Robert Wright Percival and his father, Dupre, founded Living Wright in 2015 to give back to the local community that had long supported them. They honored Reverend Dr. Robert Wright Spears, Robert Percival’s grandfather and namesake by establishing The Living Wright Foundation in 2021 to address local food insecurity. Reverend Dr. Spears was a United Methodist Church minister and president […]
Time to get spooky
Asbury Memorial United Methodist Church held a Trunk or Treat event Sunday, October 23. Free hot dog meals, games, a cake walk, and decorated trunk contest were enjoyed by a record crowd. Pirates Dane and Debbie Gravely and their partial ship won the best decorated trunk contest.
Under the Tuscan Spell—
Orvieto the MagnificentOriginally published October 28, 2005
Once upon a time, a Bohemian priest on his way home from Rome stopped near Orvieto to celebrate mass. As he held the communion wafer, blood dripped onto his cloth. He reported this miracle to Pope Urban IV who placed the cloth in the nearby dilapidated cathedral as a holy relic. Within a hundred years, the philanthropists of Orvieto had […]
Free Flying
I’m just saying...I just got back from my annual theater trip to New York with my girlfriend and once again, it is sadly clear to me I am NEVER going to be the relaxed and seasoned traveler. I long to be that woman gliding through airports pulling her petite and stylish little carry-on bag that has everything she will need for a […]
Are Airbnb and other short term rentals ruining Columbia’s neighborhoods?
That is the implied message of a headline article in The State newspaper October 5, 2022, “Columbia drafts policy to cap Airbnbs, short term rentals.” To be honest, such backward thinking by so called “Columbia Leaders” shouldn’t be surprising to anybody at this point. Columbia has been in a relative economic coma for the last 20 years or so, and […]
FOLKS ABOUT TOWN
Wesley Harkness has joined the McKay Firm’s civil litigation team. Shannon Furr Bobertz has been named chief of staff at the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources. Susan O. Porter has been named general counsel for the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources. Kameisha Heppard has been named director of homeless services and Mackin Wall has been named homeless services […]
$8.2 million awarded to Richland and Fairfield counties last year by Central Carolina Community Foundation
A total of $8,290,411 in grants and scholarships were awarded to Richland and Fairfield counties during the last fiscal year (July 1 to June 30, 2022) by Central Carolina Community Foundation, the Midlands’ leader in collaborative philanthropy. Overall, the Community Foundation awarded a total of $16,003,031 in grants and scholarships across the state and other parts of the country. Since […]
South Carolina Air National Guard extends operations at Columbia Metropolitan Airport
The South Carolina Air National Guard’s (SCANG) 169th Fighter Wing, which has been operating out of the Columbia Metropolitan Airport (CAE) since April due to runway renovations at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, will be extending its flight training operations at CAE for several weeks, SCANG officials have announced. “When we started the renovations of our main runway in April, […]
ATTORNEYS HONORED
Adams and Reese has completed Diversity Lab’s Mansfield Rule 5.0 Certification Process, therefore achieving Mansfield Rule Certification.
BUSINESS BRIEFS
The Columbia Metropolitan Airport (CAE) has launched the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower Program, a new in-terminal initiative for passengers with hidden disabilities. The program offers a discreet way for those with a hidden disability to self-identify—alerting staff they, or someone in their party, might need a little more time or extra help. Cason Development Group has announced the start of construction […]
