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Tryon Daily Bulletin
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Vol. 83 / No. 124
Tryon, N.C. 28782
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
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Palmetto Trail work continues despite cuts in funding from S.C. by John Clayton
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Polk County Mobile Recycling Unit, Tuesdays, Ozone Drive and Hwy 176, Saluda, 7 a.m. to noon. Polk County Transportation Authority makes a regular trip to Hendersonville on the first and third Tuesday of each month. 894-8203. Hospice of the Carolina Foothills, We Care informal social group for women coping with loss. Open to newcomers, Tuesdays, 9 a.m. at TJ’s Cafe in Tryon. Shannon Slater, 828894-7000. The Meeting Place Senior Center Tuesday activities include ceramics, 9:30 a.m.; art class, 10 a.m., Bingo or movie, 12:30 p.m. 828-894-0001. Landrum Library, summer reading program, Motion in the Ocean, Tuesday, July 27, 10 a.m. Tryon Little Theater box office open for “Charlotte’s Web,” Mon-Sat, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at TLT workshop. Performances July 29-Aug. 1 at TFAC. 828-859-2466. Saluda Senior Center, Bridge, Tuesdays, 10 a.m., chair exercise, 2:15 p.m. 828(Continued on page 2)
But the rest of the Palmetto Trail, a proposed 425-mile hiking and/or cycling trail that will link South Carolina’s beaches, Midlands and Upstate, has been hit by lean economic times like almost everything else.
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“The trail was being funded by the state, which had a lot of interest in seeing it completed,” said Jim Majors, a retired engineer in charge of trail planning and con(Continued on page 4)
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Here’s a list of upcoming meetings and events for area nonprofit community and governmental organizations:
The local portion of the Palmetto Trail, which is primarily composed of a section called “The Blue Wall,” has been open and in use for some time.
Map showing the location of the Blue Wall Passage of the Palmetto Trail, from Lake Lanier to Vaughn's Gap.
Landrum cops seize alleged getaway truck Owner suspect in bank robbery by John Clayton
Landrum police officers seized a pickup truck Monday they believe was used as the getaway vehicle in the July 19 robbery of First Citizens Bank
and Trust in Landrum. A green and silver Ford F250 pickup was seized in Inman, searched by police and taken to the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Department impound, said Landrum Police Chief Bruce Shelnut. “We found a truck described
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as the one at the scene leaving the bank,” said Shelnut. “We did a search of it this morning, but we didn’t find anything that connected the truck back to the robbery itself.” The truck’s owner was interviewed by police and is consid(Continued on page 4)