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The Thursday, May 2, installment of Homegrown, the annual concert series benefitting The Sounds of Grace, a local musical nonprofit, was held at Sumter Opera House.
NEW ZION - Country recording group Sawyer Brown will be the featured entertainment at the 2024 Palmetto …
Zac Efron and Jeremy Allen White starring in the family wrestling dynasty in "The Iron Claw" and Brooke …
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With some help from artificial intelligence, country music star Randy Travis, celebrated for his timeless …
NEW YORK - There are two things to keep in mind while being burned alive for a movie scene. The first, …
Sumter Microbrew Festival is "far out" in every sense, except on the calendar -- it's a few days …
STAFF REPORT The Sumter Opera House, 21 N. Main St., is bringing back its Summer Movie Series on …
The return of "Hacks" and a new Jerry Seinfeld movie are some of the new television, movies, music …
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BALTIMORE (AP) — The cargo ship Dali experienced an electrical blackout about 10 hours before leaving the Port of Baltimore and yet again shortly before it slammed into the Francis Key Bridge …
PROSPERITY, S.C. — Despite the gloomy weather, Monday brought bright prospects for Patrick Walters , who leveraged the opportunity to inflict a straight-up South Carolina smackdown en …
Keyirra Tatyana Walker, 25, died Monday, May 13, 2024, at her home in Sumter. Born in Sumter on March 4, 1999, she was the daughter of Stacy Jett and Sharon Starling. The family will receive …
MANNING — Thomas G. Brewer Sr., 94, widower of Betty Dean Lynch Brewer, died Monday, May 13, 2024, at his home surrounded by his family. Born Sept. 4, 1929, in Manning, he was a son of the …
MANNING — Artrell H. Washington, 74, died Tuesday, May 14, 2024, at her residence, 907 Berry St., Manning. She was born Nov. 26, 1949, in Summerton, a daughter of the late Rev. Noisby and Lease …
Barbara Tibbs Hatfield, 82, of Lexington, passed away on Sunday, May 12, 2024. She was born in Sumter on Oct. 21, 1941, to Joe Willie and Zuline Coates Tibbs. Barbara served as the payroll …
Ernest Hopkins Sr., 86, widower of Dorothy Ballard Hopkins and son of the late Purdy Hopkins and Irene Johnson Hopkins, was born on Oct. 6, 1937, in Pinewood. He departed this life on Friday, May 10, …
GABLE — Curtis Cooper, 88, died Sunday, May 12, 2024, at Prisma Health Tuomey Hospital, Sumter. He was born Dec. 30, 1935, in Gable, a son of the late Eddie and Sara Wheeler Cooper. These …
DEAR ABBY: Our daughter-in-law is morally corrupt, egotistical and narcissistic. For almost a year she has been blatant about having an affair …
DEAR ABBY: I am a middle-aged gay man who has never had any serious relationships. A few months ago, I met a 22-year-old guy. He seemed really …
DEAR ABBY: I'm a 67-year-old father to a wonderful daughter. She has decided to stay with her boyfriend, who recently got out of jail for …
DEAR ABBY: My husband had an affair. I found out after seeing a motel charge on our bank account. I asked, and he confessed that it was with an …
Anastasia is a 2-year-old, tortoiseshell/tabby female Manx. She is housebroken and is quite gorgeous. Her coat is a brown, orange and black mottled tortoiseshell, and her temperament is super calm, …
Reflections revisits two pavilions once located at Second Mill (Sunset Lake) and Pocalla Springs. Webster's Dictionary defines a pavilion as a building or part of a building often partly opened and highly ornamented used for entertainment, exhibits …
Reflections revisits Morris College and discusses the opportunities it offered to Black children in the …
Reflections remembers one of the most important aspects of assisting and providing recreational and other …
Reflections remembers one of Sumter's most beautiful and upscale jewelry stores to open in the downtown …
This issue of Reflections takes a look at photos taken across the Sumter area through the decades.
Reflections recalls the movie "A Guy Named Joe" filmed in 1943 with various scenes being shot in …
Reflections celebrates Women's History Month by remembering the women who flew airplanes during …
Today's Reflections addresses the development of Sumter's most significant floral garden. H. C. …
This issue of Reflections recalls the life and work of John Julius Dargan. According to an article …
One day Satan, the old devil, will identify as God. 2 Thessalonians 2:4 (KJV) says concerning Satan (appearing as the antichrist after the …
Back when my son, Jimmy, was about 7 years old, he asked to go to his grandmother's house. We lived on Boulevard Road in Sumter, and Mama, …
Who knew that the party of John Kennedy and Bill Clinton would morph into the party that seems to be taking its lead narrative from a large …
I am amazed how the county's chairman and the city's mayor sleep at night while a large number of Sumter citizens are struggling to survive and …
Many thanks to Kathleen Kreklau for her letter concerning the disruptive protests on college campuses. It could not have been better said. Now, …
What is it that provokes us to action? Recently a horrible attack on police doing their job in Charlotte took the lives of four in the line of …