City of Columbia Public Relations, Media, and Marketing Department partners with Sistercare for second annual toiletry drive

August 19, 2024

WHO: The City of Columbia Public Relations, Media, and Marketing Department is collaborating with Sistercare for the second annual toiletry drive. Sistercare is a nonprofit organization that helps victims and families recover from…

South Carolina State Fair announces flash sale to celebrate 46 counties

August 19, 2024

The South Carolina State Fair announced a special flash sale on admission tickets in honor of our 46 counties. As part of this year’s theme, “46 Reasons to Celebrate South…

Richland County notifying property owners of reassessment

August 19, 2024

Notices sent through mail are not tax bills; use online application for appeals Property owners in Richland County will soon get a better idea of the value of their property. The County…

Proactive MD Lexington Health Center wins Best of South Carolina Regional award

August 19, 2024

The votes have been counted and the results are in! The Proactive MD Lexington Health Center is a 2024 Best of South Carolina Regional winner. Proactive MD® is excited to…

Richland One awards Educational Ingenuity Grants to five teachers

August 19, 2024

Five Richland One teachers have been awarded $1,000 grants through the district’s 2024- 2025 Educational Ingenuity Grants Program. All Richland One teachers are eligible to apply for grant awards of…

Lexington Two celebrates Teachers of the Year, Support Staff of the Year at reception

August 19, 2024

Lexington Two ushered in its new Performing Arts Center in a big way earlier this month, recognizing all school-level Teachers and Support Staff of the Year, followed by the announcement…

Our Long Lost Prairie

August 16, 2024

By Tom Poland   As I stood near rattlesnake master, a plant of the prairie, bison thundered across the prairie with a great sweep of fire raging behind them, seemingly…

Joye Law Firm attorneys honored in 2025 Best Lawyers in America® and Ones to Watch

August 16, 2024

Joye Law Firm is proud to announce that 18 attorneys from our five South Carolina offices have been selected for inclusion in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in…

Colliers brings Venture X coworking space to Columbia market

August 16, 2024

Colliers | South Carolina’s Allen Wilkerson, SIOR, CCIM represented AgFirst Farm Credit Bank in the lease of a ±17,179-square-foot office space at 1901 Main Street in Downtown Columbia to Venture…

S.C. Treasurer Curtis Loftis announces return of $38 million in unclaimed funds to South Carolinians

August 16, 2024

State Treasurer Curtis Loftis announced today that his office returned more $38 million in unclaimed property for the fiscal year that ended June 30th. Staff returned more than 73,000 properties…

Conservation-based opportunities abound for Richland County students

August 16, 2024

With a new academic year underway, the Richland Soil and Water Conservation District (RSWCD) is offering a variety of fun and inspiring conservation education programs for local youth and educators.…

Montessori School holds grand opening in Cayce

August 16, 2024

Cayce Mayor Elise Partin has announced the opening of Cayce Montessori School at 1000 Poplar Street. The official grand opening celebration was held Thursday, August 15. “I have known these…

Golden Spur returns to USC campus

August 16, 2024

Garvin Design Group and Hood Construction joined the University of South Carolina for a special grand opening of the Golden Spur restaurant on August 15. A reincarnation of an old…

Colliers represents Stratton & Reynolds in purchase of 1,278-square-foot office building

August 16, 2024

Grayson Greiner of Colliers | South Carolina brokered the purchase of an approximately 1,278-square-foot office space at 914 Richland Street in Columbia, South Carolina. Colliers represented the property buyer, Stratton…

South Carolina jury awards $63.4 million to Johnson & Johnson asbestos victim

August 16, 2024

Dean Omar Branham Shirley trial team secures verdict on behalf of man diagnosed with mesothelioma A South Carolina jury has sided with a cancer patient who sued pharmaceutical giant Johnson…

Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd attorneys recognized by Best Lawyers

August 15, 2024

Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A. announced that Best Lawyers®, a legal peer-review guide, has selected 24 attorneys in our Columbia office for inclusion in The 2025 Best Lawyers in America©, including…

Adams and Reese has 10 Columbia office attorneys honored in 2025 Best Lawyers

August 15, 2024

The Best Lawyers in America® 2025 edition features 160 Adams and Reese attorneys ranked by their peers among “Best Lawyers” and “Ones to Watch”. Ten of those attorneys practice in…

Best Lawyers in America honors 32 Robinson Gray attorneys in 2025 edition

August 15, 2024

Robinson Gray has achieved a new firm record as The Best Lawyers in America® recognizes 32 of its attorneys. Twenty-seven in the firm made the main Best Lawyers list in…

Robinson and Smith honored again by Best Lawyers in 2025 edition

August 15, 2024

Jonathan M. Robinson and G. Murrell Smith of Smith Robinson law firm are being honored again by The Best Lawyers in America® in the publication’s upcoming 2025 edition. This is…

Six Morton & Gettys attorneys included in new edition of Best Lawyers in America

August 15, 2024

Six Morton & Gettys attorneys are being honored in a wide range of practice areas in the newest edition of “Best Lawyers in America” and its companion piece, “Best Lawyers:…

All attorneys at Lourie Law Firm honored by Best Lawyers in America

August 15, 2024

In its 2025 edition, The Best Lawyers in America® has again honored every attorney at Lourie Law Firm. Here are those listed, with the practice areas in which they are…

Callison Tighe’s Brannon and Tighe named Lawyers of the Year by Best Lawyers

August 15, 2024

Of the 12 attorneys at Callison Tighe & Robinson recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, two stand out in particular – Bert Brannon and Mike…

Burnette receives “Best Lawyers” Lawyer of the Year honors

August 15, 2024

Burnette Shutt & McDaniel co-founder M. Malissa Burnette is being honored as Lawyer of the Year for the Columbia area in Employment Law – Individuals in the new edition of…

Twelve attorneys at Callison Tighe honored again in Best Lawyers edition for 2025

August 15, 2024

Twelve lawyers at Callison Tighe & Robinson are named in the Columbia area 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®. Each had been recognized by the publication for the…

Again in 2025 edition, all attorneys at Lewis Babcock honored by Best Lawyers in America

August 15, 2024

The quality of representation provided across the board by Lewis Babcock law firm remains high, according to The Best Lawyers in America®. In its 2025 edition, the publication has, for…

Columbia Chamber announces 2025 Leadership Columbia class

August 15, 2024

60 Local Individuals selected for 52nd Class of Chamber’s Leadership Program Leadership Columbia, a Columbia Chamber program, presented by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, for emerging and existing leaders in the…

The Hootie & the Blowfish Foundation awards $180,000 to six South Carolina organizations

August 15, 2024

More than $4.1 million in grants awarded since Foundation’s inception Each year, the band donates to different organizations that align with the priority areas that the band selects for the…

Sustain SC, Darla Moore School of Business partner to enhance sustainability and economic development

August 15, 2024

Sustain SC, Darla Moore School of Business Partner to Enhance Sustainability and Economic Development Sustain SC is proud to announce a new partnership with the University of South Carolina Darla…

John Cuttino elected 2024-2025 President of the NFJE

August 15, 2024

John E. Cuttino elected 2024-25 President of the National Foundation for Judicial Excellence. Gallivan White Boyd (GWB) announced that John E. Cuttino has been elected as the 2024-2025 President of…

NAI Columbia announces July 2024 transactions

August 15, 2024

The firm executed $4 million in sales and leased 283,445 SF this month Sales: Bill Lamar, John Gregory, PE, CCIM, and Tristan Lee sold ±9,155 SF at 14 Monckton Blvd.…

Billfish: Catch & Release

August 15, 2024

By Tom Poland   Billfish Conservation & Record Releases of Blue Marlin I wanted a real-deal Ernest Hemingway long-bill cap to let me see into the depths. One that would…

State Museum receives 250k IMLS Museums for America grant to digitize its Natural History collection

August 15, 2024

The grant will support staffing to digitize nearly 5,000 fossils The South Carolina State Museum has been awarded a fourth Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America…

Five Richardson Thomas partners honored in “Best Lawyers”

August 15, 2024

The just-released 2025 edition of “Best Lawyers in America” includes another outstanding showing for Richardson Thomas in the national directory, with five of the firm’s partners included in at least…

Griffin Humphries attorneys recognized in Best Lawyers in America 2025 Edition

August 15, 2024

Griffin Humphries founding members James M. Griffin and Badge Humphries are included in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America . James M. Griffin, based in Columbia, is…

11 at Burnette Shutt & McDaniel honored in “Best Lawyers,” including a Lawyer of the Year

August 15, 2024

Eleven attorneys at Burnette Shutt & McDaniel are listed in the just-released 2025 edition of “Best Lawyers in America” and its companion guide, “Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch,” a total…

Best Lawyers in America honors five Bluestein Attorneys in 2025 edition

August 15, 2024

  Best Lawyers in America has named four Bluestein Attorneys to its 2025 Best Lawyers list for Columbia, and another to its “Ones to Watch” list. The attorneys on the…

No reserve, no retreat, no regrets

August 15, 2024

By Jeff Becraft   This week, my Dad developed the beginnings of aspirated pneumonia. I was already planning on coming to see him, but that phone call caused me to…

Barnes Alford attorneys selected to The Best Lawyers in America

August 15, 2024

Barnes Alford attorneys Weldon R. Johnson, David G. Wolff, Kay Gaffney Crowe, Alan J. Reyner, Richard C. Thomas, Robert T. Strickland, Curtis W. Dowling, and Matthew G. Gerrald have been…

CPI for all items rises 0.2 percent in July; shelter up

August 15, 2024

The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.2 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis, after declining 0.1 percent in June, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.…

Where Vikings and Sandlappers Converge

August 14, 2024

Iceland, the Fridrikssons, and the necessity of addressing environmental challenges for all of humanity By Thomas S. Mullikin, PhD HAVING SPENT MUCH OF THE LAST 40 YEARS traveling around the…

LPL and Raymond James now offer Inspire Investing’s Fidelis ETF

August 14, 2024

Inspire Fidelis Multi-Factor ETF (NYSE: FDLS), whose mandate is to replicate the faith and factor-based Fidelis 100 Index, is now available through LPL and Raymond James custody platforms, in addition…

United Way to invest nearly $15 million to meet basic needs and foster resilience in the Midlands

August 14, 2024

United Way of the Midlands will invest more than $14.9 million in funding to community organizations over the next year, including $3.2 million in impact grants for its 2024-2025 fiscal…

GMC’s landscape architecture services expanding to the Carolinas

August 14, 2024

Goodwyn Mills Cawood (GMC) has expanded its landscape architecture services to the Carolinas with the addition of Tripp Barrineau as vice president of landscape architecture in the firm’s Charlotte office.…

School District Five names interim Director of Special Services

August 14, 2024

Richland School District Five has named veteran educator Jinni Friend as the interim Director of Special Services. Friend currently serves as the Coordinator of Special Services. Prior to that position,…

Coastal Carolina University celebrates topping out at new Indoor Practice Facility

August 14, 2024

Garvin Design Group, HNTB, and Contract Construction joined Coastal Carolina University for a special topping-out celebration at the new Indoor Practice Facility on Tuesday, August 13. Designed to accommodate various…

Butterfly release will honor and remember women affected by ovarian cancer

August 13, 2024

The Ovarian Cancer Coalition of Central SC (OCC) will hold the annual butterfly release for ovarian cancer September 26 (5:30 pm) at the SC State House to raise awareness of…

County altering hours at 2 drop-off facilities

August 13, 2024

Changes going into effect Sept. 9 aim to make service more efficient Richland County Solid Waste & Recycling is introducing changes at two drop-off facilities to reduce confusion for residents,…

Cayce Re-introduces Cayce Code Compliance team

August 13, 2024

The City of Cayce is rolling out a brand-new look for their Cayce Code Compliance Department. Cayce Interim City Manager, Jim Crosland, stated, “We want the public to know that our Code…

Financial Planning Association of South Carolina to host Annual Symposium on October 1 in Columbia

August 13, 2024

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) of South Carolina is excited to announce its Annual Symposium, taking place on October 1, 2024, at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center. This premier event…