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Sarsfield lawsuit dropped
The city of Camden and the Camden Planning Commission (CPC) can breathe a sigh of relief.
Façade grant requests outpace funding
Camden City Council will take up two façade grant requests Tuesday night, but will the city be able to pay for them?
Video touts Camden's State of the City
Everything you want to know about what's going on in the city of Camden -- from city hall's perspective -- has been summed up in an 8-minute, 57-second video. The State of the City was posted Wednesday on the city's website and YouTube and features what Mayor Jeffrey Graham called a "more conversational" style. The video includes mostly still photographs and narration by Graham, City ...
Farmers Home Furniture opening in Springdale Plaza
A new furniture store is just about ready to open in Camden.
TruVista building new offices on Springdale
No later than August 2011, TruVista cable television, Internet and wireless customers will have a new location where they can purchase products, get hands-on demonstrations and pay their bills.
City opens holiday season with Christmas Tree lighting
The following are remarks by Camden City Manager Kevin Bronson during Thursday night's City Hall Christmas Tree lighting ceremony:
Camden B&B rules being changed
If Camden City Council signs off on a Camden Planning Commission (CPC) recommendation, Camden's bed and breakfasts, or B&Bs, will be allowed to have more guests.
Five tips to prepare plants for freeze warnings
The dog days of summer are now a distant memory as we zoom through autumn and brace for winter temperatures. Even though many folks do not like cooler weather, it is easy enough for us to stay warm by adding layers of clothing and getting the wool sweaters out of mothball storage.
Another developer drops old CMS plans
Cypress Pointe LLC will not develop the former Camden Middle School (CMS) property on Laurens Street.
Town Green beginning to take shape
When the city of Camden broke ground in the East Back Lot for the city's transformative Town Green project Oct. 29, few outside city officials and contractors knew things would move so swiftly.
Long, Polk sworn in; take office Dec. 1
In a lightly attended ceremony, re-elected Camden City Councilman Walter Long and newly elected Councilman X. Willard Polk took their oaths of office Tuesday morning. They will officially take office Dec. 1. Polk will attend his first meeting as a sitting councilman during a Dec. 9 afternoon work session. His first regular meeting will be Dec. 14.
Former theater, cleaners home on city agenda
Among the more than a dozen items on Camden City Council's agenda Tuesday morning will be an executive session to "receive information regarding unsafe building structure." The item was added to council's agenda following a work session briefing Thursday by City Manager Kevin Bronson.
City council approves Bronson contract, 4-1
Kevin Bronson will be Camden's city manager for another four years and get a nearly $8,000 raise, bringing his annual salary to $105,000.
CFD battles house fire twice
The Camden Fire Department (CFD) was twice called to a home on Copeland Circle just outside the city limits Monday morning. The home was deemed a total loss by the time the second battle was over.
Articles by Section - Camden
Smith named State Transport Police 2012 Employee of the Year
The South Carolina State Transport Police (STP) held a ceremony on Friday, May 3 to recognize its top employees for 2012. LaShaune Smith, resident of Camden, was named State Transport Police 2012 Employee of the Year. Ms. Smith has been with STP for nine years. She serves as the CMV Statistician and Administrative Assistant to Captain J.D. Price.
Beard collection opens Thursday at Archives
Visitors won't be able to help but stop and stare at the giant rifle at the Camden Archives and Museum. At 6 feet long and 90 pounds heavy, the training rifle features an 8-inch bolt for .50 caliber armor piercing rounds. Fashioned at Pearl Harbor, the rifle's barrel is actually from the USS Arizona sunk during the Japanese attack of Dec. 7, 1941, that catapulted the United States into World War II.
Invista Camden helps out SC jobs
According to a study completed in 2012 by Harrah Analytics, INVISTA's Camden site supports more than 3,000 jobs and more than $145 million in compensation and benefits. The independent economic research firm found each INVISTA job generated, on average, about six other jobs in the state. Nationally, INVISTA's nearly 4,500 full and part-time employees in the United States indirectly resulted in an estimated 22,000 additional jobs and more than $1.3 billion in compensation and ...
Nuclear plant equipment reroutes traffic on Camden’s Broad street
A 605,000 pound piece of equipment traveling to V.C. Summer Nuclear plant in Fairfield County made an appearance in Camden on Wednesday.
Olympic gymnast Luikin to make personal appearance
All Around Olympic Champion Nastia Luikin will be appearing at Wateree Gymnastics Center of Camden SC's Fit n' Fun Gymnastics Clinic and fund raising dinner on June 24. Competitive gymnasts of all levels are invited to attend the clinic, and the fund raiser dinner, which begins at 5:30 p.m., is open to the public. The fund raiser dinner with Nastia Luikin is being held to help raise funds for gymnastics scholarships for needy children ...
Tuesday Power outage in Camden result of fallen limb
A limb falling on a line on Lakeview Avenue caused a power outage Tuesday morning in a residential section of Camden.
Broad Street road diet will be done in stages
It might not happen until at least 2016, perhaps later, but if the city of Camden decides to move ahead with a proposed plan to put a section of Broad Street on a "road diet," it will happen in four stages and take 18 months to complete. That was the word from Ernie Boughman of URS, the city's engineering firm, to Camden City Council during a 4 p.m. work session Tuesday. Council also learned ...
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