AAA Football Playoff Bracket
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Here and There – 11-7-13
Johnston Farmer’s & Artist’s Market every Thursday, from 4 – 6 p.m. in front of the Library/Warehouse on Calhoun Street. Veterans Day Celebration: Johnston Elementary School invites all veterans to participate in our Veteran’s Day Celebration on Friday, Nov. 8. Breakfast will be served at 7:30 a.m. A parade will be held at 8 a.m. followed […]
Breast Cancer Awareness Month at Fox Creek
Every October, Fox Creek High School is awash in pink—pink bracelets, pink t-shirts, even pink hair. This is not the result of some sort of bizarre fashion trend. Rather, it is in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This year, the senior girls, under the guidance of Mrs. Smith (sponsor of the senior class), are […]
A Diamond in the Rough
– By G. Miller Thompson – America’s youth have an extremely twisted and warped perspective of what constitutes a hero. We live in a society in which pop music stars like Miley Cyrus, Lil Wayne, and the like actively poison the minds of our children who blindly consume the trash these individuals put out under […]
DHEC Deregulates Businesses and Supports Environmental Best Practices
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Today, the Board of the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) offered changes to their regulations for public comment. Proposed Regulation “61-107.4 Solid Waste Management” allows businesses to compost and reduce landfill waste statewide by 30%; reduces regulation for small businesses; invites in new composting industry to manage food […]
SC’s 3rd Annual National Rural Health Day
The third annual National Rural Health Day will be held this year on Thursday, November 21, 2013. Events recognizing this important day that “Celebrate the Power of Rural” will take place in our state and in every state throughout the nation on that day. National Rural Health Day was created as a way to showcase […]
Piedmont Technical College Signs Agreement with University of Phoenix
Piedmont Technical College and the University of Phoenix – Columbia announce the signing of an articulation agreement which will provide even more educational opportunities for students. Through the agreement, students at PTC can pursue a variety of degree opportunities at the University of Phoenix – Columbia ground campus, as well as have full access to […]
Merriwether Women & Birthday Girls
The Birthday Girls started meeting 38 years ago during the middle 1970s after participating in the Christian Women’s Club in Augusta. They had their annual early Christmas party at the DoubleTree in Augusta on November 4. Four have been Chairman of the Christian Women’s Club: Judy Sechrist, Joyce Barinowski, Gina Bridgers and Wally Russ. Joyce Barinowski of the Merriwether District of Edgefield […]
Frances Casey Johnson
JOHNSTON, S.C. – Graveside funeral services for Mrs. Frances Casey Johnson, age 90, will be held Thursday, November 7, 2013, in Sunset Gardens Memorial Park at 1:00 p.m. The family will receive friends at Bland Funeral Home Wednesday evening from 5 to 7 p.m. Mrs. Johnson, a native of Augusta, GA, was the widow of the […]
Home Rule – Flow Control
– By Margaret C. Pope – On March 7, 1973, the Home Rule Amendments to the South Carolina Constitution became effective, and with such passage, local government devolved from the State House to the county seats and town halls—thus, the primary functions of government became local again. No longer were counties solely and strictly limited […]