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Fox & The Bee Farm Opening First Brick-and-Mortar Store
Fox & The Bee Farm, the family-run farm in Aiken, has been appearing regularly at the Aiken Farmers Market, offering products made with its own farmed honey and beeswax. Now, it’s preparing to open its first brick-and-mortar store. “This Fall we will open on Laurens St. While we are...
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USC approves new STEM, pharmacy buildings and policy institute
USC trustees approved plans for a new College of Pharmacy building. A five-story STEM Innovation and Research Center received final approval. The Thomson Building will be demolished for Russell House expansion. The new Institute for Public Policy received $1.8 million in state funding. The University of South Carolina Board of...
The Post and Courier
Canadian-based equestrian retailer opens Aiken store in former Dover Saddlery location
AIKEN — A retailer based in Canada that sells horseback riding apparel, boots, equipment and more began doing business here recently. Greenhawk Equestrian Sport held the grand opening for its new store at 2575 Whiskey Road in early October. Another store that sold similar merchandise, Dover Saddlery, used to be located there. The Boston Globe reported earlier this year that an arm of Dover Saddlery’s primary lender, Prudential Financial, took over the chain and then sold it to Gordon Brothers, a corporate restructuring and liquidation firm. According to horsesport.com, Greenhawk purchased stor...
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SRS a keystone of a nuclear renaissance in the Southeast, DOE Asst. Sec. Walsh says
AIKEN — America's future is digital and will rely on artificial intelligence data centers powered by advanced nuclear reactors burning mixed-oxide fuel at the Savannah River Site and other federal facilities, Tim Walsh, assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management, said in Aiken Oct. 22.
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New Orleans-based biotech company lured to SC as first for MUSC lab
The company name was deliberately chosen from West African lore: Obatala, the god who shaped the human body. And the New Orleans biotech firm is determined to see that their human-based research lab materials accurately reflect the true makeup of the American populace. Obatala Sciences is the first of what...
WIS-TV
‘Coming home again’: Seawell’s banquet hall moves back to South Carolina State Fairgrounds
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - A Columbia catering staple has moved. After more than 80 years on Rosewood Drive, Seawell’s has relocated across the street to the South Carolina State Fairgrounds. Seawell’s opened in 1946 and has hosted weddings, Gamecock events and U.S. presidents over the decades. The business operated...
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Six Vendors Started This South Carolina Market, and Now Around 200 Show Up Every Saturday
Every Saturday morning, a city shuts down several blocks of its main street just so people can shop, snack, and wander. No cars. Just tents, food trucks, music, and an awful lot of happy dogs. What began as a small local gathering has grown into a Saturday tradition. Now this...
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You Can Retire On Social Security Alone In This Wonderfully Affordable South Carolina City
Most retirement advice assumes you have a financial advisor, a vacation home, and a very optimistic relationship with compound interest. Florence, South Carolina assumes none of that, and somehow ends up being a better answer anyway. Here’s the situation. A lot of people reach retirement age with Social Security...
The Post and Courier
Soda City Market regular closes brick-and-mortar, will return to its hometown. What we know.
COLUMBIA — A fixture at Columbia’s popular Saturday market on Main Street is closing its northeast Columbia brick-and-mortar. But it isn’t going anywhere, and the business plans to still make its weekly appearances at Soda City Market. The Donut Guy, owned by the husband-and-wife team of Shaun and Crystal Paulk, announced via social media that it has closed its storefront in the Village at Sandhill outdoor mall, and will be returning to its initial home in Winnsboro — which sits a county away up Interstate 77. The plan is to reopen the Donut Guy storefront they had there before opening in Sand...
The Current GA
DOE OKs Savannah River Site as next home for nation’s largest supply of new nuclear warhead triggers
Only a small handful of the public will likely ever get to see the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility (SRPPF) in Aiken, S.C., near Augusta. Here lies the future manufacturing site for most of the nation’s next era of plutonium pits, or the triggers for nuclear weapons.
southcarolinapublicradio.org
New vision forming at SC outdoor apparel company
A well-known South Carolina outdoor apparel company got a new leader last year and with his experience at Nike and Burton Snowboards, we thought we’d check in to see what his plans are. Mike Switzer interviews Bryan Johnston, president of Huk Fishing and Nomad Outdoors in Charleston, SC. TRANSCRIPT:
The State
From chicken spots to corner stores, these Columbia places announced closures
Columbia-area business closures seem to be piling up this fall. Several longtime and well-known Columbia-area businesses have either closed or announced coming closures in recent weeks, from a national chicken chain to a decades-old dairy bar. This is a quick look at what’s bidding farewell. Here are key takeaways: A third Slim Chickens location in the Columbia area has shut down, this one at 7544 Garners Ferry Road , with the chain’s Beltline Boulevard and Killian Road spots having already closed earlier this year. Slim Chickens said in a statement that it remains “open to opportunities to bring Slim Chickens back to the market in the future,” leaving three South Carolina restaurants in Florence, Moncks Corner and Myrtle Beach. Express Mart, a convenience store at the southeast corner of Washington and Assembly streets, has permanently closed in downtown Columbia , with handwritten signs posted on the doors thanking customers. The building where the Express Mart was located, along with the adjoining 1136 Washington St., is slated to be redeveloped into a 4-star hotel by Orlando-based Kessler Enterprise, Inc . Rosewood Dairy Bar at 3003 Rosewood Drive, open since 1942, announced it plans to close by the end of November, citing