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November 28, 2008 RSS feed / News

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Shandon and Hollywood- Rose Hill neighborhoods host holiday tour

By Jackie Perrone jacper@bellsouth.net
Residents of the Shandon and Hollywood- Rose Hill neighborhoods will welcome visitors to the annual Homes for the Holidays Tour December 7, 2008. More...

Lower Richland Ruritan names Mother of the Year

Members of the Lower Richland Ruritan Club named Lisa Threatt Dixon their 2008 Mother of the Year.With Lisa are (back row) Harriett and Billy Threatt, her parents; Kenny Dixon Sr., her husband, and Kenny Dixon Jr., her son. More...

Cayce's first female mayor... just in time

By Jessica Cross

Cayce's first female mayor, Elise Parton has plans for Cayce, starting with a focus on resident involvement. Thirty- five other women were elected to the mayoral office out of 270 cities and towns represented across the state. More...

Daisy needs a home

Five- year- old Daisy loves people and other pets. She is good both indoors and outdoors and an excellent watchdog. Daisy is housetrained and has never had an accident indoors! She has an extreme fear of thunder, gun shots, and fireworks. More...

Renee and Bob Kitts's front door

By Jackie Perrone jacper@bellsouth.net

Ask Renee and Bob Kitt to identify their home decoration motif, and they come up with the best word: Eclectic! More...

USC chapter of Kappa Alpha reunites

Photo by Jim Covington Kappa Alpha alumni at USC from all over the country during the 1950s met together November 14, 2008, at the Palmetto Club. Presidents during the 1950s were (l- r) G. Spruce McCain, Duncan F. More...

S.C. patriot fights with Andrew Jackson

By Jackie Perrone jacper@bellsouth.net

"John Adair did it. I just put words in his mouth." That's how Dale Pedrick describes the book she wrote about a little- known South Carolina patriot. John Adair: Path of a Patriot is now in print and available. More...

November is Epilepsy Awareness Month

Contributed by The Epilepsy Foundation of South Carolina

November is National Epilepsy Awareness Month, and 2008 marks the 36th anniversary of this important designation. There are 80,000 South Carolinians and nearly 3,000,000 Americans living with epilepsy. More...


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