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Wanted: Local Bike Routes For Google Maps

By Steve Shanafelt

Earlier today, Google Maps launched a new feature which allows users to get road directions and route suggestions specifically intended for bicycles. These routes take a variety of bike-related factors into account, such as the slope of the road, the traffic volume on the roads in question and the existence of bike lanes. For... »

Spartanburg Prevents the Flu

By Petre'se Kennedy

Over the past month, Spartanburg County and surrounding areas have turned out to receive the flu shot at the Spartanburg County Health Department. The flu clinic was held Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8:30am until 4pm during the month of October and has been extended to appointment visits only during the month of November until... »

Sparkle City Headlines: Chocolate Milk Is Not News

By Steve Shanafelt

Since I generally don’t watch TV, I tend to forget about the level of non-news filler that ends up on the airwaves every day. Most of this stuff is harmless, if banal, so even when I run across a story that has been video encoded and posted to something like Google News, I... »

Sparkle City Headlines: Two Takes On DeMint’s Town Hall

By Steve Shanafelt

So, Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) held a town hall meeting at the Beacon yesterday, and if you only read the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, you’d think the whole thing went just dandy … U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint said Thursday he doesn’t want the same people who botched the response to Hurricane Katrina to get into the health... »

Update: Hub City Co-op Progress

By Steve Shanafelt

If you’re curious about how things are moving for the Hub City Co-op, it’s definitely worth keeping an eye on their site. Just to bring you up to speed, here’s the latest from their blog … 1. We met with a lawyer on Friday. We’ve got some GREAT ideas on how to set up... »

Miss Mom: Going Into Compression Mode

By Sylvie Galloway

Every year millions of women enter an office, fill out information, sit in a waiting room with 5-year-old copies of People and Good Housekeeping. Then they put on a shapeless gown and willingly subject themselves into putting one of two body parts on a chilled plastic plate and having another plate do its... »

Miss Mom: The Workout Bus

By Sylvie Galloway

I have decided to climb back onto the exercise bus, and I am not alone. My two daughters are going with me. We have decided that flab is not helping our clothes to look like they fit us, and personally I have been having some real issues with hip pain. So this week Megan bought... »

Blog Report: I (heart) New Blogs

By Steve Shanafelt

What better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day than by ignoring your loved ones and spending some time reading local blogs instead? This week, we have several new and recently discovered blogs to suggest covering a wide range of themes and interests. We start with Be Your Own Doctor, a Spartanburg-based “Chiropractor and Holistic Healthcare Practioner”... »

Reader Soapbox: Support a Smoke Free Spartanburg

By Reader Soapbox

Reader Soapbox lets you, the readers of Spartanburg Spark, create your own posts about topics you find interesting and important. To write your own post, visit our Reader Soapbox submission page. Soapbox contributor: “Non Smoker” If you believe that the health of Spartanburg workers and citizens could be greatly improved with the passage of a comprehensive... »

Hub City Disc Golf

By Bryan "chAng" Teague

You might not think of Boiling Springs as a town well ahead of its time. When it comes to outdoor sports, however. this small community in Spartanburg County is well ahead of the curve. Boiling Springs is home to one of just eight officially sanctioned disc golf locations in the Upstate, and the only... »