Just one great adventure
By Tom Poland On my way back I crossed Clarks Hill Lake twice. In soft early evening light, the water lay like a mirror. Smooth as glass, as we like to say. Shoreline reflections rendered perfect hourglass illusions. Water mirrors people. It’s moody and can present a calm face or gravity can anger it. Earlier I had watched water rage, funnel, twist and smash against rocks. Other rocks it glided over in glassy bell-shapes, smooth as...
Whittie Odell Weaver
Oct. 5, 1937-June 3, 2020 Whittie Weaver, 82, died Wednesday, June 3, 2020. Born in Darlington County, on Oct. 5, 1937, he was the son of the late Wiley Whittington and Oletha Stewart Weaver. He was married to Jean Miller for 57 years. Whittie had a 60-year career as a pharmacist. After graduating from the University of South Carolina, he received a Masters of Pharmacology from Ohio State University. He taught college students at both...
Fee increases pass City Council’s first vote
It wasn’t unanimous, but Darlington City Council last week took the first of two votes to raise fees on city services – increases expected to cost the typical household about $216 more per year.
A newspaper cured her Internet addiction
By Katy Byron Poynter Institute For the first time in my life, I am a print newspaper subscriber. I’m 36 years old. And when I confirmed my home delivery subscription to The Wall Street Journal earlier this month, it felt … so good. This is unusual for a couple of reasons. First, I am a third-generation journalist. My grandparents worked in radio and my dad wrote for various newspapers and print publications for over 40 years. Second,...
Peaceful march & rally held in Darlington
Several hundred people attended a peaceful march and rally Sunday in Darlington in memory of George Floyd, whose death at the hands of Minneapolis police has sparked hundreds of protests across the country. In speeches outside the Courthouse, Darlington County Sheriff Tony Chavis and City of Darlington Public Safety Director Kelvin Washington condemned the actions of the Minneapolis police.