Folks about town
James H. Holland
Earl Hunter, Department of Health and Environmental Control commissioner, will be recognized by the March of Dimes for his leadership in newborn screening.
Riggs Partners was recognized for the 15th consecutive year at InShow, a juried competition showcasing creative excellence from across the state.
Susan Anderson, professor and director of dance at the University of South Carolina and artistic director of the University of South Carolina Dance Company, has been named the Governor’s 2009 Professor of the Year for four–year institutions of higher education.
Lexington Medical Center has won the prestigious 2009/ 2010 Consumer Choice Award from the National Research Corporation as the hospital that provides the highest quality service in the Columbia area.
Kim Harne
James H. Holland, Immediate Past Commander of the South Carolina Department of the American Legion has received the Palmetto Patriot Award.
Daniel R. Beadles, Wayne R. Byars, Donald A. Castillo, Mark A. Day, Kenneth J. Dobbins, Gerald Galbraith, Ronald E. Hanna, II, Mary Jane Holladay, Marvin K. Mosley, Robert P. Rose, Patrick R. Odom, Mathew B. Rich, Krista Spivey, and Phillip Spivey have graduated from the Richland County Sheriff's Department Reserve Deputy Program.
Kim Harne has been hired as assistant director of the Arts in Education and S.C. Artists' Ventures Initiative programs for the S.C. Arts Commission.
Kevin Fisher of Fisher Communications has received the 2009 South East Emmy Award for Youth Programming.
Austin Smith and Drew Walk- er have joined Ellis, Lawhorne & Sims, P.A., in the firm’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice Group.
Kevin Fisher
David C. Lockwood III, of Colliers Keenan, has been appointed Chairman of the Board for City Center Partnership.
Caleb Martin Riser has joined Richardson Plowden & Robinson, P.A., and will focus his practice on construction law. 
Austin Smith 
Drew Walker 
Caleb Martin Riser
