HHS hosts ASVAB training session for career specialists
Hartsville High School Career Specialist Sara Orlowski hosted a training session April 23 focused on interpreting scores for the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) test. Career specialists from around the Pee Dee and from the Santee region traveled to Hartsville to learn from Orlowski, who also serves as the president of the S.C. Career Development Professionals Division of the S.C. Association for Career and Technical...
Darlington Raceway continues ticket offer for South Carolina residents
If you’re a resident of South Carolina, Darlington Raceway has a great ticket opportunity for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Bojangles’ Southern 500 event on Sunday, September 2, 2018. Beginning on Thursday, May 17 through August 3, residents of South Carolina can visit www.DarlingtonRaceway.com/PalmettoOffer to take advantage of special in-state pricing for the Labor Day weekend race at the track Too Tough To Tame. South...
FBi Construction sets up scholarship fund, makes first four awards
FBi Construction, headquartered in Florence initiated a scholarship fund at Eastern Carolina Community Foundation to encourage people to seek a career in the construction industry late in 2017 to make inaugural awards in the spring of 2018. Applications were accepted from high schools, colleges and technical school applicants in all seven counties of the Pee Dee that the Community Foundation serves, plus Horry and Georgetown. Four...
The State Capital Report
The House of Representatives concurred in Senate amendments to H.3826 and enrolled the bill for ratification.
Spaulding Elementary School students win grand prize in National Reading Challenge
Epic!, a leading digital media brand for kids, challenged classrooms across the country to read a total of seven million books for Epic!’s Spring Into Reading Challenge from April 30th to May 4th. Classrooms read a total of 7,399,783 books in the five-day challenge, surpassing the goal. Every elementary school class that collectively read at least 50 books on Epic! during the challenge earned an exclusive Epic! Reading Challenge...
Local Student News
Brevard College announces Honor Roll for Spring 2018 BREVARD, N.C. – Brevard College is pleased to announce its Honor Roll for the spring semester of the 2017-2018 academic year. Matthew Lynch, of Hartsville, made the Honor Roll. Students who qualify for the Honor Roll must be enrolled in at least 12 semester hours and have a GPA of 3.0 to 3.49. Brevard College was founded in 1853 and is the longest ongoing private academic...