The fine print

By Dick Hughes

AUGUST 30, 2010 9:01 a.m. (0)

ScanSource Sets Revenue Record

ScanSource, the Greenville-based international distributor and reseller of technology products, had a good year with higher sales and income, but it could have been even better if it were not for product shortages, the company reported.  Continue reading...

 

The fine print

By Dick Hughes

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010 8:53 p.m. (0)

Finding Common Ground in Development

Leaders of several organizations engaged in various ways to promote the Upstate for new businesses met Aug. 19 at the BMW Zentrum with town and county officials to update them on their activities and encourage a united front.

“Our competition is not ourselves; our competition is other regions across the globe,” said Dean Hybol, executive director of Ten at the Top, which is building a consensus for smart land-use.  Continue reading...

 

To save and protect

A historic property, conserved for the future

FEBRUARY 24, 2011 11:19 a.m. (1)

One by one, many of Greenville’s great estates have been subdivided and developed.

A couple of wooded tracts in the North Main area. The Williams-Earle property on Grove Road.

“Year by year, another site is torn down or subdivided,” said Brad Wyche, executive director of Upstate Forever.  Continue reading...

 

Upstate Forever event to feature arctic explorer

Eric Larsen is among the few who have visited the North and South poles and climbed Mt. Everest.

JANUARY 26, 2012 5:04 p.m. (4)

Overcoming the things that dwarf human strength and ingenuity are the biggest part of what keeps drawing Eric Larsen back to places like both poles and the top of the world.

“The thing that surprises people the most about the Antarctic is the sheer size of the place – the emptiness of it,” Larsen said from his home near Boulder Colo., after completing his second trip to Antarctica.

Antarctica has a permanent population of zero and at any given time between 1,000 and 5,000 people man scientific stations scattered across 5.4 million square miles.  Continue reading...