Neighborhood dishes:
noun: local restaurants where friends, family, and neighbors gather to enjoy good food, friendly service, and pleasant company. special series
     Nearly every neighborhood has one: a place where friends, family, and neighbors gather to enjoy good food, friendly service, and pleasant company. In our series, Neighborhood Dishes, we visited four Columbia area restaurants that possess all these qualities.
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Neighborhood Dishes
Brooklyn Banquet and Conference Center 1054 Sunset Boulevard West Columbia
By Rachel Haynie
     You wouldn't think so spacious a dining facility could be kept under wraps for long. Indeed, it's a contrast to say the highly-visible Brooklyn Banquet and Conference Center has the aura of being a best-kept secret.
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Molly visits The Columbia Star
     Molly, owned by Will Hunt, dropped by The Columbia Star
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Bring your pet to the Blessing of the Animals
Contributed by Asbury Memorial United Methodist Church
     The Blessing of Animals will be October 8 at 4 pm in the parking lot of Asbury Memorial United Methodist Church. Rev. Ed McWilliams will invoke a blessing on each animal that is brought, whatever it may be.
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Revolutionary War was really a Civil War
By Warner M. Montgomery Warner@TheColumbiaStar.com
     The American Revolution was a bloody civil war with neighbor fighting neighbor, brother fighting brother in backcountry South Carolina, claimed Dr. Jack A. Meyer, retired USC history professor, in a talk to the Columbia Torch Club last week. Not everyone was fighting for freedom and liberty against
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