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See You in a Hundred Years

Logan, Heather, and Luther Ward spent a year in Swoope, Virginia, living as people did in the 1900s. Logan's book, See You in a Hundred Years: Four Seasons in Forgotten America has recently been published.

Logan and Heather Ward and their toddler, Luther, left New York City in 2000 in search of a simpler life. They found it on a farm in Swoope, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley. More...

Opinion/Crime

Eleven-year-old defends his castle

Editors note: This column has been checked a ruling from the vice legal counsel at the S.C. Police Academy You've been hearing and reading about home invasions. News of that sort makes homeowners feel uneasy. More...

Thirty-something speaks

Parental intelligence varies with age

Mike Maddock

Some wonder why teenage kids often believe their parents are (to put it nicely) slightly less than intelligent. More...

The Nightmare

It's not a criticism, it's an observation.

Mike Cox

I know better, I really do. My insides are too old to eat a spicy dinner, dessert, a couple of drinks, then graze from the fridge just before bedtime. The midnight scramble for Tums signaled a long and uncomfortable night. More...

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Government / Neighborhood

Richland County Council meets July 10, 2007

By Mike Cox MWC423@bellsouth.net

Roll call Joe McEachern, Joyce Dickerson, Val Hutchinson, Norman Jackson, Damon Jeter, Paul Livingston, Bill Malinowski, Mike Montgomery, Greg Pearce, and Bernice Scott were present. Kit Smith was absent. More...

West Columbia City Council meets July 9, 2007

By Kristin Lavender kblavender@gmail.com

Roll Call West Columbia City Council convened Monday evening, July 9, 2007, at 6 pm. Mayor Bob Horton; Mayor Pro- Tem Jack Harmon; Councilmen Eric Fowler, Dale Harley, and Boyd Jones, Tommy Parler, Doug Reeves, and B.J. More...

Cayce City Council meets July 10, 2007

By Kristin Lavender kblavender@gmail.com

Roll Call The July 10, 2007 Cayce City Council meeting was called to order at 6 pm. More...

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Education

It's happening right here in your community

ANIMALS The Richland County Recreation Commission and Palmetto Animal Assisted Life Services will offer a dog training camp July 23- Aug. 10. Contact Leigh Cheatham, 754-6720, ext. 203. More...

Paul Redfern was there before Dreher High School

By Becky Bailey

Much has been written about the history and renovations at Dreher High School. The ultimate demise of the old building, with its many memories, has caused Columbians to wax nostalgic. More...

Students have been through rain, no water, and freezing temperatures

By Mackenzie Sunday Cub@TheColumbiaStar.com

Students at A.C. Flora High School have adjusted to eating lunch outside on freezing December days and walking to class in the pouring rain. More...

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Travel

Pineville, a historic refuge

Part 16: Antebellum social life continued

By Warner M.Warner@TheColumMboinatSgtaorm.coemry

Pineville was an isolated community between 1790 and 1860. Charleston was 50 miles away by road or water, Georgetown even farther, Columbia at least a day. More...

The Amazing Eurasian Odyssey

Part 3:Whispers of Genocide

as told by characters Matthew Garrick and Stephen Williams

One would think that after we went to bed late in the morning following the sketchy train ride to Phnom Pehn, we would sleep late, but that was not to be the case. We were moving about by 8 a.m. More...

Botanical Garden features two Upstate quilters

Contributed by The South Carolina Botanical

The Nature of Quilts exhibit featuring Dixie Haywood of Pendleton and Dottie Moore of Rock Hill is now on display at the S.C. Botanical Garden's Discovery Center gallery and will run through September. More...

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News

After 40 years, ghosts from the past meet

By Jackie Perrone jacper@juno.com

Many of today's old soldiers have tales of miraculous survivals and hair- - raising escapades during WWII. And they share a camaraderie that goes all the way back to their fighting days over 60 years ago. More...

St. Andrews Rotary Club hears from River Alliance

By Cheryl Poss cposs@scana.com

Mike Dawson, executive director of the River Alliance, spoke to the St. Andrews Rotary Club July 3, 2007. In the summer of 1994, local leaders asked Dawson, a serving colonel in the U.S. More...

Cope Veronee This is Your Life

Music man celebrates 92 years

By Jackie Perrone jacper@juno.com

Cope Veronee can beat his drums with the best of them, and has. His long and distinguished career includes playing in some of the top bands of his day. More...

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Business

Briefs

by John Temple Ligon

Conservation In three years, the S.C. Conservation Bank has protected 86,849 acres of natural and historic properties at an average of $635/acre. More...

Columbia's Collexis and the National Institutes of Health

By John Temple Ligon Temple@TheColumbiaStar.com

Collexis Holdings Inc., headquartered in Capitol Place (aka AT&T Building), announced July 10 its enterprise license agreement and ongoing engagement with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the largest funder of health sciences research in th More...

Star Profile

TribuneDave Zunker of the Convention & Visitors Bureau

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Vice President for Marketing and Development Dave Zunker has been with the Columbia Metropolitan Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) since 2002. Zunker came here from Club Corp. More...

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Society

I now pronounce you... totally exhausted!

By Anne- Kathryn Anne@TheColumb iBauSutlatrm.coamn

It's finally happened. Girl not only lives and breathes the wedding, but now it's haunting Girl's dreams. Girl is constantly thinking about the wedding all during the day, even if she doesn't want to. More...

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