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Tryon Daily Bulletin
The World’s Smallest Daily Newspaper
Vol. 85 / No. 34
Tryon, N.C. 28782
Monday, March 19, 2012
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Polk schools approve bus contract by Samantha Hurst
A fashion show and luncheon benefit will be held Saturday, March 24 at 11 a.m. at Spiegel Farm, Campobello. Pam Stone will emcee. The event is sponsored by PJ’s Fashions and will benefit O.P. Earle Elementary’s Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) program. Tickets/information: 864-457-3416 or 864-4573360.
Polk County School Board members voted Monday, March 12 to approve a lease contract for five yellow buses, even though the state will actually be the governing body paying the lease payments for the buses until they are paid off in four years. The North Carolina legislature allotted no money last budget year to purchase new buses outright, though most school systems need to retire buses on a yearly basis and rely on funding from the state to purchase new ones. “Boiling it all down, it (Continued on page 3)
Here’s a list of upcoming meetings and events for area nonprofit community and governmental organizations:
Today
Polk County Mobile Recycling Unit, Mondays, Harmon Field/Tryon, 7 a.m. - noon. Saluda Center, Tuesdays, chair exercise, 9:30 a.m.; bridge, 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., with bridge discussion session at 12:45. 828-749-9245. For more activities, email saludacenter@hotmail.com or visit www.saluda.com. The Meeting Place Se(Continued on page 2)
Sheriff’s office busts indoor marijuana grow 75 plants estimated at $75k The Polk County Sheriff’s Office discovered an indoor marijuana grow operation last week estimated at a $75,000 street value. Kurt Andrew Markel, 35, of 106 Nelson-Greene Lane, Mill Spring was arrested and charged with felony possession with intent to manufacture/sell/deliver a schedule VI controlled substance, felony maintaining a place for a controlled substance and misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia, according to sheriff reports. Polk County Sheriff Donald Hill said officers conducted a search warrant at approximately 10:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 14 and discovered the marijuana. Officers seized approximately 75 plants. Markel received a $2,000 bond. Serving Polk County and Upper Spartanburg and Greenville Counties
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