Founder and Artistic Director Miriam Barbosa will unveil South Carolina's newest dance company, the South Carolina Contemporary Dance Company, with Columbia's premiere performance September 17, 2009, at 7 pm at the Koger Center for the Arts. More...
Columbia resident Xan Roberts learned the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished. His story began with trying to help a friend and ended up with a brutal beating that landed him in the hospital. It's a story that some say is becoming commonplace in Five Points. More...
Erin Savage is a typical 17- year- old in many ways. She attends Irmo High School. Her life revolves around her social calendar and dreams of the future, and she talks deep into the night on the telephone. She wants to be a singer or an actor and babysits for spending money. She can see herself as a teacher when she grows into adulthood. More...
A citizen of Hopkins who was born in Eastover, has lived in Lower Richland all her life. She served in the Hopkins Post Office for 23 years. Who better than Virginia Hook McCracken to put together a pictorial history of Hopkins, along with her granddaughter Ann Drayton Lister? More...
The truth of the fact is... a lot more in taxes According to Carolina Livingmagazine, a $400,000 home in Charleston paid $2,136 in property taxes in 2008, while a $400,000 house in Columbia paid $3,365, 58% more. More...
Mr. and Mrs. William Jones Bates Jr. announce the engagement of their daughter, Susan Elliott Bates, to Paul Anderson Cooper II. The bride- elect is the granddaughter of Mrs. Robert Henry Dangerfield and the late Mr. Dangerfield of Pinopolis, South Carolina. Her paternal grandparents are Mrs. Martin Luther Ackerman and the late Mr. More...
The natives are restless. The third shot of the "Second American Revolution" has been fired. History is being made. But just as with the first two shots, the third shot is not being heard. America is seething. Not since the Civil War has anything like this happened. But the protests are either being intentionally downplayed or ignorantly misinterpreted. More...
Richland Sertoma Club's Sportsarama 2009 kicked off the start of the high school football season for eight area schools. Teams from Swansea, C.A. Johnson, Lower Richland, Eau Claire, Dreher, A.C. Flora, Keenan, and Columbia took to the field on a slightly rainy night at Benedict College's Charlie Johnson Stadium Saturday, August 15. More...
Richland One's Office of Communications won four awards through the S.C. Chapter of the National School Public Relations Association's 2009 Rewards for Excellence Program. SC/NSPRA's Rewards for Excellence Program recognizes outstanding communications and public relations efforts by South Carolina schools, school districts, education agencies, and associations. More...
We rose early, had breakfast in the Teldo Hotel, and left for a tour of the city at 8:30 am. Amman, capital of Jordan, has a population close to three million. It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world dating back to 8,500 BC. The Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, Egyptians, and Romans occupied it during their empire periods. More...
It'll be a blitzkrieg of song, dance, and comedy when "The Producers" comes to Workshop Theatre September 11- 26. See what happens when a has- been impresario conspires with a nerdy partner to bilk investors through a plan to put on a sure- fire Broadway flop, only to see their scam backfire as the show becomes a surprise hit. More...
Roll call The August 12, 2009, Forest Acres City Council meeting began with the pledge and invocation led by Charles Fetner. Officer Jason Whittle of City Of Columbia and Michael Samuels were commended for saving a citizen from a burning car. The Meeting continued with a Public Hearing on the Gills Creek Walking Trail. More...
REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS The City of Columbia, South Carolina requests a statement of qualifications from all interested architectural design consultants for providing programming through construction administration services for the conversion of the site and existing facilities at 4011 West Beltline Boulevard to house its Water Distribution and Wastewater More...
Raising healthy youngsters is challenging for all parents, even for wildlife who choose to rear their young in our gardens. Parenting becomes a delicate balancing act among natural forces. In late July a newly built bird nest setting five feet off the ground in a crotch of the river birch tree in my front yard caught my attention. The open cup was made of several layers. More...
Hopkins hits the bookshelves