August 28, 2009 RSS feed / News

Small Business Chambers gets overpayment returned to businesses

In 2006 the Small Business Chamber found out that a computer glitch at the National Council on Compensation Insurance back in 2003 and 2004 had resulted in an unknown number of our state's businesses overpaying for their workers' compensation insur More...

SC Patriotic Society donates to new veterans facility

Members of two South Carolina patriotic societies recently donated gifts of 12 handmade afghans to the Dorn VA Medical Center. The July 28th presentation, coordinated by Mrs. Beverly R. More...

Somalian family adapts to two worlds

Abdiaziz Mabruk and his wife, Halima Mahina, haven't let the horrors they have seen and experienced in Somalia affect their flexibility and humor they are passing on to their children, Batula Ahmed (nine- year- old, female), Shamso Ahmed (six, F), More...

Visit or paint the oldest building in Richland County

Bring your palette and easel or just come and visit the oldest building in Richland County at Sesquicentennial Park from 9 am to noon Saturday, September 12. The old log cabin built in 1754 will be open to the public for three hours. More...

Forest Acres photos needed

Warner M. Montgomery is writing a history of Forest Acres and needs photos of homes, churches, businesses, and people. Please bring the photograph to the office of The Columbia Star, 723 Queen Street, any weekday between 9 am and 5 pm. More...

SC State Museum exhibits Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's traveling exhibition Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race, examines how the Nazi leadership, in collaboration with individuals in professions traditionally charged with healing and the public good, More...

Happy 400th Birthday, New York!

In 1609, Henry Hudson left Amsterdam on board the ship Halve Maen (Half Moon) to try again to find the northeast passage. The Half Moon crossed the Atlantic and arrived in Newfoundland, Canada. More...