On May 31, during demonstrations in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, one of the offices operated by the local alternative newspaper INDY Week was all but destroyed.
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High school graduation is great — even when it isn’t.
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Debate rages on about whether it’s too early or about damn time, but South Carolina is beginning to reopen. On Monday, Gov. Henry McMaster rel…
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A few Wednesdays ago, I wrote in this space that it was a “Weird week for a new Free Times,” observing that it was awkward for us to reshape o…
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You can still expect a new edition each Wednesday — barring any further restrictions that make that impossible or impractical. But our content will look a little different for however long this COVID-19 slowdown lasts. And our print editions will likely be a little thinner than usual.
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Free Times didn’t plan on redesigning our print edition and reorganizing some of our main features at a time when there’s so much fear and confusion in the air.
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I take no satisfaction in learning that McClatchy Co. — the nation’s second largest newspaper conglomerate, which owns such notable Carolina papers as the Raleigh News & Observer, The Charlotte Observer and, closer to home, Columbia’s The State — declared bankruptcy Thursday morning.
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Free Times is pleased to announce that David Clarey has been hired as the publication’s second staff writer. He will primarily report on the C…
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We’re good enough with snark to know what’s coming.
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The paper you’re holding in your hands, or the website you’re skimming through on your phone or computer, is paid for by Free Times’ advertisers.
Until the City of Columbia’s recent efforts to find a new flag — and Free Times’ recent reporting on such — you’d almost certainly never seen …
Free Times has hired two dynamic, local young professionals to join its expanding staff. Kelsey Farnham and Lynn Luc, both of whom have called…
Chase Heatherly grew up a Clemson fan, but he joked last week that now that he’s working in Columbia: “I suppose I can trade in that orange fo…
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Free Times just got an online overhaul.
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