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At a meeting scheduled for Monday, Nov. 9, the Fort Mill School Board is expected to discuss the possibility of making the popular “Alive at 25” safe driving class mandatory at the district's two high schools.
We began our campaigns with funds from the joint account. It was to be a brutal, low budget affair that left both sides a little ashamed.
The City of Tega Cay has every right to collect outstanding storm drain fees owed by more than 220 residents. For one thing, the money is used to maintain infrastructure needed to prevent flooding during heavy rain. Also important is the city's need to tap all available sources of revenue while it works toward a balanced budget and rebuilds its depleted fund balance.
The Army has changed drastically since the summer of 2002, when I left Fort Mill for West Point. When I showed up to the Academy, Sept. 11 had occurred nine months prior and the first forces had deployed to Afghanistan shortly after the attack. At West Point, most of the professors were military officers who had been in the Army since the early 1990s.
Before the 1500s, autumn was known as harvest. I don't remember that, it was way before my time. I always called this season fall, never even autumn.
More than a few readers are not aware that the history of the United States did not actually begin at Plymouth Rock in 1620. Why do history text books fall short to tell us that while the Pilgrims were under duress to preserve their small colony, Spanish towns were growing and thriving in Florida, the Southwest and Puerto Rico?