Colliers | South Carolina’s brokerage associates Mary Winter Teaster represented the tenant, Dr. Mariangela Rivera/The Ratio by Body Math, and Tommy Tapp represented the owner, the Wells family, in the…
Three Columbia culinary powerhouses, including a restaurant group, restaurant and chef, have been named 2023 James Beard Awards® semifinalists. The three have been nominated in different award categories: Outstanding Restaurateur:…
Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen of the General Assembly, my fellow South Carolinians: We are here tonight to address challenges and opportunities. But first, as in prior years,…
By Jeff Becraft As I have probably mentioned before, my Dad now has to live at a skilled nursing facility that gives more acute care. It is in a…
The MGC Long Run returns to Columbia, South Carolina on Saturday, February 4 for its eighth year. Net proceeds will benefit the USO South Carolina, an organization whose mission is…
Digital content success coaching firm Words First recently launched a one-of-a-kind course and community membership to help teams and professionals learn more human, intentional, and effective content practices for their…
Forty-one leaders from across the Midlands will have new tools and perspectives to leverage diversity to improve organizational outcomes and drive social and economic progress in South Carolina, gained through…
Laurens County School District 56 is hosting a Recruitment Fair on Saturday, January 28th from 9-11 am at Clinton Middle School (800 N. Adair Street, Clinton). The district is hiring…
Southern First Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: SFST), holding company for Southern First Bank, today announced its financial results for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2022. “Southern First continues…
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Community Association Management Services (CAMS), North Carolina and South Carolina’s premier community management company, is pleased to announce the promotion of Taylor Hayes, CMCA®, AMS®, to regional…
CHARLESTON, S.C. – Community Association Management Services (CAMS), North Carolina and South Carolina’s premier community management company, is pleased to announce the promotion of Jeanmare Holjencin, CMCA®, to regional vice…
McCrory Construction, South Carolina’s oldest general contractor, announced that it has begun construction on a production facility for Scott Bader in Mocksville, NC. Founded in England more than a century…
Columbia is about to get a whole lot sweeter on Friday, January 27, when locally owned and operated Harbison Crumbl Cookies, located at 150 C Harbison Blvd, Columbia, SC, 29072,…
Leadership Columbia Class of 2024 Applications Now Open Applications are now open for the Columbia Chamber’s leadership program, Leadership Columbia, for the Class of 2024. Approximately 60 applicants will be…
Columbia architecture and interior design firm Garvin Design Group joined Hope Lutheran Church to break ground on an expansion and renovation project on Sunday, January 22. In a special groundbreaking…
CBE President and Owner, John Eckstrom with Mark Myers from Sharp Electronics and Representative Jay Kilmartin On Monday, January 23, Carolina Business Equipment (CBE) hosted a ribbon cutting for the…
Colliers | South Carolina’s Mary Winter Teaster represented the tenant, Dr. Meghan Davidson / Soulshine Pelvic Health and Wellness, and Ryan McCue, ALC represented the owner, 2744 Millwood LLC, in…
The South Carolina Department of Revenue (SCDOR) and the IRS begin accepting Individual Income Tax returns today, January 23, 2023. The filing deadline for both state and federal returns is Tuesday,…
With support of the TD Charitable Foundation, Prisma Health is developing a program to improve maternal and birth outcomes for Black mothers by pairing them with doulas for support through…
South Carolina Treasurer Curtis Loftis has promoted Jordan Dominick to serve as the agency’s Director of Administration. Dominick joined the State Treasurer’s Office in 2015. During his tenure, he has…
Turning Pages SC, a literacy council serving adults in Richland and Lexington Counties, has won a $4,500 unrestricted grant from a New York based foundation. This past fall, under new…
BOOK REVIEW by W. Thomas Smith Jr. THERE ARE MEN WHO ARE SAID TO BE GREAT, though most of those “said to be great” are only penultimately exceptional. Then there…
– Pictured (L-R) are S.C. Governor Henry McMaster and Dr. Tom Mullikin during the Mullikin Law Carolina Cup 2022. Revival after the Races featuring Dove Awards Male Vocalist of the…
LRADAC, the designated alcohol and drug abuse authority for Lexington and Richland Counties, announces that Shannon Boone has been hired as the agency’s new Human Resources Director. In her new…
Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte has received the very first Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Service Award, given by the University of South Carolina School of Law. The award,…
Writing down the many stories that her grandmother would tell helped prepare Jennifer Bartell Boykin to become the new poet laureate for the City of Columbia. “I took great pride…
Two Richland One high schools have been awarded the College Board’s AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award for achieving high female representation in AP Computer Science classes. Columbia High School…
South Carolina Ports had a record 2022 with the most containers ever handled at the Port of Charleston. SC Ports moved nearly 2.8 million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) in 2022,…
Forty-one leaders from across the Upstate will have new tools and perspectives to leverage diversity to improve organizational outcomes and drive social and economic progress in South Carolina, gained through…
By Jerry Bellune All of us feel good about being appreciated for what we do at work, home or anywhere else. Jacob Coite knows this. He is an appreciator. He…
By Jeff Becraft Last Friday, I got home from work and my wife, Brenda, was packing and getting ready to head out of town to go to a conference…
The 25,000-square-foot production facility represents phase one of the company’s future 65,000-square-foot brewery complex on North Main Peak Drift Brewing Company, South Carolina’s newest award-winning craft beverage company, celebrated the…
Turner Padget announced the addition of Associate Lauren T. Mims to the firm’s Columbia office. Mims joins the Insurance Litigation practice group and will support the Insurance Litigation team by…
Ashley Pennington, an attorney with more than 40 years’ experience in criminal law, has joined Burnette Shutt & McDaniel. He’ll focus his practice on civil rights cases, including issues involving…
By: South Carolina State Treasurer Curtis Loftis, Administrator of Future Scholar College Savings Plan Helping the children of South Carolina grow up to be financially literate adults is a particular…
GREENVILLE, S.C. – Movie lovers will see more than 50 films at the Piedmont Natural Gas Presents Reedy Reels: The Greenville Festival being February 17 to February 19 at the…
First Reliance Bank celebrated the grand opening of its regional headquarters with a ribbon-cutting ceremony held at its retail and corporate offices in downtown Columbia on Thursday, January 12, 2023.…
On Tuesday, January 7, 2023, the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce (SC Chamber), the state’s unified voice of business, hosts its annual Business Speaks Event at the Pastides Alumni Center…
Greenville, S.C. – VentureSouth reported its results from a momentous year in 2022. As one of the nation’s leading early-stage investment organizations, the firm achieved several significant milestones last year despite…
S.C. Arts Commission announces six Emerging Artist grantees Six emerging individual #SCartists are benefitting from grants and career mentorship courtesy of the South Carolina Arts Commission’s Emerging Artist grant in…
The Lexington District One Educational Foundation recently awarded 13 Michelin Golden Apple Teacher Grant Awards to deserving teachers in Lexington County School District One. Spring Grant awards totaled $3,173 and…
Nephron Pharmaceuticals Corporation and CEO Lou Kennedy generously committed a major cash and in-kind gift to the Lexington District One Educational Foundation this year and, in doing so, supported a…
Riggs Partners will hold its 25th annual CreateAthon event to benefit Midlands- and Upstate-area nonprofits on March 23-24, 2023. CreateAthon is a 24-hour marathon during which professionals provide marketing services…
By Reba Hull Campbell Reading has always been a delight for me. I loved the library’s summer reading clubs when I was a kid. Browsing bookstores is a favorite pastime…
Property management leader NHE, a staple for several years on Best Places to Work and Top Workplaces in South Carolina lists, has added talent to its leadership team with the…
Don’t miss the comedy hit – The Play That Goes Wrong. This play-within-a-play is often called a “hilarious hybrid of Monty Python and Sherlock Holmes.” Allow us to set the…
The home is the highest price resale in Woodcreek Farms since 2010. An “ultra-luxury” home in Woodcreek Farms in northeast Columbia has sold for nearly $2 million. The 9,000-square-foot home…
Columbia Metropolitan Airport (CAE hereafter) is excited to announce the four local artists that have been selected to participate in the 2023 – 2024 Art in the Airport program. The…
Disaster trained volunteers from the South Carolina Region of the American Red Cross are deploying to support disaster relief efforts in Georgia where damaging storms ripped through most of the…

