Twenty-one Lexington Two middle school students have been named South Carolina Junior Scholars. The program, developed by the state Department of Education, identifies eighth-graders with high scholastic achievement and intellectual ability through testing and other criteria, offering summer opportunities through South Carolina colleges and universities, according to the department website. Among Lexington Two’s Junior Scholars are Cassidy Callahan, Jamie Martin, […]
U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao announces $97.26 Million to South Carolina airports in response to COVID-19
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $97,263,094 in airport aid to 53 airports in South Carolina, including $8,850,557 to Columbia Metropolitan Airport and $69,000 to Jim Hamilton LB Owens Airport, to help respond to the COVID-19 public health emergency. This historic grant funding is part of the Trump Administration’s newly created Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act Airport Grant Program, an effort to provide unprecedented and immediate relief to American families, workers, and businesses.
South Carolina State Museum acquires Frederick Douglass walking stick
Historic artifact Gifted to Douglas while Visiting Charleston in 1888“This walking stick is not only a notable object of national history, gifted to the preeminent abolitionist, writer and lecturer Frederick Douglass, it is a significant and meaningful piece of South Carolina history,” said JoAnn Zeise, cultural history curator of the State Museum. “Adding this one-of-a-kind piece to our collection will help us continue to tell the wonderful stories of South Carolina for years to come.”
