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NEWBERRY, S.C. (courtesy newberry.edu) — Newberry College officially broke ground Sept. 13 on the first phase of major renovations to historic Setzler Field. The ceremony opens construction on an Athletic Performance Improvement Center, to include improved guest accommodations and expanded sports medicine facilities. This comes after the Board of Trustees approved the $2.3 million phase …

SUMTER, S.C. (courtesy theitem.com) — A newly-renovated Hornet’s Nest celebrated its grand reopening celebration on Aug. 23. The former pizza operation will serve an array of selections for dine in or take out, including burgers, subs, pizza, chicken fingers, wings and sweet potato fries, according to a news release. Coca-Cola products will include soda, lemonade, …

GAFFNEY, S.C. (courtesy limestone.edu) — Limestone Professor Dr. Alex Richardson, chair of the College’s Department of English & Communications, will soon appear on the series “By The River” that airs on the South Carolina Educational Television. The Communication Studies program at the University of South Carolina Beaufort has partnered with South Carolina Educational Television to …

GREENVILLE, S.C. (courtesy furman.edu and greenvillebusinessmag.com) — It was love at first sight. When my family and I visited Greenville, as I prepared to become president of Furman University in 2014, we could sense the energy and vibrancy of the place. There was no doubt that Greenville was exceptional. Its bold vision was there for …

DUE WEST, S.C. (courtesy indexjournal.com) — When the town’s Dollar General ran out of surge protectors, its manager, Andrea Callaway, hustled to another to get more. Within a half-hour, the 17 she had brought back had sold out. It was freshman move-in day at Erskine College. One parent, upset that an item her son needed …

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (courtesy converse.edu) — Some say teaching is an art. A handful of Converse arts professors say teaching art comes naturally to artists, anyway. So they created—then won— one of Converse’s highly competitive Creativity, Community, and Cultural Enrichment (C3) grants for an outreach program that lets Converse arts students teach underserved elementary schoolchildren. “As …

COLUMBIA, S.C. (courtesy ciu.edu) — On the first day of the 2019-2020 school year, a couple staff members stood in the cavernous entryway to the new William H. Jones Global Business & IT Center directing students trying to find their way to the very first classes being held in the much-anticipated $20 million building. It …

COLUMBIA, S.C. (courtesy Columbia Free Times / postandcourier.com) — There’s something enigmatic about the way mixed-media artist Greyson Smith approaches gardens and flowers. Such objects of natural beauty have long numbered among the oldest, most tried and true subjects for visual artists. And yet, the paintings and drawings in his exhibition Gardens of the Carolinas …

HARTSVILLE, S.C. (courtesy coker.edu) — In an effort to continue meeting the needs of its students and making a quality college education more accessible, Coker University recently welcomed its first cohort of 18 Foster Scholars and its second cohort of 18 STEM Scholars in Biology (SSB). In addition, the university’s library recently launched ‘Stock, Paper, …