During a pandemic, cleanliness is next to healthiness
By Samantha Lyles slyles@newsandpress.net While most of America practices social distancing and #stayathome remains the rule of the day, we’re relying more and more on take-out food and online shopping. But do these alternative dining and shopping routines carry a risk of COVID-19 infection? What if someone at the restaurant or delivery service was sick? Does that mean our Amazon packages or take-out containers are contaminated?...
How serious are you about avoiding the coronavirus?
By Richard C. Culyer III Yes, I know you will likely give a positive answer to the question. But are you serious enough to take the necessary steps for you and yours? Read on and decide. First, let’s make some safe assumptions. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that the coronavirus may be with us through July or August. In other words, we are not talking about a short-term change in lifestyles. Second,...
As filing ends, 2020 races come into focus
By Bobby Bryant Editor editor@newsandpress.net The June primaries may wind up getting pushed back as the coronavirus crisis threatens to derail America’s election schedules, but whenever the local primaries take place, now we know who’ll be running in them. The deadline for filing to run in the primaries was March 30. The list of candidates contains a few surprises and the prospect of some tough battles, but it’s mostly good news for...
Henry Arthur
DARLINGTON — Funeral services for Henry Arthur of Darlington were March 16, 2020, in the Washington & Charlotte C. Jordan Memorial Chapel of Jordan Funeral Home Inc. Interment followed in Florence National Cemetery with military honors directed by Jordan Funeral Home Inc. The family received friends at the residence, 107 Sparks St., Darlington.
McMaster orders ‘non-essential’ businesses closed
By Bobby Bryant Editor editor@newsandpress.net Darlington County residents will be saying goodbye to nightclubs, Bingo halls, commercial gyms, spas, swimming pools, barber shops, hair salons, tanning salons and tattoo parlors for a while under a new order from S.C. Gov. Henry McMaster. McMaster, in another executive order intended to combat the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, on March 31 ordered the closing of all “non-essential...