More than 1,200 students from 42 public schools throughout the tri-county area battled for top honors at the 30th Annual Quest Academic Competition held Saturday at Trident Technical College.
Artist and author Nick Kuszyk, also known as “R. Robots,” painted a colorful mural on an exterior wall of the John L. Dart Branch Library last week to honor Cynthia Graham Hurd, a 31-year employee of Charleston County Public Library and one of nine victims shot last year at Emanuel AME Church.
For a law school, winning a national moot court title is an educational equivalent of winning an NCAA basketball title. After a weekend competition in Florida, a team from the Charleston School of Law has won its fifth — yes fifth! — national tax moot court championship in a row. Also in good news: Magnolia poetry contest, Business of Barbecue, and Homeless to Hope Fund.
Construction started Friday on a bike/pedestrian project on the Ashley River bridge that will allow officials to test whether a bike-walk lane will work as commuters travel between downtown and West Ashley. Also in the news: C of C exceeds $125 million fundraising goal; Magnolia hosts actress, plantation demonstrations; North Charleston park gets public Wi-Fi.
The Charleston Jazz Orchestra (CJO) will present When Swing Was King on Feb. 20 at the Charleston Music Hall as the first concert of its eighth season. Special guest will be pianist and new Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg. Also in Good News: Valentine’s stuff at Southern Season; SCE&G warns of scams; CRDA’s new website; poll managers needed; free admission to county parks.
New at CofC: An MFA in creative writing — “The two-year, full-residency program, which begins in the fall of 2016 pending approval from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Schools, is designed to sharpen the writing skills of graduate students interested in fiction and poetry. ” Also: Singing Valentine’s, she-crab celebration and a new Charleston County park.
The Charleston Parks Conservancy’s Magnolia Community Garden, Elliotborough Community Garden and Medway Community Garden generated 2,039 pounds of produce in 2015 for donation to local food pantries, such as Lowcountry Food Bank, One80 Place and James Island Outreach.
Three nationally-known speakers are scheduled to present in a new Race and Social justice Initiative 2016 Event Series at the College of Charleston.
Speakers include education activist Marion Wright Edelman, social justice advocate Bryan Stevenson and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates. The program series will feature several nationally known thought leaders discussing issues surrounding race and social justice in the Charleston area and throughout the nation.
Staff reports | Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will deliver a keynote address 3 p.m. Sunday during the 44th annual Martin Luther King Tri-County Ecumenical Service, which will be at Morris Street Baptist Church, 25 Morris Street, in Charleston. It’s one of several events scheduled through Jan. 19 in South Carolina’s largest annual tribute to King, an event coordinated by the YWCA of Charleston. Also in Good News: Legislature to convene; Discounts at Magnolia; Festival of Lights is nation’s third-best.
Starting Jan. 5, the City of Charleston will allow business owners to renew licenses online through a new Customer Access Portal at http://charleston-sc.gov/cap.
The new online business license renewal system is a password-protected, secure system that can be accessed by businesses that receive a business license renewal notice in the mail.
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