State Superintendent of Education, Dr. Mick Zais, announced Tuesday evening at a privately funded celebration that Amy McAllister-Skinner was named the 2012/2013 South Carolina Teacher of the Year.  As part of the celebration, BMW Manufacturing, the event’s premier sponsor, handed the Johnsonville High School English teacher the keys to a 2012 Alpine White BMW X3 xDrive35i equipped with the M Sport package. 

“100 Years and Building: The Journey Continues” 

The Columbia Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Incorporated will celebrate its annual Founder’s Day and Awards Banquet on Saturday, February 18, 2012, at the Brookland Banquet & Conference Center 1066 Sunset Blvd., West Columbia, S.C.

A Chesterfield mother of seven children has been selected as the SC Mother of the Year 2012.  Miriam McLaurin Gulledge, who will be 77 on Thur., Jan. 26, will be feted by her family on Sunday in a double celebration as they gather to honor her also as a wonderful mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and wife.