utility bills

Blue Granite Water serves approximately 4,000 households around Lake Wylie, but York County is about to condemn the utility and acquire it for $36 million in public funds from the utility's customers. Now Blue Granite wants to start a new project in the area and is asking for permission to not get public input to do so.

On a given day, the United Way of Greenville County used to field 50, maybe 60 calls from residents needing help. When the pandemic and its economic…