Median messes with business
By John Temple Ligon Temple@TheColumbiaStar.com
      Riley L. (Skebo) Newman has owned Newman's Exxon at the corner of Saluda Avenue and Devine Street for more than 30 years, and for almost 30 years he has had an improving profitability picture. The street scene has always seemed like something parallel with the neighborhood's population growth and ...
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Briefs
by John Temple Ligon
      Civil War letters for sale Columbian Tom Willcox, real estate developer and property manager, plans to auction Civil War- era letters September 29 at Bill Mishoe's Auction House on Fairfield Road in Columbia. Documents for auction include a five- page letter by Gen. Robert E. Lee to S.C.'s governo...
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Star Profile
Tom Persons of the S.C. Technology Alliance
By John Temple Ligon Temple@TheColumbiaStar.com
      Tom Persons grew up on little Blythe Island, along Highway 17 in southern Georgia. He became fascinated in technology while working at a dairy. Persons was also a paper boy for the local daily, The Brunswick News. Today, as CEO of the S.C. Technology Alliance, Persons is still fascinated and stil...
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Folks about town
      The Palmetto Center for Women honored eight women for their personal and professional contributions.
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