John Boyanoski covers business. He is a native of Scranton, Pa. and a graduate of Syracuse University's journalism school where he was named a Newhouse Scholar and won the WJPZ alumni award. He has written articles for Planning Magazine, Blue Ridge Country, Family Business, South Carolina, Sandlapper and Our State. He previously covered education for the Watertown Daily Times in New York and covered colleges at the Herald-Journal (Spartanburg), where he won a South Carolina Press Association award for spot news in 1999. Before joining The Journal, he worked for four years at The Greenville News covering various issues and winning several South Carolina Press Association Awards. His first book, Ghosts of Upstate South Carolina, will be published by Shelor and Son Publishing. He lives in the Upstate with his wife Shonda, a free-lance photographer, and daughter Hannah. He can be reached at jboyanoski@communityjournals.com.