Columbia native Charles Bolden has had a remarkable career: Marine fighter pilot, commanding general in Operation Desert Thunder in Kuwait, deputy commandant of midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy. Those distinctions are impressive enough, but he is best known for his work for NASA, as both astronaut and head of the entire agency. Recently retired as administrator of NASA, he recalled his most famous flight, as pilot of the space shuttle Discovery, which in 1990 deployed the Hubble Space

A musical tradition begun in Colonial America which flourished in the South in the late 19 th to mid 20 th centuries is still carried on in South Carolina. It’s shape note singing - also known as fa-sol-la, Jubilee or sacred harp singing. A method developed to teach music to people who couldn’t read music, the notes on the page use shapes such as round, square, and triangular to represent the various pitches. Lena Davis of Anderson learned the music from her father, and founded the Community

Bicycle sharing systems have popped up in cities – especially tourism cities - in the past few years, but a new innovation being tested at Furman University may take transportation at the Upstate college to the next level. It’s called dockless bike sharing, and according to Dr. Weston Dripps, director of Furman’s Shi Center for Sustainability, older bike sharing systems require a person to go to a docking station to pick up the bike, and return it to that or another docking station, which may be

Since 1980, the University of South Carolina has built a national reputation as one of the top film preservation archives in the nation. Its Moving Image Research Collection has recently become the recipient of a significant national gift – the archival films of the United States Marine Corps. Tom McNally, Dean of Libraries at the University, says the school took the collection with no funds to preserve it, but with the faith that revenue donors could be found, which they were. Curator of

Greenville native Sandi Morris has been a natural athlete all her life. At age seven, playing around at her older sister’s soccer game, she offered a boy a quarter to race her, and beat him handily. The boy’s mother, who was sitting near Sandi’s parents, told them of a track team for kids her age. That was the beginning that led to Morris’s silver medal for the women’s pole vault in the 2016 Rio summer Olympics. Then, only three weeks later in Brussels, she set the American women’s outdoor pole

A musical tradition begun in Colonial America which flourished in the South in the late 19 th -to mid-20 th centuries is still carried on in South Carolina. It’s shape note singing – also known as fa-sol-la, Jubilee or sacred harp singing. A method developed to teach music to people who couldn’t read music, the notes on the page use shapes such as round, square, and triangular to represent the various pitches. Lena Davis of Anderson learned the music from her father, and founded the Community

A new study finds South Carolina among ten states with a larger number of unfit Army recruits compared to the rest of the nation. The research comes from the Citadel, a military school in Charleston, and shows potential soldiers who are not physically fit are more likely to be injured during basic training, costing the Department of Defense and putting our nation's military readiness at risk.

For decades, Epworth Children's Home in Columbia has been well known in Methodist circles for two things: caring for children, and the unique dessert it has produced since the Great Depression: peanut butter ice cream. The government sent the home large quantities of peanut butter to help give the children protein, and the cooks served it in every way they could think of, said Epworth President John Holler. In those days, the home had a dairy, so someone suggested trying to make ice cream with

A new gasoline tax credit that takes effect this year will give South Carolina drivers a little relief from the cost of driving. The tax credit can be filed for beginning in January 2019 for the 2018 tax year. This credit is to help offset the annual 2-cent-per- gallon increase in the gasoline tax to be dedicated to road upkeep for the next five years (for a total of six years, or an eventual 12-cents per gallon). SC Dept. of Revenue Director Hartley Powell says drivers should start saving their

Doug Echols concludes his 20 year tenure as Mayor of Rock Hill, SC on Jan. 8, 2018. He is the longest serving Mayor in Rock Hill history. Attorney and former City Council member John Gettys assumes the Mayor's Office. Rock Hill is a City on the move. It is now the fifth largest in the state, and is considered a model for successful planned growth.