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May 12, 2006

Midlands mayors walk the Greenway

On Friday, May 5 at 4 pm Midlands mayors and others met at the Cayce Riverwalk for the third week of the six-week series, "Midlands Mayors Walk the Greenway." The project is designed to celebrate the regional partnerships established through the creation of the Three Rivers Greenway and to encourag More...

Whoo-ee pig-sewie!

Calling all BBQ lovers!

Contributed by Carolina Children's Home

Join Carolina Children's Home for their 19th Annual BBQ Cook-Off Festival at the SC State Fairgrounds, Gate 11 on May 19 and 20, 2006. On Friday night, "Save the Pigs" is an anything but pork event! For $8 a ticket or two for $15, enjoy music by the Sensational Epics and taste-test over 40 Southern More...

Flora shares teachers with Russia

By Sydney Kornegay

While most Columb-ians were sweating out the hot April weather, Linda Smith was donning her heavy coat. The AC Flora teacher spent her spring break traversing the globe as she traded the Carolina sunshine for the snows of Russia. More...

•	Saying goodbye

News

•	Columbia High School Class of '50 gathers at the Clarion Townhouse

The Columbia High School Class of 1956 held its 50th Class Reunion Saturday, April 22, 2006, at the Clarion Townhouse Hotel Columbia, South Carolina. Those in attendance were Clem Wesson, Martin Warren, Thad Williams, Johnny Abdalla, Kent Faulk, Johnny Paradeses, Buddy Witherspoon, Charlie Cate, More...

•	Book selected as top ten based on interviews with Satchel Paige

•	Yankees invade

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Business

•	Commerce secretary highlights SC successes

Joe E. Taylor Jr., the state's secretary of commerce, spoke to the Columbia Rotary lunch crowd at Seawell's Monday, May 8. Taylor was introduced by Paul Mashburn, the club's president. Taylor founded and 25 years later sold Southland Log Homes, North America's largest producer of pre-cut log buildin More...

•	Star Profile Moe Baddoura of Moe's Grapevine

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Briefs

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Society

•	Wade Hampton's silver comes home

Over the years, silver expert Kay Durham has been handed some fine silver from centuries past for identification and appraisal purposes. Recently she has had in her hands pieces that once belonged to one of Columbia's most venerable icons. More...

•	Hitching a ride to Scotland

•	Samuel Derrick Porter

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Opinion

•	letter to the editor

Trimnal's commentary is unfair to city workers

I would like to take this time to respond to this letter from Katherine Trimnal [published in the May 5 edition of the More...

•	commentary

•	Don't you dare try this at home

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Sports

•	HIGH SCHOOL BOYS TENNIS

Falcons knocked off their perch

The AC Flora Falcons and the Myrtle Beach Seahawks have combined to win six out of the last seven Class 3A high school tennis state championships. So it was only fitting these two teams battle for this year's title. More...

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Top Cats!

•	ON THE WEB

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Education

•	Our First Fifty

Fifty years! Can it be true? Time has tested both me and you. More...

•	This year is the 100th anniversary of Shandon/Schneider School. If you have any remembrances of the school, please share them with

•	Richland One Board approves administrative appointments

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Travel

•	Slave Trade Expedition to Africa

Part 3: The road to Farenya

The Road to Farenya is always paved with unexplained consequences. It has never been as simple as going from point A to point B. More...

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Events

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Calendar

CHURCH/ Charity Mental Illness Recovery Center, Inc. (MIRCI) More...

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Government

•	Columbia City Council Meeting + May 10, 2006 + 10 am

Roll call City council convened for its public hearing Wednesday, May 10, at 10 am. Mayor Bob Coble and Councilman E.W. Cromartie were in Washington, D.C. All other council members were present: Tameika Isaac Devine, Anne Sinclair, Sam Davis, Daniel Rickenmann, and councilman-elect Kirkman Fin More...

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Public Notices

•	Public Notices

NOTICE OF UNCLAIMED VEHICLES/ PUBLIC SALE The following vehicles(s) or other property are subject to towing, repair and/or storage liens, are declared to be abandoned pursuant to Section 56-5-5810, 56-5-5636 and 29-1510 SC Law as Amended, and are in the custody of More...

•	Notice to Creditors

•	NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

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Beauty in the Backyard

•	Scrapbooking leads nation's hobbies

National Scrapbooking Week could not get here fast enough for a group of Columbia hobbyists, so they celebrated two weeks early with a beach retreat on the Isle of Palms. More...

•	Columbia Children's Theatre presents Puss in Boots

•	MI3 rates only

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