Nineteen members of the Columbia St. Andrews Society played golf in their kilts Monday, November 30 at Forest Lake Club. The St. Andrews Society is a non–profit organization created for the study and celebration of Scottish heritage. More...
The Richland Northeast High School Model UN team brought home the Award of Merit, the Research Award, and five Committee Awards from the first Southern United States Model UN conference in Atlanta at Emory University held the weekend of November 19. More...
Creative Kids, the oldest specialty toy shop in Columbia, has tons of exclusive gifts and toys. Although Santa usually makes his rounds on Christmas Eve, there is one particular gift that Santa is bringing early this holiday season. To see this special gift and other toys at Creative Kids visit our website www.thecolumbiastar.com. More...
Kathleen Parker, a resident of Camden and a member of the faculty there at the Buckley School of Public Speaking, addressed a full house a couple weeks ago in the Belk Auditorium in the lower level of the Darla Moore School of Business. Parker is a syndicated columnist, a part of the More...
Elizabeth Courtney Heyward Robinson Boykin Clarkson died Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 2009. She was born in 1919 in Columbia in the old Baptist Hospital, the first person in her family not to have been born at home. She was the daughter of Sarah Boykin Heyward and Edmund Rhett Heyward. More...
Spending tax dollars on lobbyists to encourage yet more government spending is a new growth industry in South Carolina, says a new South Carolina Policy Council fact sheet and a practice in need of reform. More...
Coaches Curing Kids’ Cancer presented Palmetto Health Children’s Hospital with $10,000 Tuesday, November 24, for pediatric cancer and blood disorders research. More...
Thomas Jefferson is one of my heroes in history. I convinced Linda to put his places of interest in Paris on our to–do list. She happily agreed provided, “It won’t take away from our museum time.” More...
Charles Heyward never made it back to the Combahee for on March 23, 1866, he died sitting on the porch at Goodwill Plantation. In the fall of 1866, Edward Barnwell Heyward and his family moved to Charleston and then later back to the Combahee. More...
The one and only “S. Claus” flies back onto Workshop Theatre’s stage
December 10–13 in ’Twas
the Night Before Christmas,
S. Claws? – but this time he faces a challenge! More...
Roll call
Chair Paul Livingston, Vice Chair Damon Jeter, Joyce Dickerson, Val Hutchinson, Norman Jackson, Gwendolyn Kennedy, Bill Malinowski, Jim Manning, Greg Pearce, Kit Smith and Kelvin Washington were present at the Richland County Council meeting December 1, 2009.
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In 1970 Arbor Day became a national observance when President Nixon proclaimed the last Friday in April National Arbor Day. Twenty states and the District of Columbia celebrate the onset of tree–planting season on that day. More...
Where in the world is Alan Shoemaker?