Admission will be free at state parks in South Carolina this Friday, November 27, as the Park Service joins the national #OptOutside initiative. The promotion, sponsored by REI, encourages people to spend some time in the great outdoors the day after Thanksgiving. “State parks are some of the most beautifulContinue Reading
The Governor’s School for Science & Mathematics (GSSM) is hosting Preview Days, Shadow Days, Ambassador Q+A sessions, and Find Your Element sessions this fall for prospective high school sophomores and their families. To attend any or all of these events, students should register online at www.scgssm.org/visit.Preview Day is a virtualContinue Reading
The 14th Capital City/Lake Murray Tourism’s Taste of Lake Murray will become a qualifying event for the World Food Championship to be held in Dallas, Texas in November of 2021. Seven chefs from the midlands will be chosen at the Taste of Lake Murray event to represent Team Lake MurrayContinue Reading
Project Unity USA along with The Rivervettes of Columbia will host the second SC First Responders Day event on November 21 at Dutch Square Mall Parking Lot in Columbia, from noon to 4:30 pm. Masks are required. All Corvette owners and clubs that wish to participate contact Bruce A. TrezevantContinue Reading
Keep the Midlands Beautiful will be holding an Adopt-A-Highway & Adopt-A-Street Cleanup this Saturday, November 21. Volunteers will be removing litter from roads throughout Lexington, Richland Counties and the City of Columbia If you are driving throughout the Midlands and you see litter pick-up in progress signs or volunteers inContinue Reading
Reggie Sullivan will return to the Harbison Theatre at Midlands Technical College this Saturday, November 21 from 4 – 6 pm to host a drive-in concert event featuring Kanika Moore (vocals), Sean Higgins Jr. (piano), Devin Fuller (drums), and Charlton Singleton (trumpet) from the South Carolina Grammy-winning band, Ranky Tanky.Continue Reading
Two Lexington County residents wanted in connection to multiple property and weapons crimes have been arrested in middle Tennessee. Wilson County, Tennessee, deputies captured Joshua Nathaniel Nelson, 28, and Kayla Denelle Humphrey, 36, Thursday morning after an extensive search that started November 11. “Deputies with the Wilson County Sheriff’s OfficeContinue Reading
Families and friends can fill up their cars for a festive ride through a wonderland of colorful light displays and animated scenes during Holiday Lights on the River. Beginning November 24 and running nightly through December 31, see colorful lights, dancing trees, and much more as Saluda Shoals Park isContinue Reading
Congressman Joe Wilson (SC-02) has issued the following statement in response to Former President Barack Obama’s comment Sunday morning: “On Sunday, Former President Barack Obama interviewed with ‘CBS This Morning,’ where he acknowledged that he wanted to ‘smack’ me during his joint address to Congress on September 9, 2009. “FormerContinue Reading
Lexington County Public Library (LCPL) is offering a series of activities encouraging local residents to be kind to others, themselves, animals and to the earth. “We want to show our community that in spite of the stress and uncertainty in our lives right now, we can all be a lightContinue Reading