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Between serving as the senior pastor at Owens Chapel Baptist Church and a teacher assistant and bus driver at Jefferson Middle School, Columbia native Antonio Johnson somehow still finds the energy to enjoy spending time with his four children and six grandchildren. | Photo by Danny O'Fallon

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By DANNY OFALLON - Publisher
Sun,09/05/21-9:00AM , 3,257 Reads
(This week The Columbian-Progress spotlights Antonio Johnson.)

Q: When and where were you born?
A: I was born on June 20, 1962 right here in Columbia, but delivered by a midwife named Cora Jackson.
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Book details Landrum's infiltration of the KKK
By DANNY OFALLON - Publisher
Fri,09/03/21-8:30PM , 1,839 Reads
Although it may sound like a fictional story straight out of Hollywood, a recently published book reveals the earlier life of a Columbia man who was recruited as an informant by the FBI in the 1960s to infiltrate and gather intelligence from the inner circles of a regional faction of the Ku Klux Klan.
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Rebecca Brown, standing, dean of workforce and community development at Pearl River Community College, was among a team of four workforce specialists from PRCC who presented a roster of available assistance programs on Wednesday to the Leadership Marion County class. The other PRCC team members are, seated from left, Cheryl Frierson, Ruby Smith and Angie Kothmann.

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PRCC offers local workforce development
By DANNY OFALLON
Wed,09/01/21-12:17PM , 1,123 Reads
To attract and successfully recruit new businesses and industries to a community, it all comes down to a simple matter of supply and demand, and many believe that advance research is crucial.
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Sims Harmon, a third grader at West Marion Primary School, logs-in to her second day of virtual learning class on Tuesday, after a Covid outbreak prompted a two-week transition period.Sims is the granddaughter of Sherrie Williams, District 2 board member for MCSD.

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WMP goes virtual for 2 weeks
By DANNY OFALLON
Wed,08/25/21-3:31PM , 2,946 Reads
The 344 students currently enrolled at West Marion Primary School are the first local group to be impacted by the recent onset of the delta variant of the coronavirus pandemic, as school officials made the decision Monday to transition the school to 14 days of virtual learning.
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