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From HERE IrmoIRMO, S.C. — The Irmo High School football team heads to North Augusta on Friday, Nov. 13, for a second-round Class 4A Lower State playoff game. Kickoff at the host Yellow Jackets’ stadium is scheduled for 7:30 p.m., and the winner moves on to the…
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 the HERE City State Desk
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina is on track for an estimated $18 million surplus in the Education Improvement Act money that pays for many state school programs, and the Education Oversight Committee is using the cushion as a reason to ask hard questions about what those programs deliver. The committee…
Events
AIKEN, S.C. — Aiken residents can review draft chapters of a rewritten city zoning code at an open house set for 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 18, in the Municipal Building lobby at 111 Chesterfield St. S. The city has released draft sections on base and overlay zoning districts, along with…
From Merger Monday
On Tuesday the U.S. government paid 5% to borrow for 10 years. On the same day a five-year-old AI company asked public investors to value it at as much as $1.4 trillion. Both things can be true, and the gap between them says a lot about where capital is going. Start…
From Merger Monday
Akamai Technologies Inc. borrowed $2.2 billion at 1% by selling investors a piece of its stock’s upside, the latest technology company to tap the convertible-bond market to pay for computing capacity. The Cambridge, Mass., content-delivery and security company priced $1.1 billion of convertible senior notes due 2028 and $1.1 billion due…
From Merger Monday
The U.S. government will pay 5% a year for the next decade on its newest 10-year debt. The Treasury Department sold $42 billion of 10-year notes on Tuesday at a high yield of 5.02%, setting the coupon at 5%, in an auction that drew softer demand on the same day…
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…
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Kickoff: Friday, November 13 at 7:30 PM EST. North Augusta High School, North Augusta, SC. Opponent coverage below runs until kickoff.
Get the Irmo side of the matchup on HERE Irmo · Game Day page