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The recent heavy rains soaked a few graves at Laurel Hill Cemetery . . .  but didn't deter some boaters from braving the high waters full of fast-moving debris. A new type of vanity plate?  Watch for this idea to catch on.

Columbus Day will be observed this coming Monday, October 14, but was traditionally observed on today's date, October 12.  Christopher Columbus has been hailed as the discoverer of the New World, but was in fact a ruthless, greedy entrepreneur who perpetrated genocide upon the indigenous peoples of North America. A website called The Oatmeal , which can be found HERE , has laid out in simple terms some of Columbus's most horrific and despicable crimes. Unfortunately, our hometown of Columbia was named for this mass murderer when Samuel Wright thought doing so would influence the US Congress to select it as the nation's capital. Here are two excerpts from The Oatmeal : Several groups have been working to have this holiday repealed and abolished, but considering our dysfunctional Congress's preoccupation with infighting and grandstanding, this goal seems elusive, at least for now. In the meantime, perhaps our borough council would consider ren...

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Rick Wiggins has been conducting an annual Symposium in Columbia for seven years about Columbia native son, Union Civil War General Thomas Welsh.  Each year, the event has drawn scores of Columbians and area residents interested in their local history.  This year's event is jointly sponsored by the Columbia Historic Preservation Society (CHiPS) and the Columbia Public Library and will take place at 1 p.m. on Saturday, October 19 at the Columbia Historic Preservation Society, 19-21 North Second Street. The program includes a visit by Capt. Henry A. Haines from Maytown (who served under Welsh in the 45th Regiment, and is portrayed by re-enactor Glenn Bachert), as well as the little-known story of the deployment of the 45th to the Sea Islands of South Carolina, where they encountered thousands of suddenly abandoned Island slaves (termed "contrabands" because they were not yet officially recognized as being free).  This story is particularly interesting because ...