Living on the West End: The 1930s
Editor’s note: This is a reprint of a Bill Shepard column published last year. By Bill Shepard The 1930s were trying years, not only in America, but around the world! Most of the world was trying to free itself from the stranglehold that the war had on them. World War I had ended in 1918. Wars are costly and wars end, but the cost of wars continues on! Presidents Coolidge and Harding had wrestled with America’s problems but with...
Backyard Stargazer: Venus takes center stage in April
By Francis Parnell Just before dawn on the 1st, catch a trio of planets in the southeastern sky. Red Mars and yellowish Saturn are 1 degree apart with bright Jupiter 6 degrees upper right of the pair. At sunset on the 3rd, a celestial event that happens in April every eight years takes place; there’s an extra star in the Pleiades (the Seven Sisters) the famous open star cluster in Taurus, the Bull. Dazzling Venus is very close...
Caution and caustic cleaning products go hand-in-hand
Keeping a home clean is no small task. All sorts of stains appear in homes every day, some harder to clean than others. And for each individual spill or accident that can dirty up a home, there seems to be a cleaning product tailor-made to address it. That can make choosing the right cleaning product more complicated than simply choosing the least expensive option. Cleaning products are not one and the same, and various consumer...
Schools closed 4 more weeks
By Bobby Bryant Editor editor@newsandpress.net It will be at least the end of April before Darlington County public schools open again. As the global coronavirus threat grows, S.C. Gov. Henry McMaster decided last week to extend his closure of all S.C. public schools past McMaster’s original end date of March 31. As the Darlington County School District faces another month of conducting classes by computer and organizing giveaways of...
Schedule for school district’s free meals
Darlington County School District (DCSD) has changed their “grab-and-go” food program for students to twice a week, while still providing a week’s worth of nutritional breakfast and lunch meals. The meals are available for pickup at locations across the county while county schools are closed because of the coronavirus threat. Any child 18 or younger can get drive-through, “grab-and-go” meal bags at more than 30 locations on Mondays...