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Contestants in this year’s Greer Chili Cook-Off hope to bring something different to the tables that will line Trade Street Thursday evening. The public will then cast their ballots for their choice of “Greer’s Best Chili.” Cash prizes will be awarded to the top three winners and the first place winner will also receive a traveling trophy to keep in their respective restaurant throughout the year.

GREER CITIZEN EDITOR EMERITUS

A $110,000 scoreboard is in the works at Greer High School’s Dooley Field.

HOMETOWN NEWS

Health officials are “pretty confident” that students in Greenville County consumed a large portion of an estimated 42,000 pounds of processed ground beef that was part of the largest meat recall by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

HOMETOWN NEWS

Zoning, annexation and codes are often hot button topics at local council meetings. But to some who feel they are not being heard, those can be lethal words.

HOMETOWN NEWS

Greenville County Redevelopment Authority (GCRA) director Martin Livingston told Greer City Council Tuesday night the city will receive almost $500,000 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds and home funds over the next year.

HOMETOWN NEWS

The recent unpredictability of the weather doesn’t have the National Weather Bureau in Greer concerned, but several homeowners can expect some apprehension when they receive their utility bills this month.

EDITOR EMERITUS

Greenville-Spartanburg Airport passenger traffic and air cargo shipments were down in December, “perhaps mirroring a slowdown in the economy,” said Gary Jackson, the airport’s executive director.

Fueled by two new hospitals and a pair of municipal buildings, construction starts soared to an all time record of $139 million in Greer during 2007.

Surrounded by more than 55,000 U.S. service veterans, the Allen Bennett Memorial Hospital facility is in an ideal location to become a VA Hospital.

“Feeling horny? Try these very hot lines for 69 cents a minute ….for hot live talk with students, housewives and working girls…”
That is the pitch that callers hear when dialing the Greer Post Office using the number published in the new Piedmont Greater Greer phone book now being delivered to area residents.