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SC State Parks and Scenic Highways Offer Spots to Enjoy Fall Foliage
Some of the best gifts of autumn in South Carolina are cooler, crisper air, fresh harvests of pumpkins and apples, and fall color – lots of it! The yearly cycle of leaves losing their green chlorophyll as daylight hours decrease and temperatures cool unveils a rich display of colors that have waited all summer to take center stage. More details

Wits End Poetry Presents Florida Poet Paul D. Sunday
Wits End Poetry presents Paul D., 2005 Southern Fried Individual Champion from Florida, at 7:30PM on Sunday at Cofee Underground in Greenville. Paul D. will take you on a poetic journey of the heart, that captures our everyday struggles in uplifting and poetic language. More details

Motorists Need to Watch for Deer on State Roads
Motorists throughout the state need to be constantly aware of roaming white-tailed deer, according to a state deer biologist. Despite a persistent rumor, neither the S.C. Department of Natural Resources (DNR) nor any other state agency will compensate motorists for injuries or damages resulting from deer collisions. More details

FITESA to Locate Manufacturing Facility in Laurens County; 80 Jobs to be Created
FITESA, a Brazilian manufacturer of polypropylene nonwoven fabrics, will invest and locate its new North American operations in Laurens County, South Carolina. FITESA plans to invest $120 million and create 80 jobs at its South Carolina facility. “This initiative is part of the company's long term growth strategy and reassures the commitment to Fitesa’s customers in the NAFTA region. More details

Crestview Elementary Selected a National Blue Ribbon School
Crestview Elementary has been selected as one of five South Carolina public schools to receive the prestigious National Blue Ribbon School Award. The national No Child Left Behind-Blue Ribbon Schools Program, run by the U.S. Department of Education, recognizes public and private K-12 schools that are either academically superior or that demonstrate dramatic gains in student achievement. More details

Hatcher Garden Hosts Fall Plant Sale on Saturday
Hatcher Garden and the Spartanburg Men’s Garden Club are pleased to present their Fall Plant Sale on Saturday, October 18. Thousands of trees, shrubs, perennials, grasses and vines will be available for this one day event. More details

Celebrate 40th Anniversary of Carl Sandburg Home on Friday
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site Park Superintendent Connie Backlund invites the public to attend the site’s 40th Anniversary Celebration on Friday, October 17th, 2008. The celebration will begin at 10:00 a.m. with a program at the park amphitheater featuring the National Park Service Southeast Associate Regional Director Paul Hartwig and poet Glenis Redmond. More details

LEAF Returns This Weekend; Greenville.com a Proud Sponsor
Nestled at the base of the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains at the site of the historic Black Mountain College, LEAF explores music, dance and performance arts of Americana and the World. Experience LEAF October 17-19! More details

Classic Movie Night at the Travelers Rest (Sargent) Branch Library Thursday
Come to the library for a screening of the classic 1963 film Charade starring Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn and Walter Mathau on Thursday, October 16. Popcorn and soda will be provided. More details

Six Best Practices for Nonprofits to be Highlighted at USC Upstate’s Nonprofit Friday Focus This Week
The Center for Nonprofit Leadership at the University of South Carolina Upstate will continue its monthly nonprofit information lunch series “Friday Focus” with a book review and discussion led by guest speaker Dr. Ron Romine on October 17 from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. Anyone with an interest in nonprofit organizations, including board members, volunteers, employees and other interested parties, is invited to attend. More details

Celebrate the Season at the Annual Oktoberfest in Walhalla This Weekend
Tucked into the mountainous foothills of the Northwestern Corner of South Carolina, Walhalla bids you "Guten Tag! (Good Day!)" You're invited to experience "Gemutlichkeit!!!" (good spirits, good Times, laughter and goodwill) at the Annual Walhalla Oktoberfest, set this year for October 17-19! More details

Born Of the Night - The Warehouse Theatre's Haunted House Experience; Begins Tomorrow
As darkness settles in on The Castle's turrets and the village walls, werewolves, demons, villains, vampires and monsters ready for the prowl. Fear descends in a spine-tingling chill on reverent theatre-goers, pure-hearted actors, and innocent theatre maidens at Born Of the Night - The Warehouse Theatre's Haunted House Experience. More details

Get Ready for the Holidays at Grove Park Inn's National Gingerbread House Workshop Monday
Learn to create magic and fun! The National Gingerbread Competition is right around the corner, and Asheville's Grove Park Inn invites you to get a head start on the competition with this extremely popular and complimentary workshop, set for October 20. More details

"Boo at the Zoo" Returns to the Greenville Zoo Beginning Friday
Get ready for thrills and chills galore at the Greenville Zoo this month! The Zoo is once again hosting "Boo at the Zoo", a safe, non-scary event for kids 12 and under. More details

Centre Stage Presents "Bus Stop" Beginning Tomorrow
When Pulitzer Prize winner William Inge’s play, "Bus Stop", opened on Broadway in 1955, it was an instant commercial and critical success. Based on an earlier one-act, "Bus Stop" involves a pair of young lovers and their struggle to find romance in the modern world. More details

New Initiative Launched to Protect Planet’s Most Endangered Habitat Type
At the IUCN’s 2008 World Conservation Congress, The Nature Conservancy, in conjunction with partners on five continents, is launching a global network aimed at protecting a type of habitat that is disappearing four times faster than tropical rainforest – the world’s mediterranean ecosystems. Mediterranean habitat occurs in only five places in the world: the eponymous geography surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, the Cape region of South Africa, southern and southwestern Australia, the central coasts of Chile, and the majority of the states of California, USA and northern Baja California, Mexico. More details

New Greens, New Bunkers, New Challenges: Furman Golf Club Reopens
The Furman University Golf Club, which has been closed for the past five months while the greens and bunkers were renovated, has recently reopened. The course is available for public play. More details

Mauldin High Student to be Recognized by Greenville County Disabilities and Special Needs Foundation
Mauldin High School Student Cosimo Sinatra will be recognized as Student of the Year at this year's Triumph of the Human Spirit Awards sponsored by the Greenville County Disabilities and Special Needs Foundation on October 16. “Cosimo Sinatra is among a small group of the bravest and brightest individuals I have ever had the pleasure to know. More details

Rollcast Energy and Santee Cooper Plan New $150 Million Biomass Facility in Newberry County
The South Carolina Department of Commerce, Newberry County, and the Central S.C. Alliance recently announced that Rollcast Energy Inc. will establish Loblolly Green Power LLC, a new biomass facility in Newberry County, and Santee Cooper will purchase the 50 megawatts of renewable power that this new facility produces as a significant enhancement to the utility’s existing renewable energy programs. Loblolly Green Power will be the first such facility in South Carolina generating commercially available renewable power. More details

American Cancer Society Encourages Women to Take Charge of Their Breast Health
As the nation marks the annual National Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October, the American Cancer Society is encouraging women to fight breast cancer by taking charge of their personal breast health and supporting efforts against the disease. The Society is reminding women 40 and older about the importance of getting a mammogram annually to detect breast cancer in its earliest, most treatable stage. More details

Art, Music, and More at Greenville County Museum's Free Thursday Evening Programs
There's something for everyone as the Greenville County Museum of Art continues a range of special events and programs on Thursday evenings. Programs begin at 6:30PM, and the Museum is open every Thursday until 8 pm. More details

8th Annual Foothills Highland Games and Festival Just Around the Corner; Greenville.com a Proud Sponsor
For nearly a thousand years, clansmen and chiefs have gathered to compete in one of the most rigorous competitions in the world, the Scottish Highland Games. The S.C.O.T.S. (Scottish Clans of the South, Inc.) invite you to experience this Scottish tradition at this year's Foothills Highland Games and Festival. More details

State of North Carolina Agrees to Purchase Grandfather Mountain
The state of North Carolina has agreed to purchase Grandfather Mountain, one of the state’s premier signature landmarks, in Avery County from the Morton family and Grandfather Mountain Inc. Grandfather Mountain will be North Carolina’s 34th state park. The agreement sets a purchase price of $12 million for the 2,601-acre undeveloped portion of the tourist destination as well as a conservation easement on the remaining 604 acres that will be managed through a nonprofit entity by the heirs of Hugh Morton. More details

SCDHEC's Green Guide Debuts
A new environmental magazine designed to help consumers "go green" is available, the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control reports. "DHEC created a new publication called 'South Carolina Green Guide: Our environment. Our responsibility' to provide our citizens a better understanding of environmental topics and DHEC programs," said Bob King, deputy commissioner of the Office of Environmental Quality Control. More details

Clemson Researcher Keeps a Golf Course Green - and Saves Some Green
As superintendent of a golf course that sees nearly 60,000 rounds a year, Mark Prince knows that to stay ahead of the competition in golf-crazy Horry County, the greens of Burning Ridge Golf Club must stay above par. Burning Ridge Golf Club assistant superintendent David Victor points to the course’s practice green after treatment for soil water repellency. More details

Cross Country Home Services Opens Customer Care Facility in Anderson; 350 New Jobs to be Created
The Upstate SC Alliance celebrates along with the South Carolina Department of Commerce, Anderson County, the City of Anderson and the Anderson County Economic Development Office the opening of the Cross Country Home Services new customer care facility. Cross Country Home Services, Inc. (CCHS), the leader in helping companies drive revenue and customer loyalty through a comprehensive set of home warranties, home service plans and homeowner emergency assistance programs, officially opened its new customer care facility in Anderson, South Carolina. More details

Flat Rock Playhouse Participates in Free Night of Theatre
Free Night of Theatre is Theatre Communications Group's annual national audience development program to attract new theatregoers to America’s professional not-for-profit theatres. From Seattle to Miami and from Austin to Baltimore over 600 theatre companies are opening their doors to thousands of new patrons and introducing them to joys of live theatre - absolutely free of charge! More details

Organic Garden Advances Erskine's Efforts to "Go Green"
An organic "lasagna garden" has been planted on the Erskine College campus by students from Biology 101 (General Biology) as part of the school's "Erskine Goes Green" initiative. Led by Professor Emerita of Biology Dr. Jan Haldeman, who teaches the class, the students, in teams of four, planted six plots using the layered gardening method developed by Patricia Lanza, author of "Lasagna Gardening," published by St. Martin's Press. More details

BMW Group USA Reports September Sales; X5 Sales
Remain Strong
The BMW Group in the U.S. (BMW and MINI combined) reported September sales of 18,506 vehicles, a decrease of 25.8 percent over the 24,932 vehicles sold in September 2007. The BMW Group also reported a year-to-date sales volume of 236,327 vehicles, down 4.8 percent, compared to 248,273 vehicles in the same period of 2007. More details

Semifinalists Named in the 2009 National Achievement® Scholarship Program
Two Greenville County Schools students have been named Semifinalists in the 45th annual Achievement Scholarship competition by the National Achievement Scholarship Program. They are Sebastian Grier from J. L. Mann High Academy and Sherika S. Redmond from Southside High. More details

Chamber Calendar Features PULSE Events, Oyster Roasts During October
Autumn is upon us, and the calendar is full at Greater Greenville Chamber of Commerce. Forums, PULSE events, and a roundtables highlight the month of October. More details

Politics at High Noon: Furman Professors to Discuss Election Season at FYI Downtown
Would you like the opportunity to talk politics with a Furman University professor while having a brownbag lunch in downtown Greenville? You’ll have your chance beginning Thursday, Oct. 2, when the first of Furman’s political scientists come to FYI on Main Street for “Politics at High Noon,” a weekly series of talks about the upcoming election. More details

Let Every Dog “Have His Day” This October!
The ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) invites animal lovers to celebrate national “Adopt-a-Shelter Dog” Month this October by adopting a dog at their local animal shelter. While wonderful companion animals are available for adoption all year round, the ASPCA will place a special emphasis in October to urge potential pet parents to consider choosing from the millions of adoptable canines in shelters across the country. More details

Flat Rock Playhouse Season Tickets Available Now
Season tickets are on sale now for the 2009 Flat Rock Playhouse Professional Series, which begins April 29, 2009. The Plan A and Plan B Season Ticket Packages are on sale through February 6, 2009. More details

2008 On Track For Lowest-Ever Sea Ice In Arctic
Declining ice thickness and what is looking like the second lowest coverage on record means that Arctic sea ice may well have reached its lowest levels ever in terms of total volume, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said recently. The final figures on the minimum ice coverage for this year are expected in a matter of days, but this year's minimum figures are already flirting with last year’s record low of 1.59 million square miles. More details

New Study Shows AP Courses Help Students Succeed in School and on the Job
Advanced placement programs in high school help students of all races earn better grades, degrees and salaries, according to a study by Clemson University professor Lamont Flowers. In his study “Racial Differences in the Impact of Participating in Advanced Placement (AP) Programs on Educational and Labor Market Outcomes,” Flowers looked at the effect of participation in AP programs on college entrance exam scores, undergraduate grade point averages, degrees attained and incomes. More details

Conservation Partnership Protects Critical Tract in the South Carolina Mountains
The South Carolina chapter of The Nature Conservancy and Upstate Forever recently announced the establishment of a new nature preserve at one of the most biologically significant properties in the Southeast, the Nine Times Preserve. The Nine Times Preserve is a 560 acre tract located in northern Pickens County where the Southern Blue Ridge Mountains meet the Piedmont. More details

Flat Rock Playhouse Presents "Tuesdays With Morrie" Through Sunday
Flat Rock Playhouse presents "Tuesdays with Morrie", adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Albom and based on the bestselling book by Mitch Albom. "Tuesdays with Morrie" is the autobiographical story of Mitch Albom, an accomplished journalist driven solely by his career, and Morrie Schwartz, his former Brandeis University professor. More details

Greenville Middle Academy Recognized Nationally for Career Guidance Program
Greenville Middle Academy became the fourth South Carolina middle school in six years to be named as the nation’s top school for leadership excellence in exemplary career guidance programming. The National Consortium for State Guidance Leadership (NCSGL) selected the school as the 2008 winner for its “ABC’s of Career Awareness and Exploration Award,” which recognizes outstanding career guidance programs in the nation. More details

Preserve Fall, Winter Habitat for Quail, Rabbits
Late fall and winter bring "hard times" for small game species like bobwhite quail and rabbits, according to the S.C. Department of Natural Resources. Natural food becomes scarce and resting and escape cover is thin in the fall and winter, according to Billy Dukes, Small Game Project supervisor with the S.C. Department of Natural Resources (DNR). More details

Nova Screw Machine Products Relocates to Greenville County
Convinced that Greenville County is "a great area to grow our business in," Nova Screw Machine Products has announced the relocation of the company's operations from New Jersey to Greenville, South Carolina, effective immediately. The move includes the relocation of the company's owners to the Upstate, and the planned addition of at least 4-8 additional jobs over the next several months. More details

South Carolina Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Alliance Receives $188k to Increase Hydrogen Education
Backed by accomplishments that include hosting their one millionth fan in only three seasons, while setting another professional baseball attendance record in the Upstate, the Greenville Drive has been named co-recipient of the prestigious Club Merit Award in the South Atlantic League. Sixteen teams make up the dynamic South Atlantic League, which is 104 seasons old and represents major league affiliates across eight states and cities including Greensboro, NC, Lakewood, NJ, Charleston SC, Lexington, KY, Eastlake, OH. More details

Moore School Study: BMW Pumps More Than $8.8 Billion Into State Economy
BMW Manufacturing Co. has pumped more than $8.8 billion into South Carolina’s economy, leading to the creation statewide of 4.3 jobs for every job created at the Upstate factory, according to a study released recently by the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. The findings of the study reveal that, after 16 years, BMW has become more than a manufacturing branch plant of the famous German automaker. More details

Clemson University Turns Idle Computer Time Into Colutions for World Problems
Clemson University is tops in helping to tackle climate change, muscular dystrophy, cancer and a host of other world problems by contributing idle computer time to the World Community Grid (WCG) that lets researchers around the world work on life’s toughest issues. Clemson students work on lab computers that contribute computing power to the World Community Grid. More details

SEM Products Inc. Announces New Facility, 85 New Jobs in York County
The South Carolina Department of Commerce announced that SEM Products Inc. will locate its headquarters in York County. The $11 million investment is expected to bring 85 jobs to York County. More details

Deltex Medical Group Announces Expansion into Greenville County, 20 New Jobs
The South Carolina Department of Commerce and the Greenville Area Development Corporation recently announced the expansion of Deltex Medical Group’s North American operations in Greenville. The $2 million investment is expected to create up to 20 new jobs. More details

Make Plans Now to Enjoy Nature’s Most Brilliant Show – The Fall Color Season; Colors Peaking above 3,500 feet!
Each fall, with a comforting rhythm, the mountains light up with a brilliance that, no matter how many times people see it, is new and refreshing each time, as if it’s the first time. Fall’s crisp, sunny days and invigorating breezes are just as promising now as any year in the past. More details

S.C. Public Railways and Department of Commerce Announce the Development of a Statewide Rail Plan
South Carolina Public Railways, a division of the Department of Commerce, recently announced that Wilbur Smith was chosen to research and develop a statewide rail plan for South Carolina. South Carolina Public Railways and the Department of Commerce sought the development of a rail plan in order to outline the inventory of current large industrial sites and make recommendations related to future development of logistics, infrastructure and economic development that could improve the attractiveness of existing resources for potential investors.
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Introduce Kids to Hiking
We all know children who spend too much time indoors and not enough outside playing, let alone exploring nature. To help combat children’s inactivity and lack of knowledge and comfort with the natural world, PCF, with sponsorship from Palmetto Health, has launched a new program to teach kids through a combination of classroom lessons and outdoor recreation instruction.
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Greenville Ranked Among Relocate America's Top 100 Places to Live
Greenville has recently been named to Relocate America's Top 100 Places to Live. 2007 marks the tenth year compiling this list of the best places to live in the United States. More details

Regional and National Blood Supply Low, Donations Urgently Needed
The nation’s blood banks, represented by the American Red Cross, American Association of Blood Banks, and America’s Blood Centers, are asking for immediate blood donations to boost already critically low blood supplies. This call to action comes at a time when blood is traditionally in short supply due to the holidays, travel schedules, and illness. More details

Mice on Main – A Great Way to Spend Some Time with the Kids!
Margaret Wise Brown’s timeless children’s classic, “Goodnight Moon,” is the endearing story of a young bunny in striped pajamas who has to tell everyone and everything – in his room and in the world – goodnight before he can go to sleep for the night. Most any child or parent who has had a preschool child during any time in the last 50 years or so probably knows at least part of the brief and charming poetry that fills the pages of the book. So it comes as no surprise that a great many kids – with parents or grandparents in tow – have had a good time indeed in downtown Greenville as they search for those elusive “Mice on Main.”More details

Grandfather Mountain, a Globally Recognized Nature Preserve
Most visitors to Western North Carolina probably recognize Grandfather Mountain’s famous swinging bridge, and more than likely enjoy visiting its restaurant and souvenir shop. Many thousands of travelers stop by Grandfather Mountain during the annual Grandfather Mountain Highland Games, one of the largest gatherings of Scottish clans anywhere in the country. More details

Chimney Rock Park Offers Four Seasons of Outdoor Fun
For those looking for a invigorating, outdoors spot to spend the better part of a day away from their own particular brand of hustle and bustle, Chimney Rock Park might just be the place. With fall’s generally crisp and sunny days, the park is an ideal location for an afternoon outside with family or friends. More details

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