friday night’s games, suffice it to say those games were previewed in that day’s edition.

Tabitha Min of Abbeville has released yet another book, one for children, that she wrote.

The Greenwood SC Chamber of Commerce has been hosting public meetings to share information and answer questions about the proposed Capital Project Sales Tax that will be on Greenwood County voters’ ballots in November.

Tony Gonce of Greenwood is not your ordinary backyard boiler of peanuts, no sir. Apparently people travel from near and far to Coronaca — some doing so weekly — for a serving of his nuts, which come in a variety of flavors.

The Piedmont Agency on Aging has found a growing need for the meals it provides to seniors, so much so that it is working on fundraising to expand its kitchen.

Ware Shoals residents have some dam concerns when it comes to their property along the Saluda River as flowing waters have been replaced by shallow muddy waters and mud flats.

Uptown Greenwood’s Waller Avenue is slated for a facelift, designed to bring more people to the unique brick-lined street.

Although it’s been 23 years since the terrorist attack on the United States, memories of 9/11 have hardly faded from the minds of Laura McCravy Hunter and Chris Ann Sondels.

Longtime Greenwood County resident and attorney Jim McDonald recently reminisced about his life and times on his 100th birthday.

As Greenwood County prepares to renovate the county courthouse and office space in Park Plaza, it bought a former church and converted into office space to house employees off-site during the process.

Did you know these things already?

If so, it’s likely because you read these and other reports by our staff. You did not learn of these — with the possible exception of GCT’s Penguin Project — on TV news broadcast by the Greenville and Spartanburg area stations that occasionally come here.

This is who we are. This is what we do.

As best we can and with a far smaller staff than area TV stations’ crews, we cover local news, sports, entertainment on a regular basis. We don’t do it all. We can’t do it all. But we do what we can to bring our readers news and information they need, that they use and want. And we do so on various platforms, be it printed newspapers, our indexjournal.com website and our electronic editions.

Originally Published by Index-Journal on: Sep 22, 2024

By RICHARD WHITING rwhiting@indexjournal.com

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