Roger Mack Fortner

Funeral service for Roger Mack Fortner, 70, will be held Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. at Powers Funeral Home with burial to follow in Quaker Cemetery. The Rev. Buster Morris and the Rev. Joe Stines will officiate. The family will receive friends Wednesday 12:30-2:00 p.m. at Powers Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to Alzheimer's Foundation.

CHS baseball camp features Rays' reliever Kohn

Tampa Bay Rays relief pitcher and former Camden High School standout Michael Kohn will return home as the lead instructor for a one-day baseball camp on Sunday, Dec. 14 from 1 p.m. until 4 p.m. at American Legion Park in Camden.

Queen Elizabeth Clinton

Mrs. Queen Elizabeth Clinton, 85, of 604 Cooper Street, Camden, South Carolina, passed on Wednesday, November 26, 2014. Funeral services will be conducted today, December 1, 2014 at 11:00 AM at Canty Hill Baptist Church Cemetery. Nelson-Haile Funeral Home is in charge.

Norval Eash

Funeral service for Norval Eugene Eash, 78, was held on Sunday at 2:00 p.m. at Powers Funeral Home with burial following in Greenhaven Memorial Gardens, Elgin. The Rev. Gene Brown officiated. The family received friends Sunday 12:30-2:00 p.m. prior to the service at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society.

Ida Washington Graves

Mrs. Ida Washington Graves, 55, of Camden, entered into rest on Saturday, November 29, 2014 at her residence.

Larry Knox

Mr. Larry Knox, 43, of 63 Smokewood Dr., Elgin, South Carolina, passed on Wednesday, November 26, 2014. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, December 3, 2014 at 11:00 AM at Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church, Lugoff, SC with burial in Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery.

Charlie L. McLaughlin

Funeral service for Charlie L. McLaughlin, 82, was held on Sunday at 4:00 p.m. at Freedom Outreach Baptist Church with burial following in Cassatt Baptist Church Cemetery. The Rev. Trent McLaughlin and the Rev. Robert Ridley officiated. The family will receive friends Saturday 6-8 p.m. Powers Funeral Home, Lugoff. Memorials may be made to Freedom Outreach Baptist Church, 1113 Hwy 1 North, Cassatt, S.C. 29032.

Kay Phillips

Kay Richmond Gettys Phillips, 72, resident of 128 Mountain Shore Drive, widow of James Clyde Phillips, died November 26, 2014, at her home.

FAC presents Canine Classic for the Arts

The Fine Arts Center (FAC) of Kershaw County will hold a new fundraiser this year. The Canine Classic for the Arts will take place from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday at the Meeting Place in Cassatt. This fundraiser combines the community's love for arts, canine friends and its love of the hunt to help raise money for the arts in Kershaw County. Spectators and participants will be able to get to all areas of the event via golf carts and wagons. Parking will be available on site. All proceeds will benefit the FAC.

Camden native retires from Marine Corps

After 20 years of service, Gunnery Sgt. Michael E. Gladden retired from the United States Marine Corps on Nov. 26. GySgt. Gladden is the son of Glenda T. Gladden, of Camden.

Camden High newspaper receives recognition

Lugoff Elementary collects cans for Food for the Soul

This week in Kershaw County sports

Monday: Camden at Lakewood (BB – 6 p.m.);

Ariail for Dec. 1, 2014

Noted and passed - Dec. 1, 2014

• On Nov. 25, Walter Long and Willard Polk attended their last meeting as Camden City Council members. Both served Camden with distinction. In some ways, Long, first elected to council in 2006, began his political career a few years before when he began speaking out against the creation of mandatory historic neighborhood districts where all properties would be under the jurisdiction of the Camden Historic Landmarks Commission. While not everyone agreed with his stand on that issue, it proved he cared deeply about what happens here in Camden. That passion would play out as he brought forward several ideas -- some ...

River parcel input sessions June 19 and 21

Want to let Kershaw County know what you want for the new river parcel in Lugoff?

Area college students graduate, earn academic honors

Wofford College conferred 418 degrees on 394 graduates during the 2018 Commencement exercies on Sunday, May 20. Area students included:

Goodwin recognized as 2019 Superintendent of the Year

Chesterfield County School District Superintendent Dr. J. Harrison Goodwin is the 2019 South Carolina Superintendent of the Year. In addition, Richland School District Two'Chief ...

Stitchin’ ribbon cutting

Stephanie Lanford, owner of Stitchin' (center), cuts the ribbon on her new business on Broad Street. Celebrating with her (from left) are Kershaw County Chamber ...

Pets for adoption - June 12, 2018

Adoptions include spay/neuter, vaccines, heartworm test and prevention (dogs), leukemia test (cats), deworming, flea prevention and microchip (dogs).

Ariail - June 12, 2018

Editorial: New YMCA?

Is Kershaw County going to be the site of a new Columbia YMCA branch?

Fountain hosts one-day football camp at CHS

Former Camden High and Clemson University defensive end Maurice "Mo" Fountain will be hosting a one-day youth football camp at Camden High School on Saturday ...

Column: My dear Charles

WASHINGTON -- Charles Krauthammer, a man who has beaten unbelievable odds and overcome obstacles that would defeat most mortals, has finally encountered one foe over which ...

Column: Let them torch the Chinese flag, instead

My father died in 1970 at the age of 58. He was a veteran of both World War II and Korea.

Column: The beauty of old bridges

File this column under "Progress." I guess. I remain a skeptic of much that is new and better and that includes the new bridges going ...

HENRY F. ALLEN

SMSGT Retired Henry F. Allen, Sr, 85, of Sumter, SC passed away Tuesday, June 5, 2018. Funeral services were held on Monday, June 11, 2018 ...

JOHN C. DRAKEFORD

Mr. John C. Drakeford, 79, of 1261 Drakeford Road, Cassatt, passed on Friday, June 8, 2018. Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m ...

CAROLYN HINSON

A service to celebrate the life of Carolyn Faye Brazell Hinson, 66, will be held Wednesday 1 p.m. at Powers Funeral Home, Lugoff, with ...

BRENDA SCHOFIELD

Mrs. Brenda Schofield, of Brooklyn, NY, formerly of Camden, South Carolina, passed on Tuesday, May 22, 2018.