Edi tor’s note: This is the third article of the series on the prison systems in the Midlands and the programs to keep young people out of them.
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E. W. Cromartie forced to give up seat on Columbia City Council and his law license
By John Temple Ligon
After 27 years in office, District #2 city council member E. W. Cromartie II resigned under pressure Tuesday afternoon, March 9. In a plea agreement Cromartie admitted to federal authorities he failed to pay $25,316 in federal income taxes in 2004. That was the same year he was summoned four times for building code violations,
as reported in The Columbia
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Kelli Stroud won the 2010 Miss Greenwood Pageant Sunday, March 7, 2010, in Greenwood, SC. She received a $1000 scholarship. She will now compete in the Miss South Carolina Pageant to be held in Spartanburg, SC at the end of June. Stroud is a junior at Lander College in Greenwood where she has a 4.0 and is on the Presidents List. More...
tCenter Street, 500 block: A man called police at 3:30 Thursday after he said his former neighbors were stalking him. The 34–year–old man told officers the neighbors, a man and a woman, had harassed him when he lived in an apartment above them on the outskirts of town. He said he has moved several times since then, and everywhere he goes the couple shows up. More...
For the past five years, the script would have written itself. Hammond’s softball team was down 11–0 to the Dreher Blue Devils in the second inning, and Skyhawk and Dreher fans alike expected that mercy rule was sure to be invoked in the next inning. But not this day. More...
Members of the Dreher Class of 1959 presented Jeanne Stiglebauer, the principal of Dreher, a check for $1,500 for the Dreher Foundation Tuesday, March 2, 2010. More...
The Verdun battlefield was such a shock that quiet filled Olivier’s car as we drove through the rolling farmland of Lorraine to Lunéville, another
historic site. The Château
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PUBLIC NOTICE
Ethan R. Ware has applied to the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control for a Construction in Navigable Waters Permit to construct a retaining wall on his property for private use in a water body contained within Gregg Park Subdivision. More...
“Most people we work with think of these pets as their children, and we feel the same way.” —Elaine Baskin
When Weemie and Elaine Baskin told friends and neighbors about their new pet sitting business in 1991, they were met with laughter, confusion, or both. More...
Sometimes referred to as the ugly duckling of winter shrubs because of a prevalence of tangled twigs and thorns, the late winter flowering quince, Chaenomeles speciosa, transforms into a showgirl specimen wearing clusters of white, pink, red, rose, or salmon single or double blossoms before the leaves appear. Quince is often found in the company of forsythia. More...
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