Chapin News

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When it comes to fun times of the year, Christmas and New Year's usually take top billing.

Columbus, Ohio-based personal and commercial lines carrier, State Auto Insurance has implemented General Information Services' Pangea for Insurance, the insurance-specific agent on-boarding version of the vendor's Human Capital Management solution.

Morgan Weaver and Cole Upton shared an unlikely achievement. The Chapin Elementary School classmates both had winning essays in this year's Grandparents of the Year competition sponsored by the State Fair.

John Crosby and John Reynolds think their restaurants in the Irmo area are in perfect places.

You may have heard more noise up in the skies Saturday. That sound of freedom was from the Air and Ground Expo at McEntire Joint National Guard Base.

In honor of breast cancer awareness, Midlands residents have scheduled an amateur hair cutting contest for October 17.

8. A dryer fire resulted in $5,000 damage to the structure and contents of a home.

Chapin dance instructor Tammy Johns-Brown was crowned Mrs. United States 2009 in Las Vegas this summer, marking the second-straight year the title was claimed by a South Carolina resident.

Bring them to Tire Amnesty Day from 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday at the following collection and recycling centers: Chapin: 102 Distant Lane Gwen Bailey Center: U.S. 321 and Theo Jumper Lane, Gaston Centers will accept a maximum of 10 tires per household, except at Edmund where the limit is 20.

The Irmo Chapin Recreation Commission plans to ask Lexington County Council to give them $1,030,000 that has built up through the years in a fund used to service the agency's debt.

Residents who want to vote in Nov. 3 municipal elections in Richland and Lexington counties have until the end of this week to register.

It will be at least a few more weeks before the S.C. High School League's realignment for the 2010-12 school years is finalized.

Mrs. Elsie "GG" Ramsey Bowers of Chester, SC went home to be with her God on Monday, September 21, 2009, in the Brian Center in Columbia, SC.

Immediate family joining in the celebration were their son David, his wife Maria and grandchildren Dane and Danielle of Myrtle Beach, SC - son Gary, his wife Lori, grandchildren John, Drew and Anna of Chapin, SC and daughter Carol, her husband Barry, and grandchildren Christopher, Matthew and Nicole of Knoxville, TN.

Three longtime Lexington County mayors face re-election challenges at the Nov. 3 ballot.

A memorial service for Eugene Bruce "Sonny" DuBose, Jr., 81, will be held at 11 o'clock Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at Incarnation Lutheran Church, 3005 Devine Street, Columbia, SC, with The Rev.

A company that once planned a $1 billion "city within a city" on a Congaree River flood plain south of Columbia agreed Tuesday to drop its eight-year legal fight to get federal regulators to loosen building restrictions on thousands of acres of farmland.

Lexington County deputies are asking for help finding a trailer stolen from a business near Chapin last month.

Posted on Tuesday, September 08, 2009 at 9:47 a.m. Labor Day is often called the summer's last hurrah.