Hardees plan ‘beautiful’ future for old Post Office
By Bobby Bryant Editor editor@newsandpress.net Why did the family of Darlington businessman Todd Hardee decide to buy the 105-year-old, 10,000-square-foot former Post Office building on Pearl Street? It was a combination of opportunity and duty, Hardee says. “Step up to the table,” says Hardee, who runs Kistler-Hardee Funeral Home and South of Pearl restaurant in addition to serving as county coroner. “We’re all going to have to chip...
‘Gun Sense’ group plans meeting
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America will hold its monthly meeting March 9 from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Hartsville Library, 147 W. College Ave. For more, contact Brenda Ferguson at Bferguson.sc@gmail.com or 843-339-1748.
New Providence UMC holds Appreciation Banquet
During 2018 and 2019, the New Providence United Methodist Church community held semi-formal banquets and is looking forward to a 2020 banquet. The Pastor Parish Relations Committee sponsored the 2018 appreciation banquet for Rev. Alfred Griffin. The Advocates for Change Committee sponsored the 2019 banquet honoring Darlington Police Chief Kelvin Washington. In horizontal photo, left to right: Kelvin Washington, Patricia Washington,...
The grandest slate of all
By Tom Poland Rocks preserve our feelings, record important things, and tell others that someone dear once walked this green Earth. To the dismay of some, rocks commemorate unjust wars but they’ve also elucidated and educated us. Teachers wrote on slate blackboards and students wrote on slate tablets in the famed little one-room red schoolhouse when penmanship mattered. Rocks give us a way to express emotions. I see boulders spray...
Miller named DCSD director of personnel
Chuck Miller has been appointed the Darlington County School District’s new director of personnel. Miller, who is currently the district’s director of Adult Education, is replacing C. Matthew Ferguson and will transition to his new role April 1. Ferguson recently became executive director of the South Carolina Education Oversight Committee. Education Superintendent Tim Newman described Miller as an excellent fit for the position. As...