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Charleston-area home sales skyrocketed 48 percent in April over the same month a year ago, and buyers paid nearly $54,000 more for a house as demand outstripped supply and lumber prices continue to go through the roof. Read more
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Charleston County School District gave students two weeks to fill out the Panorama Social-Emotional Screener, which asks them questions about their motivation, sense of belonging and school climate, among other things.Â
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I only had 10 minutes of training to be a server assistant at Rappahannock, same as everyone else who claims a shift through GigPro, a Charleston-based online platform which connects hospitality workers and food businesses with an immediate need for backup help.
Walter Edward of Chasing Sage, a majority of which is owned by his wife, Cindy Edward, spent the days leading up to the program’s launch talking to their accountant and familiarizing himself with the system. He was ready.
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South Carolina reported 277 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and four new deaths. The state ranks 42nd nationwide in terms of the number of vaccines administered per 100,000 people.
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I only had 10 minutes of training to be a server assistant at Rappahannock, same as everyone else who claims a shift through GigPro, a Charleston-based online platform which connects hospitality workers and food businesses with an immediate need for backup help.
Gene Sapakoff column: Juggling Nick Saban and Dabo Swinney, Kirby Smart and Dan Mullen and the right spot for Shane Beamer and other new coaches in the SEC and ACC.
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson is among 44 AGs who are urging Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to abandon plans to develop an Instagram photo- and video-sharing network specifically for young children. Read more
Legislators will carry over a lot of work into next month's limited special sessions, primarily passing a state budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1. Read more
The federal funding program, which adds $300 to weekly unemployment checks, will end in the state June 30, according to a statement from McMaster's office. The American Rescue Plan had extended the program until Sept. 6. Read more
Parlor Doughnuts is set to open at the end of May just off U.S. 17 in the heart of Pawleys Island. Read more
Legislators will carry over a lot of work into next month's limited special sessions, primarily passing a state budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1. Read more
The aid is part of Biden's larger $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package that became law in March. Administration officials said payments could begin to go out in the coming days to eligible governments, allowing state, local, territorial and tribal officials to offset the economic damage from the coronavirus pandemic.
Eager to the turn the page on the Trump years, the Biden White House is launching an effort to unearth past problems with the politicization of science within government and to tighten scientific integrity rules for the future.
The funds come from a national pot of $350 billion in emergency funding for state and local governments from the latest $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, dubbed the "American Rescue Plan," which passed out of Congress and was signed into law by President Joe Biden in early March.
Parlor Doughnuts is set to open at the end of May just off U.S. 17 in the heart of Pawleys Island. Read more
A week of debate in the Senate didn’t produce a good reason for South Carolina to let people carry handguns openly in public. We heard that people want to do this, and that some mistakenly believe the U.S. Constitution gives them a right to do it, but that’s not the same as a reason the stat… Read more
In a pair of companion exhibitions, the Gibbes Museum of Art shares both its extraordinary collection of Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints and works by Charleston Renaissance artists who found inspiration in the art form. Read more
