Local crime, high school sports, county politics, events tonight, and business closings — the daily Upstate report from HERE Greenville.
From HERE ColumbiaCOLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina will close its regular-season home schedule under the lights. The Southeastern Conference announced Monday that the 21st-ranked Gamecocks and second-ranked Georgia meet Saturday, Nov. 21, in Columbia, with the opening kick set for 7:30 p.m. Georgia athletics confirmed the same…
From the HERE City State DeskCHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Ally Tipoff turned lopsided early Sunday night as top-ranked South Carolina handled the 12th-ranked Tar Heels, 84-39. Chloe Kitts, who missed the entire 2025-26 season while recovering from a knee injury, led the Gamecocks with 17 points and 10 rebounds. Joyce…
From the HERE City State Desk
CHARLESTON, S.C. — College-bound high school seniors anywhere in South Carolina can now apply for as much as $10,000 toward their first year of college, after the Meeting Street Scholarship Fund opened its application to every county for the 2027-28 school year on Monday. This is the first year the…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina is on track for an estimated $18 million surplus in the Education Improvement Act money that pays for many state school programs, and the Education Oversight Committee is using the cushion as a reason to ask hard questions about what those programs deliver. The committee…
Business
GREENVILLE, S.C. — In Greenville, the Ottaray Raw Bar and Taphouse on Laurens Road has shut down, with Nov. 8 as its final day, after a run of under two years. The owners said sales had not met expectations and that they were proud of what they had built. They…
Business
GREENVILLE, S.C. — The Greenville Housing Authority now owns four apartment communities in the Nicholtown neighborhood outright after closing an $8,467,553 purchase that keeps all 432 homes there affordable. Clark Ridge, Nichol Town Green, Evergreen Place and Forest View are the four properties in the deal. All were built or…
From Merger Monday
On Tuesday the U.S. government paid 5% to borrow for 10 years. On the same day a five-year-old AI company asked public investors to value it at as much as $1.4 trillion. Both things can be true, and the gap between them says a lot about where capital is going. Start…
Politics
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Greenville City Council voted unanimously Monday, Nov. 9, to buy the building that once housed the Greenville Cultural Exchange Center, the former museum on Arlington Avenue that told the story of Black life in the Upstate. Greenville is set to spend $850,000 on the building, which sits…
Politics
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Dorothy Dowe, who holds one of the two at-large seats on Greenville City Council, opened a campaign for mayor on Monday, Nov. 9, with an event at the Rupert Huse Veteran Center. The race will pick the first new mayor the city has had since 1995. Mayor…
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Kickoff: Saturday, November 14 at 1:00 PM EST. Paladin Stadium, Greenville, SC. Opponent coverage below runs until kickoff.
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