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Faith in the Lord’s care

Posted by Laura Stone | October 21, 2018 7:00 pm

As a Clarendon County native, Mary Howard stepped happily into working with the Clarendon County 3 school district. First working with East Clarendon Middle/High School, Howard ended up working at Walker Gamble Elementary. Originally, she worked as a classroom aid, but was promoted to attendance clerk and then to class supervisor for remediation. Eventually Howard returned to school, earning a degree in family consumer science from South Carolina State, Orangeburg. Life took a different turn for Howard in August of 2012. During a routine mammogram, Howard’s doctors found cancer in her right breast. At the time, Howard was staying with… Read the rest

Faith in the healing power of prayer

Posted by Laura Stone | October 21, 2018 4:30 pm

Two-time cancer survivor Pat Fenters spends her time these days playing with her grandchildren and helping organize the Clarendon County Overcomers, a 501c organization dedicated to assisting those in the area who are fighting or who have overcome cancer. Raised in Georgetown, Fenters moved to Clarendon County in the early 1970s and has lived here ever since. For her, this is home. Although semi-retired now, Fenters spent many years working at the Bank of Clarendon and then at her husband’s State Farm insurance agency, where she was a service representative. She still goes in to the agency to do light… Read the rest

Leaning on God for Strength

Posted by Laura Stone | October 21, 2018 2:00 pm

“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. That’s my motto. Along with that, being positive, staying positive, that made my days go up,” said Cassie Nelson as she fights her second battle with breast cancer. Nelson grew up in Clarendon County and graduated from Scott’s Branch Middle/High School in 1978. After earning an associate’s degree at Williamsburg Tech in Kingstree, Nelson returned to Clarendon One district and worked as a part time substitute teacher. When an offer arrived from Aircap Industries, Nelson left the school system and went to work in the business sector. However, the job… Read the rest

Summerton Town Council

Posted by Laura Stone | October 21, 2018 11:30 am

SRC Executive Director Beth Phillips reads from a resolution which would allow the SRC to seek funding for Summerton projects.

During the October meeting for the Summerton Town Council, the Council held the second and final reading of the MASC Updated Setoff Debt Ordinance. This ordinance allows Summerton to hold a contract with the Municipal Association of South Carolina to pursue delinquent debt owed to Summerton. The MASC will charge a fee for this service and will pursue such debts through the SC Department of Revenue, as defined in the Setoff Debt Collection Act, S.C. Code Ann. § 12-56-10, et seq. Delinquent debt includes “collection costs, court costs, fines, penalties and interest which have accrued through contract, subrogation, tort or… Read the rest

The story of a Clarendon County sharecropper

Posted by Laura Stone | October 21, 2018 7:30 am

Clarendon County Council Chairman Dwight Stewart presents Jim McKnight with a plaque honoring his grandfather at McKnight's book signing in September.

Recently, the Harvin Clarendon County Library hosted a book signing for author Jim McKnight, who wrote a book about his grandfather, Willie Holliday, Sr. His book, My Story of a Sharecropper’s Life Lived in Three Centuries, can be checked out at the library. Holliday was born in Clarendon County in November 1893 to April Holliday and Sarah Jane Bowman Holliday. Attending school in Clarendon School District One, Holliday studied until third grade. While there, he developed a love of reading and found joy in reading his Bible and the newspaper. After growing up in Clarendon, Holliday became a sharecropper and… Read the rest

Manning City Council recognizes Farm to Table committee

Posted by Laura Stone | October 20, 2018 8:30 pm

Farm to Table Committee Members accept certificate from Mayor Julia Nelson.

The Manning City Council recognized the members of the Farm to Table committee at the October City Council meeting on Monday night. Several members were in attendance to receive the framed certificate. “It gives me a great deal of pleasure to express our sincere appreciation to the Farm to Table Committee for their time and dedication to Main Street Manning’s Annual Event, the Farm to Table Supper,” read Mayor Julia Nelson. “This committee, along with other volunteers, devoted over 210 hours to ensuring that the Farm to Table Supper was a memorable event. You went beyond the call of duty,… Read the rest

FINAL: Scott’s Branch

Posted by Laura Stone | October 20, 2018 6:59 pm

Scott’s Branch beat Cross 67-20.

OBITUARY: Linda Wilder Gamble

Posted by Laura Stone | October 20, 2018 6:57 pm

MANNING – Linda Wilder Gamble, 71, wife of William Richard “Willie” Gamble, died Saturday, October 20, 2018, at Lake Marion Nursing Facility. Born October 8, 1947, in Kingstree, she was a daughter of the late Olin Buford Wilder and the late Lucy Camlin Wilder. She was a member of the Lord Clarendon Cotillion and she was an avid Duke University basketball fan. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church at Manning. In addition to her husband, she is survived by two daughters, Susan Gamble Hartzog (Bobby) and Lucy Gamble Smith (Brian); two brothers, Robert Edgar Wilder, Sr. (Deana) and… Read the rest