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Congratualations, Gamecocks way to start off the season !
USC offense comes up big in opening win
South Carolina unveiled two freshmen playmakers Thursday and got a statement game from quarterback Stephen Garcia in a 41-13 win over Southern Miss.
Come on Tigers!
The thunder-and-lightning combination is back at Clemson.
With C.J. Spiller departed after a year as the feature back, the backfield timeshare returns Saturday against North Texas with Jamie Harper and Andre Ellington sharing the ball in the season opener.
It's football time in South Carolina!
COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - Football fanatics hit the stands Friday evening to watch high school players run, tackle and score touchdowns.
Football fever is in the air, and it's 12-year-old Noah Crumlich's favorite sport. "The coolest thing about football is watching them hit people," Crumlich said.
At Parone stadium, the Spring Valley Vikings battled Lower Richland's diamond hornets.
Football Friday is an evening out for Montgomery and fans a chance to hear the marching band and get hype with the cheerleaders, all while watching your favorite team score.
For these fans it's all about fellowship, according to Janice Montgomery. "You get to meet friends, church members, community members," said Montgomery. "Just enjoy yourself and get out of the house for a change."
"The atmosphere," said Travis Jones. "Everybody comes out here. The cheerleaders get into it. We get into it. Everyone's getting pumped. We're all here to have fun and root on our team."
It's an adrenaline rush for Crumlich with every tackle or touchdown. "It feels like blood is rushing through your veins and you're so happy," he said.
SC surf championship gets boost from Mother Nature
Danielle is churning up some desirable waves along the South Carolina shore.
The Post and Courier of Charleston reported that more than 200 surfers have participated in the weekend event that wraps up Sunday at the state's top surfing area — the Washout at Folly Beach.
Surfers told the newspaper that waves were bigger than usual, but shifting winds made it difficult to stay in position for judging.
Also, rip currents associated with the hurricane centered well east of Bermuda made the ocean a dangerous place for observers. Governor's Cup co-director Nancy Hussey said two surfers stopped competing to pull children out of the water after they had gotten caught in a rip current.
Amateur NC ghost hunter looking for 'ghost train' hit and killed by real train
The incident happened on a train trestle at 2:45 a.m. near the 900 block of Buffalo Shoals Road.
Robin Chapman, a spokesperson for Norfolk-Southern Railroad, said the eastbound train consisted of three locomotives and no freight cars.
The train was rounding a curve and approaching a trestle over Boston Creek just prior to Buffalo Shoals Road when it struck a man on the trestle, Chapman said.
Christopher Kaiser, 29, died at the scene and two more people were injured, according to Iredell County Sheriff Phillip Redmond. Kaiser's body was found below the trestle down a steep incline, he said.
The injured patients were airlifted to a local hospital. Their condition was not immediately known.
"During the investigation, witnesses told deputies they were at the site in hopes of seeing a 'ghost train'," the Iredell County sheriff's office said in a press release.
The sheriff said the incident coincided with the anniversary of a train wreck that occurred at the same location in 1891. (Read a story about the original wreck)
Redmond said there were "12 people who were amateur ghost hunters caught on the trestle when the train rounded the bend" early Friday morning.
The train operators tried to stop the locomotives and warn the people on the trestle, Redmond said.
Most of the people on the trestle started running east and away from the train.
All of the victims were able to clear the trestle except for the fatal victim who was struck by a locomotive.
"All indications at this point are this is an accident," Redmond said.
The sheriff's office plans to talk with other witnesses to the accident who left the scene before deputies arrived.
New sci-fi movie to be filmed on SC coast
GEORGETOWN, S.C. — They will be setting up the lights and cameras for the action next month as a new science fiction movie films on the South Carolina coast.
The Sun News of Myrtle Beach reports the film "Isopod" will be shot in Georgetown.
City Administrator Chris Eldridge says it's an ecological disaster movie and location scouts came to town about three weeks ago to see what the city had to offer.
Link: http://www.thesunnews.com/
Eldridge says the scouts were looking for a coastal town and liked the Georgetown waterfront and the city's oak shrouded streets.
He says Barry Levinson, who won the Oscar for best director in 1989 for "Rain Man," will direct the film.
Lakemurraytimes.com was in on the casting for the Isopod Movie was very interesting to see what goes on to find just the right people, from walk on's to extras and beyond. Who knows maybe one of our staff will make the cut.
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Beware the alligator gar
By BO PETERSEN - postandcourier.com Buzz up!
The alligator gar might be uglier than the native longnose gar. It sure is a lot bigger. And it’s put a big scare into state wildlife managers.
A bow angler reportedly shot an alligator gar last month on Lake Wateree. The fish was 4 feet long and weighed in at 27 pounds — and that was nothing.
An alligator gar can grow as long as 10 feet and weigh 200 pounds, about the size and shape of the toothy reptile it closely resembles. It’s native to the Midwest; the lake north of Columbia is farther east than it’s ever been documented.
That almost certainly means somebody put it there.
The gar now joins a freshwater ecosystem full of invasive species — snails, crawfish, perch, Amazonian pacu and smallmouth buffalo fish — that are gobbling up space and food, and driving out native species. Each of them was brought into South Carolina by someone, as an aquarium pet or an ill-advised attempt to supplement local game “Just one more complication to our ecosystem,” said Scott Lamprecht, S.C. Natural Resources Department biologist. “It just creates an ecological disaster.”
It’s as easy as mail order, Lamprecht said. A 10-inch-long alligator gar can be bought online for $700, live delivery guaranteed. The surface-loitering fish are a prize kill for some bow fishers in the Mississippi Delta because they are big, thrash like an alligator and are enough of a novelty if not a delicacy to be served in some restaurants.
The native longnose gar found in coastal rivers can grow only about 5 feet long and weigh not much more than 20 pounds, according to a DNR website. It’s a skinny fish that looks as much like an eel as an alligator. Its roe is poisonous, and it’s rarely hunted for food.
Read more: http://www.thestate.com/2010/09/03/1446839/beware-the-alligator-gar.html#ixzz0yTJTBd2w
Monthly Event With a Metropolitan Feel.
An article by David Lee Jones
Lexington, South Carolina has its moments when it comes to entertainment, but when you look at it as a whole our town is experiencing growing pangs. We are in the unique position of having a growing populace caught up in a small town atmosphere. All one would need to do is look at the traffic congestion at any given time around town to see evidence of that.
But, with a growing population entertainment around town has failed much like the road infrastructure. Most nights there is not much to choose from within Lexington nightlife. You can drive to the vista in Columbia for a bit of diversity, but who wants to travel all of that way and face the law enforcement officials after having a few adult beverages?
My name is David Lee Jones and I have been a bartender in Lexington for nine years now and have experienced this first hand. I have been around town and experienced the club scene and found after frequenting the local watering holes a few times each they all tend to become humdrum and border on being boring.
Aside from bartender I happened to be fortunate enough to have published a book of short stories in May of last year. In June of 2009 I got together with Corey Castro of the Three Bean Net Café and he agreed to let me do a reading at his place for my book, Darkside of the Planet. I decided to bring my friend Eric Causey of the band Outside to provide some musical entertainment on his acoustic guitar between my stories. That brings me to the reason for writing this article.
I have been to book readings all over the Southeast. These have always been interesting but tend to become drawn out and long winded. I have also been to open mic jams around town and these too tend to tax the patience for their lack of variety. But, something dynamically entertaining happens when you mix music and literature together. They seem to complement one another in a way that is hard to express within words and can only be understood by attending this event in person.
What was born on that day back in June of last year grew exponentially each month and sadly we quickly outgrew the small confines of the coffee shop. It was hard to say goodbye to The Bean, but we had a bigger place already at our disposal. My boss, Danny Hunter offered us the back room at Wings and Ale of Lexington for our monthly event.
This event had personality and a very metropolitan feel to it in its untried nature here in the midlands. The name The Monthly Music Muse was decided upon to validate our experiment. Young Musicians the likes of John Yonge, Charlie McIver and Billy Johnson have played alongside more veteran guitarists including Eric Causey, Will Erickson and September. The last three Muses have featured the strong vocals of Al Pack and the very colorful and entertaining Frank Whaley.
Along with readings from my book of horror and science fiction stories, Darkside of the Planet, we are honored to have recently been joined by four time published author Fran Rizer. She has read from her Callie Parrish mystery novel series, a compelling storyline featuring a murder solving cosmetologist that works for a mortuary in the low country of South Carolina.
I invite you the reader to come join us on August 26th at Wings and Ale of Lexington to experience this one of a kind event. The Muse starts at 7pm and I guarantee you will be entertained with good music, good food and good friends. Also, I extend the invitation to all local authors and musicians to come utilize this forum to express your creativity. This is an open mic for all local talent, come participate in our great experiment.
LHS DAM SWIM FOR DREW
2 Mile Open Water Race
Saturday
SEPTEMBER 18, 2010
8:00 am Check In
8:45 am Pre-Race Announcements
9:00 am First Group Starts
Start: Irmo Boat Landing
Finish: Lexington SCE&G Beach
The Lexington High School Varsity & Junior Varsity Swim Teams are hosting the 12th Annual Dam Swim for Drew on Saturday, September 18th, 2010. This has become a national event with swimmers arriving from across the southeast to participate. The start will be from the Irmo boat landing near Hwy. 6 & 60~ a 2 mile open water swim across the lake in front of the towers to the SCE&G park on the Lexington side.
This event is to promote Water & Boating safety in the community and at the same time, raise monies to help finance an indoor swimming facility in Lexington in memory of Drew Smith. An indoor swimming facility could be used to teach children and adults throughout the community how to swim so they can be safe in the waters around the state.
The LHS Dam Swim has become a yearly event to honor the life and death of Drew Smith and to celebrate the difference this little boy has made to boating safety in South Carolina. Because of Drew, South Carolina now enforces the Boating Safety and Reform Act of 1999, known as Drew’s Law. This legislation raised the penalties for boating violations to equal that of similar highway violations, most notably that of death resulting from BUI (Boating under the Influence). Since Drew’s law went into affect, boating fatalities statewide have dropped.
USA and Masters Swimmers across the southeast have been invited to join the Lexington High School Swim Team in the Dam Swim for Drew. Assisting at the open water meet are volunteers from DNR, Lexington County Sheriff's Deputy Marine Task Force Task Force, Lake Murray Power Squadron, Columbia Fire & Rescue Squad, SeaTow, Columbia Sail Club, and numerous volunteers in stationary boats &, kayaks ~ all to ensure the swimmers safety.
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