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Irmo to hold nighttime Christmas Parade
Bright Lights, Warm Hearts is the theme for this year’s Christmas Parade, which will feature a new nighttime format. Community members, organizations and local businesses are invited to light up the evening and celebrate the holiday season during the parade on Saturday, Dec. 5, beginning at 5:45 p.m. The...
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The State
Historic Babcock Building cupola rises above Columbia skyline
One of the first things travelers see as they enter Columbia is the bright red cupola atop a building on Elmwood Avenue, like an exclamation point. The cupola and the surrounding BullStreet District have a long history in Columbia, dating to 1885, when the final and grandest of three buildings was built as the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum, later known as the South Carolina State Hospital. In 1969, the asylum building was named for James Woods Babcock, who served as the hospital’s superintendent from 1891 to 1914, according to The State’s history of the structure. The Babcock Building and the surrounding 178 acres grew into a self-contained mental health facility where hundreds of people lived and worked, walled off from the rest of the city. The building housed offices and patients for more than 100 years, until it was vacated in 2003. Though dilapidated, the central, cupola-capped portion of the Babcock was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981 and could not be demolished. The building sat vacant and deteriorating until 2015, when redevelopment of the historic campus into the mixed-use BullStreet District began. Workers had just begun clearing out the Babcock for construction of luxury apartments
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Bill the rhino preparing to leave Riverbanks Zoo
IRMO – Riverbanks Zoo and Garden is preparing to say goodbye to Bill, its male Southern white rhino, who will soon move to another Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA)-accredited facility as part of a national effort to increase genetic diversity among the species. The move is being coordinated...
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Independent Women: The Women Behind South Carolina’s Declaration Signers
A hot topic this year is the 250th anniversary of one of the most significant events in world history – the signing of the Declaration of Independence. By announcing their break with Mother England, the American colonists created a country that gained the admiration of the rest of the world.
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Irmo’s Living Christmas Story Celebrates 33 Years of Bringing Bethlehem to Life
Irmo, SC 11/10/2026 - One of the Midlands' cherished Christmas traditions is returning this December as Union United Methodist Church prepares to present its 33rd Annual Living Christmas Story, inviting families to experience the events surrounding the birth of Jesus Christ. The free, three-night drive-through nativity will take place December...