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News
There’s good and bad news for USC students this year.
The good news is the University of South Carolina is raising tuition rates only 2.9% from $12,262 to $12,618 for SC residents.
By Rose Cisneros
Public officials’ lives can be less than rosy.
Congressman Joe Wilson of Springdale is a recent example of how pranksters take advantage of them.
By Jerry Bellune
An SC Electric & Gas lawsuit may delay a 15% cut in ratepayers’s nuclear charges.
State lawmakers and regulators approved the reduction effective August 7.
By Jerry Bellune
Sports
Track success seems to run in the Patterson family.
After watching older brother Jacory at both Hand and Dreher High, 8-year-old Jamey Patterson II decided to follow him.
By Thomas Grant Jr.
Ralph Jarrells is quite an interesting guy.
What he wants to do for kids in Belize is even more interesting.
By Thomas Grant Jr.
Chapin/Newberry Post 193/24 was three outs away from evening its Best-of-Five Series Tuesday against Greenwood Post 20.
By Thomas Grant Jr.
Just 24 hours after suffering the worst loss since moving from Columbia, the Lexington County Blowfish rebounded Tuesday night with a nail-biting win.
By Thomas Grant Jr.
Opinions
I feel what the buggy whip makers must have felt 100 years ago. A noisy, smoke-belching contraption on wheels was about to put them out of business. I grew up reading newspapers. I loved them, delivered them, wrote for and edited them and finally owned a few of them. Now I find that fewer and fewer of us like to pick real newspapers up, hold them in our hands, and thumb through them to read about our neighbors and friends, check on the health and welfare of our community, and make important shopping decisions. Readers’ needs and wants are changing and we have to change with them, too.
You may not be aware of it but an important event occurred last week. After 15 years online, the Chronicle and the Lake Murray Fish Wrapper introduced a new electronic edition. We did it at the request of many of you who wanted to be able to read it on your smart phones.
Click here to read the full story by subscribing to our e-edition.
By Jerry Bellune
Are you as amazed as we are by what the candidates for governor are promising?
When Mr. Cooper hired my father – a 15-year-old high school graduate – he handed him a broom and asked if he knew how to use it. My father said he did.
By Jerry Bellune
Office of Regulatory Staff members have a right to be annoyed with the Public Disservice Commission.
The rest of us have a right to be at the least incensed.
Lifestyle
We need more Harold Branhams.
In a time when things old and quaint fall to modern ways, it’s good to have someone preserve the past.
By Tom Poland
One of the great joys of writing this column is finding relatively small churches that are making a difference.
By Chuck McCurry
Public-sector organization attacks are rising. In April the town of Rockport, Maine fell victim to ransomware. The hacker got in and locked the computers down so no files could be opened.
By Katie Ritchie
Business
SC Electric & Gas electricity ratepayers may find this surprising.
The company wants state regulators to let it lower rates — not for electricity but for natural gas.
Lake Murray is our state’s 4th largest overall lake market, with home listings at more than $217 million.
What do you do when you need workers but applicants flunk drug tests?
That is happening more often than you may think.
The Chronicle’s Business blog
Gerald Woodgate works with UK ad wizard Drayton Bird. He sent us this timely reminder note the other day:
Photo Galleries
The Lexington County Pancakes faced the Macon Bacon for the second time this season. After losing 9-0 on June 8, the Pancakes defeated the Bacon 7-5.
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