On Monday, a total eclipse of the sun will be visible in a roughly 70 mile wide swath — called the path of totality — crossing the entire contiguous United States.

The hardest thing I do every week is figuring out what to write about.

When I was a cub reporter on the Clemson football beat, covering the team was a wholly different process than it is now. When practice dismissed, you pretty much just grabbed James Davis, DeAndre McDaniel or whomever you needed, pulled them aside and got the quotes you needed for your story.

I hate computers! Sometimes. I do love my word processor — when it’s working properly, that is.

Nursery rhymes are so important to babies, toddlers and all preschool children that I am going to talk about it again in this month’s column.

Love wins. Even for immigrants.

Over the past two weeks or so, the sports staff has been working feverishly to bang out an eye-popping amount of content for the paper’s annual high school football preseason preview magazine, and I have to admit it’s been surreal to watch that process play out while watching from the proverbial sideline.

More than 98 years ago, Tamassee DAR School was founded to help children and struggling families in the southern Appalachian Mountains obtain an education.

Another debt ceiling fight is just around the corner.

The weekend is almost here and you are making your “to-do” list. One of the first chores you may tackle could be mowing your lawn.