Pride of Darlington Award: The Dickerson Family
The Darlington Downtown Revitalization Association (DDRA) residential “Pride of Darlington” award, presented quarterly to local homeowners in recognition of their efforts to maintain or improve their properties, was last week planted on the Dickerson Family’s front lawn on South Ervin Street. Julian and Kelley Dickerson have lived in their 1925-built house for 26 years, raising their family on this quiet street and building little...
Society Hill votes on grant anticipation note for depot
By Jana E. Pye, Editor, editor@newsandpress.net The Society Hill Town Council held a special called meeting on April 2 to discuss the grant anticipation note for the historic train depot restoration project. Council voted to allow Mayor Tommy Bradshaw to sign a grant anticipation/construction/short term loan needed for cash flow purposes to complete the project. After paying, the DOT will reimburse the town up to the grant amount of...
Touch-A-Truck to draw hundreds of children and families to the track
The Junior League of Florence (JLF) is preparing for hundreds of children and families to attend its Touch-A-Truck event on Saturday, April 25 from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. at the Darlington Raceway located at 1301 Harry Byrd Hwy. For the first time ever, JLF is hosting the Touch-A-Truck event for children of all ages. Attendees will get to explore, climb, touch and crawl through trucks ranging from big rigs to emergency vehicles for an...
Why we walk:
A survivor shares the importance of the Relay for Life of Darlington County By Jana E. Pye, Editor, editor@newsandpress.net “When I was diagnosed with breast cancer, I was in a panic,” said Frances J. McElveen, 21 year survivor and Team Caption of Relay for Life of Darlington County. “And years later, my husband was diagnosed with lung cancer. I can tell you first hand how helpful the American Cancer Society (ACA) was to me and my...
Kiwanis turns 100 Darlington Kiwanis Club celebrates centennial of national club
Kiwanis International celebrates its 100th Anniversary in 2015, and clubs around the country are observing the centennial with special events featuring remembrances of their own local club history. Darlington Kiwanis Club honored the organization’s national and local past on Jan. 29 with a luncheon at the Darlington Country Club featuring an address from South Carolina Kiwanis governor Gary Cooper.
Arsenic at Robinson Plant ash basin raises alarms
As Duke Energy continues planning the closure of its coal ash basin at the H.B. Robinson Plant north of Hartsville, regulators from South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SC DHEC) and attorneys with the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), a non-profit based in Chapel Hill, are calling for Duke to clean up dangerous levels of arsenic in the ash pond.