In our weekly travels: Chapin, South Carolina – The Capital of Lake Murray home of the Labor Day parade This year the Town of Chapin is out of the front-page news now that Mayor David Knight as “calmed” the local political scene. The Town of Chapin is well worth visitingContinue Reading
Most of us probably remember learning things in high school that we rarely if ever use as adults – like how to calculate the area of a trapezoid or how to solve a quadratic equation. Yet nearly all of us do, at some point, need to take out a loan,Continue Reading
The Town of Chapin has a distinctive logo, namely a silhouette of a sailboat. As I mentioned last week, the Crooked Creek Art league has placed 13 sailboat silhouettes each with different art work on each. This past weekend my wife and I charged up the battery on our 100% electricContinue Reading
The Rodesiler race series results at the Lake Murray Sailing Club So far 8 races have been sailed in the Rodesiler Series. The top five skippers are: Ryan Gaskin, Flying Scot Chris Bowman, MC Scow Alan Gowans, Flying Scot Tom Berens, MC Scow Bud Buckwell, MC Scow Coming Events onContinue Reading
By Zoltan Krompecher, 3rd Vice Commander of the Chapin American Legion Something all service members understand–whether Soldier, Airman, Marine, Sailor, or Coastie—is that the military has perfected a system whereby paperwork, especially important paperwork, sometimes becomes misplaced, lost, or simply disappears. Many times, it is only temporarily lost, and eventuallyContinue Reading
Ok, Husbands and wives, friends and lovers are you ready for the annual LMYRA couples Race? This race can be a real test of teamwork between husband and wife, friends, lovers or a test of their relationship depending on their experience and approach to the racing and sailing in general.Continue Reading
A school in Colorado Springs, Colorado was shuttered. In Three Rivers, Oregon, the school board shortened the school year five days and laid off employees. Schools in Louisville, Kentucky, will no longer have police stationed in them under a city budget pending approval this week — a plan which wouldContinue Reading
Greetings, As an elected official, I take the civic duty of our citizens very seriously. It is both an honor and a privilege to be able to vote in this country. The beginning of November marked one year since I have been voted in the Mayor’s office. I have learnedContinue Reading