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Several small businesses and nonprofit organizations throughout the Lakelands have been awarded funding through the South Carolina CARES Act. “It helps stop the bleeding,” T.J. Jenks, general manager at Montague’s Restaurant in Greenwood, said. “We have had a ton of expenses that were sort of over and above.” Jenks said revenue has also been down at the restaurant. Montague’s, operating under M3 Foods Inc., was awarded $25,000 through the SC CARES Act. Two thousand two hundred and eighty-four minority and small businesses received grant relief from the $40 millio...

McCORMICK — This story could have ended many ways. Four years ago, the remote John de la Howe campus in rural McCormick County, at the time serving as a state boarding school for kids kicked out of their local districts, lost its academic accreditation from the South Carolina Department of Education. A series of investigations since 2010 had turned up financial irregularities, including a document-shredding episode in the summer of 2010. The school's enrollment was dropping, loyal faculty were leaving and John de la Howe was on its third superintendent in six years. The school, ...