Ulmer News

Columbia College recently bestowed its highest honor, the Medallion award, on two academic leaders and on a woman who was named 2009 South Carolina Mother of the Year.

Brian Sheehan, the City of Charleston's first sustainability director, barely had time to unpack before heading out to a national conference for the nation's leaders in greening local governments.

Michael C. Riley Elementary School will hold its Riley Run Pep Rally on Nov. 6. The event is designed to teach students the importance of fitness, education and character.Students will be collecting pledges for their Riley Run.

In the world of politics, apologies for various slights, real or imagined, are generally pretty lame.

News, notes, clicks, and quips from around the web. In case you're an Anglican who's tired of all those gay and lady priests, Pope Benedict would love to welcome you into his flock .

Two South Carolina Republican officials have apologized for likening Sen. Jim DeMint to Jews who "take care of the pennies." Bamberg County GOP Chairman Edwin Merwin and Orangeburg County GOP Chairman James Ulmer wrote the Orangeburg Times and Democrat to defend DeMint, also a Republican, after a Democratic politician said he didn't help direct ...

Two Republican county chairmen from South Carolina invoked a Jewish stereotype about money management to defend U.S. Senator Jim DeMint , from charges that he had failed to obtain enough federal funding for his state.

With friends like these... Last week, State Senator Bakari Sellars wrote in The State that United States Senator Jim DeMint, R-S.C., had failed to do enough to get federal funding for the state.

Republican officials: DeMint is 'watching our nation's pennies' - like a Jew would.

For Veronica Roberts it has to be the biggest thing ever to come through Ulmer South Carolina.

Each portrait will be accompanied by outtakes from the photo session, in order to engage the viewer in the process of "getting the jewel." a oeMost of the famous people that I have photographed have been enormously generous and candid, making my short time with them quite rewarding.

Marie Spires Hightower, 86, of Denmark died Wednesday, August 5, 2009, in the Regional Medical Center in Orangeburg.

Marie Spires Hightower, 86, of Denmark died Wednesday, August 5, 2009, in the Regional Medical Center in Orangeburg.

Funeral services for Lee Ozdelle Fogle, Sr., 70, of Elgin, will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, August 8, 2009, at North Columbia Baptist Church with burial to follow in Green Haven Cemetery.

Henry Edwin Ulmer, 57, of Morley died Monday, May 18, 2009, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.

Every year for the last four years, Hestelle Woodbury Women's Missionary Society of Grace Chapel AME Church of Beaufort has honored women who have made a significant difference in the lives of others and their communities.