County debuts new judicial center designs
Darlington County Council met Oct. 2 to review preliminary conceptual designs for a new $14 million judicial center.
2019 Darlington Clean-Up Day
The City of Darlington Beautification Board and Darlington Garden Club held the fall Clean Up Darlington Day from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, October 5, in preparation for the S.C. Sweet Potato Festival. Teams of volunteers painted parking space lines, freshened pine straw beds and plantings, picked up trash, and swept intersections to tidy up our town. Photos by Samantha Lyles
DDRA presents Pride of Darlington award to homeowners Danny and Kimberly Purvis
Darlington Downtown Revitalization Association presented the residential Pride of Darlington award to homeowners Danny and Kimberly Purvis for their stylish revamp of a basic brick ranch home on Spring Street. “It was a blank slate,” Kimberly says of the home the family moved into six years ago. Improvement projects tackled by Danny, Kim and their son Dylan included a new olive green paintjob and black Bahama shutters to give the...
‘Unbelievable’ blaze devastates family’s farm
A fire Sept. 21 tore through as many as nine barns full of tobacco at a Darlington County farm, causing an estimated $225,000 damage and painting the sky with smoke that could be seen for miles.
FDTC nursing programs getting healthy
After a spell of poor health, the prognosis for local nursing education seems to be improving, according to a presentation made at the Sept. 24 Florence-Darlington Technical College (FDTC) Board of Commissioners meeting.
