During the COVID- 19 pandemic, so much of daily life was shut down or modified in an attempt to get a handle on the virus. One of the events that was cancelled was in-person neighborhood association meetings. Those who did meet, met on Zoom. That changed Thursday, September 3 when the South Kilbourne Neighborhood Association held the first in-person meeting […]
Battling the unseen opponent
Every day Heathwood Hall athletic director Jeff Whalen asks the Highlander fall athletes if they have left the country. Sometimes he gets responses like, “Have I left the country since yesterday?” In any other time, this back and forth between player and athletic director may seem a bit strange, but is there really anything that would be considered strange in […]
Cutting hair at Kings Row
What’s the secret to staying open as a business for 50 years? According to Ed Barnes, the owner of Kings Row Hair Styling in Five Points, “It’s loving what you do. I dearly love what I do, and I’ve been doing it for 53 and one-half years. It’s funny, I feel like I’ve never really had a job. My business […]
Looking Back—The Day Columbia Flooded Part One in a Series About the 2015 Thousand Year Flood
The Thousand-Year Flood hit five years ago. Hard to believe. The first time the Red Cross man came by, I told him we were fine.We were staying put.We would go upstairs if things got bad. The second time, he said we had 10 minutes. He told us to put one change of clothes and an extra pair of shoes in […]
Quirky Crimes in the Capital City
West Columbia Augusta Road: A woman was arrested at 9 p.m. Friday after police received several calls about her destroying property on their property. When officers arrived at the scene, they spotted a woman matching the description they were given and she was kicking down signs for a fast food restaurant. When the officers approached her, she said she “just […]
Americans for Debt and Deficit Reduction
Over the last few weeks, we have heard a lot of talk at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. Pick most any topic and chances are we heard conversation on it. We also heard plenty of blame. Plenty of what’s wrong, and how our team would be better than yours at fixing it. Yet deafening silence when it comes to […]
It’s important to get your flu shot in this double- whammy season of COVID- 19
ASK US AT THE STARWhen are you supposed to get a flu shot when there are so many cases of COVID- 19? The 2020 flu shot is already available, so health experts say to go ahead and get it since the annual flu season along with COVID- 19 could be a double threat for vulnerable people. The CDC explains that while flu and COVID-19 […]
Apologies ain’t what they used to be
It’s not a criticism; It’s an observationAs a young boy, I was involved in some vandalism of a neighbor’s mailbox. A trombone hanging from the underside proved too fragile and too tempting for myself and my brother to admire from a distance. I can’t remember the details but we eventually broke the horn loose from its moorings and within hours were getting ready to atone for […]
September 12th
I’m just saying...It was 19-years ago American lives were forever changed. It’s been 19 years since two planes flew into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, one crashed into the west side of the Pentagon and a fourth was brought down by brave passengers in a rural Pennsylvania field. A total of 2,996 were killed in those […]
Cobra Kai strikes again
50–Something“Cobra Kai,” the television series based on “The Karate Kid” films, is unapologetically full of 1980s era cheese. The acting is suspect, the storylines are hokey, the background music is full of Bananarama, and Daniel LaRusso’s love life is just as cringe worthy as it was way back in 1984. “Cobra Kai” is bad television, but I am hopelessly and […]
