This weekend The Cooley Team will be in Baxter for the annual Baxter Fall Festival & Market Day!  Come out and register with  us, we are having two seperate drawings for $100 gift certificates to The Fish Market in Baxter.  Weather should be great!  We’ll look forward to seeing you there!

While the growth has been modest, banks are starting to make more loans again, The New York Times reports. Yet, the lending does tend to favor the strongest corporate and consumer borrowers, the article notes.  With more stringent underwriting criteria the last few years, many borrowers have expressed concern over the increasing trouble in qualifying for a loan today.  But “the narrative that banks aren’t lending is incorrect,” Timothy J. Sloan, Wells Fargo’s chief financial officer, told The New York …

CLEMSON, S.C. –  Clemson first-year offensive coordinator Chad Morris has already heard more than he wanted about the Tigers’ last trip to Virginia Tech. The miserable trek to Blacksburg in 2006 ended in a 24-7 rout by the Hokies. “That’s one of the things I keep hearing is how Clemson got hit in the mouth and ‘How quick can we get back to the bus?’” Morris said. “And that’s something I know coach (Dabo) Swinney’s going to talk to our …

COLUMBIA –  The South Carolina fan base might be wavering in its support of Stephen Garcia, but his coaches and teammates are still standing behind the embattled fifth-year senior quarterback. Garcia’s struggles with his accuracy this season have been well-chronicled, from the opener against East Carolina when he completed just 10 passes, to last week when he threw four interceptions against Vanderbilt. Garcia’s completion percentage has tumbled to 54.7 percent this season, and he has thrown more interceptions (7) than …