A new-to-Greenwood insurance business, Affordable Employee Benefits, has opened in the city, and the Greenwood-Leflore County Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting for the company at its office on Howard Street on Thursday. From the left are Renee Craigo of Pontotoc, senior claims specialist; Chamber of Commerce Ambassador Paulette Palmer and her husband, Greenwood City Council member Carl Palmer; and Andrew Knowlin of Greenwood the company’s president. The Mississippi firm is based in Ecru. Knowlin explained the decision to locate in Greenwood: “We just like Greenwood. We like the culture and the people, and we have customers here.” (By Tim Kalich, Copyright 2024 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.)
