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From HERE Clinton
LAURENS, S.C. — Students in Laurens County School District 55 head back to their classrooms on Tuesday, Nov. 10, with every bus route staffed again, one day after a shortage of drivers sent the district to eLearning. The district moved classes online on Monday because of the ongoing bus issues.…
From HERE Newberry
NEWBERRY, S.C. — Newberry College will start a career-readiness program called Degree Plus backed by close to $500,000 in first-year funding the U.S. Department of Education awarded, money that opens a five-year federal grant projected to reach $1.7 million. The award comes through the department Strengthening Institutions Program. Degree Plus…
From the HERE City State Desk
CHARLESTON, S.C. — College-bound high school seniors anywhere in South Carolina can now apply for as much as $10,000 toward their first year of college, after the Meeting Street Scholarship Fund opened its application to every county for the 2027-28 school year on Monday. This is the first year the…
From HERE Beaufort
BEAUFORT COUNTY, S.C. — Property owners with questions about their tax assessments can sit down with Beaufort County Assessor staff at four library branches over the coming weeks, and the next walk-in day is Tuesday, Nov. 10, on Hilton Head Island. Each day runs 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and…
From HERE Columbia
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Downtown Columbia turns its streets over to the annual Veterans Day Parade on Wednesday, Nov. 11, with the procession on the move between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Marchers line up where Laurel Street crosses Sumter Street, and the city expects better than 60 units to roll…
From HERE Chapin
CHAPIN, S.C. — Chapin will honor its veterans on the eve of Veterans Day with a Salute to Veterans program at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10. The ceremony will be held at 101 East Boundary St., the home of Mt. Horeb Lutheran Church. American Legion Post 193 of Chapin is…
From HERE Greenville
GREENVILLE, S.C. — The Greenville Housing Authority now owns four apartment communities in the Nicholtown neighborhood outright after closing an $8,467,553 purchase that keeps all 432 homes there affordable. Clark Ridge, Nichol Town Green, Evergreen Place and Forest View are the four properties in the deal. All were built or…
From Merger Monday
SPECIAL REPORT Anthropic PBC is about to ask public investors for more money than almost any company has ever raised in a stock offering, and it is doing so with its terms still in flux. The maker of the Claude AI models was expected to begin formally marketing its initial public…
Politics
AIKEN, S.C. — Aiken County election workers start a recount Tuesday, Nov. 10, in the U.S. House District 2 race, where Republican Congressman Joe Wilson holds a lead of 2,926 votes over Democratic challenger Zyon Khalifa, an Aiken native. That margin is under 1% of all votes cast in the…
From HERE Greenville
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Dorothy Dowe, who holds one of the two at-large seats on Greenville City Council, opened a campaign for mayor on Monday, Nov. 9, with an event at the Rupert Huse Veteran Center. The race will pick the first new mayor the city has had since 1995. Mayor…
From HERE Columbia
COLUMBIA, S.C. — State lawmakers in the South Carolina Legislative Black Caucus will celebrate the group turning 50 with an evening gala in downtown Columbia on Saturday, Nov. 21. Food and live music are planned for the four-hour celebration, which begins at 6 p.m. inside the downtown convention center on…
From HERE Irmo
IRMO, S.C. — Irmo SC hunting turns to the water on Saturday, Nov. 21, when the state duck season opens for an eight-day first segment that runs through Saturday, Nov. 28, before a second segment starts Dec. 12 and continues to Jan. 31. Goose hunters get the same opening dates.…
From HERE Irmo
IRMO, S.C. — Irmo SC fishing starts the week with Lake Murray at 353.97 feet on the USGS gauge near Columbia, about 6.03 feet below the 360-foot conservation pool and down roughly 0.40 feet over the past seven days. The slow decline fits the fall drawdown that has been lowering…
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