Living on the West End: Worship time!
Editor’s note: This is a reprint of a Bill Shepard column that was published last year. By Bill Shepard When my dad moved with his family to the mill village in Darlington in 1922, there were no churches on the mill village where he lived. It would be 10 years before a small group of worshipers would come together and organize a church and erect a small church building on Phillips Street in Darlington. That church, known as The Church...
Deputies investigate slaying near Lamar
Darlington County sheriff’s deputies are investigating a homicide on Old Timers Court near Lamar last week. Deputies were dispatched to a residence around 5:45 p.m. Thursday and found one person dead inside. The victim was identified as Willie Ray Jackson. If you have any information, you are asked to contact Darlington County sheriff’s investigators at (843)398-4920 or Crime Stoppers of the Pee Dee at 1-888-CRIME-SC or visit...
Investigators arrest Myrtle Beach resident in recent burglaries
Darlington County Sheriff Tony Chavis says sheriff’s investigators have arrested a Myrtle Beach man after an investigation into multiple burglaries in the East McIver Road area. Brantley Benjamin Corbin, 42, of Myrtle Beach, is charged with burglary, first degree, burglary, second degree, and two counts of petit larceny. Investigators allege Corbin burglarized two residences April 1 on Arin Street and Sally Circle, stealing various...
Local emergency coronavirus orders threatening constitutional rights?
By Rick Brundrett The Nerve When Columbia city leaders imposed a curfew in response to the coronavirus outbreak, they required residents in most cases – under the threat of possible jail time – to isolate themselves in their homes between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. In justifying the curfew, Mayor Steve Benjamin told a WIS-TV reporter on camera, “We started seeing some reports of even if the restaurants and bars might be shut down by the...
Florence Composite Squadron Civil Air Patrol cadet receives award
The Florence Composite Squadron Civil Air Patrol announced the promotion of Cadet Benjamin Petereit of Darlington to the officer rank of 2nd lieutenant. Petereit has also received the Billy Mitchell Award. Petereit is a senior in high school and is taking dual credits from Francis Marion University. He is also active in his church, Family Worship Center. A few of his responsibilities include being a member of the media/stage team and...
Minding your health during pandemic
By Samantha Lyles slyles@newsandpress.net We are living in strange times. The COVID-19 pandemic is causing widespread and prolonged stress for people around the world, and if you’re feeling the strain, you’re not alone. A new poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 7 in 10 Americans (72 percent) say their lives have been disrupted “a lot” or “some” by the coronavirus outbreak, and three-fourths of respondents say...