Greer State Bank reports $1.6 million 1st quarter profit

Greer Bancshares Incorporated, the parent company of Greer State Bank, is reporting a first quarter net profit of $1.85 million before TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) related expenses of $188,000. The result reflects net income of $1.6 million or 67 cents per diluted common share.

The results show significant improvement over the same reporting period last year of a net loss of $39,000 before TARP related expenses of $164,000 and a net loss of 8 cents per diluted common share.

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Greer practices drawing a fan base

Coaches pull off the players who are bunched and didn't hear the whistle that stopped the action. The fans have come to practice more frequently to practice this year than years past.
 

The collision of pads, verbal sparring and take no prisoners practices has reverberated around Greer High School and its spring football practices.

The biggest turnout to see a Greer High spring football practice – that’s right, practice – lined the fence and created a little parking problem during Thursday’s drills. At issue, according to one visitor, was having cars parked in the line of vision.

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Downtown is all abuzz about all-Greer High School reunion

Carl Howell, Deputy Fire Marshal of the Greer Fire Department, is a Greer High School grad, class of '67. Howell estimates, conservatively, 2,000 Greer High alumni, spouses and friends will visit Greer Saturday for the inaugural all-time, all-Greer High School reunion.

Greer Station and City Park will be abuzz with the biggest reunion the city and Greer High School alumni has ever hosted on Saturday.

Carl Howell, Deputy Fire Marshal of the Greer Fire Department, who is adept at gauging crowd size, estimates about 2,000 graduates, spouses, faculty and associates of Greer High School will be social butterflies Saturday. “I’m sure there are a lot of other place like Greer. But there’s never been a community get together like ours that I am aware,” Howell said.

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