Complete listing of Fourth of July events held throughout South Carolina. Independence Day festivities will take place in Spartanburg, Greenville, Greer, Summerville, Lexington, Mount Pleasant, and Murrells Inlet.

got to see Spartanburg’s “Red, White and Boom” in person this past Friday (June 26).

What a great night!

My wife and I returned from a beach vacation in time to take in the City of Spartanburg’s official Fourth of July celebration for the first time.

    To his liberal adversaries, Jesse Helms was a pain in the rear.

    But I will remember him as a historic figure in my home state and the epitome of the American Dream.

    The son of Monroe, North Carolina’s police and fire chief (Jesse Helms, Sr. held both offices) rose from modest beginnings to become a conservative commentator recognized from the mountains to the coast, and then for 30 years, a United States Senator from N.C.