Miss Darlington and Miss Darlington Teen crowned
The St. John’s Elementary School auditorium was crowded Sunday, May 21 as two new winners were crowned in the Miss Darlington and Miss Darlington Teen Pageants. Returning after a five-year hiatus, 20 young ladies from across the region competed for the titles. Throughout the evening the ladies showcased their talent through dance and song, answered questions about a variety of topics, including religious tolerance and the legalization...
Mayo student creates his own business
High school is a time for discovering yourself and finding a path for your future. For Mayo High School junior Cade Cassidy, it has also been the perfect time to start a business. “I started working at the Army-Navy Store in Hartsville; it is a family-owned business,” Cassidy said. “I started moving everything in the store to online. I also really wanted to get the store more involved with the community so I was looking around online...
Writer Ron Rash’s archive finds new home at University of South Carolina
The personal archive of international best-selling writer and South Carolina native Ron Rash has found a new home at the University of South Carolina. The archive, which spans Rash’s life from boyhood to the present, details his career as a poet, short story writer and novelist and joins other contemporary American literature collections at the university’s Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections Library. Among Rash’s award-winning...
The Citadel graduates Class of 2017
CHARLESTON- The Citadel’s South Carolina Corps of Cadets received degrees on Saturday, May 6, 2017 in McAlister Field House. Members of The Citadel Class of 2017 were recognized for excellence in leadership, service and academics at commencement. Local graduates were: Gregory Pappas of Darlington graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. Russell Watkins of Hartsville graduated with a bachelor’s...
Sigmon-Kilgo Wedding
Mary Deane Sigmon and Robert Lawton Kilgo, III were married on May 20, 2017, a six o’clock in the evening at Darlington Presbyterian Church. The ceremony was performed by the Reverend Archie Rufus Bigelow, Jr., grandfather of the bride, and the Reverend Hunter Campbell Jordan. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Dean Sigmon Sr. of Darlington, SC. She is the granddaughter of the Reverend Archie Rufus Bigelow, Jr. of Irmo,...
Nation’s beekeepers are looking for answers to loss of bees in the hives
TRAVELERS REST— With every scoop of bees Brad Cavin pours gently into a cardboard box he brings science one step closer to unraveling the riddle of honey bee decline. At an apiary near the foot of the Blue Ridge, Cavin gathered samples of honey bees — live ones, dead ones, their unborn brood and the pollen the bees collect — as he has from hives all across the Palmetto State this spring. The samples, live bees included, will be mailed...