Shop for a Christmas tree, browse holiday décor, snap a photo in front of a holiday tractor and sleigh, and buy some seasonal Certified SC Grown produce as the South Carolina State Farmers Market celebrates the holiday season. A Country Christmas will be held this Sunday, November 29, from 1Continue Reading
Admission will be free at state parks in South Carolina this Friday, November 27, as the Park Service joins the national #OptOutside initiative. The promotion, sponsored by REI, encourages people to spend some time in the great outdoors the day after Thanksgiving. “State parks are some of the most beautifulContinue Reading
Project Unity USA along with The Rivervettes of Columbia will host the second SC First Responders Day event on November 21 at Dutch Square Mall Parking Lot in Columbia, from noon to 4:30 pm. Masks are required. All Corvette owners and clubs that wish to participate contact Bruce A. TrezevantContinue Reading
Keep the Midlands Beautiful will be holding an Adopt-A-Highway & Adopt-A-Street Cleanup this Saturday, November 21. Volunteers will be removing litter from roads throughout Lexington, Richland Counties and the City of Columbia If you are driving throughout the Midlands and you see litter pick-up in progress signs or volunteers inContinue Reading
Reggie Sullivan will return to the Harbison Theatre at Midlands Technical College this Saturday, November 21 from 4 – 6 pm to host a drive-in concert event featuring Kanika Moore (vocals), Sean Higgins Jr. (piano), Devin Fuller (drums), and Charlton Singleton (trumpet) from the South Carolina Grammy-winning band, Ranky Tanky.Continue Reading
Families and friends can fill up their cars for a festive ride through a wonderland of colorful light displays and animated scenes during Holiday Lights on the River. Beginning November 24 and running nightly through December 31, see colorful lights, dancing trees, and much more as Saluda Shoals Park isContinue Reading
Lexington County Public Library (LCPL) is offering a series of activities encouraging local residents to be kind to others, themselves, animals and to the earth. “We want to show our community that in spite of the stress and uncertainty in our lives right now, we can all be a lightContinue Reading
The Basilica of St. Peter and First Baptist Church of Columbia will once again co-host this year’s Inter-Faith Thanksgiving Dinner. This will be the 30th Anniversary of the dinner and it will be held from 11:30 am until 1:30 pm Thanksgiving Day at the Basilica of St. Peter on AssemblyContinue Reading
For the first time, Special Olympics South Carolina will not be able to hold any of their in-person gala events. In a typical year there are three – Special Night for Special Olympics in Charleston, Give to Gain Gala in Columbia and the Greenville Gala in Greenville. The 2020 SpecialContinue Reading
By W. Thomas Smith Jr. South Carolina 7, a new book chronicling and commemorating the month-long SC7 cross-state expedition in July 2020, was published last month, a copy of which was presented to Gov. Henry McMaster by expedition leader Tom Mullikin, October 23. “This is a beautiful coffee table bookContinue Reading
Columbia Children’s Theatre (CCT) will present a Virtual Premiere of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus, performed by teen actors in grades 7-12. The performance will be streamed as a watch party on November 20 at 7 pm, and also be available for on-demand viewing November 21 – 22. Individual and family packContinue Reading