County teacher wins professional development scholarship
Darlington County School District teacher Kirby Register Hall has been selected as one of seven winners of the 2020 Dr. Elizabeth Gressette Professional Development Scholarship. The scholarship is sponsored by Palmetto State Teachers Association’s Foundation for Professional Development and is awarded annually to encourage and support PSTA members in pursuing advanced degrees. Applicants must be a PSTA member for at least three...
Journalist Faile, who covered Darlington County news for 35 years, dies at 62
From Staff Reports Veteran Pee Dee journalist Jim Faile, who worked for the News & Press for 14 years and most recently had been serving as acting editor of The Hartsville Messenger, died March 2. He was 62. Faile covered Darlington County news for the News & Press and the Messenger for 35 years. In November, educators honored him for 35 years of covering Darlington County schools. Funeral services for Faile were held March 5...
Governor, House want S.C. taxpayers to eat plenty of pork in fiscal ’21
By Rick Brundrett The Nerve Buried in the latest $32.3 billion state spending plan for next fiscal year is a $19 million expenditure for a proposed downtown Greenville convention center, and another $7.5 million to renovate the Sumter Opera House. The total $26.5 million – which is larger than the overall proposed fiscal 2020-21 budgets of at least 45 state agencies or divisions, including, for example, the Election Commission and...
Darlington’s American Legion hosts national commander
By Bobby Bryant, Editor, editor@newsandpress.net The national commander of the nearly 2 million-member American Legion stopped at Darlington’s American Legion Post 13 for a visit last Tuesday. “We’re just spreading the Legion message and trying to excite and enthuse the membership,” said Bill Oxford of Lenoir, N.C., who was named to the post last year. “Nationally, we’ve got over 13,000 Legion posts,” said Oxford. “This (Darlington’s...
CSU president to speak at Darlington First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church extends an invitation to the community to join the morning worship service at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, March 22, to hear guest speaker Dondi E. Costin, president of Charleston Southern University. Costin is a decorated military veteran with a passion for serving God, our country and now our country’s future by active involvement with shaping the next generations to come. Costin has a track record in key leadership...