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June 11, 2010 / Front Page

Hanging out for the summer

Becca Reynolds prepares Jim Blair for his climb as part of Shandon United Methodist Church’s Youth Camp taking place at Heathwood Hall Episcopal School’s rope course. More...

Award-winning Jean's Journal

This story contains a video Lisa Casper has two jobs, one that pays the bills and another that warms her heart. More...

Opinion/Crime

It’s not a criticism; It’s an observation

Sailing with the boys

By Mike Cox

During the mid–90s, while on a golfing trip with some redneck Alabama coal miners, I got an opportunity to go sailing in Pensacola Bay with an old acquaintance. Prince was not your typical southern working man. More...

Forty– something

Do my fingers look fat?

By Mike Maddock

My oldest daughter, the 12–year–old, may be turning into a woman sooner than I thought because the other day she asked me something that only a woman could ask. More...

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Education

CIU students recruit and touch lives on East Coast Bicycle Tour

Contributed by Columbia International University

A 1,800 mile summer bicycling tour along the East Coast by five young men will focus on 1More. The idea is not to just peddle 1More mile from Florida to Maine, but it’s an opportunity to touch 1More life. More...

Lower Richland Ruritan Club awards scholarship to Columbia College junior

Lower Richland Ruritan Club Business and Profession chairman Tami Phillips recently presented LR Ruritan member Casey Clark the 2010 Ruritan Build Your Dollar Grant Scholarship for $530. More...

Airport High School donates to Camp Kemo

Every spring Airport High School holds “Charity Drive Week” that includes daily fundraising events such as food fest, silent auctions, Miss Eagle pageant, “send a goat,” pie th More...

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Sports

Congaree Rapid SKY92 team going west for possible national title

By Cathy Cobbs

A U17 boys’ soccer team representing the Congaree Rapid Soccer Association will travel this week to Tulsa, Okla., hoping to win enough games in the regional competition to take them onto July’s national showdown. More...

West Columbia holds on to down Richland

~Memorial Stadium • June 6, 2010~

By Josh Cruse

League 8 Standings (as of Tuesday, June 8): 1. West Columbia (4-0) 2. Irmo-Chapin (2-1) 3. Richland (1-1) 4. Orangeburg (0-2) 5. Lexington (0-3) More...

Defense wins for West Columbia

~Airport High School • June 7, 2010~

By Josh Cruse

One night after scoring 15 runs on 14 hits against Richland Post 6, West Columbia Post 79 proved it can also win the close games as well defeating Irmo–Chapin Post 193 4–3. More...

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Travel

To Lake Wobegon via Atlanta

Conclusion: Where were Guy Noir, Dusty, and Lefty?

By Warner M. Montgomery
Warner@thecolumbiastar.com

The doors to the Fox Theater opened at 5:45 p.m., and we were ushered in. Wow! What a theater! More...

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Beauty in the Backyard

Don the hat for sun–safe gardening

Stopping to smell the flowers

By Arlene Marturano
marturanoa@yahoo.com

Gardeners should be as conscientious about protecting themselves from ultra–violet radiation (UVR) as they are about selecting and siting their plants in appropriate light conditions— sun or shade. More...

Star Chefs

Flag Day

Contributed by Pam Edwards

Betsy Ross Pound Cake Contributed by Pam Edwards One pound flour Three–fourths pound butter One pound sugar Twelve eggs More...

Flag Day, June 14

The colors of the flag denote the struggle for freedom.The stars represent the colonies. More...

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USO welcomes military

By Julia Rogers Hook

Anyone who has waited on a friend or family member at an airport knows the face of the young military man or woman as they walk down the runway from a plane that has taken them far away from their family and friends. More...

Richland Mall is up in the air

By Cathy Cobbs

What is happening at Midtown at Forest Acres—or, as it is now known again, Richland Mall? Up top, a lot. Down below, not much. More...

District Two pulls plug on Post 182

By Mark Lawrence

Long a fixture in the Columbia–area American Legion baseball landscape, Post 182 is missing from this year’s schedule. And the prospects for Northeast Columbia’s return anytime soon appear bleak. More...

News

Study reveals government spending kills jobs

Voters don’t want politicians to “create jobs”; they want them to get out of the private sector’s way.

By Howard Rich

Of all the myths helping to sustain the unsustainable status quo in Washington, D.C., among the most widely accepted is the belief that a politician’s seniority translates into tangible economic benefits for his or her district. More...

Quirky Crimes in THE CAPITAL CITY

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Summer stretches Salvation Army’s supplies

By Julia Rogers Hook

While holiday donations are usually generous in Columbia, volunteer area coordinator Seth Taylor of the Salvation Army said as summer approaches the supplies are dwindling. More...

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