The Cayce Farmers Market is celebrating its 40th year of business beginning Thursday, March 28. Located at 2329 Charleston Highway, the Farmers Market is owned and operated by the Creech family. Beginning The Cayce Farmers Market began as Tomato City when Jacky Creech, then in his 20s, began selling tomatoes with his father on a dirt lot on what is […]
Fourth Annual Deckle Edge Book Festival held at Richland Library
The 2019 Deckle Edge Book Festival brought together South Carolina writers to share their reflections on topics such as social justice, racism, the creative writing process, writers serving as social activists, and the places and people of South Carolina. Panel discussions were held at Richland County Public Library throughout the day March 16. Topics included “De Gullah/Geechee: Voices of a […]
Historically Ever After
Your Historically Ever After starts here! With four elegant venues downtown, Historic Columbia is the perfect place to host your wedding activities. From fun showers to cozy rehearsal dinners, intimate ceremonies, and grand receptions— we’ve got a venue to suit your wedding style and needs. Each venue features expansive garden spaces, unique amenities, and picturesque places to say, “I Do.” […]
Quirky Crimes in the Capital City
Forest Acres Forest Drive: A woman called police at 6 p. m. Wednesday to report she was assaulted in a restaurant back in December. The 73-yearold woman told the officers on 12/17 she was in a restaurant when she saw an acquaintance of hers eating with his fiancée. The woman said when the man’s fiancée went to the restroom, the […]
You might have been a Baptist if…
I walked into a beautiful old church and saw something I hadn’t seen in forty years—a stack of Annie Armstrong Easter offering envelopes. I knew I was in a Baptist Church. I had not thought about Armstrong or my childhood church in years, but seeing that stack of envelopes triggered lots of memories. The book of Proverbs tells us to […]
Spring brings increase in scams and spams like runaway kudzu vines
ASK US AT THE STARIt seems most of my phone calls are nuisance callers. Why? If you think nuisance callers are proliferating, you’re right. In fact, a goodly percentage of the calls you get everyday are from unwanted callers. A recent study found the percentage of mobile phone spam calls has jumped from 3.7 percent of total calls in 2017 to 29.2 percent in […]
Being Okay
It’s not a criticism; It’s an observationRead an article recently about honey sommeliers. Not sure if the writer was serious, but it got me thinking. Are we getting too snooty for our own good? Have we reached the point where being average, or okay, is no longer OK? Heroes, superstars, and geniuses are special. And they are few. Way fewer than we believe. The article also […]
Pollen Patrol Peeves
I’m just saying...“You do realize this isn’t doing any good at all don’t you?” My husband Marty came home from work a little early the other day and he found me with my trusty wireless leaf blower attacking the pollen on our porch. For those who don’t live in the south, pollen is an annual cross we southerners have to bear every […]
My Musical Misconception
40–SomethingWay back when I was a teenager, I thought intelligence was directly related to the kind of music people liked. I had no evidence to support this theory, but it was the only thing my 5’7”-average student- mediocre athlete- self could feel superior about. I liked “alternative” rock, which is a fancy way of describing music that had not found […]
