The Columbia marching band got a fair amount of press this week when it was banned from playing at this weekend's season finale against Brown (the school's athletic department was offended by a parody song mocking the football teams dismal 0-9 record). But that was then! The school has backtracked and the band will now be allowed to play. Whew! more ›

Members of a marching band from South Carolina were still years from entering high school when the attacks of 9/11/01 occurred, but the band arrived in New York City this week to visit a Red Hook Engine and Ladder Company that received a replacement truck in 2002 purchased with funds raised by White Knoll Middle School students and the residents of Columbia, SC. Ladder 101 of Red Hook had its truck destroyed in the attacks and all seven of its members were killed when the towers came down. more ›