Whittle to step down by year’s end
Mack Whittle, who built Carolina First into a major regional banking company from a single Greenville office 23 years ago, is stepping down from executive positions by the end of…
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Whittle optimistic about future
After 19 acquisitions in 22 years to create South Carolina’s largest publicly traded financial company, Carolina First is hunkering down to outlast the nation’s worst banking crisis in decades. Mack…
Carolina First aligns its management team
To face the headwinds of the turbulent financial market, The South Financial Group has streamlined its executive management. It promoted three relatively new officers to senior positions and appointed them…
Carolina First announces earnings
The South Financial Group, parent company of Carolina First in South and North Carolina and Mercantile Bank in Florida, Tuesday reported a second quarter net loss of $16.6 million. The…
Carolina First shores up its holdings
“Carolina First, a homegrown bank that grew rapidly through acquisitions, is facing rocky times as it weathers sour real estate loans chiefly in the Florida market it mined in the…
President of Carolina First resigns
The president of Carolina First resigned effective June 10 and the company has reshuffled its top management. The South Financial Group, the Greenville-based holding company that owns Carolina First, reported…
Left alone
What’s going on at other daycare centers? Childcare workers who forgot sleeping toddlers and walked away from closed up daycare buses leaving children inside were not criminally charged in two…
Greenville lags behind
Charleston is way ahead of most South Carolina cities in burying power lines. South Carolina Electric and Gas and the city have been doing so since the 1960s, said SCE&G…
In case of emergency
Read the e-mails that went out to the Virginia Tech campus. It didn’t take long for Clemson University to have to use its new campus emergency alert system. Three days…
English only
The English language doesn’t have too much competition in Pickens County. In this county of 116,000 people – where three-quarters of the population lives in towns of no more than…
South Carolina’s most influential
”  The most influential  1. Carroll Campbell, Greenville: Former governor and U.S. congressman. He is credited with bringing BMW to the Upstate and transforming the region. 2. Dick Riley, Greenville:…
County computer probe widens
Greenville County officials have confirmed they are looking into allegations that County Administrator Joe Kernell accessed Web sites with sexual content from his county-owned computer. County Council Chairman H.G. “Butch”…
One house at a time
Standing in front of a picture window on the second floor of Bethel Bible Missionary Church, Vardrey Fleming can look out across Endel Street and see many of the fruits…
Call it the Greenville plan
Bob Hughes compares Greenville County Schools to many homeowners in the school district. Few could afford to buy a house without taking out a 30-year mortgage. Similarly Greenville County Schools…
Still unsolved
At Superbike Motorsports in Chesnee, 30-year-old owner Scott Ponder, who’d grown the shop from a shed in his grandmother’s backyard to one of the fastest-growing Suzuki dealerships in the…