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Social Media Coordinator at ByFarr
Chesson Merritt
Chesson is a Columbia native that loves to share her passion about all things local through her writing and photography. She enjoys exploring the South, one craft brewery at a time, with her husband and daughter and running local 5k races. You can spot her behind the lens of a camera, cheering on Clemson, or biking around Kiawah Island. At ByFarr, she creates social media content and works with clients to tell their stories.
Looking for some holiday magic in Aiken this coming weekend? Look no further than Rose Hill!
We’re all making our lists, checking them twice, and ensuring that everyone we love is receiving a thoughtful, carefully selected gift from us this holiday season. It’s the time of year that has an abundance of opportunities to show our appreciation to the people that are most important to us.
NEARLY TWO DECADES AGO, dentistry brought together Doctors Robles and Velez in Chicago as Dr. Velez’s best friend—also a dentist!—introduced the two. Destiny had its place for them from the very start and the two have been married since 2004.
Three years ago, Executive Director of Aiken Senior Life Services, Aimee Hanna, and her family moved to South Carolina and, now, she finds herself very much at home, serving her community in a very altruistic way.
TUCKED INSIDE A LOVINGLY RESTORED COTTAGE on Laurens Street you’ll find Aiken’s newest—and only—neighborhood bottle shop, Cork and Cap. Specializing in wine, craft beer, and fine provisions to go, along with in- store tastings, Cork and Cap was a dream of husband and wife team Erin and James from their very first date over six years ago.
Learn about how Aiken Center for the Arts is providing art education and opportunities amidst the pandemic.
Learn more about our 2020 Social Mission Partner: Cumbee Center for Abused Persons.
Meet William Helfgott, a high school senior who is a certified beekeeper.
We are moving into the fall season and it’s a season of newness, a season of home, and a season of change.
Show your love for South Carolina, and for the hope and resiliency of our community with our Dum Spiro Spero t-shirts, stickers, and letterpressed cards and prints.
Nurses have always served a critically important role in caring for and keeping our community safe, but this spring, their profession was thrown into the spotlight as these men and women became the frontlines of fighting a global pandemic.
In 1931, just two years removed from the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and in the heart of the Great Depression, J.W. Yonce borrowed money from his father to plant 25 acres of peach trees on land 30 minutes up the road from Aiken in Johnston, South Carolina, having no idea just how much his orchard would grow over the years.