Certain small businesses like Madison Hall in Columbia plan on waiting out the current financial crisis by relying heavily on their fair and friendly approach to conducting business, according to Peter and Jane Dillard. Madison Hall was established in 1976 by Sandy Dillard, the mother of the current partners Peter and Jane Dillard. Like most American small businesses, Madison Hall […]

Priscilla Givens and Maureen Jennings were the honorees at Sistercare’s Women of the Year Event on Thursday, March 19, 2009, at Sistercare’s Ad-ministrative Office, 1820 Morlaine Drive, Cayce, SC. Givens was selected as a result of the significant life changes she made and her transition from domestic violence victim to Sistercare volunteer. She now mentors other battered women and gives […]

Medicare beneficiaries in the state of South Carolina experience higher rates of chronic illnesses such as diabetes and heart failure. Over 80 percent of all Medicare beneficia ries have one or more chronic illnesses, which can lead to serious complications such as hospitalization, if not properly managed. Studies have shown that diet and exercise can help prevent complications from many […]

Susan Gibbes Robinson, a leading Columbia educator and philanthropist, has given a rare, first edition of Mark Catesby’s 18th- century The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the B ahama Islands to the University of South Carolina Libraries. The two massive, leather- bound volumes, published in London in 1731 and 1743, contain the works of the British naturalist during his […]