2019 Darlington Clean-Up Day
The City of Darlington Beautification Board and Darlington Garden Club held the fall Clean Up Darlington Day from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, October 5, in preparation for the S.C. Sweet Potato Festival. Teams of volunteers painted parking space lines, freshened pine straw beds and plantings, picked up trash, and swept intersections to tidy up our town. Photos by Samantha Lyles
Event focuses on breast cancer awareness
A community-awareness event on the subject of breast cancer is planned for Oct. 31 in Darlington. The event begins at 10:30 a.m. at Darlington Recreation Center, 300 Sanders St., Darlington. Guest speakers will be Ginny Edwards of McLeod Health Breast Imaging, and Tracey O’Neil, McLeod Health nurse navigator. There will be door prizes and light refreshments. For more information call 843-229-6221.
DDRA presents Pride of Darlington award to homeowners Danny and Kimberly Purvis
Darlington Downtown Revitalization Association presented the residential Pride of Darlington award to homeowners Danny and Kimberly Purvis for their stylish revamp of a basic brick ranch home on Spring Street. “It was a blank slate,” Kimberly says of the home the family moved into six years ago. Improvement projects tackled by Danny, Kim and their son Dylan included a new olive green paintjob and black Bahama shutters to give the...
Fire District plans holiday fundraiser
The Darlington County Fire District is holding its first annual Santa’s Fall Festival fundraiser, set for Oct. 26 at the Darlington Raceway. The event, which runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., will feature carnival games, food and drink vendors, a silent auction, a raffle, bounce houses, slides, fire trucks and other first-responder vehicles and demonstrations of some of the services that the Fire District offers. The festival will also...
Filling one crack at a time: Key part of DOT’s plan to ‘fix’ S.C.’s bad roads
Although state transportation officials claim they are making serious progress in fixing South Carolina’s bad roads and bridges with gas-tax-hike money, their own numbers continue to tell a different story.
Community to clean up historic cemetery
The Darlington Memorial Cemetery Association has organized a Community Clean-Up Day beginning at 6:30 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 19, at the cemetery on D Avenue. Volunteers are asked to bring gloves, weed eaters, chain saws, lawnmowers, or trailers if they have any. Water, Gatorade and hot dogs will be provided. At the August Clean-Up, more than 50 volunteers worked well into the afternoon, cutting grass and removing debris. “We are...