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SportsST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Lander University’s volleyball team gets a fresh start this week in St. Augustine, entering the Peach Belt Conference tournament as the No. 5 seed and drawing fourth-seeded Augusta in a first-round match set for 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12. Every conference…
From HERE ColumbiaCOLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina will close its regular-season home schedule under the lights. The Southeastern Conference announced Monday that the 21st-ranked Gamecocks and second-ranked Georgia meet Saturday, Nov. 21, in Columbia, with the opening kick set for 7:30 p.m. Georgia athletics confirmed the same…
From the HERE City State Desk
CHARLESTON, S.C. — College-bound high school seniors anywhere in South Carolina can now apply for as much as $10,000 toward their first year of college, after the Meeting Street Scholarship Fund opened its application to every county for the 2027-28 school year on Monday. This is the first year the…
From the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina is on track for an estimated $18 million surplus in the Education Improvement Act money that pays for many state school programs, and the Education Oversight Committee is using the cushion as a reason to ask hard questions about what those programs deliver. The committee…
Events
GREENWOOD, S.C. — Young children in Greenwood can get a fairy-tale makeover this Saturday, Nov. 14, when high school cosmetology students bring back their Bibbidi Bobbidi Beauty Camp. The camp runs from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Greenwood’s G. Frank Russell Technology Center, located at 601 East Northside Drive,…
From HERE Lexington
LEXINGTON, S.C. — Holiday customs from long ago return to downtown Lexington on Sunday, Dec. 13, when the Lexington County Museum throws open its grounds for its yearly Christmas Open House from 1 to 4 p.m. There is no charge to get in. The museum and its support group, the…
Business
GREENWOOD, S.C. — Fujifilm is staffing up for its busiest stretch of the year in Greenwood, with plans to bring on as many as 500 seasonal workers to turn out holiday photo gifts. The jobs are at the company’s personalized photo products plant, where workers print and ship items such…
From HERE Greer
GREER, S.C. — Richmond Federal Reserve President Tom Barkin brought a blunt message on inflation to Greer City Hall on Monday, Nov. 9, telling the Greater Greer Chamber of Commerce that rising prices are still the bigger danger facing the economy. Barkin noted that inflation has run above the Fed…
From Merger Monday
On Tuesday the U.S. government paid 5% to borrow for 10 years. On the same day a five-year-old AI company asked public investors to value it at as much as $1.4 trillion. Both things can be true, and the gap between them says a lot about where capital is going. Start…
From HERE Spartanburg
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — The city of Spartanburg has sent its top firefighter, Chief Pierre Brewton, home on administrative leave while an outside reviewer looks at questions tied to a private company he owns. City Manager Chris Story notified fire department employees by email and named Assistant Chief Will Smart to…
From HERE Spartanburg
SPARTANBURG COUNTY, S.C. — Two Spartanburg County bridges shut down to traffic Monday as the state transportation department started work on both, sending drivers onto signed detours. The longer job is on Racetrack Road, also known as SC 234, where the South Carolina Department of Transportation is tearing out and…
From HERE Irmo
IRMO, S.C. — Irmo Town Council gathers at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, for its regular monthly session, held in the Municipal Building at 7300 Woodrow Street, just to the rear of Town Hall. Anyone who wants to speak to council has two routes. Advance registration closes at 3 p.m.…
From HERE Aiken
AIKEN, S.C. — Aiken County election workers start a recount Tuesday, Nov. 10, in the U.S. House District 2 race, where Republican Congressman Joe Wilson holds a lead of 2,926 votes over Democratic challenger Zyon Khalifa, an Aiken native. That margin is under 1% of all votes cast in the…
From HERE Irmo
IRMO, S.C. — Irmo SC hunting turns to the water on Saturday, Nov. 21, when the state duck season opens for an eight-day first segment that runs through Saturday, Nov. 28, before a second segment starts Dec. 12 and continues to Jan. 31. Goose hunters get the same opening dates.…
Fishing
GREENWOOD, S.C. — Answers on what killed thousands of fish and other aquatic life in Lake Greenwood this spring could arrive later this month, with state regulators now saying their final report should be public in roughly two weeks. On Tuesday, the South Carolina Department of Environmental Services said it…
From HERE Irmo
IRMO, S.C. — Irmo SC fishing starts the week with Lake Murray at 353.97 feet on the USGS gauge near Columbia, about 6.03 feet below the 360-foot conservation pool and down roughly 0.40 feet over the past seven days. The slow decline fits the fall drawdown that has been lowering…
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