L-E soccer program seeking interns for spring season

In an effort to involve more students in the school's soccer program, Lugoff-Elgin High School boys' varsity soccer head coach, Matt Brosius, is advertising for three internships and a ball attendant program for this year's Demons' and Lady Demons' soccer teams.

Bulldogs tripped up in Hartsville, 53-47

If the Camden High boys basketball team is to continue its stretch of playing in the AAA state playoffs, it has plenty of work to do and just four regular season games left in which to do it.

This week in KC sports

Tuesday: Lakewood at Camden (BB – 6 p.m.); Lugoff-Elgin at Blythewood (BB – 6 p.m.); Camden Military Academy at Academy of Excellence (BB – 6p.m.); Lewisville at North Central (BB – 6:30 p.m.)

Robert Ariail -- Jan. 31, 2011

Noted and passed

• President Obama, despite his love of government spending, is making an attempt to drift toward the political center since his party got battered in last November's election, a pragmatic approach yet one some doubted the president would be able to do given his philosophy. His latest appeal to the middle came with his naming of General Electric chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt as chairman of Obama's outside panel of economic advisers. Immelt will ...

Miss Smith, Mr. Bell engaged

Ms. Jan Helms Dye and Mr. and Mrs. David W. Smith announce the engagement of their daughter, Britta Smith of Greenville, to Brevard "Boykin" Bell, Jr. of Camden. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Brevard B. Bell of Camden.

Miss Myers, Mr. Coggins plan spring wedding

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Calvin Myers Jr. of Alpharetta, Georgia are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Meredith Royall Myers of Richmond, Virginia to Mr. Parkes Browning Coggins, also of Richmond. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Parkes Coggins of Newberry, South Carolina.

Northcutt to represent American Legion Post 17 in Oratorical Contest

Post 17 contest chairman Richard Lackey congratulates Daniel Northcutt as post-level scholarship winner of the American Legion High School Oratorical Contest. Northcutt, a home-schooled junior, will represent Post 17 at the Zone Four contest to be held in Camden Feb. 19. The winners of the four zone contests will compete at the state level. State winners earn a trip to Indianapolis to vie for the national title which carries an $18,000 scholarship award.

Learning how to mind Ps and Qs

Junior Leadership Kershaw County students received a course in formal dining etiquette from cotillion facilitator Sara Fakoury during a recent session hosted by the Millpond Steakhouse in Boykin. Fakoury guided the class of high school juniors and seniors through a session of dos and don'ts as they enjoyed a five-course meal prepared by Mark Price and Jamie Hecker of the Millpond Steakhouse. Servers included Kershaw County School District superintendent Dr. Frank Morgan and several other ...

Sadie Freitag

Graveside funeral services celebrating the life of Sadie Louise Freitag, 92, of Camden, will be held at 3:00 PM Tuesday, February 1, 2011 in Quaker Cemetery. Reverend Sheila Rogers will officiate. The family will receive friends from 7-9 PM Monday, January 31, 2011 at Kornegay Funeral Home, Camden Chapel. Memorials may be made in Miss Freitag's memory to Lyttleton Street United Methodist Church, 1206 Lyttleton Street, Camden, SC 29020 or Walter M. Crowe Animal ...

Ellen R. Jackson

Ellen R. Jackson, 72, of 521 Gary Street in Camden died Friday, January 28, 2011.

Betty Phillips

Funeral services for Betty "Becky" Parker Phillips, 77, of Kershaw, was held at 3:00 p.m., Sunday, January 30, 2011, in Kershaw Second Baptist Church. Burial followed in the Kershaw City Cemetery.

A Massachusetts schoolmaster in Camden in 1793

This columnist recently acquired a letter from Elijah Dix Green (1769-95) in Camden dated March 28, 1793, to his brother, Dr. John Green of Worcester, Massachusetts. The letter contains much new information previously unavailable to local historians or others. For that reason, excerpts from it are carried below.

Clayton L. Carmean

Clayton L. "Skip" Carmean, 61, of Camden, died Sunday, January 30, 2011. The family will receive friends from 6-8 PM Wednesday, February 2, 2011 at Kornegay Funeral Home, Camden Chapel.

'Tiger Mom' offers clues to race gaps

Amy Chua's not so tough. The Yale law professor's new memoir, "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother," has touched a raw national nerve with its descriptions of her tough "Chinese way" of parenting, a way that shows all of the warmth and charm of a Marine Corps drill instructor.

Fredericksburg Township explored

Our grand city of Camden is a beautifully preserved town laid out in an 18th century plan devised by Joseph Kershaw. We are proud of our historic homes and buildings, carefully placed public parks, wide streets, and beautiful trees. So it is easy to forget that this was not the original plan for the "town" that was to develop in this area of South Carolina. The original plan was a part of the "Township ...

The Lugoff-Elgin “Blue Monster”

What was the IRS thinking?

Well, this is a fine mess.

Hayes Creek Skateboarding Competition

There will be a skateboarding competition Saturday at 9:30 a.m. in the Hayes Creek Subdivision in Elgin. The event is sponsored by Salty's Board Shop in Columbia. The proceeds from the competition will go towards purchasing skateboarding gear for the park in an effort to keep kids off of drugs and keep them off of the streets.

Dog’s human mom experiences drama at local dog park

Dear Annie: I have an 8-month-old puppy, and I take her to a local dog park so she can run off leash and play with the other dogs, which she loves. In the three months I have been taking her, "Phoebe" has never been attacked or fought with another dog. That was until last night, when Phoebe approached another dog that was on a leash and that dog attacked her.

Ariail for May 17, 2013