Backyard to the stars
Amateur astronomer explores the stars in his own backyard
By Sydney Kornegay
     The members of the Explorers Club are modern
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Columbians have always been hospitable
This was a letter to the editor of The State newspaper from Andrew L. Garick in the early 1900s
Contributed by Henrietta Bizell Bennett, niece of Andrew L. Garick
     When President McKinley called for volunteers to lick the Spaniards, I was one of the first to fall in and answer to roll call of Company
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Our Local Generation
Paratrooper returns to alma mater with stories of Iraq
By Tammie Maddock
     Students at Richland Northeast High School continue to bridge generations and pay homage to local veterans through their oral history project entitled Our Local Greatest Generation.
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Theatre SC season opens with Miller’s A View from the Bridge
Contributed by USC
     The University of SC
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Columbia responds to Katrina
By Mike Maddock
     As of Tuesday September 12, the collaborative effort of volunteers, civic leaders, business people, corporations, educators, lawyers, and many others known as SC Cares, had helped over 649 families evacuated from the destruction of Hurricane Katrina at the once formerly unoccupied naval reserve buil
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Lending a helping hand
     Emergency volunteers needed! Columbia is hosting thousands of refugees from the areas that Hurricane Katrina has hit and volunteers are needed desperately! Please come and help at 513 Pickens Street (corner of Pickens and Blossom) 803-576-7201 www.Columbia sc.net/columbiacares.
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