Fountain Inn News

Even as local design firm Arbor Engineering draws up plans for Fountain Inn to redesign its Main Street with two lanes, wide sidewalks, more greenery and increased parking, the city is exploring its options on how to pay for the multimillion-dollar project.

Even as local design firm Arbor Engineering draws up plans for Fountain Inn to redesign its Main Street with two lanes, wide sidewalks, more greenery and increased parking, the city is exploring its options on how to pay for the multimillion-dollar project.

Fountain Inn Elementary School was on lockdown for about 45 minutes Thursday afternoon after some staff reported hearing a loud noise sounding like a gunshot near the school.

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The annual Holiday Homes Judging Event sponsored by The Fountain Inn Garden Club will be held Thursday, 12/3. Judging will begin at 6:00 so please inform local residents to have their houses and yards decorated and lit up!!! 15 judges, from Spartanburg, Greer, Greenville and Simpsonville, all members of the Garden Club of SC, will tour the town ...

Employees will get a small raise after all in Fountain Inn's 2010 budget. City Council has passed the city's $5.67 million operating budget on final reading that does not include a tax increase but does fund a 1.5 percent cost of living raise for all employees, a measure that wasn't in the first draft of the budget but that city staff recommended.

The old gray structure has been a Fountain Inn mainstay on Main Street for more than 100 years.

Armed Forces * Pvt. 2 Jordan Wade Shealy of Simpsonville graduated from the U.S. Army Infantry One-Station Unit Training in Ft.

A Simpsonville man was arrested Friday in the shootings of two men earlier this week in the Simpsonville area, authorities said.

A series of tips about drug activity led authorities to search the home of a aurens County couple Thursday night where officers found methamphetamines and materials to cook the drug and charged the couple with exposing their two children to the drug.

Two people are injured after a shooting a mobile home park. Deputies said the shooting happened just before 11:30 p.m. Wednesday at the trailer park off of Goldsmith Road between Simpsonville and Fountain Inn.

Barbara Davis hopes to start a trend of new specialty shops opening up on Main Street in Fountain Inn to fill empty storefronts and bring shoppers to the reviving city's downtown.

Against a backdrop of the former Simpsonville Elementary School, which Simpsonville plans to renovate into an arts center, a group of community leaders are building an amphitheater designed to seat 200-300 people that could attract local performers to aid Simpsonville entertainment.

It took Cindy Chesney and her husband, Phillip, several attempts to find the right spot to open their first restaurant, but their search ultimately led them to Weston Street in Fountain Inn, where they revamped a former restaurant building in their style to create the Blue Moon Diner.

Singer-songwriter Edwin McCain will make a daylong appearance Nov. 9 in Fountain Inn, when he'll hit the links at Carolina Springs Golf Club and serenade crowds at the Civic Center for the Performing Arts.

Design work for the next phase of Fountain Inn's heavily used greenway path will soon be complete, thanks to a $1,000 grant from the national Kodak American Greenways Awards Program, said Dan Powell, Greenville County staff planner for Fountain Inn.

The Republican House member representing the Upstate's 4th Distric4 faces a tough re-election figh4 next year as four GOP challengers compete for votes and campaign cash.

The Rev. Robert E. Dennis was remembered Friday as a leader who worked tirelessly to improve the lives of others.

Curry Faye Jarrett, daughter of Kenny and Alecia Jarrett, celebrated her eighth birthday Oct.

The Golden Strip's transportation network could radically transform if the area can secure a nearly $100 million federal stimulus package grant to begin express bus service in the region.