FMU recognizes outstanding staff service, announces administrative changes
FLORENCE – Francis Marion University honored four employees with special awards at its annual Staff Awards Luncheon Thursday, June, 22 on campus. T. Lang Beaty was the recipient of the John J. Kispert Leadership Award, and Katherine Barnette received the Marvin Lynch Humanitarian Award. Linda Sullen and Sharolyn Robinson were named winners of the university’s two Outstanding Staff awards. Employees of FMU are responsible for...
Duke Energy continues support of FMU, Pee Dee educators
FLORENCE – Duke Energy is continuing its support of education throughout the region with a $50,000 grant to Francis Marion University to promote the teaching profession. The funds from the Duke Energy Foundation will be directed to 20 FMU upperclassmen enrolled in FMU’s School of Education and who are expected to teach in schools in the Pee Dee. Training teachers to work in the Pee Dee region and other underserved areas is a...
Backyard Stargazer for July 2017
By Francis Parnell Summer is officially underway; let’s see “what’s up” for July. At dusk on the 1st, the waxing gibbous Moon forms a broad triangle with bright yellow Jupiter and blue-white “SPICA”, the brightest star in Virgo, in the southwest. At 4 p.m. on July the 3rd, Earth reaches “Aphelion”, its farthest distance from the Sun this year at 94,505,901 million miles. “Dog...
Hartsville Chamber seeks nominations for Woman of Achievement award
The Greater Hartsville Chamber of Commerce is seeking nominations for the 2017 Woman of Achievement award to be presented during its first Women’s Leadership Symposium on September 8. In its 21st year, the Woman of Achievement Award is bestowed upon women who have made contributions to their profession and the community of Hartsville. “Recipients of the Hartsville Chamber’s Woman of Achievement award are women I respect and admire....
Special Victims Unit Arrests Man for Indecent Exposure
Darlington County Sheriff’s Special Victims Unit has charged a Hartsville man with five counts of indecent exposure for incidents dating back to April of 2016. Special Victims Unit Investigators allege that on April 19 and April 21 of 2016 and January 20 and June 14 of 2017 Stephen John Klausmeier, 60, of Hartsville exposed his genitals to five separate female victims at various businesses in and around Hartsville. Klausmeier...