2 Darlington residents face drug charges
Two Darlington residents are facing drug charges after Darlington County sheriff’s deputies conducted a traffic stop on Timmonsville Highway Oct. 8. According to Darlington County Sheriff Tony Chavis, during the traffic stop, deputies received consent to search the vehicle and located approximately 40 grams of methamphetamine in a sock along with plastic baggies, a weight scale and money. The driver and a passenger were taken into...
Officials hold ribbon-cutting at Darlington Middle School for Research Courtyard
Officials held a ribbon-cutting Oct. 9 at Darlington Middle School for an agricultural and educational program called the Research Courtyard. It will allow sixth-grade students – and later students in higher grades — at Darlington Middle to learn the scientific method by growing food and plants in raised planters (built by Darlington County Institute of Technology students). The program is funded through a grant from Duke Energy...
S.C. dairymen get first glimpse of robotic milking system at Clemson
Dairymen are a hardy lot known for tending their herds through the worst weather and toughest conditions.
Tim Newman discusses construction progress of the new Darlington-area school
Tim Newman, superintendent of the Darlington County School District, discusses construction progress of the new Darlington-area school with Project Manager Thurmond Porter and DCSD Assistant Superintendent for Administration and Operations Larry Johnson. Newman recently toured construction sites of the three new elementary schools currently being built in the county. Construction is progressing well at all three locations in...
How USC inherited 143,000 comic books
Qiana Whitted sits engrossed by an issue of “The Vault of Horror,” a comic book published by EC Comics in the early 1950s.
Darlington residents gather for annual William G. “Billy” Farrow Day of Remembrance
Darlington residents gathered Sunday for the annual William G. “Billy” Farrow Day of Remembrance. Farrow was a Darlington native. In 1942, when he was 24, he volunteered to take part in the Doolittle Raid on Japan, a bombing run planned as retaliation for Pearl Harbor. He was executed after being captured. In a final letter to his mother, he wrote: “Don’t let this get you down. Just remember God will make everything right and that...