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From HERE NewberryNEWBERRY, S.C. — The Newberry College field hockey team has wrapped up the South Atlantic Conference regular-season crown for a third year in a row, and the prize this time includes hosting every game of the league tournament in Newberry next month. The Wolves are…
From HERE ColumbiaCOLUMBIA, S.C. — Gamecocks junior Joyce Edwards is one of 20 players on the preseason watch list for the 2027 Cheryl Miller Award, which goes to the best small forward in Division I women’s basketball. The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and the Women’s Basketball…
Education
LEXINGTON, S.C. — Students at Pleasant Hill Elementary School in Lexington, S.C., used their car line for something different on Wednesday, Oct. 28, turning it into a drive-thru where local law enforcement officers and emergency medical crews could be thanked in person for National First Responders Day. As the officers…
From HERE Columbia
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Students at Burton-Pack Elementary School in Columbia, S.C., have three new places to find a book. The school opened three classroom libraries Wednesday with a ribbon cutting meant to get more children reading. The 10 a.m. ceremony drew several partners: Cocky's Reading Express, a literacy program run…
From HERE Newberry
NEWBERRY, S.C. — A touring dance company that puts performers who use wheelchairs on stage alongside standing dancers is coming to Newberry. The show is set for 6 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 8, inside the historic Newberry Opera House. The visit grew out of the opera house’s ongoing work to…
From HERE Columbia
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Tickets are on sale for the fifth season of Fireflies Holiday Lights, the winter display at the Columbia Fireflies ballpark in Columbia SC. The team says this year’s show will have more than 2 million lights. The display opens Friday, Nov. 20, and runs through Sunday, Jan.…
From HERE Columbia
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The home of the Columbia Fireflies is getting a new name. The team and the City of Columbia said Wednesday that Segra Park will become Prisma Health Park through a naming rights agreement that runs 15 years. The ballpark anchors the BullStreet District, and the Fireflies will…
From HERE Columbia
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A European maker of car seats will open its first factory in the United States inside the Scout Motors supplier park in Blythewood, just north of Columbia SC. Brose Sitech plans to put $29.5 million into the Richland County plant and hire 330 workers, state leaders announced…
Crime
LEXINGTON, S.C. — Nearly half a kilogram of methamphetamine found under a car seat on Interstate 20 has led to a 25-year prison term in Lexington County for a 41-year-old man from Augusta, Georgia. Jurors in Lexington County convicted Angelo Allen on Oct. 8 of trafficking at least 400 grams…
From HERE Columbia
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Drivers who use downtown Columbia SC’s Taylor Street Parking Deck will soon need to find somewhere else to leave their cars. The city will close the deck at 1600 Assembly St. to public and visitor parking starting Monday, Nov. 9, while crews make structural repairs that are…
From HERE Irmo
IRMO, S.C. — No one was hurt Wednesday morning when a delivery truck clipped and brought down a large entry canopy at a Woodrow Street senior living community in Irmo, the Irmo Fire District said. The collision took place on the 7100 block of Woodrow Street at about 10 a.m.…
Politics
LEXINGTON, S.C. — Lexington County is considering a zoning rewrite that would carve its unincorporated land into three residential districts, each with its own limits on how many homes can go on an acre and how big lots must be. The measure, Ordinance 26-14, won a first vote from County…
From HERE Columbia
COLUMBIA, S.C. — More than a week after city staff found a breach in Columbia’s computer network, several of the city’s online tools were still offline on Wednesday, Oct. 28, though police, fire, 911 and water service have kept running. The city’s GIS map showed only an unavailable notice Wednesday…
From HERE Irmo
IRMO, S.C. — Irmo SC fishing on Lake Murray heads into the last days of October with the water well down and the fall feeding pattern taking hold, as baitfish push into the creeks and predator fish trail behind them. On Thursday morning the lake gauge near the dam, USGS…
From HERE Columbia
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina freshman Amelia Harris has been named the Southeastern Conference women’s golf Freshman of the Week for the second time this fall, the league announced on Wednesday, Oct. 28. The Gamecocks, based in Columbia, have now collected three of the weekly freshman awards this season, with…
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