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In the 1940s and ‘50s, Tommy Glasco had a second-hand store on East Liberty Street. Just inside the front door was a glass jar filled with used dentures and anyone who needed new choppers could just step inside and try the used false teeth on for size. Or maybe swap old dentures for new ones, or for something else in the Wooster store. As long as Tommy was in business, the denture jar was on display. Here are more interesting facts from past ‘Bits and Pieces’ columns. For a period of time...

Two adjacent subdivisions with a total of 522 residential lots in Piedmont have won approval despite objections raised by environmental advocates and a neighboring landowner. After more than an hour of discussion, the Greenville County Planning Commission voted this week to give developer Mark III Properties the green light to move ahead with Cottonwood Ridge and Cloverdale Hills. Cottonwood Ridge will include 459 single-family homes on nearly 183 acres. Cloverdale Hills will include 63 single...

George Mordew Jr. George Mordew Jr., 84, of Salem, died Friday, January 8, 2021, at 2:14 PM at his home. He was born on July 15, 1936, in North Benton, Ohio, the son of the late George and Helen (McGowan) Mordew Sr. George was a 1955 graduate of Salem High School and worked for over 20 years at the Go-Tag-A-Long camping trailer manufacturer in Washingtonville. He was also a master woodworker and cabinet maker over the years. George was a life-long learner. He enjoyed every opportunity to go ...

Stay connected to the Greenville community! Get all the latest news from the Upstate twice a week, straight to your inbox. Sign Up Evelyn Crews Beeson, 99, on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2020, holds a yearbook from her sophomore year at Gaston High School in Texas, where was voted "Most Beautiful Girl" while she lived there for one year with an older sister. "There she is," Beeson said when she looked at her photo from age 15. Beeson, who turns 100 on Dec. 25, is a central Florida native who has lived i...

is diminishing. into memorial day weekend an active winter like pattern. >> thank you. a frightening day for a boy in san francisco who had to be rescued from a precarious situation. it happened along east beach. and abc 7 news is live to explain what happened. wayne? >> this is dicey, but okay. let me begin to show you where it happened here, up west there, crissy field. he was on a field trip with friends. he got in this cold water in san francisco bay. got caught in the current. the...