Your power bill is going UP
By John Temple Ligon Temple@TheColumbiaStar.com
      In early February, SCANA suggested to the S.C. Public Service Commission an electrical base rate increase request was in the works. The new rates weren't expected to kick in until late 2007 or early 2008. The expected request was assumed to come across as a 4% increase.
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Star Profile
Jacque Riley of Riley Communications
By John Temple Ligon Temple@TheColumbiaStar.com
      Riley Communications recently relocated to the Suggs & Kelly building at 500 Taylor Street. Suggs is no longer with Kelly, but the building's name remains. Jacque Riley is head of her own marketing firm, Riley Communications, and is relatively new to the field.
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Briefs
by John Temple Ligon
      Home sales Columbia home sales, new and existing, fell off a bit in May. Most years, May is a busy month with home buyers trying to relocate well before the opening of school classes in the fall. According to the S.C. Association of Realtors, Columbia home sales in May totaled 1,056, a 4% drop fro...
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Folks about town
      Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC, has been named one of the top law firms in SA.mC.e briyc aC'sh Laemabdienrgs UBuSsAin iness Lawyers, an internationally recognized guide to the legal profession. Ben Poston, telecommunications instructor at Midlands Technical College, has received the C...
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Indian Waters Council to give Distinguished Citizen Award
Contributed by Larry Brown brown@bsamail.org
      The Indian Waters Council, Midlands chapter of the Boy Scouts of America named Donald (Ike) McLeese the recipient of the 2007 Distinguished Citizen Award. McLeese, a business and community leader, is known for his contributions to improve the business climate in the Midlands, as well as the quali...
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Vsion Condominiums model on display
      Jeff Prioreschi, director of new development for Capitol Places, stands in the Vsion model kitchen on display at 1321 Lady Street every workday from 11 am until 5 pm.
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Cable TV Pioneer retires
Contributed By Time Warner Cable
      Bud Tibshrany, vice president of public affairs for Time Warner Cable's S.C. Division and a 42- year veteran of the cable television industry, will retire effective June 30, 2007. Tibshrany, a native of Columbia and a 1957 graduate of Dreher High School, earned a BA in journalism from USC and ser...
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