Hundreds enjoyed shuckin’ oysters, eating low country boil and BBQ, and dancing to Fatback and the Groove at the Hall at Senate’s End
By Cathy Cobbs
The annual Richland County Coroner’s Foundation fundraiser featured an oyster roast, low country boil, great music and a love fest for Gary Watt, a man whose job is one of the most difficult in Columbia. More...
Columbia City Council held its monthly meeting Tuesday, January 16. Council learned at Tuesday’s meeting it was losing two city employees. City manager Teresa Wilson announced city council assistant Libby Gober was retiring. More...
EngenuitySC, the Columbia-based nonprofit focused on enhancing the Midlands’ competitiveness and prosperity, has announced the schedule of events for its inaugural Midlands Regional Competitiveness Week, to be held January 29 through February 2 More...
Lots of people are apologizing lately. Primarily men, powerful men, who did things they thought would always be acceptable. Most of the apologies are for getting caught. No one apologizes for something still undiscovered. More...
This past weekend, my husband Marty and I took a delayed trip to Key West. We were originally supposed to go for his birthday in September but since Hurricane Irma hit the area that weekend, our plans had to be postponed. More...
My son is 15 and thinks he can beat me at anything and everything from Chinese checkers to racing up the stairs, from basketball to baking. I can’t throw an old napkin in the garbage without it turning into some kind of shooting contest. More...
Richland One to Host 2018 Job Fair The 2018 Annual Job Fair for certified and classified positions • Saturday, January 20, 2018 • 9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. • Medallion Conference Center, 7309 Garners Ferry Road, Co More...
The 14th annual Richland One Hall of Fame Induction Gala will be held Saturday, January 27, 2018 at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center, 1101 Lincoln Street. This year’s theme is “An Evening Among the Stars.” More...
Free tax prep at W.R. Rogers Eligible Richland Two employees and community members can have their 2017 taxes filed at no cost Thursday, February 1. Appointments are required and can be made by calling the W.R. More...
A very young Ben Lippen Falcon wrestling squad managed to take down the four-time defending SCISA state champion Cardinal Newman Cardinals by a count of 45-36 on Wednesday, January 10. Seventh grader William Gaines got the Falcons on the board More...
Cardinal Newman’s Brandon Pirie exploded for a game-high 26 points in powering the Cardinals past the Ben Lippen Falcons, 75-42, in a SCISA boys’ Region I-3A basketball game on Thursday night, January 11 in the Steve Caswell Athletic Cent More...
It had been six years since Linda and Andrew had met in Gorky Park in Moscow. Linda was on a Tour for Peace sponsored by the United Nations Unitarian/Universalists. Andrew was visiting his grandmother. More...
All persons having claims against the following estates are required to deliver or mail their claims to the indicated Personal Representatives, appointed to administer these estates, and to file their claims on Form #371PC with the Probate Court of R More...
The people of Columbia marched, sang, prayed, and and remembered the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Monday, January 15. This was the 50th anniversary of the year Dr. Martin Luther King was lost to violence. More...
Happy Birthday, Hampton-Preston! The Midlands will soon commemorate the 200th birthday of the Hampton-Preston Mansion & Gardens in spring 2018. More...
Under the leadership of President Donald Trump, Speaker Paul Ryan, and House Republicans, the stock market has reached record heights soaring over 22 percent, unemployment is at its lowest since December of 2000, and Republicans passed historic tax r More...
At the monthly meeting of We Are Olympia Monday, January 15, Bob Johnson announced he is retiring from Vulcan Materials as plant manager in May. He served as Olympia president beginning in May 2015, replacing longtime president Jim Jaco. More...
Contributed by Richland County Office of County Treasurer
“We have the easiest ‘search and pay’ website in South Carolina, and our citizens are using it in record numbers, ” said Richland County Treasurer David Adams in revealing an explosive growth in internet tax payments. More...
The #MeToo movement that erupted in Hollywood last fall and then exploded nationwide shows no signs of diminishing. It is, in fact, continuing to mushroom. More...
One of my new year’s resolutions is to pay more attention to my breathing. I’ll have plenty of chances to do this, but it’s going to require determination too. More...
The story goes something like this: When Mar- tin Luther King Jr. was a little boy, he had a group of neighborhood friends. One day one of the white mothers told him he couldn’t play with her sons anymore. More...
•ART Call for Artists! Registration for Columbia Open Studios, presented by 701 CCA, is now open. Deadline to register is January 18, 2018. Columbia Open Studios will take place Saturday, April 7, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. More...
Southern Exposure New Music Series will present Duo Cortona with the USC Percussion Studio in a free concert Friday, January 26 at 7: 30 p.m. in the USC School of Music Recital Hall, 813 Assembly Street, next to Koger Center for the Arts. More...