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Ranking Upstate's best DLs in 2024 South Carolina high school football season
With the South Carolina high school football season nearing its Aug. 23 kickoff of Week Zero, here's a look at rankings for the Upstate's best defensive linemen in the SCHSL. Eastside has two of the top players on the list in Jaquavious Dodd and Michael Posey. Here's our list from No. 7 to No. 1: ...
These 17 pedestrians or cyclists have been killed on Greenville County roads since January
From Jan. 1 to July 23, Greenville County has had 17 pedestrian and bicyclist deaths. That number leads the state of South Carolina. Lexington County is second with eight deaths. Here's a list of the victims with ages, whether they were pedestrians or bicyclists, location, day, and time of death. Diego...
The SEC has a surprise conference competitor in 2024
Over the past 20 years, the ACC has fallen off in regards to competing against the SEC. And now, they do not just have the SEC to worry about, but the Big Ten as well who seems to be on the rise. Over the past decade or so specifically, the ACC has been led by the Clemson Tigers who since the college football playoff era began are the only ACC school to have a national championship with two under head coach Dabo Swinney.
Clemson Professor Patents Peach Varieties to Help Save Vital South Carolina Industry
The Clemson University Research Foundation (CURF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 1981. Its offices sit just off campus in a nondescript high-rise that overlooks downtown Clemson’s three-block run of shops and restaurants. It is little known, but its impact is significant. CURF’s mission is to advance the research...
Phillips: Expanded CFP ‘A Good Thing for the ACC’
Jim Phillips believes the expanded College Football Playoff is good for the sport -- and the Atlantic Coast Conference. As ACC Media Days got underway this week, the ACC Commissioner discussed the new 12-team (...)
Highlands lecture series to host NASA scientist
The Highlands Biological Foundation (HBF) announced the next lecture in their Zahner Conservation Lecture Series, taking place at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 1, at the Highlands Nature Center. The lecture, titled "The Surface Water and Ocean Topography Mission: NASA’s New Eye in the Sky for Earth’s Water," will be...
The Gilder Lehrman Institute Names Sarah Kelly as 2024 South Carolina History Teacher of the Year
The distinguished history educator is one of 53 finalists for the 2024 National History Teacher of the Year Award, set to receive a $1,000 prize and an invaluable collection of classroom resources. Lexington, South Carolina – July 23, 2024 – Sarah Kelly, a teacher at Carolina Springs Middle School in...
Midlands Tech awarded $1M grant to expand construction program in fast-growing SC
COLUMBIA — Midlands Technical College will expand its construction trades program with a $1 million grant, the largest single corporate gift in the school’s history. The grant to Midlands Tech is one of 35 awarded by the Lowe’s Foundation since the company’s nonprofit arm started its Gable Grants program last year in an effort to train more workers in skilled trades.
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