MUSC and City of Charleston to Launch Healthy Business Challenge
January 15, 2015Charleston Healthy Business Challenge, free program to encourage and assist Charleston area businesses in establishing work environments that promote a culture of wellness. Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley announced the…
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Trident Technical College to Begin Offering Motorcycle License Waiver Tests
January 15, 2015CHARLESTON, SC – Trident Technical College Division of Continuing Education and Economic Development (TTC) announced that it is participating in a pilot program for the South Carolina Technical College System and will…
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Carolina Prep adds assistant director
January 15, 2015GREENVILLE, SC – Carolina International Preparatory School has promoted Kristin Eppinger to Assistant Director. Originally from Philadelphia, Eppinger has lived in California, London and Greenville. She studied sociology at Winthrop…
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Newmark Grubb Wilson Kibler Brokers Industrial Lease
January 15, 2015NORTH CHARLESTON, SC – Alex Irwin of Newmark Grubb Wilson Kibler represented the tenant, PortWatch Logistics, in the lease of 12,324 square feet of warehouse space at 4500 Goer Drive…
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South Carolina Based Public Relations Firm Launches New Initiative
January 14, 2015COLUMBIA, SC – South Carolina PR Firm, McKay Public Affairs (MPA), will launch its latest creative initiative, Peplum & Politics, on January 14, 2015. The new blog will be another venue to promote…
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Amanda Reeves and Jack Owens represented in the purchase of 583 King Street in Charleston, SC
January 14, 2015CHARLESTON, SC – Lee & Associates Charleston’s Amanda Reeves, CCIM, LEED AP, and Jack Owens, CCIM, represented the Buyer, King Street Partners LLC, in the purchase of 583 King Street…
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Richland County Council announce NEW Human Trafficking Coalition
January 14, 2015COLUMBIA, SC – Nearly seventy-five supporters joined Richland County officials today to display their commitment in raising public awareness about human trafficking, particularly in women and children; and to emphasize…
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District Five announces new principals for Chapin Middle, Chapin Intermediate schools
January 14, 2015CHAPIN, SC – Lexington-Richland School District Five has named new principals for Chapin Middle and Chapin Intermediate schools. Anna Miller, who serves as principal of the current Chapin Middle School, will…
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Registration Open for Celebrity NEEDTOBREATHE Classic Golf Tournament Benefiting Global Health Care
January 14, 2015DANIEL ISLAND, SC – For the third year, Charleston-based Grammy Award-nominated rock ‘n’ roll band NEEDTOBREATHE and Commonwealth Cares Foundation will host the annual NEEDTOBREATHE Classic, bringing together musicians, professional…
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Two Greenville B-Cycle Stations to Relocate
January 14, 2015Caine Halter Family YMCA and Fluor Field new sites for bikeshare stations GREENVILLE, SC – Greenville B-cycle will soon relocate two of its existing eight bike stations. Stations are…
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Intel Foundation awards grant for Dutch Fork Be A Fan 5K event
January 14, 2015IRMO, SC – A new 5K race to support students with special needs in Lexington-Richland School District Five is gaining key support and contributions. The Dutch Fork Be A Fan 5K…
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Special Services Director Robin Simmons announces retirement
January 14, 2015LEXINGTON, SC – Lexington County School District One Superintendent Karen Woodward announces that Special Services Director Robin Simmons, Ph.D. plans to retire effective June 30, 2015. About Simmons Woodward said,…
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Leadership Lexington County Announces Class of 2015 Participants
January 14, 2015LEXINGTON, SC – Leadership Lexington County is excited to announce the following individuals as participants in the class of 2015: Cherish Abney, Town of Lexington Police Department James Bagwell, Shandon Baptist…
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U.S. Engine Valve donation
January 14, 2015PENDLETON, SC – U.S. Engine Valve/Nittan Valve made a $20,000 donation to the Tri-County Technical College Foundation to purchase pneumatic suitcase trainers for the Corporate and Community Education Division. Pictured…
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University of South Carolina Upstate Foundation Announces New Appointments
January 14, 2015SPARTANBURG, SC – The University of South Carolina Upstate Foundation recently elected new members to its board. Steve Harvey ’80 assumed the role of president of the Foundation. A…
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Agri-Business Plan Being Developed
January 14, 2015PENDLETON, SC – The Tri-County Entrepreneurial Development Corporation (TCEDC), Tri-County Technical College’s Corporate and Community Education Division and area economic developers are reaching out to agricultural-based businesses (“Agri-Businesses”) in Anderson,…
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Significant Year of Investments and Speculative Construction
January 14, 2015Colliers International | South Carolina – Q4-2014 Greenville Industrial Market Report MARKET OVERVIEW The Greenville/Spartanburg industrial market ended a year full of significant sales and leasing activity, new speculative construction…
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Smith Moore Leatherwood Elects Five Attorneys To Partnership
January 14, 2015GREENVILLE, SC – Smith Moore Leatherwood announced attorneys Henry M. Gallivan, Jr., Patrick M. Kane, Jason D. Maertens, Travis W. Martin and David J. Neill have been elected to the…
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Colliers International announces 3 new Vice Presidents
January 14, 2015COLUMBIA, SC – Colliers International South Carolina elected three of its top brokerage associates to the position of Vice President: Henry Moore, CCIM and Henry Roe of Columbia and Bob…
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Allen Tate Realtors Announces November 2014 Top Producers
January 14, 2015GREENVILLE, SC – Kathy Weeks, Upstate Regional Vice President at Allen Tate Realtors, is proud to announce Top Agents for November 2014. In the Greenville Office, John Farr was Top…
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UBooster adds basketball and 2016 football
January 14, 2015GREENVILLE, SC – UBooster, a new online platform that aims to dramatically impact the funding of collegiate athletics, has added two recruiting databases Fans can now pledge for athletes in…
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Legislation Stops the President’s Unconstitutional Executive Order and Protects American Jobs
January 14, 2015WASHINGTON, DC -Congressman Joe Wilson (SC-02) today issued the following statement after the House passed H.R. 240, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2015, to fund the Department of…
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Weatherly joins Callison, Tighe & Robinson as Of Counsel
January 14, 2015COLUMBIA, SC – Alex Weatherly, who has almost 30 years’ experience helping South Carolina businesses and individuals with a wide range of tax and related planning issues, has become Of…
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CFO Council Launches Charleston Chapter
January 14, 2015CHARLESTON, SC – Accountants aren’t known for being the most social or active networkers. But, one local CFO hopes to change that perception. “We are excited to launch a chapter…
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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Columbia Board Announces New President and Chief Executive Officer
January 14, 2015COLUMBIA, SC – The Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Columbia Board of Directors is pleased to announce the appointment of Cristy Marshall as the mentoring organization’s President and Chief…
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Call for Cooks for The Palladium Society Cook-Off
January 14, 2015COLUMBIA, SC – Test your chili-cooking prowess against the Midlands’ best at The Palladium Society Chili Cook-Off on Saturday, Feb. 21 at Music Farm Columbia. In conjunction with the citywide…
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Avison Young Industrial Sale – 1063 Morrison Drive
January 14, 2015CHARLESTON, SC – Avison Young commercial real estate is pleased to announce that Todd P. Garrett, CCIM, SIOR represented 1063 Morrison Drive, LLC in the purchase of a 7,364 SF…
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UBooster adds basketball and 2016 football
January 14, 2015GREENVILLE, SC – UBooster, a new online platform that aims to dramatically impact the funding of collegiate athletics, has added two recruiting databases Fans can now pledge for athletes in…
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Allen Tate Realtors Announces November 2014 Top Producers
January 14, 2015GREENVILLE, SC – Kathy Weeks, Upstate Regional Vice President at Allen Tate Realtors, is proud to announce Top Agents for November 2014. In the Greenville Office, John Farr was Top…
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Weatherly joins Callison, Tighe & Robinson as Of Counsel
January 14, 2015COLUMBIA, SC – Alex Weatherly, who has almost 30 years’ experience helping South Carolina businesses and individuals with a wide range of tax and related planning issues, has become Of…
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Recruiting Solutions Promotes Cam Varner, Ginger Thompson and Ashton Link
January 13, 2015COLUMBIA, GREENVILLE, SC – Recruiting Solutions has begun its 23rd year of connecting leading employers with skilled new employees by announcing the following three promotions: Cam Varner– promoted to Vice…
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Junior League of Columbia Announces Community Enrichment Grant Recipients
January 13, 2015JLC Awards $114,800 in Community Enrichment Grants to Local Nonprofits COLUMBIA, SC – The Junior League of Columbia (JLC) has invested $114,800 in the Midlands community through Community Enrichment Grants awarded to…
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McWaters Hosts Flip Your Classroom Contest
January 13, 2015COLUMBIA, SC – Today’s classrooms are hubs of activity that require dedicated support for the latest modern teaching methods; however, most classrooms in use today were designed for traditional row-by-column…
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Welcoming the First Wave of Speculative Construction
January 13, 2015COLUMBIA, SC – Colliers International, South Carolina – Q4-2014 Columbia Industrial Market Report MARKET OVERVIEW The Columbia, SC industrial market ended a significant year with a downward trending vacancy rate, increasing rental rates,…
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Richland County’s Accommodations Tax, Hospitality Tax and Discretionary Grant Programs Accepting Applications
January 13, 2015COLUMBIA, SC – The Richland County funding cycle is underway for Accommodations Tax, Hospitality Tax County Promotions and Discretionary Grant programs. These grants are for projects and programs that occur…
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Panasonic To Resell Alastar Solution From SCRA
January 13, 2015Situational Awareness Solution to Complement Hardware SUMMERVILLE, SC – SCRA today announced its subsidiary, Software Solutions, LLC, entered into a reseller relationship with Panasonic System Communications Company of North America, a division of Panasonic…
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Spartanburg Community College to offer VSF scholarships
January 13, 2015SPARTANBURG, SC – Local veterans now have another avenue to further their training and careers. Veteran Scholarships Forever has set up a fund at Spartanburg Community College that will help…
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Providence Hospitals receives quality-based accreditation from DNV GL
January 13, 2015COLUMBIA, SC — Providence Hospitals announces the successful completion of its accreditation process from DNV GL – Healthcare. By earning accreditation, Providence Hospitals has demonstrated it meets or exceeds patient…
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Parking Ticket Online Payments
January 13, 2015CHARLESTON, SC – Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr. announces the option to pay parking tickets online via the City of Charleston website. In order to provide another option and…
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Work to Begin on Colonial Lake Improvement Project
January 13, 2015CHARLESTON, SC – Construction for the Colonial Lake Improvement project is anticipated to begin on Monday, January 19, 2015. The contractor, Wildwood Landscape Contractors, will begin work by installing the silt fence,…
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SCRA Applied R&D-Led Project Takes Home Top Honors
January 13, 2015Wins Defense Manufacturing Technology Award for F-35 Canopy Project SUMMERVILLE, SC – SCRA Applied R&D today announced that their F-35 Canopy Thermoforming Automation project won the 2014 Defense Manufacturing Technology Achievement…
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World No. 9 Angelique Kerber & World No. 10 Ekaterina Makarova to Play Family Circle Cup
January 13, 20152015 tournament brings new, top-seeded players to Charleston DANIEL ISLAND, SC – Anqelique Kerber, World No. 9, and Ekaterina Makarova, Word No. 10, have joined current champion Andrea Petkovic in…
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Vapor Apparel Announces U.S. Manufacturing Facility in Union County
January 13, 2015North Charleston-based Company to Set Up Cut and Sew Operation, Expecting to Add 114 Jobs Over Five Years NORTH CHARLESTON, SC – Vapor Apparel, a leader in performance apparel manufacturing and…
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Colliers International brokers the sale of two buildings in Five Points area
January 13, 2015COLUMBIA, SC – Colliers International’s JP Scurry, CCIM and Scottie Smith have completed the sale of approximately 7,400 square feet of retail space in Columbia’s downtown Five Points area. The…
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Doctors Care Welcomes New Physician Liaison and Provider Recruiter
January 13, 2015COLUMBIA, SC – Amanda Cleary has been hired as a Physician liaison and provider recruiter for Doctors Care, an urgent and family care organization that has 51 locations in South…
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EDENS Makes Key Appointments in Columbia, South Carolina Headquarters
January 13, 2015COLUMBIA, SC – EDENS, one of the nation’s leading private owners, operators and developers of retail real estate, announced two pivotal promotions in the company’s South Carolina headquarters office this week. Chief Accounting…
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MADD Celebrates 35th Anniversary by Adding Drugged Driving to Mission and Introducing First Victim of Drunk and Drugged Driving as National President
January 13, 2015MADD South Carolina eager to end drunk driving and help fight drugged driving DALLAS – Thirty-five years after a grieving mother started one of the most influential and effective grassroots movements…
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ATD South Carolina Midlands Chapter Welcomes The Disney Institute To Columbia
January 13, 2015WEST COLUMBIA, SC – Disney Institute is bringing its renowned “Disney’s Approach to Selection, Training & Engagement” course to Midlands Technical College – Airport Campus located at 1260 Lexington Drive in…
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How South Carolinians Go From No Money to Know Money
January 13, 2015Local Nonprofit Aims to Eradicate Financial Illiteracy in the Palmetto State COLUMBIA, SC – Not unlike many millenials, 27-year-old Steven Hughes made every money mistake imaginable in his college days at…
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Dixon Hughes Goodman Donates Over 400,000 Lbs. of Food
January 13, 2015CHARLESTON, SC – In the last 12 months, Dixon Hughes Goodman (DHG) donated 431,475 lbs. of food to organizations that feed the hungry. With their Count the Cans Food Drive,…
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