Now accepting RFPs for Leadership Columbia class of 2025 Class Project
August 19, 2024
Leadership Columbia (LC) seeks to partner with one nonprofit organization for the LC25 Class Project. The selected organization will benefit from a dedicated team of approximately 60 individuals with various…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Proactive MD Lexington Health Center wins Best of South Carolina Regional award
August 19, 2024The 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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Montessori School holds grand opening in Cayce
August 16, 2024Cayce 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…
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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…
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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…
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South Carolina jury awards $63.4 million to Johnson & Johnson asbestos victim
August 16, 2024Dean 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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:…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Major exhibition of French modern art coming this fall
August 15, 2024
Monet, Matisse, and much more courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum The Columbia Museum of Art is pleased to announce French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850 – 1950, a major exhibition…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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