SCSHA holds a day to help legislators understand the importance of early identification and intervention of hearing problems
By John Dixon
S.C. Legislators were treated to low- country shrimp and grits and a visit from ambassador Jay Price, his parents, and members of the S.C. Speech Language Hearing Association (SCSHA) March 6, 2008. More...
Howard Hellams's love affair with Italy begins thus: "Better you should have died in childbirth than have your first glimpse of Italy through the window of a tour bus." Now that he's retiring from the workaday world, he'll share that romance in a More...
Applications for the 2008 Jane M. Klausman Women in Business Scholarship are now available from the Zonta Club of Columbia through Zonta International's website, Zonta.org. More...
S.C. Commissioner of Agriculture Les Tindal had a plan several years ago, a plan to upgrade the 58- acre S.C. State Farmers' Market where it was. Then S.C. More...
Google In the fall of 2007, Google bought a 466- acre site near Blythewood for $13 million, where it could feasibly build a data center and hire 200 workers based on its Goose Creek project. More...
Eleven years ago, Max and Lauren Schlueter were in suburban Rochester, N.Y., where they grew up, met and married. But they were ready to move on beyond their career tracks and beyond Rochester. More...
Hammond 9, Cardinal Newman 0 at Cardinal Newman, Trenholm Park Singles: 1. Andy Greenberg d. Brandon Briggs, 6-0,6-1; 2. Ben Horst d. Henry Gunter, 6-2,6-0; 3. Ira Usry d. Justin Southern, 6-0,6-1; 4. Ted Lydon d. Dennis, 6-0,6-1; 5. More...
As assured as the blooming of the azaleas and dogwood, the South Carolina Midland Master Gardener Association returns with the 18th annual spring gardening symposium. More...
Courtesy of Lexington County Master Gardeners'Tour
Steve and Kathy Aiello of West Columbia have this week's featured garden. It is a small, charming garden packed full of treasures. Huge potted hostas, lush green foliage, and bird houses are at every turn of the path in this garden. More...
Spring is almost here and that means plants will soon be bursting into bloom and all abuzz with millions of honey bees gathering pollen and nectar for their hives. Many food crops are heavily dependent on honey bees for pollination. More...
Michael Frank, a public school teacher by profession, has an avocation, fly fishing. Frank wants to raise awareness of the rivers and fish population in the Columbia area and promote their responsible use for outdoor recreation. More...
This is the last time I am responding about this issue unless I am summoned to speak in Columbia, because, quite frankly I am tired of repeating myself. I am coughing on all the smoke being used to cloud the true issue. More...
By Frank Knapp Jr. Consensus is building among health care stakeholders in South Carolina about how to use new revenue from an increase in the cigarette tax. More...
As I was lying in bed with a 103- degree fever feeling generally like someone who had been dropped from a second story window then kicked and beaten by a USC football player coming from Five Points, a strange feeling came over me. More...
Mayor Avery Wilkerson, Mayor Pro-tem Rick Myers, Councilman Kenneth Jumper, Councilman Robert Malpass, City Manager John Sharpe, Public Safety Chief Charles McNair, and City Attorney Danny Crowe were all in attendance. More...
Call to Order Mayor Horton called the meeting to order at 6 pm. All council members - Mayor Bobby E. Horton, Mayor Pro- Tem Tommy G. Parler, Eric Fowler, L. Dale Harley, Jack L. Harmon, Boyd J. Jones, Marsha J. Moore, Cathy Shannon and B.J. More...
The February meeting of the Petal Pushers Garden Club was held at the home of Margaret Glenn. Co- hostesses were Betty Lewis and Joan Heard. The Annual Auction was the highlight of the meeting. More...
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ART The Columbia Museum of Art will be showing Excavating Egypt:Great Discoveries from the Patrie Museum of Egyptian Achaeology through June 8. www.columbiamuseum. org for more information. More...
My uncle, J.K. Gourdin IV, arranged his own funeral. A female Unitarian minister conducted the service. A black gospel choir sang spirituals in the chapel. A guitarist and saxophonist played Dixie at the graveside in the old St. More...
By Keith Gourdin Chairman of Berkeley North Historical & Cultural Committee
Members of General Marion's Brigade Chapter, National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), and friends from the Lowcountry gathered February 27 at Belle Isle Plantation cemetery to give honor to the most illustrious of all S.C. More...
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_____________________________ NOTICE OF APPLICATION Notice is hereby given that Lite-Um-Up Cigars, LLC intends to apply to the South Carolina Department of Revenue for a license/permit that will allow the sale on premises consumption of Beer, a More...