Farmers' Market stalls
Photos and story by John Temple Ligon
      S.C. Commissioner of Agriculture Les Tindal had a plan several years ago, a plan to upgrade the 58- acre S.C. State Farmers' Market where it was. Then S.C. Commissioner of Agriculture Hugh Weathers had a plan, a plan to move the market to the end of Shop Road to a 194- acre tract purchased by Rich...
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Briefs
by John Temple Ligon
      Google In the fall of 2007, Google bought a 466- acre site near Blythewood for $13 million, where it could feasibly build a data center and hire 200 workers based on its Goose Creek project. Still secretive about hiring and operations, Google has begun testing its $600 million data center it is bu...
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Max and Lauren Schlueter of Carolina Cafe and Catering Company
Star Profile
By John Temple Ligon
      Eleven years ago, Max and Lauren Schlueter were in suburban Rochester, N.Y., where they grew up, met and married. But they were ready to move on beyond their career tracks and beyond Rochester. They chose Columbia, and they started what is now Carolina Cafe and Catering on the ground floor of the ...
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Folks about town
      Mary Higgins was named administrative assistant by Central Carolina Community Foundation. The United Nations has selected "The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo," an exhibit from the USC's McKissick Museum, to be displayed in the New York City Head quarters to commemorate the abolition of t...
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