BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.–Former employees of American LaFrance, a defunct Moncks Corner fire truck manufacturer, will receive compensation for owed salary and benefits stemming from the plant’s sudden shutdown in January 2014 under the terms of a proposed settlement between the parties. Workers arrived at the plant on January 17, 2014 to learn that the company would cease operations immediately and […]
BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.–Current and former members of AgSouth Farm Credit received nearly $44 million in two separate distributions this spring. Customers in Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester counties received more than $755,000 in cash. In March the cooperative returned more than $29 million for the year ending December 31, 2014. Nearly $9 million was distributed in cash, and the remaining $20.6 […]
BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.–Eighteen students from Berkeley Middle College completed associate degree and certificate programs at Trident Technical College a full month before graduating from high school. Below are the Berkeley Middle College students who received degrees and certificates from Trident Technical College. Albert Meyer, Associate in Arts Jakayla Bailey, Associate in Arts Miesha Moultrie, Associate in Arts Ashanti Bennett, Associate […]
BERKEEY COUNTY, S.C.–Coach Tony Smith of Stratford High School, was named the 2014-2015 Assistant Coach of the Year by the South Carolina Athletic Coaches Association (SCACA). Smith is the only coach of any sport in South Carolina to receive this honor. ”It’s really a great honor; a lot of other people are deserving of it too. The kids and athletic […]
The National Wrestling Hall of Fame & Museum announced that Cane Bay High School senior, Matt Rudy, received the 2015 Dave Schultz High School Excellence Award. The High School Excellence Award is based on excellence in wrestling, scholastic achievement, citizenship and community service. State winners for both the Schultz and Saunders Awards have been selected in each of the states […]
BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.–Six students from J.K. Gourdin Elementary School and three from Macedonia Middle School won Berkeley County Water & Sanitation’s (BCWS) Drinking Water Week Poster Contest. Every year BCWS hosts a poster contest to celebrate water. The contest leads up to National Drinking Water Week, which is sponsored by the American Water Works Association. The contest is open to […]
BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.–Linda Versprille, Director of Orchestras and the Panjamdrum Steel Band at Sangaree Middle School, is a quarterfinalist for the 2016 GRAMMY Music Educator of the Year Award. A total of 213 music teachers from 194 cities across 42 states have been announced as quarterfinalists for the Music Educator Award presented by The Recording Academy and the GRAMMY Foundation. […]
BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C.–On Monday morning, Brian Adams appeared on The Morning Report with Jay Harper on WQSC to discuss Tuesday’s Republican runoff for sheriff. Tomorrow Adams will face Duane Lewis at the polls. The candidate who wins will then head to the general election, facing Democratic candidate Anthony Smalls. Adams is currently a police officer with the North Charleston Police […]
Although the Great Recession hit South Carolina harder than most places, recent economic indicators show the state is making some headway, if slowly. While the unemployment rate hasn’t budged much in the past year, millennials here are primed to find jobs. Young adults, or millennials, in South Carolina are attracted to the laid-back Southern lifestyle, coastal towns, thriving cities and […]
Via Press Release: The Brian Adams for Sheriff Campaign is proud to announce two more big time endorsement going into the runoff election. State Senator Paul Thurmond and State Representative Peter McCoy have announced their support, and both have been instrumental behind the scenes over the course of the campaign. State Senator Paul Thurmond stated, “I have known my good […]
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