Every Friday afternoons at 3:15, Onyx, a standard poodle champion and therapy dog, and his owners Nell and Walter Chastain visit the residents at Hartland of Columbia Rehabilitation and Nursing Center on Forest Drive for an afternoon of fun. Onyx will be four years old in May and weighs 70 pounds. He comes from a long line of champions. His […]
Scandal costs John C. Calhoun his presidency
Pat McNeely’s new book, Petticoat Affair, tells the effect Peggy O’Neil Timberlake’s reputation had on politicsPetticoat Affai r, a new book on Andrew Jackson, John C. Calhoun, and the Petticoat Affair, will be discussed in a PowerPoint presentation by USC Professor Emerita Pat McNeely at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 8 at the Richland Library, 1431 Assembly St. Dubbed the Petticoat Affair by 19th and 20th century newspapers and magazines, the scandal caused Jackson to dissolve […]
Thrill seeker and educator welcomed into Explorers Club
South Carolina-based environmental attorney and global explorer Thomas S. Mullikin was welcomed into the famed Explorers Club as a “Fellow” during ceremonies at the Explorers Club reception, Friday, March 9. The 114th annual Explorers Club Dinner was at the Marriot Marquis in Times Square, NYC, Saturday, March 10. Explorers Club Fellowships are “reserved for those who have distinguished themselves by […]
New book commemorates S.C.’s African American lawyers and their legal education
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the University of South Carolina’s School of Law, Historic Columbia invites you to join W. Lewis Burke, distinguished professor emeritus and author, for a special lecture about his recently published book, All for Civil Rights: Black Lawyers in South Carolina, 1868- 1968. The lecture will be given March 28 at 5 p.m. and will […]
Quirky Crimes in the Capital City
Forest Acres Trenholm Road: A woman went to police headquarters at noon Sunday to report her ex-husband was harassing her. The 68- year- old woman told officers her 71-year-old ex-husband had emailed her that morning about his child support payments. The woman said this wasn’t the first time he had “bothered” her and had the file numbers of the previous […]
High school sports help students recover after school shooting
Often in life, things simply do not make sense, and we have no easy answers. Certainly, that was the case last month as a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, entered the school at dismissal time with a semiautomatic rifle and killed 17 people – 14 students and three staff members. When these types of […]
Beware of Medicare Card call scam
ASK US AT THE STARI understand new Medicare cards are being issued with new ID numbers and doing away with social security information. Are there any precautions I need to take? Periodically, we are warned about the scourge of modern society—the telephone scam—and the new Medicare cards being provided by the federal government are providing fresh fodder for ever creative fraudsters. The new cards […]
Too Many Choices
It’s not a criticism; It’s an observationFrankie upgraded his TV viewing capabilities recently by purchasing an upgraded Roku. He gave me the old one. It worked on my dumb television, and after I reset the contents and removed Frankie’s stuff, I was able to get the required access number and confirm my own Roku account. Now I need to discover how this helps me live a […]
Shelf Elves
I’m just saying...It seemed so simple. A friend of mine was moving her business and she was selling some furniture. Part of that furniture was some shelves. Eight shelves to be exact. They were about six feet tall and two feet wide. They were absolutely PERFECT for my purpose. And she was eager to sell them, so she gave me an unbelievable […]
The Secret Genius of the Socialite
40–SomethingMy mom, the 74- year-old grandmother, has quite the social life, one I haven’t rivaled since I was a senior in high school. And that was a long time ago. She is constantly going out with friends to dinners, to the movies, and whatever else they can dream up. I get tired just thinking about it. My social life usually […]