Chuck Milteer, The Herald-Journal (Spartanburg, SC) Journalist Profile

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All About Art ... with Cari Ray

Jan 22, 2025 | yahoo.com | Chuck Milteer

Cari Ray, an abstract artist from Rock Hill, SC, embarked on her artistic journey in 2023, seeking joyful respite from her high-stress career. As she began painting, taking online classes, she quickly discovered her artistic voice. Balancing a demanding day job that requires organization and professionalism, Ray says she channels that workplace stress into vibrant, intuitive abstract pieces.
Walt’s Waltz aims to end dance around mental health conversations

May 8, 2024 | greenvilleonline.com | Chuck Milteer

Across the nation, May has been designated as Mental Health Awareness Month. First observed in 1949, it focuses on addressing the mental health challenges that face millions of Americans. For Susan Fischer Crooks, every day of every month is dedicated to the cause. Crooks is the founder of Walt’s Waltz, an advocacy organization that promotes mental health support and education with the goal of changing the way that mental health care is perceived.
15 Minutes With ... Greenville News Executive Editor Leisa Richardson

Apr 1, 2024 | greenvilleonline.com | Chuck Milteer

Leisa Richardson describes herself as a proud Midwesterner. Since mid-February, she has been executive editor of The Greenville News, as well as the Spartanburg Herald-Journal and the Anderson Independent-Mail. Richardson comes to Greenville from Springfield, Illinois, where she was the editor of the State Journal-Register, also owned by Gannett. She has more than three decades of experience in Gannett newsrooms and her work has received multiple awards.
15 Minutes With ... Rhonda Rawlings, Community Director, Mill Village Ministries

Jan 23, 2024 | news.yahoo.com | Chuck Milteer

Rhonda Rawlings is perhaps best known in Greenville for being an award-winning radio personality, news presenter and interviewer on 107.3 JAMZ and Hot 98.1. For 12 years, she was the local voice of the nationwide Tom Joyner Morning Show. Today, she is the Community Director for Mill Village Ministries, a collection of social justice enterprises in the Village of West Greenville.
15 Minutes With ... Rhonda Rawlings, Community Director, Mill Village Ministries

Jan 20, 2024 | greenvilleonline.com | Chuck Milteer

Chuck MilteerTALK GreenvilleRhonda Rawlings is perhaps best known in Greenville for being an award-winning radio personality, news presenter and interviewer on 107.3 JAMZ and Hot 98.1. For 12 years, she was the local voice of the nationwide Tom Joyner Morning Show. Today, she is the Community Director for Mill Village Ministries, a collection of social justice enterprises in the Village of West Greenville.
15 Minutes With ... Julie Valentine Center CEO Shauna Galloway-Williams

Dec 21, 2023 | greenvilleonline.com | Chuck Milteer

Shauna Galloway-Williams is the CEO of Greenville’s Julie Valentine Center, which provides counseling and advocacy for victims of child abuse, sexual assault and sex trafficking, and to their families. The center provides education programs in the community at colleges, and at Greenville County schools. It also operates a 24-hour rape crisis hotline for adults and children. Galloway-Williams is a licensed professional counselor and has been leading the center since 2009.
15 Minutes With: Meta Bowers, Director of Greenville's Meyer Center for Special Children

Nov 22, 2023 | greenvilleonline.com | Chuck Milteer

Chuck MilteerTALK GreenvilleWhen Meta Bowers joined the Meyer Center for Special Children in 2019, she brought social service, fundraising, nonprofit and administrative skills developed over more than two decades. One of the biggest challenges facing the Meyer Center when Bowers arrived was too much demand for its specialized program of early education and therapy for children with special needs.
15 Minutes With ... Restaurateur Larkin Hammond

Oct 24, 2023 | greenvilleonline.com | Chuck Milteer

Larkin Hammond says the secret to the restaurant business is to hire good people, train them well and treat them like family. Born in Kentucky, she says she learned to cook from her Italian grandmother, working side-by-side in the tiny kitchen of her restaurant in a small town in West Virginia. She studied agriculture at East Kentucky University, then launched a varied career that has included building power boats in Florida and two decades of selling real estate in Southern California.
Community Hero: For Jason Hurdich it’s a matter of interpretation

Oct 20, 2023 | greenvilleonline.com | Chuck Milteer

It was an experiment, just to see how much interest there would be. There was a lot. Jason Hurdich really likes coffee. He is also Deaf, which makes ordering his favorites a challenge at times -- unless an employee knows American Sign Language (ASL). At the Starbucks on Laurens Road in Greenville, several of the baristas do know ASL.
15 Minutes With … Lauren Luneckas, CEO of The Children’s Museum of the Upstate

Sep 19, 2023 | news.yahoo.com | Chuck Milteer

Play and wonder is a constant theme in Lauren Luneckas’ life and career. The CEO of The Children’s Museum of the Upstate for the past two years, Luneckas moved to Greenville in 2016 to join Kentwool Performance Apparel – maker of go-to socks for golfers worldwide – as director of marketing. She was named the company’s president in 2018.