Rachel Penny just wants her beloved dogs back. She doesn’t care who stole them, or who returns them. She is willing to hand over thousands of dollars to whomever reunites her with her pets. On April 22, while in the care of a friend while Penny was in Hawaii, the four year-old huskies, Izzy and Gigi, disappeared after allegedly digging […]
Making a difference, Rotary style
As thousands of families walked through the gates of A. C. Flora High School’s athletic field Saturday, May 19, to attend the Forest Acres Festival, Sandy Olson, president of the Rotary Club of Forest Acres had a huge smile on her face. “’Making A Difference’ is the Rotary International theme this year. You can see the difference the festival makes […]
League of Women Voters of the Columbia area announce Vote 411.org
The local chapter of the League of Women Voters hosted a training and informational event at the Richland County Public Library Tuesday, May 22, 2018, to announce the launch of Vote411.org. This website was developed by the national League of Women Voters organization in 2006. This year was the first time the website has been utilized in South Carolina at […]
Preservation Wins and Losses
May is National Preservation Month and is a good reminder for us to shine a light on the importance of historic preservation. In addition to solidifying a community’s past, preservation helps strengthen a community’s future. Historic buildings help create vibrant, cultural downtowns that draw tourism, art, festivals, and other activities, which in turn draw investment, revenue and economic growth. Historic […]
Quirky Crimes in the Capital City
Richland County Covenant Road: A man called police at 2 a. m. Tuesday after he said he had been assaulted while outside his apartment. The 56- year-old man told officers he was “just sitting outside” when a man in his 20s walked by with a woman, neither of which the man knew. The older man said he didn’t think they […]
Palmetto Health reminds parents to have children protect face during spring sports
Every year parents bring their children to emergency rooms for everything from broken or knocked out teeth to broken jaws or other facial injuries suffered while playing sports. Jeff Holloway, M.D., Palmetto Health-USC Medical Group, Orthopedics, “Many people think they’re immune to the types of serious injuries people warn them about if they don’t wear a helmet or mouthguard. They […]
Job market for 2018 graduates
ASK US AT THE STARWhat kind of job market awaits our newly minted 2018 graduates? There is some great news for South Carolina’s Class of 2018 college graduates. Columbia and Charleston rank among the top ten best places in the nation to start a career, according a just released study by the financial research firm, WalletHub. The report lists Charleston as number four and […]
Busting Stereotypes
It’s not a criticism; It’s an observationI regained confidence the human race is still okay recently. One of those spandex wearing, expensive bike riding, overachievers did the trick. In a really simple and unassuming way. During Wednesday dinner with our regular group nearly a year ago, one of the vets was asked about her bicycling. She had recently been making extended bike rides with a group […]
Don’t Bug Me!
I’m just saying...“Marty…you have to break up with one of our bug people.” I was addressing my husband because somehow, we had gotten ourselves two exterminating companies about a year or so ago when one of our cats, aptly named Scrappy, had brought in a live rat and released it, unhurt, in the house. Marty was beside himself that we had a […]
iPhones and the Apocalypse
40–SomethingThe other day my wife was driving down I-77 when she noticed a tanker drifting into her lane. She wanted to give the driver the benefit of the doubt before she assumed the worst because those guys in the big rigs travel long hours. But this guy wasn’t tired; he was checking out his phone. That’s right. A truck driver […]