Local churches partner to host Hope For Life event
This month, Pee Dee area residents will have an opportunity to hear encouraging messages about “HOPE FOR (a better) LIFE”. The three-day event will be held at the Florence Civic Center, beginning at 7 p.m. Oct. 17–19,and is co-hosted by eight different regional congregations of the Churches of Christ. Steve Ridgell, director of the HOPE FOR LIFE ministry from Abilene, TX will be the featured speaker. Each evening’s lesson will...
Stephens-Black Engagement
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Stephens of Darlington are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Amy Elizabeth Stephens, to Timothy Burnette Black, son of Mr. Burnette Black and the late Mrs. Shirley Black of Barnwell, South Carolina. The bride-elect is the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Wade Flowers of Darlington and the late Mr. and Mrs. Marley Stephens of Lumberton, North Carolina. She is a graduate of James F. Byrnes...
Blanding Drive area shooting update
Darlington County Sheriff’s Investigators continue to investigate a shooting that occurred on October 2 in the area of Blanding Drive. A search warrant was issued to search the victim’s vehicle. Investigators recovered approximately 18.5 grams of cocaine and a handgun from inside the vehicle. On October 12, Investigators took Zaries Kenyatta Huggins, 41, of Hartsville, into custody. Huggins has been charged with...
Mother arrested in Folly Rd. shooting death
The Darlington County Sheriff’s Special Victims Unit has arrested and charged Beth Lynn Sherlock, 34, of Hartsville with allowing infliction of great bodily injury upon a child and two counts of unlawful neglect of a child. Sherlock is the mother of the five year old child killed in a shooting that occurred at a residence on Folly Rd. in the Hartsville area of Darlington County on the morning of September 15. Rodney Thomas...
Smithsonian exhibit opens in Hartsville
After months of planning ‘The Way We Worked’, a traveling Smithsonian exhibit opened Oct. 5 at Black Creek Arts Council in Hartsville.