USC graduate donates lunar maps he helped create for Apollo missions
Before Neil Armstrong placed his foot on the moon and made “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” on July 20, 1969, he and fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin had to know where to safely land their spacecraft.
Freeman family reunion set
The annual George Freeman family reunion will be held Aug. 4 in Patrick. The event begins at 1 p.m. at Turnage Ball Field, at the corner of Turnage and Cranford streets. Please bring food to share. For more information, call 843-498-6811 or 843-332-1773.
Florence-Darlington Technical College to host open house and orientation at The Continuum
Florence-Darlington Technical College (FDTC) will host its first Fall Open House and Orientation at its new Lake City location in The Continuum July 26. FDTC is scheduled to move into the new 46,000-square-foot facility in downtown Lake City this summer. The collaboration is due to a partnership between the college and The Darla Moore Foundation. FDTC will offer an array of classes, including HVAC, industrial maintenance, welding and...
Tips when booking vacation rentals
Vacation rentals are a relatively new yet popular addition to the travel market. Such rentals, which are typically homes, apartments or condos rented by private citizens via websites such as Airbnb, provide tourists with alternatives to hotels. The market research firm Technavio estimates the global vacation rental market will grow at a rate of 7 percent between 2017 and 2021. In the United Kingdom, data from the Smarthosts Vacation...
Southern rock royalty coming to the FMU PAC
The heirs of some of the most famous royalty in all of Southern rock are coming to the Francis Marion University Performing Arts Center this fall. Devon Allman and Duane Betts, the sons of Allman Brothers band leaders Gregg Allman and Dickey Betts, will bring the Allman Betts Band (ABB) to the PAC’s mainstage in downtown Florence on Thursday, Sept. 19. Tickets for the show are available online (www.fmupac.org), over the phone at...
Darlington teacher heads to Washington for C-SPAN’s Educators’ Conference
Trinity-Byrnes Collegiate School social studies teacher Tim Streit will attend one of two C-SPAN Educators’ Conferences designed to help educators fully exploit C-SPAN’s informational resources.