The following is a press release from the City of Spartanburg. If you represent a local organization and would like to have us publish your press release, please take a look at our guidelines, and send it to cgeorge@spartanburgspark.com Upstate Forever will honor the City of Spartanburg this Thursday, Feb. 2 at its 3rd Annual ForeverGreen Awards Luncheon. Upstate [...]
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Spartanburg County Council District One representative Michael Brown want’s Sheriff Chuck Wright to tone down the rhetoric on concealed weapons permits according to an article by Stephen Largen in today’s Spartanburg Herald-Joural. Follow this link to read the full article. “I think it’s irresponsible, irreprehensible and of course incendiary if you keep on making these [...]
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The following actions were taken at the January 23 Spartanburg City Council meeting. • Council member Cate Brandt Ryba was unanimously selected as Mayor Pro Tem for 2012. Ryba is serving her first term representing Spartanburg City Council District Four (click here to view district map) having been elected to office in 2009. • Council [...]
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It’s finally over. After the stomach-turning 11 days between the New Hampshire Primary and our own, the 2012 Republican Presidential Primary passed through the Palmetto State like a dirty water hot dog washed down with a glass of Mexican tap water. Our grand old state probably left what little bit of political dignity it had [...]
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Wondering what’s going on at tonight’s Spartanburg City Council meeting? Check out the agenda below. If you want more details, the entire agenda packet including all supporting documents for the issues Council will be taking on tonight can be downloaded here.
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Budget items dominated today’s big Spartanburg City Council Retreat. Held at the Spartanburg Downtown Airport. Check out our roundup of tweets (and explaining commentary where necessary) from the meeting below. [View the story "Spartanburg City Council Retreat, January 21, 2012" on Storify]
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There’s an art to podcasting…scratch that…there’s NO art to podcasting. Podcasting is what radio personalities would do if they didn’t have real jobs. Daniel Hagerman and I know that, and we take full advantage of the low expectations. Where an intelligent, well-informed radio personality might break down the horserace of the SC Primary, we choose [...]
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Below is the agenda for the Spartanburg City Council retreat being held this Saturday, January 21, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Dominating the agenda will be talk of the Fiscal Year 2013 City Budget. The retreat will be held at the Spartanburg Downtown Airport Terminal at 500 Ammons Road (Click here for directions).
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The following is a press release from USC Upstate. If you represent a local organization and would like to have us publish your press release, please take a look at our guidelines, and send it to cgeorge@spartanburgspark.com Students majoring in art education will have their works on display at the Curtis R. Harley Art Gallery, located on the [...]
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The following is a press release from the South Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind. If you represent a local organization and would like to have us publish your press release, please take a look at our guidelines, and send it to cgeorge@spartanburgspark.com The hottest event of the year is back! Tickets for the 2012 So You [...]
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