For seven years, the Camden audience has enjoyed the monologues actor and playwright Tony Scully brought to life at the Fine Arts Center (FAC) of Kershaw County.
Officials from Lugoff-Elgin Water Authority (L-EWA) attended a special meeting May 7 to discuss the viability of Fairfield County's water treatment facilities.
Since 1985, Emily McManus has been giving her time to KershawHealth, formerly the Kershaw County Medical Center. Even after health struggles of her own, she still volunteers every Tuesday in the Karesh Long-Term Care wing beauty parlor.
The Lugoff Fire District Board of Commissioners recently voted to enter into a capital lease purchase agreement -- not to exceed $980,000 -- to buy a new rescue pumper, a service truck and equipment to operate both vehicles.
Two well known faces will be spotted Saturday working to build a Habitat for Humanity home on Gordon St., Camden.
To celebrate the Habitat for Humanity of Kershaw County's 20th anniversary, the Habitat Store is holding a donation drive, as well as a "Rockin' and Rollin' Anniversary" event.
Elgin Mayor Brad Hanley called a special meeting Tuesday of Elgin Town Council in response to a YouTube video featuring Councilman Larry Risvold.
In honor of being in school for 100 days, the kindergarten and pre-K students at Camden First Baptist Church collected more than 300 pieces of food to donate to Christian Community Ministries. In total, 98 students and 18 teachers participated. In addition to the food collected at school, 5-year-old Abbygail Caulder celebrated a recent birthday and asked all her attendees to bring canned good instead of gifts for herself.
Both state and county voters crowned Newt Gingrich the winner of Saturday's South Carolina Republican primary.
The owner of Lugoff Ford and Lugoff Toyota, Mark Mason Sr., recently purchased a third dealership in the Lugoff community -- the Carolina Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram, located across from Lugoff Toyota on U.S. 1.
If Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, he'd be astonished at how far we've come in racial equality, said the Rev. Dr. Neal R. Jones during a King Day Celebration at Camden First United Methodist Church Monday.
For Mary Reynolds, having a stable home for her family to live in important. But for the single Camden mother, tough economic times made the task difficult. She works two jobs and is living with her daughter and two grandsons in an older house. Reynolds said her faith in God led her to apply last year to become an owner of a Habitat for Humanity house. "I was looking for a better house for us ...
Two weeks before Christmas, Mark Mason had an idea. He wanted to feed a hot meal to those in need on Christmas Eve. So he approached the owners of Hall's Restaurant in Lugoff to ask for help. At first he was told the restaurant wouldn't be open, but after the owners consulted with the employees of the restaurant, they agreed to come in for the good cause.
Roy Williams describes his life story in the past few months "like being in a Christmas movie."
Bags and boxes lined the offices and hallways at the Kershaw County Department of Social Services (DSS) last week -- the final week before Christmas.
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