Four Brookland-Cayce Honors Choir students have been selected to the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) Honor Choir for 2021. The four (l-r), Dylan Whitman, Sydney Davis, Callie Grace Burgess, and Alejandra Rubio, prepared and submitted vocal auditions and competed among hundreds of high school choral students from across South Carolina. The ACDA Honor Choir weekend is scheduled for October at […]

Celebrating a school year spent together, the Boyz 2 Men club at East Point Academy planned a week of service and fun, including “Dress Like A Staff Member” day, the launch of the virtual “Real Men Read Library,” a day for rocking bow ties and hair bows, “Pastries for Parents” in carline, a “Rock Your Shades” day with a popsicle […]

By 1909, African American patients were being buried at the edge of the hospital’s farm in a 3.6 acre cemetery “north of the dairy farm.” Access was by a dirt road (now called Sligh Avenue) cut by a “county chain gang” in 1899. The cemetery was used until 1923 and intermittently after that. In 1983, the city used the cemetery […]

When the British colonies were first settled in America during the 1600s, special occasions were often celebrated with the music of a fiddle, one of the few musical instruments likely at hand. Some of the country’s first leaders, among them Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, were talented fiddlers themselves. That early tradition thrives today thanks to contemporary masters of the […]

The Greater Columbia Rose Society planted a rose bush, “Firefighter,” May 11 in the rose garden at Prisma Richland Hospital in memory of Bob Duggleby. Duggleby had been chairman of the garden committee of the Greater Columbia Rose Society that maintains the rose garden at Prisma Richland Hospital. Present for the planting was Duggleby’s daughter and son-in-law, Laura and Roy […]

Blackpink, a Korean girls music group, recently announced its newest member, Damarea Ogbuewu, a student at Dreher High School. Ogbuewu will be the lead singer in the group along with members, Rosé, Jisoo, Jennie, and Lisa. Ogbuewu hopes to incorporate her newest song, “Passport,” into the group’s lineup.

Sanders Bethea, a senior at Hammond School, is a recipient of a 2020- 2021 P.E.O. Star Scholarship of $2,500. Bethea will use the scholarship at Tulane’s Honor College where she will major in English and psychology this fall.

A.C. Flora High School senior Jaylen Cocklin, who plans to pursue a government and history degree from Harvard University in the fall, has been awarded a $10,000 scholarship by the Columbia Rotary Club.

Lexington School District Two has named Denise Quickel director of bilingual services for the district.