Santee Cooper asked to stall coal- burning plant
By John Temple Ligon Temple@TheColumbiaStar.com
      Can there be a clean coal plant? A healthy cigarette? Pee Dee people are looking for both. Santee Cooper still plans to build what it terms a clean- coal plant, a pulverized coal- burning 1,320- watt power plant on a 2,709- acre tract in Florence County along the Great Pee Dee River, near Kingsbu...
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Briefs
by John Temple Ligon
      Governor back in charge There are more than 10,000 citizen soldiers and airmen in S.C. as members of the National Guard. President Bush is expected to sign the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act, which would restore control of states' National Guard troops to governors.
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Edwin Dargan of Dargan Turf Farm
Star Profile
By John Temple Ligon Temple@TheColumbiaStar.com
      Florence and Mechanicsville in the Pee Dee are connected by South Charleston Road, aka the Mechanicsville Highway. Close to Mechanicsville on the main highway are family farms that go back to King's charter, run by the same families for 250 years or more. A recent reincarnation of one of the olde...
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Wolfes tri- list Nettle's house
     Clyde and Judy Nettles couldn't decide which of their nephews should list their house, so they chose all three: (l- r) Jack Wolfe, Dana Wolfe, and Rhett Wolfe. The 3758- square- foot house at 5001 Radcliff Road lists for $745,000.
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Folks about town
      George Meetze has joined Grubb & Ellis Wilson Kibler as a sales associate in Broker Services. Obesity was chosen as the weekly winner of the Healthy S.C. School Video Contest. The film was made by a student at Bluffton High School.
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Toucan Talk
The Compelling Case for Asset Allocation
Provided by Michael Oana mjo@teamoana.com
      A new era of investing has begun. The times when we could blindly invest in indexes and expect strong returns are gone. Instead, this new investment environment requires a more sophisticated, active approach to generating attractive return potential and controlling risk. This approach is asset all...
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