Boys to men: Remembering the Rev. Jimmie Hardee
Todd Hardee sums up his father, Jimmie “Jim” Lawrence Hardee, like this: “He understood a horse, and he understood a boy.”
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Seeing light and colors in nature
We’ve all seen a green leaf, a red rose or a rainbow. Well … not really. Actually, colors don’t exist in nature. When we’re not looking, a leaf isn’t green, a rose isn’t red; they’re just blank. And a rainbow isn’t in the sky. Photons, those tiny electromagnetic objects, bring all of the information to our retinas, which is then relayed to the occipital lobe of our brain where all colors...
Federal funds will give Darlington three new police vehicles
The City of Darlington will receive $50,000 to buy three new police vehicles under a federal program that seeks to boost community infrastructure for people in rural towns across South Carolina.
Florence-Darlington Technical College walkway rebuild project has begun
Construction on Florence-Darlington Technical College’s (FDTC) 5000 Building walkway was to get underway Feb. 7.
Library plans 3rd Black Creek Literary Festival
The Darlington Library is hosting its third annual Black Creek Literary Festival this month.
Darlington County Library to host local author for Book Talk
On Feb. 22, at 4 p.m., the Darlington Library will be hosting author Olin Sansbury, chancellor emeritus of the University of South Carolina at Spartanburg and a Darlington native, to discuss his memoir “Joint Ventures,” which draws upon his life and reflects his view that “human existence is a web of joint ventures.”