January 30, 2009 RSS feed / Business

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Two more high- tech businesses commit to Horizon II

Story and Photos by John Temple Ligon
Inside USC's Innovista, the wet laboratory complex and high- tech office park, two Columbia companies, TM Floyd & Co. and VC3, have signed on to occupy 31,000 square feet of floor space. More...

Folks about town

Rober t J. Thomas has received the South Carolina Bar Trial and Appellate Advocacy Award at the 2009 Bar Convention. Macrobiotics in South Carolina has honored Benoit St. Jaques as its Person of the Year. More...

S.C. Bar offers lawyer referral service

Contributed by the S.C. Bar

The South Carolina Bar offers a Lawyer Referral Service (LRS) as a simple and inexpensive method of introducing people with legal problems to qualified attorneys. More...

Administrative Professionals Conference 2009

Contributed by Midlands Technical College

Midlands Technical College Continuing Education is hosting its annual Administrative Professionals Conference on Thursday, April 23, 2009, from 8:30 am - 4 pm at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center. More...

Briefs

by John Temple Ligon

S.C. unemployment hits 200,000 The state's unemployment for December was 9.5 percent, up from 8.4 percent in November, the third highest in the country. U.S. More...

David Warren, executive director of the RCPL

By John Temple Ligon temple@thecolumbiastar.com

The Richland County Public Library at the corner of Hampton and Assembly was named the National Library of the Year in 2001. Ground was broken for the 242,000- square- foot building in 1991, and the grand opening was 1993. More...

MTC announces officers and Board members

Contributed by Midlands Technical College

The Midlands Technical College Foundation Board elected officers and new board members for 2009. The new board chair is Charles D. (Chuck) Beaman Jr., chief executive officer, Palmetto Health. Additional officers are vice chair, William T. More...

Record breaking year for Human Society

Contributed by Humane Society/HSPCA Spay/Neuter Clinic

The Humane Society/ HSPCA Spay/Neuter Clinic broke its surgerical record, boasting over 9,000 surgeries in 2008, a 30% increase in 2007 surgeries. More...

Downtown welcomes new business

Story and Photos by John Temple Ligon

The Gotham Bagel Café is the brainchild and the business start- up by Dorothy Garone and Jay Finkelstein, a husbandwife team transplanted from New York City. More...


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