CMP hosts its evening of champions

Carolina Motorsports Park crowned its 2013 Powerade Karting champions at its end of the year awards night held at the facility located in Westville last month.

Driving their way to championships

Carolina Motorsports Park crowned its 2013 Powerade Karting champions at its end of the year awards night held at the facility located in Westville last month.

Coping with feelings of grief during the holidays

Its a New Year

What is your New Year's resolution for 2014?

Phillips joins C-I

Gary Phillips is the latest addition to the Chronicle-Independent newsroom. Phillips began working Monday as the C-I's county reporter. In that role, he will cover Kershaw County Council meetings, economic development issues and the town of Bethune. Phillips is also acting as the C-I's crime reporter, crafting the paper's weekly crime report, reporting on major crimes and law enforcement activities and covering significant court proceedings. That part of his duties will also have Phillips covering activities of the city of Camden and various county fire departments. He will also report on the Kershaw County Chamber of Commerce ...

Yesteryear - Jan. 1, 2014

Cooperative ministry has helped many since opening

Global warming claim incomplete

In your paper's "Noted and passed" feature, December 23, 2013, I discovered that "the planet is heating up at an alarming rate." This surprised me for global temperatures have remained remarkably unchanged on a trend basis for the past 16 years. This phenomenon has received a bit of notice because it shows how complex the climate is and how difficult it is to make predictions. It also shows that there are natural factors e.g., the "Pacific Decadal Oscillation" (PDO) which negatively swamp the effects of greenhouse gasses for perhaps decades. These negative factors get precious little attention because ...

Hispanic Alcoholics Anonymous Group

Do you have problems with alchohol abuse? Join the Hispanic Alcoholic Anonymous Group "Among Friends" in Camden.

Al Grupo Hispano de Alcoholicos Anonimos

Tienes problemas con el abuso del alcohol? Unete al Grupo Hispano de Alcoholicos Anonimos "Entre Amigos" en Camden.

Happy New Year!

We begin 2014 with renewed hope and energy -- and the usual complications at every turn.

Exercise benefits

The beginning of a new year is a traditional time for people to try to improve parts of their lives with which they're not satisfied. New year's resolutions aren't always kept, but they're a step in the right direction, and they often revolve around people determining to take better care of themselves. It's long been know that exercise cuts the risk of heart disease and a host of other physical ailments, including diabetes. Researchers are now finding that fitness has a long-term effect upon brainpower and can play a crucial role in staving off dementia.

For the Record - Jan. 1, 2014

Real estate transactions

Kershaw County Library January calendar of events, programming

Camden Branch

Cheraw edges NC in MCCU title contest

After playing tourney host North Central to a 21-21 first half stalemate, Cheraw won the battle of the second half to win the Mid-Carolina Credit Union Basketball Classic boys' tournament played inside The Castle in Boonetown on Saturday night.

Thanks for the memories

WASHINGTON -- The year-end review required of all columnists inevitably brings us to the mailbag and a few clarifications.

Ariail - Sept. 15, 2017

Pat Wylie

We join the community in mourning the loss and celebrating the life of William Patrick "Pat" Wylie.

Pat Wylie was a ‘man for all seasons’

With the passing of Pat Wylie this week, Camden has lost a true treasure. Many of us loved him and all of us respected him ...

Shouting for joy

On occasion when I was child, we traveled up into the mountains to visit what Mama called her "home church," meaning it was the church ...

McRae’s Superfine Flour

Camden has long been known for its wheat flour production during the pre-Revolutionary period and for several decades after the war. "Fine Carolina flour" was ...

More testing is not the answer

A recent national survey done by Gallup and the respected education organization Phi Delta Kappa had some very enlightening things to say about the obsession ...

Writer, too, has a dilemma

I am glad to see that my good friend, Charlie Humphries, is still exercising his freedom of speech by using a member of the mass ...

GRADY BRANHAM

Grady Richard Branham, 90, of Florence, SC passed away Thursday, September 7, 2017. Grady was born in Kershaw County, SC, a son of the late ...

SARAH A. DRAKEFORD

Mrs. Sarah A. Drakeford, 66, of 1705 Garden Street, Camden, passed on Monday, September 11, 2017. Funeral services will be conducted at 3 p.m ...

GREGORY C. MARTIN

A graveside service for Gregory C. "Greg" Martin, 60, of Westville, was held Wednesday, September 13, in the Kershaw City Cemetery. The Revs. David Snodgrass ...

TOMMY “DERRICK” ROBERTS

Funeral services for Tommy Derrick Roberts, 57, will be held Sunday at 3 p.m. at Faith Church of the Nazarene, Lugoff, with burial to ...

GRACE THREATT WALDEN

Funeral services for Grace Threatt Walden, 88, will be held today at 11:00 a.m. at Wateree Baptist Church with burial to follow in ...

HENRY EARL WHITE

Mr. Henry Earl White, 57, of Lugoff, entered into eternal rest on Saturday, September 9, 2017. A Celebration of Life and Homegoing Services will be ...

RUTH H. WILSON

A celebration of life service for Ruth H. Wilson, 87, will be held Saturday at 1:30pm, with a visitation 1 hr prior at Powers ...

MARY J. WINDHAM