By Warner M. Montgomery Warner@TheColumbiaStar.com
Col. Carroll Furman, an 85-year-old retired lawyer who has a pacemaker and a defibrillator embedded in his chest, recently boarded a small Cessna plane in Chester, and when it reached 12,000 feet, he jumped out. When asked why, he later replied, "Because the door was open." More...
Tom Parker wanted to learn to play the trombone while in bed. At eleven years old, his hip was in a cast and he had to stay in bed for a year. His grandmother took care of him. John Fogle, the band director of Parker's school in Walterboro brought him a clarinet, but he refused it and insisted he wa More...
Tale of three cities The Charleston Area Regional Transportation Authority (CARTA) ran a successful summer with Free Ride Fridays offered on the fourth Friday of June, July, August, and September. Here in Columbia, Richland County Council is setting up a citizens' advisory committee (with no More...
Deborah Ann Collum of Co-lumbia and Wilburn Kirby Jordan III, originally of Marion, were married Saturday, November 11, 2006, at Asbury Memorial United Methodist Church. The Reverend Doctor Noble Franklin Miller performed the 3 pm ceremony. Susanne Sloan and Michael Covington were soloists. More...
Spirit bears and sponge reefs are two of nature's wonders that live in the Inland Passage of western Canada and Alaska. My knowledge of both was minimal before presentations by Tom Reimchen and Kim Conway at the Western Canada Explorers Club conference on Saltspring Island last September. More...
Talin Kenar will appear in Columbia Classical Ballet's production of The Nutcracker
CHURCH/charity First Presbyterian Church continues its Wednesdays at noon lunch service in Jackson Hall. Lunch begins at 11:30 am followed by a speaker from 12:25 to 12:50. A hot meal is $5. Soup and salad is $4. The Thursdays at noon lunch service also continues. 799-9062. More...
MASTER'S SALE By virtue of a decree heretofore granted in the case of Principal Residential Mortgage, Inc., against Michael W. Dominguez, a/k/a Michael Dominguez, Phillipa Dominguez, et al., I, the undersigned Master in Equity for Richland County will sell on Monday, December 4, 2006, at 12 o' More...
It's a member of the tomato family, and it doesn't matter which way you pronounce it. The tomato family is also quite properly referred to as the potato family, as well, and again, don't worry about pronunciation. The take-home here is that the family's botanical name is Solanaceae, and it is a big More...
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