Feature 2nd Quarter

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Kenny Davis dances with his fiancee Martha Ramsey to the music of Mark Roberts and Breeze at the Anderson Block Party Thursday. Nightcrawlers will perform at the concert series next week.

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Tim Williams, chief of the Cheddar Fire Station, and his son Jonathan Williams use the hose from one of the department's trucks to water a maple tree planted for arbor day Monday. A total of 10 trees were planted at the Cheddar and Friendship Fire Stations in observance of the day.

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Re-enactors Heather Kenney and her husband Thomas Mark enjoy the breeze as they take a tour boat to Fort Sumter.

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Hours from the bombardment of Fort Sumter re-enactors tensions run high as Mark Silas Tackitt, of Seattle, who is playing Major Robert Anderson, commander of Fort Sumter, had fort visitor Major Heros Von Borcke, who was dressed as Confederate sympathizer, tossed from the fort Monday April 11, 2011-- at musketpoint -- until he removed a Jefferson Davis button from his lapel.

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Hannah Bridgeman, 4, and her sister Ava, 1, were goofing off for their father's camera Friday during the Flowertown Festival in Summerville.

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Jennifer Mincey (left) and Deanna Tabor welcome visitors Wednesday to the Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon.

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USC's Peter Mooney, Michael Roth and Bryan Harper joke around with Mae Peters during a visit to the Children's Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, Wednesday, June 22, 2011.
She is the sister of Charlie Peters, of Omaha, who served as one of the bat boys during South Carolina’s victory against Virginia on Tuesday.

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Jessie Rearden prepares her arts and crafts booth, part of the Main Street Marketplace near the Columbia Museum of Art, Friday, May 13, 2011. Revitalization efforts continue on Main Street in downtown Columbia.

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A new interstate will tear through hundreds of acres of wetlands, including those along the scenic Little Pee Dee River. The area, home to an array of plants, animals and natural resources, is one of the state's most scenic, but is in the path of a road the tourism leaders and politcians say is desperately needed to boost the state's economy.

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Savannah Brown, 5, joyfully sings a song before bedtime next to a set of rollaway beds at Parkwood Baptist Church in Anderson.  Savannah clutches to a toy and a lamp in the twilight of day, where her homeless family stays for the night as part of a Family Promise program.  The family stays the night, but at 7 a.m., her father goes back to work and her mother tries to find a place to stay.  Health issues are a constant concern to the Brown family, as each family member has counted on Medicaid for different needs. 

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Jack Sequerth, 11, of Charleston reacts to eating shaved ice quickly while watching friends play tennis at the Wachovia Palmetto Championships in Belton.   Tennis players and visitors watching were seen drinking fluids and sitting in the shade at times to balance the high heat of 93-degrees.

Street performers Timothy March, left, Jessica Wilson and Chelsea Santulli perform tricks as part of the Republican Presidential Side Show in downtown Greenville Thursday evening. The Peace Center in Greenville hosted a GOP presidential debate.

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Friesian horse, "Nanko", watches as people ask questions about the horse at the South Carolina Upstate Equine Council first annual Horse Play in May Expo at the T. Ed Garrison Arena Saturday morning.

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Participants and handlers wait around the holding pens during sunset before the steer wrestling competition at River Oaks Arena in Ware Shoals at Saturday night's rodeo.

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Blue Ridge held its prom Saturday night at the Fluor Corporation in Greenville.

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Matt Barnes does a backflip during the Blue Ridge prom. Blue Ridge held its prom Saturday night at the Fluor Corporation in Greenville.

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Tricky and Carol Dickson make eyes at each other as Beth Harding laughs with other friends in the hot tub in the infield of Darlington Raceway during the Southern 500 on May 6, 2011.