Columbia Children’s Theatre (CCT) has announced the 2022/23 season lieneup. CCT has both a Mainstage season featuring professional actors and a YouTheatre Season featuring young performers grades 1-12. The Mainstage season kicks off with Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the School Bus. An adaptation of Mo Willems’ #1 New YorkContinue Reading
The 2022 XVI Black Bass World Championship has become a historic celebration of bass fishing. Nations from across the globe will compete for bronze, silver and gold medals on Lake Murray. This includes anglers from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. The event has drawn so muchContinue Reading
The Ballentine Community Center is starting a chair volleyball program. Chair volleyball offers friendly competition, while also providing a way to have fun being active. Because players are required to remain seated, chair volleyball allows those with physical limitations to participate on a level playing field with those who mayContinue Reading
How the Richland County Sheriff’s Department continues to lead from the front By W. Thomas Smith Jr. I’ve frequently written about specific historic FIRSTS achieved by the Richland County Sheriff’s Department (RCSD) in terms of law enforcement, community outreach, security and protection of those serving within our department: Everything fromContinue Reading
Joseph D. Dickey, Jr., managing partner of Dickey Law Group, has been selected for the 2023 edition of Best Lawyers as Lawyer of the Year in the area of Employment Law- Individuals for the Columbia, SC region. Best Lawyers in America is a ranking service that helps those in needContinue Reading
Lexington County School District One proudly announces the district earned system accreditation by Cognia™, a nonprofit organization providing quality assurance for schools, school districts and education service providers. Cognia, formerly AdvancED, nationally recognizes districts that meet rigorous standards focusing on productive learning environments, equitable resource allocation that meet the needsContinue Reading
McKay Firm Partner, Julius W. “Jay” McKay, II, is recognized in the 29th edition of the Best Lawyers in America ® in the area of Litigation – Insurance and Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants. Inclusion in Best Lawyers is based on a rigorous peer-review survey comprising more than 12.2 millionContinue Reading
Congressman Joe Wilson stopped by Coffee Talk on Tuesday morning Aug. 23 to talk with members of the Greater Irmo Chamber of Commerce. Rep. Wilson is on his annual bus tour which takes him and his staff throughout his congressional district visiting constituents and providing information about politics in WashingtonContinue Reading
Chief Terrence Green is providing a final update to the early morning shooting death investigation in the Mallard Lakes neighborhood on August 16, 2022, as the 11th Circuit Solicitor’s Office has reviewed this case and has ruled it as a justifiable homicide. It was found that the male victim actedContinue Reading
Lexington County School District One Interim Superintendent Dr. Gerrita Postlewait announces that Kathryn M. McPhail, the district’s chief communications officer, plans to resign as her husband accepted a new career opportunity which requires her family to move out of state in the fall. “Though this is an exciting opportunity forContinue Reading
Investigator Carleisha Gilliam knew she wanted to work in law enforcement at an early age. Gilliam told people, even at 3 or 4 years old, she wanted to be a law enforcement officer, and she stuck to that plan. Gilliam graduated from Lander University and went to graduate school atContinue Reading