The gate to First Presbyterian Church’s cemetery now has to be locked every night. The stunning discovery that geocachers were playing a high–tech game of “Kick the Bucket” in the hallowed space forced the decision. First Presbyterian Church is just one local church shocked to learn about geocachers and geocaching. Shady Grove United Methodist Church, set deeply in Irmo’s Dutch […]
Milling company’s descendants hold reunion
The driver of the party bus knew to lookout for the tall Adluh smokestack. He was to turn left at that landmark and deliver his passengers to Sally’s House on the milling company’s property. Everyone on the bus was a member of the Allen family coming to Columbia for their first reunion out–of–state. Adluh’s Jack Edgerton, CEO of one of […]
Jasper Johns turns 75
LillianSC artist and A. C. Moore alumnus Jasper Johns was born in Augusta on May 15, 1930. Johns’s parents lived in Allendale where there was no hospital. After a boyhood in Allendale, Columbia, Batesburg–Leesville, and Sumter, where he graduated from high school, Johns spent three semesters with the art department at USC. He took his teachers’ advice and moved to […]
Dreher students excells
Erin Hope tells why life is just starting to be good. By Ellen Fortson Columbia Airplane pilot at 17, Chicago marathon runner at 18, and an honor student at Duke at 20. What do you do for a second act? “Columbia seems to change every time I come home to visit,” Hope said during her spring break from Duke University. […]
Q & A about geocaching
A Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for gps users. Participating in a cache hunt is a good way to take advantage of the wonderful features and capability of a gps unit. The basic idea is to have individuals and organizations set up caches all over the world and share the locations of these caches on the internet. GPS users […]
Beach party comes to the SC State Museum
Contributed bySC State Museum The coolest sounds to be found this summer will be heard at the SC State Museum Friday, June 10. Write down the date, because that’s when the 2005 edition of “Elliot Davis and SC Bank & Trust Present Beach Music Blast” will bring the best of the beach to the Capital City. Four of beach music’s […]
Pig Pickin’ fun at Round Top Elementary
Round Top Elementary Resource Teacher, Tami Covert, braves the dunk tank the Pig Pickin’ fundraiser.
New horseback riding facility at the SC School for the Blind
Contributed by theSC School forthe Deaf and Blind The children at the SC School for the Deaf and Blind love horses, and they may soon have a brand new horsebackriding facility right on their Spartanburg campus. Almost everything is in place for a new therapeutic equestrian facility that will benefit both SCSDB students and disabled individuals throughout the Spartanburg area. […]
First Community holds 10th annual shareholders’ meeting
At 11 am Wednesday, Jim Leventis, chairman of the board, addressed the shareholders of First Community Corporation, parent of First Community Bank. Mike Crapps, president and CEO, and Tommy Johnson, vice chairman and executive vice president, also participated in the standing room only event at Saluda Shoals Park River Center on Bush River Road. Last year the annual meeting was […]
Star Profile
Mike DuBose By Chris O’Brien Mike DuBose is president and owner of six corporations in the Columbia area, including the new Columbia Conference Center, Research Associates, The Evaluation Group, and a privately held insurance company. Columbia Conference Center, located off Fernandina between Piney Grove and St. Andrews Roads, is a $5 million 40,000–square– foot facility built in 2003 to provide […]
