Star Profile Maria Frank markets Still Hopes
By John Temple Ligon Temple@TheColumbiaStar.com
      There is only one Episcopal home for senior citizens in the Midlands of South Carolina. There is another in the Lowcountry and none in the Upstate. The South Carolina Episcopal Home at Still Hopes is just off Knox Abbott Drive between State Street and Ninth Street. It has...
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Innovista welcomes first major private sector tenant, Duck Creek Technologies
     John Parks, executive director of Innovista, USC's new Technology's compound.
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Briefs
by John Temple Ligon
      Bull Street The S.C. Supreme Court has ruled the sale proceeds of the Bull Street site must go the the state Department of Mental Health instead of the state's general fund. Columbia expectations include the full planned contingent of 1,257 residential units, 179,000 square fee...
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Hurricanes and global warming Part 2: Insurance company shareholders love Al Gore
By John Temple Ligon Temple@TheColumbiaStar.com
      Taking a tip from his fellow authority Leonardo DiCaprio on trends in global climate change, former Vice President and recent spokesman in an Oscar- award- winning film, Al Gore has all but guaranteed America's Atlantic coast more intense hurricanes and greater frequency of hurr...
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Good man missing: John Forrester dies at 79
      John Forrester, seen here last October off Garner's Ferry Road, was the owner of what everybody called the Capital Café on Main Street's first block in front of the State Capitol.
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Folks about town
      Richland County Treasurer David A. Adams has been selected by the American Council of Young Political Leaders as a delegate to Japan for a two week political study program. Levi W. Hill III , the chair emeritus of University's Health Services Board, has been awarded the Georgia ...
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