Hartsville aims to stay in the present and work toward the future in 2017
By Drake Horton, Contributing Writer Last year was a really good year for the Hartsville Red Foxes; it just was not quite great. Hartsville won the region and won the lower-state championship. The Red Foxes did not, however, win the state championship. That honor went to the South Pointe Stallions, who also beat the Red Foxes for the state championship back in 2014. For some teams, the disappointment of coming up short after...
Lamar shoots for third straight state title appearance
By Drake Horton, Contributing Writer Lamar will be on the cusp of program history when it kicks off the 2017 football season. Trying to do something that has not happend in the program since a three-year run between 2002 and 2004, the Silver Foxes take aim this year to make it to their third straight state championship game. Back during that run head coach J.R. Boyd had Lamar built into one of the best teams in the state regardless...
Once a Red Fox, always a Red Fox
By Drake Horton, Contributing Writer The career of a true, to the core Red Fox is coming to a close at the end of this school year. As Hartsville athletic director Phyllis Griggs enters her 39 year as an employee with the Darlington County School District the once young girl that graduated from Hartsville High School in 1975 is set to retire as the most successful and decorated athletic director in school history. A graduate of both...
Linda Weatherford named Woman of Achievement
Linda Weatherford has been named the 2017 Woman of Achievement by the Greater Hartsville Chamber of Commerce. Weatherford became SPC Credit Union’s first female CEO in January of 2016. Prior to CEO, she served as the Director of Marketing and Business Development for SPC for 12 years. Since 1987, she has worked for credit unions in leadership roles, and has been an advocate for the credit union movement, promoting the philosophy of...
Teachers attend professional development day to prepare for new school year
By Melissa Rollins, Editor, editor@newsandpress.net Gone are the days when a teacher prepared for class by simply cleaning and decorating their classrooms with encouraging and engaging posters and making lesson plans. Today’s teachers are preparing by catching up with the latest technology, bridging the gap between the classrooms they learned in and the ones their students are entering. Last week, teachers from all across Darlington...