Tapp’s Outpost arts center moves to Five Points

Formerly known as Tapp’s Art Center, Tapp’s Outpost joins former Rosewood coffee shop The Local Buzz as the newest businesses to relocate to Five Points. Tapp’s Outpost new home is located at 713 Saluda Ave.

Columbia Metropolitan Airport surpasses passenger record

Airport officials said in a news release that 1,353,788 passengers traveled through the airport in 2019, an increase of more than 13% from 2018.

Professor honored for work with self-driving automobiles

A Clemson University automotive engineer who teaches students many of the skills they need for careers in robotics and self-driving cars is winning an award that recognizes him as one of the nation’s top young engineering educators. 

Pastides to be honored at regional competitiveness event

The former president of the University of South Carolina will receive the Vision Award from state entrepreneurial organization EngenuitySC during the Jan. 27 release of the sixth annual Midlands Regional Competitiveness Report.

Listening sessions for County Square proposal

The city of Greenville will conduct two “public listening sessions” to hear what residents think about a billion-dollar county plan for developing County Square. The project would put about 37 acres of county-owned land into a public-private development. The listening sessions are Jan. 14 and 16.

• Columbia College dance professor named artist-in-residence
• Event to provide Richland School District One job info
• Some stats on those Christmas trees we just took down

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