Despite a pretty stagnant year in terms of overall sales (down 4.4% to 1.94 million), there were some dramatic changes for individual manufacturers last year.
Candi Forester Smith, who was voted 2011 Pickens County Business and Professional Women's Young Careerist of the Year, will be the guest speaker at 12:30 p.m. Jan. 18 during the lunch meeting of the Easley Business and Professional Women's Club.
Environmental hearings into a proposed pipeline that would move bitumen from Alberta to British Columbia's coast began with heated words, as critics charged that Ottawa is trying to bully the project's opponents.