Local groups collect over 23,000 boxes through Operation Christmas Child
Volunteers from the Pee Dee SC Area Team are celebrating the collection of 23,550 gift-filled shoeboxes through Operation Christmas Child that will remind children around the world they are loved and not forgotten. The Pee Dee SC Area Team is now thanking the Darlington community for their generous contributions already on their way to children in need worldwide. For many of these children, the shoebox gift will be the first gift they...
Darlington County Young Farmer recognized
Ty Woodard, Darlington County Farm Bureau Young Farmers & Ranchers Committee member, received a special achievement award on behalf of Darlington County from SCFB State Young Farmers and Ranchers Leadership Committee Chair Davis Peeler during the organization’s 74th Annual Meeting held recently in Myrtle Beach. Darlington County Farm Bureau was recognized for having one of the top Farm Bureau Young Farmers and Ranchers...
Dancing with the Stars of Darlington County: Meet the Dancers
It’s almost time again to hit the dance floor. Dancing With the Stars of Darlington County, an annual charity event benefiting the Pee Dee Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Assault, will be staged once again at the Center Theater in Hartsville. The event will take place January 25, 2018. The reveal party September 27 at the Beasley Farm introduced this year’s crop of personalities and professionals who will...
Darlington native promoted to Army brigadier general
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Almost 30 years ago an Army battalion commander told a young second lieutenant from Darlington, South Carolina, he would make sure she would never be promoted to first lieutenant because women had no place in the Army. “I said, ‘Sir I’ll be here when you retire.’ And low and behold, I was there shaking his hand and saying thank you for your service, when he retired,” said Twanda (Williamson) Young....
Francis Marion’s Phi Alpha Theta chapter named country’s best
One of Francis Marion University’s most decorated honor societies, the Phi Alpha Theta History honors society, has won yet another national award. The FMU chapter of Phi Alpha Theta – Alpha Theta Zeta – has become the honor society’s most lauded chapter in recent years and it recently added two more awards: the Nels Claven Founders Award for best overall chapter in the nation and the National Best Chapter Award for its...
Trinity-Byrnes student recognized for hitting monumental point
Trinity-Byrnes Collegiate School basketball player Ayshia Scott was recently recognized for scoring her 1,000th point! Photo Contributed