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.

L-E girls gets second region win over RNE

Using a 22-point second quarter to break open what was a low-scoring first eight minutes, the Lugoff-Elgin girls basketball team snapped a 10-game skid with a 42-39 victory over host Richland Northeast on Tuesday in Columbia.

The benchmark of '64

The two ladies were dressed in a manner which would allow them to attend either a football game or a funeral.

Robert Ariail -- Jan. 28, 2011

The other lunch bunch

I ended up at lunch recently with Wife Nancy and a few of her friends. I'm still trying to figure out how they found time to take a bite between the non-stop chatter. Words were flying faster than shotgun pellets at a turkey shoot.

Too much spending

There are lots of Kershaw County residents who no doubt are wondering exactly when "investing" became a synonym for "spending." Politicians -- especially free-spending ones -- no longer want to talk about increasing spending, couching it instead in the "investing" light. President Obama took that tack Tuesday night during his State of the Union speech, advocating a series of spending measures on education, research, transportation and technology. Obviously, with the economy still struggling ...

Discretion advised

WASHINGTON -- Discretionary spending, the part of the federal budget that is not on autopilot and is subject to annual appropriations, generally constitutes less than 40 percent of federal spending. Take out defense spending and that share drops to well under 20 percent. So if your goal is to slash government spending and your approach is to go after discretionary spending without touching the military, it will require punishing, drastic cuts to make any ...

Donnie Patrick Joyner

Funeral services for Donnie Patrick Joyner, 70, will be held Saturday at 3:00 p.m. at First Assembly of God, Camden, with burial to follow in Quaker Cemetery. The Rev. Bruce Marthers will officiate. The family will receive friends Saturday from 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. at Powers Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Gideons International.