http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/south-carolina/marion/ Marion, SC News http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/south-carolina/marion/content/5cb2a7aaf2b0e6cbabe58be2c9b65331.html The state8217;s environmental protection board agreed Thursday to hear arguments against a coalfired power plant that would discharge mercury carbon dioxide and other pollutants into the air along the Great Pee Dee RiverpDepartment of Health and Environmental Control board members said they can8217;t ignore the controversy over the power plant proposed for Florence County The board will hold an appeal hearing next month for an air emissions permitp8220;This is a matter of concern to the citizens of this state8221; DHEC board member Edwin Cooper said 8220;It would be impossible for us not to consider8221;pIn December conservation groups challenged the air permit DHEC staff members issued for the 22 billion project They said the staff illegally awarded the permit to the stateowned Santee Cooper utility and asked DHEC8217;s board to hear them outpSantee Cooper and some of the state8217;s most influential business groups say the coal plant must be built to maintain adequate power and attract more industry to the jobstarved Pee Dee region of eastern South Carolina The plant itself will produce about 100 permanent jobs as well as about 1400 positions during construction http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/south-carolina/marion/content/ba8bb5b9e350824d966c03c9b3a7c7a8.html strongJerry Marion Chapmanstrong 415 Lynn Ln Salem Booking Date: 1709 4:40 am Age: 30 Agency: Oconee County Sheriff Office Charge Date: 1709 Charge: public disorderly conduct http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/south-carolina/marion/content/3ba819793219d9f09fe3ad4f1456659d.html Last week dozens of folks walked out of the College of CharlestonDavidson game only to find more disappointment waiting on their windshields: 25 parking tickets courtesy of the cityThat night Charleston did better in the paint than the Cougars: 46 citations in Ansonborough alone nearly twice their usual take in the areaIt was no surprise to the people who noticed the parking enforcement officers affectionately called Parking Nazis by some locals lurking on downtown streets just before game time http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/south-carolina/marion/content/98afb1022b66bfe032d27fbf8607823a.html State lawmakers are bracing for a fight over budget cuts and future funding for tourism when they return for the next legislative session Tuesday the day one notable economy measure will first take effect http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/south-carolina/marion/content/7b5cc9eee636896f63d985c3c4bd4d8c.html Balancing faith during the mourning in the death of a loved one leads me to conclude we share the inheritance of loss http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/south-carolina/marion/content/ab0c326a8c2b8ff48fbbee3fd56b6c2b.html Members of the McNair Center Advisory Council will be on the campus of Francis Marion University beginning at 9:30 am Friday to conduct interviews for the selection of two students to participate in the McNair Scholars Program http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/south-carolina/marion/content/ea6aa100698539e8a420960668b27f9d.html Hospital recounts 2008 blessings; and a Gresham writer is unhappy about carcasses check out these letters http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/south-carolina/marion/content/3c0bdf7a9f66614fc40ccc9ff246f25a.html Francis Marion University8217;s School of Business is expanding with the unveiling of its new Center for Entrepreneurship The unveiling will take place at 2:30 pm Jan 21 in Thomason Auditorium in the Lee Nursing Building on the FMU campus