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Tindall founder joins staff for completion of Spartanburg project

Only 54 people have served as speaker of the House. The ninth person to do so was a South Carolinian.

It's been nearly a century since a speaker vote took multiple ballots.

Contentious fights for House speaker didn’t begin with Kevin McCarthy’s plight, and were once almost the norm.

ON SEPTEMBER 1, the Bucks County Show was held, when farmers and local agricultural businesses from around Bucks and beyond exhibited at Weedon,…

The article in last week’s Bucks Free Press about the recent sale of Beel House, inspired me to look again at the history of this Grade II* listed…

Fraternity starts petition to rename buildings April 21, 2021 129 Views The Rho Epsilon chapter of the International Fraternity Sigma Lambda Beta created a petition to rename the resident hall buildings of Brown, Lowndes and Patterson, which was submitted to VSU administration on April 19. Michael Tidwell, the president of International Fraternity Sigma Lambda Beta, and the rest of the fraternity decided to prepare this petition as an attempt to break away from the racist backgrounds behind t...

The Lower Cherokee Town of Esseneca was built on both sides of the Keowee River, now Lake Hartwell. In 1775, naturalist William Bartram described the village and its size in detail, including “the number of inhabitants is now estimated at about five hundred, and they are able to muster about one hundred warriors.” After the Revolutionary War, the former South Carolina Cherokee lands were being developed, and the first Hopewell-Keowee Church opened in 1791. Rev. James McElhenney of Johns Isl...