September 3, 2010 RSS feed / News

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Tax free weekend

I may venture to Walmart this Saturday now that the tax free weekend is over. It’s worse than the day before Christmas. More...

Facebook to the rescue

There’s a love/hate/or don’t care relationship going on among many internet users of Facebook. Some say it’s too invasive while others post something on their Facebook page every day. More...

Jeeps rev up patriotism

Among the vintage vehicles transporting visiting veterans of WWII’s Battle of the Bulge from the Marriott Hotel reunion headquarters to Williams Brice Stadium and the surrounding Gamecock Countr More...

Columbia woman participates in National Convention of the Ladies Auxiliary to the VFW

Helen Bell of Columbia, S.C., a member of Gandy-Griffin Auxiliary #4262, participated in the 97th National Convention of the Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) of the U.S. More...

Long–time surgeon, USC fan celebrates 93rd birthday

Friends, family, and representatives of the University of South Carolina gathered at Mayberry’s on Platt Springs Road in West Columbia on Friday, August 27 to celebrate Dr. Charles Crews’s 93rd birthday. More...

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Trading football for girls’ soccer

The build–up to the start of college football season used to be like those long months before Christmas morning for me. More...

“We were on our way to Japan when the atomic bomb was dropped.”

Memories of the Battle of the Bulge were banished from Vernon Brantley’s mind. Like many WWII veterans, especially those serving in America’s longest engagement, he’d tried to forget war–time experiences. More...

Local Battle of the Bulge veteran helps reunion organizers welcome guest vets

Walter Hedges has some million mark memories of the Battle of the Bulge; others aren’t worth an English farthing, one 20th of a penny. More...

SUMC sets record for blood donations

Robert Harris sets an example for his children, Hannah and Thomas, while Pam O’Leary prepares him to give blood with the double red cell donation, similar to a whole blood donation except a spec More...