Greenville County News

High stakes accountability testing of public school students is always a topic of great interest, and even though tests do not fully measure what students have learned, they can be used to gauge student progress and to identify academic strengths and weaknesses.

Twin Falls on Reedy Creek is one of Upstate's most popular attractions, mostly because of the ease of access to a viewing platform at the base of the 75-foot-high waterfall.

Changes to the SAT college entrance exam announced recently could put some low-income students in South Carolina in a better position to compete with students who have been able to afford test prep classes, but the impact the new test may have on overall scores is difficult to predict, experts said.

David Picone was working his normal patrol in what the Greenville County Sheriff's office calls Area 2, Greer/Taylors on April 11, 2011, when a dispatcher sent him to 201 Montclair in Greer for a welfare check.

I am still unsure which way I lean. As I have grandchildren in this county's school system, I have seen that when in fourth grade my granddaughter's teacher was doing her very best to find the time in that school year to teach her students how to sign their names.

A Laurel View Log Home is featured in the South Carolina Energy Office's Residential Green Building Fact Sheet as the ENERGY STARA Home in Greenville County.

OBESITY KNOWS NO AGE. ROUGHLY ONE OUT OF FIVE CHILDREN IN SOUTH CAROLINA IS OBESE.

Greg Szabo, the top executive at the Nutra Manufacturing plant along Woodruff Road, has watched traffic congestion grow outside of his place of business for 15 years.

A motorcyclist died after a collision with a car on State 253 just outside the city of Greenville, according to the Highway Patrol.

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THE ONLY PICTURE FROM OAKLAND TO A COMPARISON OF MIRRORS DOWNTOWN GREENVILLE THEY'RE WORSE WHAT DO WITH THE LOW CLOUDS IN THE COOL RAIN CONTINUING IN THE BRISK WIND OUT OF THE NORTH EAST AND ABOUT TEN TO TWENTY MPH BUT STILL IT WAS TO PUT UP A FORGED ABLE TO BOAST MORE COULD A BOOK CALLED RANSOM A HEAVIER A BUCKET OF COLD ACCOUNTING THROUGH ... (more)

For one teenager, homelessness is his reality but not his label. Hard work. Struggle.

A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY has been issued until 12PM today for Buncombe, Henderson, Rutherford, Polk, Transylvania, Haywood, Madison.

A cold rain is invading the Upstate, and that will turn to sleet and freezing rain for the mountains tonight.

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If Rabbi Marc Wilson has his way, the upcoming town hall meeting on homelessness will focus on long-term solutions, not more temporary housing.

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This is especially true in areas such as Greenville County where municipal boundaries can be indistinct and, at times, snake around as the result of annexations that do not necessarily follow a logical growth pattern.