Wade Hampton News

Tomorrow night's the night when McDonald Elementary School will learn if it is one of Palmetto's Finest.

One of my first jobs was a paper route for The State paper in Columbia. The State was located then on the 1200 block of Main.

Thespians * Emma Ritter was passed on to the national Thespian festival in Solo Musical and Solo Acting for a Superior Rating.

Texas is already edging up toward 20 commitments for the 2011 class, and the Longhorns apparently would take wide receiver Hakeem Flowers of Wade Hampton if he wanted to commit.

Deanne Melnicoff scrambled blindly through thick, black smoke Saturday as fire spread through her apartment complex on East North Street.

Fire ripped through a Greenville apartment building early Saturday morning, leaving dozens of people homeless and a firefighter injured.

Cell phones were stolen from two more AT&T stores early this morning after three suspects entered the businesses, cleared out inventory and left within minutes, authorities said.

On many occasions in this space we have written about the Hampton-Preston Mansion on Blanding Street in Columbia.

As Greer's population and centers of commerce grew in the recent past, the number of calls for service to the Fire Department rose steadily until last year when they fell off nearly 8 percent to 2,487 calls in 2009 from 2,696 calls in 2008.

In this era of trying to do more with less, the Historic Columbia Foundation has come up with a neat idea.

To wrap up February and Black History Month, the Wade Hampton High School group My Brother's Keeper sponsored its second annual Celebration of the Arts on Feb.

Jennifer Pham, a senior at Wade Hampton High School, was named one of South Carolina's top youth volunteers for 2010 by The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, a nationwide program honoring young people for outstanding acts of volunteerism.

The Historic Columbia Foundation will hold a 4-part lecture series on the Hampton-Preston Mansion .

Scott poses for a portrait by the tombstone of her great-grandfather-in-law. Michael Holahan/Staff Jackie Bartley stands near a mural of Beech Island.

Spring Pictures: K-2 March 3rd, grades 3-5 March 4th Chick-fil-A biscuits will be sold in the car line Wednesday March 10th Second grade will be going to Wade Hampton High School on March 11 to see the play, 'The Boxcar Children'. Suzy Harrison's and Tina Dillard's second grade classes are going to Roper Mountain Science ...

The Greenville County Youth Orchestras is now accepting audition applications for the 2010-2011 season for both its Young Artist Orchestra and the Philharmonic.

Retired insurance executive Gayle Averyt was trying to nail down city money for a downtown shelter that business leaders felt would solve vexing issues with Columbia's homeless.

The Civil War-era chaplain at the Battle of Aiken showed Virginia Wayt, Matthew Dunlop and other Mead Hall third-graders the large revolver used by soldiers during the war.

Coach Dooley proudly announced on signing day that he signed players from 11 different sates, big surprise.

The possibility of a random 'stranger-on-stranger' attack has been eliminated in the investigation of a 15-year-old girl's report that a man tried to pull her into a car as she walked home from Wade Hampton High School, Greenville County sheriff's deputies said.