Many cars in the parade were also decorated with references to Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement. “It’s a crazy time of history to live through,” Gunn graduate Tess Anderson said.

The 87th-annual event offers two weeks of fun, including huge parades, car shows, a garden festival, a sing-along concert and a pet parade.

Zach Maxwell has bone cancer and the 15-year-old has decided to stop his treatment after a long, courageous battle.

Rabbi Leibel Kesselman of the Chabad Jewish Center of Greenville and his fellow guests and members of Chabad Greenville dress cars for a parade to celebrate Hanukkah on New Year's Day 2025.