Darlington Middle School hosts Cheer Camp
More than a dozen young ladies spent their week at the Darlington Middle School Cheer Camp having fun and learning some new skills. Cheer coach Tammy Capers said that the camp was for young ladies ages 6 -12; the youngest ones at the camp were eight-years-old. Several girls currently on the middle school cheer squad came to the camp to help. “They worked on cheer motions, high v’s, low v’s,” Caper said. “These are the motions they...
Darlington County School District Bookmobile revs up summer reading
By Samantha Lyles, slyles@newsandpress.net The Darlington County School District and the TEACH Foundation are teaming up to keep student’s summer reading habits in high gear by hitting the Hartsville streets in the Bookmobile, an activity bus loaded with fun and educational books to suit every young reader. “There’s a huge variety, from fiction to non-fiction, on all sorts of levels. Anything that they would want to read...
Art Summer puts Darlington County kids center stage
For 28 years, the Darlington County School District’s Art Summer program has provided gifted and talented students with expert instruction, focused attention, and a chance to feel the thrill of staging a performance for a live audience.
FMU recognizes outstanding staff service, announces administrative changes
FLORENCE – Francis Marion University honored four employees with special awards at its annual Staff Awards Luncheon Thursday, June, 22 on campus. T. Lang Beaty was the recipient of the John J. Kispert Leadership Award, and Katherine Barnette received the Marvin Lynch Humanitarian Award. Linda Sullen and Sharolyn Robinson were named winners of the university’s two Outstanding Staff awards. Employees of FMU are responsible for...
Backyard Stargazer for July 2017
By Francis Parnell Summer is officially underway; let’s see “what’s up” for July. At dusk on the 1st, the waxing gibbous Moon forms a broad triangle with bright yellow Jupiter and blue-white “SPICA”, the brightest star in Virgo, in the southwest. At 4 p.m. on July the 3rd, Earth reaches “Aphelion”, its farthest distance from the Sun this year at 94,505,901 million miles. “Dog...
God will never forget or forsake you
Have you ever known someone who was even-tempered and composed even when circumstances seemed to be falling apart all around them?