Fireball Run features local driver Corey Wallace
Racers from the Fireball Run Adventurally reality competition show really put the ‘drag’ in Darlington Dragway as they ventured into town Sept.30 for a challenge stage which required them to don drag clothing and makeup and pilot their cars down the quarter-mile track at the “House of Speed.”
Once in a thousand years
Rain from Hurricane Joaquin devastated much of South Carolina October 2 – 4, and damaged many areas of Darlington County.
Hometown boy makes good … coffee
The distinctive aroma of brewing coffee is like a siren song to many people, rousing them from bed and inspiring them to meet the day ahead, but the scent of green coffee beans roasting presents olfactory stimulation of a different magnitude. The coffee smell is foremost, but the air also contains traces of the bean’s origins – a sweetness like burnt sugar or cooked bananas, and a rich hit of dark, volcanic earth.
County gets primer on tax rollback
Before their regular meeting on Sep. 21, members of Darlington County Council heard a presentation from Sanford Houck of the South Carolina Department of Revenue about the tricky process of garnering data and calculating millage and tax rollbacks during reassessment years.
Church of the Week: First Baptist Church Darlington
“Regardless of who the architect was, we’ll all agree that the rectangular Georgian Revival building is stunning. Its symmetry, a typical sign of Georgian Architecture, can be seen on all sides. “
PEANUTS: Historic farm sees future in a versatile legume
Although tobacco hasn’t grown here since 2010, this fertile 3,500 acre spread still yields bumper crops of verdant turf grass, sorghum, soybeans, corn, and winter wheat, and, in recent years, has about 300 to 400 acres dedicated to South Carolina’s latest cash crop: peanuts.