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#SouthCarolina #Transportation #Infrastructure
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McMaster proposes $1 billion in new funding to help SC highway, bridge work keep up with inflation
COLUMBIA -- Gov. Henry McMaster is asking the state Legislature to infuse an additional $1 billion to the S. C. Department of Transportation amid an ongoing debate on ways to modernize the agency which has struggled to maintain its workload against rising inflation.
#RealEstate #AffordableHousing #Investment
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North Charleston apartments deemed unlivable in 2016 fetch $71M in 2025
NORTH CHARLESTON -- A real estate company that rebuilt and expanded a large Park Circle multifamily complex after it was deemed uninhabitable nearly a decade ago has sold the North Charleston rental property for nearly $71 million.
#Sewing #CreativeStudio #LibraryResources
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Looking to start a new craft project? Charleston library's Creative Studio can help.
JAMES ISLAND -- On a December morning, Laura Cady walked into the Creative Studio at the Baxter-Patrick James Island Library carrying a sewing machine in its original box.
#ArtificialIntelligence #Cytopathology #CancerPrevention
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AI speeds up processing of cancer prevention tests at MUSC but humans still needed
Patricia Houser, cytopathology lab manager, sifts through Pap smear samples looking for potentially cancerous cells, Wednesday, December 3, 2025, in Charleston.
#ArtificialIntelligence #Cytopathology #CancerPrevention
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AI speeds up processing of cancer prevention tests at MUSC but humans still needed
Patricia Houser, cytopathology lab manager, sifts through Pap smear samples looking for potentially cancerous cells, Wednesday, December 3, 2025, in Charleston.
#ArtificialIntelligence #Cytopathology #CancerPrevention
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AI speeds up processing of cancer prevention tests at MUSC but humans still needed
Patricia Houser, cytopathology lab manager, sifts through Pap smear samples looking for potentially cancerous cells, Wednesday, December 3, 2025, in Charleston.
#ArtificialIntelligence #HealthcareInnovation #CancerPrevention
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AI speeds up processing of cancer prevention tests at MUSC but humans still needed
Patricia Houser, cytopathology lab manager, sifts through Pap smear samples looking for potentially cancerous cells, Wednesday, December 3, 2025, in Charleston.
#ArtificialIntelligence #HealthcareInnovation #CancerPrevention
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AI speeds up processing of cancer prevention tests at MUSC but humans still needed
Patricia Houser, cytopathology lab manager, sifts through Pap smear samples looking for potentially cancerous cells, Wednesday, December 3, 2025, in Charleston.
#CommunitySafety #PedestrianAwareness #RotaryService
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Daughter wants positive change to come from her father's fatal collision on path of Ravenel Bridge
CHARLESTON - Wayne Cassaday lived his life in tandem with Rotary's motto of "service above self. "
Over the years, the Mount Pleasant resident lodged exchange students and medical tourists, trekked across the globe on mission trips, raised money and regularly donated his time to charities, including as a former president of a local Rotary chapter.
#AfricanAmericanHistory #RevolutionaryWar #HistoryMatters
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Meet the less-known revolutionaries recognized in SC's 2026 African American History Calendar
COLUMBIA -- Like many things in South Carolina this year, the 2026 iteration of the state's annual African American History Calendar is themed around the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War.
#Autism #ABAtherapy #Medicaid改革
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It's the 'gold standard' for autism care. States are moving to limit it
ALEXANDER, N. C. -- Aubreigh Osborne has a new best friend.
Dressed in blue with a big ribbon in her blond curls, the 3-year-old sat in her mother's lap carefully enunciating a classmate's first name after hearing the words "best friend.
#WhaleConservation #MarineLife #NewYorkHarbor
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Whales Are in Danger in N.Y. Waterways: 'Like Deer Crossing the Road'
Just before noon on a Sunday in October, passengers settled onto the upper deck of the American Princess, a 95-foot cruising vessel that departed from Sheepshead Bay in New York's Brooklyn borough, into the Atlantic Ocean in search of whales.
#WhaleConservation #MarineLife #NewYorkHarbor
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Whales Are in Danger in N.Y. Waterways: 'Like Deer Crossing the Road'
Just before noon on a Sunday in October, passengers settled onto the upper deck of the American Princess, a 95-foot cruising vessel that departed from Sheepshead Bay in New York's Brooklyn borough, into the Atlantic Ocean in search of whales.
#CommunityPartnerships #EducationForAll #ChildThriving
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Commentary: Children thrive when communities work together to help them thrive
Across classrooms and neighborhoods, Spartanburg rallies around a shared goal: ensuring every child can thrive.
As we begin a new year, new data remind us about how far we've come and the work ahead.
#SocialStudies #EducationReform #HistoryInSchool
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SC is focused on history as America turns 250. Some worry elementary schools aren't. (copy)
COLUMBIA -- As South Carolina gets ready to celebrate America's 250th year of independence, many of its youngest schoolchildren are spending little time learning about history or civics compared to other subjects.
#SocialStudies #EducationReform #HistoryInSchool
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SC is focused on history as America turns 250. Some worry elementary schools aren't. (copy)
COLUMBIA -- As South Carolina gets ready to celebrate America's 250th year of independence, many of its youngest schoolchildren are spending little time learning about history or civics compared to other subjects.
#Venezuela #Maduro #Immigration
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Venezuelans in U.S. rejoice at Maduro exit even as doubts remain
Venezuelans around the U. S. celebrated the downfall of Nicolás Maduro, expressing hope for the future of their country even as uncertainty swirls after the longtime leader's forced removal and arrest by U.
#Venezuela #Immigration #HumanRights
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Venezuelan Asylum-Seekers Worry About What Comes Next
Alejandro Marcano Santelli fled his home country in 2009 after receiving death threats. He had worked for a news outlet that opposed the Venezuelan government and its eventual leader, Nicolás Maduro, who was captured by the United States and brought to New York on Saturday to face drug charges.
#Education #SocialStudies #Civics
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SC is focused on history as America turns 250. Some worry elementary schools aren't.
COLUMBIA -- As South Carolina gets ready to celebrate America's 250th year of independence, many of its youngest schoolchildren are spending little time learning about history or civics compared to other subjects.
#Education #SocialStudies #Civics
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SC is focused on history as America turns 250. Some worry elementary schools aren't.
COLUMBIA -- As South Carolina gets ready to celebrate America's 250th year of independence, many of its youngest schoolchildren are spending little time learning about history or civics compared to other subjects.
#Education #MathAchievement #TeacherRecognition
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Berkeley Prep teachers earn math performance bonuses
Two teachers at Berkeley Preparatory Academy were recognized this past November with math performance bonuses for leading significant student growth on SC READY math assessments during the 2024-25 school year.
#Education #MathAchievement #TeacherRecognition
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Berkeley Prep teachers earn math performance bonuses
Two teachers at Berkeley Preparatory Academy were recognized this past November with math performance bonuses for leading significant student growth on SC READY math assessments during the 2024-25 school year.
#BatteryTechnology #Sustainability #Innovation
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Clemson professor seeks to design safer, more efficient battery
Dong Hou is on a mission to create a safer, more efficient battery.
The Clemson University engineering professor secured a competitive National Science Foundation fellowship this year to pursue that aim, one he said could be a vital part of building a more sustainable world.
#HistoricPreservation #NorthCharleston #CommunityHeritage
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The peninsula has strict historic building guidelines. What about annexed neighbor North Charleston?
NORTH CHARLESTON -- While the upper part of the Charleston peninsula is significantly younger than its densely populated counterpart, North Charleston is steeped in rich history.
#Archaeology #CulturalHeritage #SavannahRiverSite
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Discover Aiken: Archaeology at Savannah River Site tells a fascinating story
Metal acquisitions tags were used to identify each structure inventoried by the Atomic Energy Commission surveyors. Number 3417 designates a "chicken house" once owned by David Rosier.
#Transportation #PublicSafety #DisasterPreparedness
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Reevaluate road improvements, prepare for disasters, Clemson following agreement | Letters
Reevaluate road improvements
South Carolina is already spending $1. 7 billion on the Carolina Crossroads rebuild, a megaproject near Columbia sold to the public largely in the language of congestion reduction and capacity improvements.
#PatConroy #DaufuskieIsland #Education
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A chance assignment led to photo documentation of Pat Conroy's time teaching on SC sea island
DAUFUSKIE ISLAND -- Pat Conroy earned acclaim when he authored "The Water Is Wide," which chronicled the year he spent teaching Black students in a segregated school on this remote Beaufort County outpost.
#PatConroy #DaufuskieIsland #Education
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A chance assignment led to photo documentation of Pat Conroy's time teaching on SC sea island
DAUFUSKIE ISLAND -- Pat Conroy earned acclaim when he authored "The Water Is Wide," which chronicled the year he spent teaching Black students in a segregated school on this remote Beaufort County outpost.
#Batteries #Sustainability #Innovation
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Clemson professor seeks to design safer, more efficient battery
Conor Hughes covers Greenville County for The Post and Courier. He has been reporting on South Carolina's Upstate for close to a decade, writing about everything from crime, to development, to politics during that time.
#NatureWriting #SpiritualJourney #Pilgrimage
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Review: Revolutionary travel in Nicholas Triolo's 'The Way Around'
THE WAY AROUND: A Field Guide to Going Nowhere. By Nicholas Triolo. Milkweed Editions. 224 pages. $26.
Having once again marked our planet's orbit around the sun, we'd do well to welcome the New Year guided by Nicholas Triolo's wise and insightful "The Way Around.
