“There may have been more armchair athletes than fitness buffs watching the Olympics, but everybody can embrace the competitors’ principle of commitment,” says University of South Carolina Professor Dr. Steven N. Blair who just returned from the London games. Blair, who was invited by Coca-Cola to be an Olympic torch bearer, say she wishes the excitement over the Olympics would […]
Family and friends pay tribute to Ann Davis
Retired teacher Ann Davis keeps herself busy with church and volunteer work. She writes and recites poetry, loves to beat her opponents in Scrabble, Chinese checkers, and Rummikub, attends church on Wednesdays and Sundays, and enjoys a summer float in the waters of Lake Murray accompanied by her daughters and family. Not bad for someone who turned 100 on August […]
Columbia’s Famously Hot Beatrice and Clyde tragically changed the l ives of many
Beatrice Snipes was the first woman sentenced to die in the electric chair in S. C.Columbia is indeed famously hot, and, while researching this 80-year-old photograph, I was struck by Columbia’s famously hot history. It’s impossible to look at the image and not wonder about the “thousand words” behind the story. The challenging eyes glaring at the camera seem menacing until a glance downward reveals the tender touch of a new mother. Fortunately, when this […]
Readers defend I’m Just Saying
Good article on the theater shooting. Owning weapons is a guarantee, buying 6000 rounds of ammunition might suggest someone has ulterior motives…Just Saying. -Jim Teegarden The recent criticism of Ms. Hook’s column calling for a return to sane gun control laws can hardly be seen as disrespectful of the mentally-challenged members of our society. I have no idea as to […]
Reader appalled by I’m Just Saying
I’ve enjoyed your newspaper for years for local government news and human interest articles. I was appalled at the recent (July 27) I’m Just Saying column entitled “Bring Back Public Hangings.” Ms. Hook’s labels for James Holmes, the shooter at the Aurora, Colorado, theater, were reprehensible. She referred to him as “wacko,” “a whack job idiot,” “orange hair,” and even […]
Time for gun owners to take responsibility
Recently, The State newspaper printed a collection of pro-gun/NRA leaning letters to the editor. These letters condemned those who didn’t agree with them, alluding that those who disagree are crazy, stupid, ignorant, misinformed, and/or dangerous. One writer even promoted the ownership and personal use of AK-47’s. There are many versions of beliefs within those who believe that enforcing the existing […]
Adventure Travel brings back fond memories
I always enjoy Dr. Montgomery’s articles. I taught public school in Williamsburg County in the ’80s. I knew Dr. C.E. Murray at Greeleyville and Dr. Ronald Williamson at Hemingway. They were two of the finest, most atavistic school men anyone could ever meet. There are scores who remember these gentlemen, both local legends, both deserving of Finest in the World […]
Retire worn flags
As I drive around Columbia and surrounding areas, I have noticed many businesses that fly American flags that are torn, frayed, or faded. One of the guidelines from the Flag Code is when an American flag is so worn it is no longer fit to serve as a symbol of our country, it should be retired in a dignified manner. […]
Quirky Crimes in the Capital City
Forest Acres tForest Drive: Police were called to a grocery store at 6 p.m. after an employee confronted a would-be thief. The employee told officers she watched as a man went around the store filling his basket with various items and then exited the store without paying for them. She went after the man in the parking lot at which […]
