| High Interest (The Hendersonville Times-News) |
| Toby Jones, owner of Toby's Mattress Super Store, 1404 Spartanburg Highway, Hendersonville, has been recognized for excellence in advertising. The 29th annual Telly Awards, honoring outstanding local, regional and cable television commercials and programs, has recognized Jones' cable advertising in the mattress store's television commercials. The... |
| 11/21/2008 |
| Around the State: College Football (The Post and Courier) |
| Find breaking news, real estate, cars, homes, jobs, business, sports, movies, travel, books, jobs, education. Charleston.Net is the premier website for The Post and Courier newspaper in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. |
| 11/21/2008 |
| DHEC fuel tank cleanup program falls short (The State) |
| The state’s environmental agency has known for years that leaking fuel tanks are the culprit in 80 percent of the polluted groundwater cases across South Carolina. But the agency consistently has failed to make cleaning up the mess a budget priority — in a state where one in four residents drinks from a well, records show. Only once since 1997 has the state Department of Health and Environmental ... |
| 11/20/2008 |
| How DHEC's oversight of coal plants fell short (The State) |
| The Department of Health and Environmental Control says it can be trusted to oversee a $2.2 billion coal-fired electric power plant Santee Cooper wants to build in Florence County. But the agency’s past difficulties overseeing Santee Cooper’s coal plants have raised loud objections from conservationists and some doctors about whether DHEC would be a good a watchdog for health and the environment ... |
| 11/18/2008 |
| DHEC under fire (The State) |
| EXCLUSIVE Imagine a state agency that helps developers build in fragile areas close to the ocean — at taxpayer expense. Imagine an agency that oversees homes for the disabled in which at least three people have died from neglect in two years. Imagine an agency posting one of the nation’s worst records for cleaning up leaks from underground gasoline tanks — in a state where more than a quarter ... |
| 11/15/2008 |
| ABOUT DHEC (The State) |
| The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control was formed in 1973 after several years of controversy over which of two state agencies could better protect the environment. In the end, the Legislature decided to merge the former State Health Department with the state Pollution Control Authority. The PCA had been under the health department until legislators split the agencies in 1970. ... |
| 11/15/2008 |
| List of South Carolina’s fastest-growing companies released (The State) |
| A start-up company in Duncan that grew to 180 employees this year from four has been named the fastest-growing company in South Carolina, according to Upstate accounting firm Elliott Davis. The 2AM Group, an automotive manufacturing company, took top honors in the S.C.’s Fastest-Growing Companies 2008 competition. Midlands-area businesses that made the Top 25 list include Arnold Construction in ... |
| 11/13/2008 |
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