Meal ticket

The Kershaw County School District (KCSD) may transfer some $5,000 from the district's general reserve fund to food service operations in order to keep lunch prices down this coming school year.

Jump Rope for Heart

Nelson earns degree from Louisburg

A local student graduated in May from Louisburg College in Louisburg, N.C.

Fin-tastic!

Honor roll students named at Lugoff Elementary

Lugoff Elementary School has announced its honor rolls for the fourth nine-week period.

Arts, sports and technology

School board passes budget

With only six hours left in the 2010-11 fiscal year, the Kershaw County Board of School Trustees passed its 2011-12 budget during a special-called meeting Thursday evening.

Area students earn degrees from Clemson

Clemson University awarded a record 2,713 degrees at its May 13 commencement ceremonies. Local graduates included the following:

County students on Coastal Carolina Dean's List

A number of Kershaw County students were named to the spring 2011 Dean's List at Coastal Carolina University.

Camp BDK celebrates final season

Since 2009, Camp BDK has provided summer academic enrichment activities to as many as 94 local elementary school students.

Book dropped from summer reading list

The Kershaw County School District (KCSD) has removed a book from one of its summer reading lists, after a Camden High School parent expressed concern about profanity used in the book recommended for high school students.

Blaney names honor roll students for final quarter

Blaney Elementary School has announced its honor rolls for the fourth nine-week period

District accounts for cheerleading funds

In a letter to Lugoff-Elgin High School parents Mike and Marti Gogan, Kershaw County School District (KCSD) Superintendent Dr. Frank Morgan said there is no money missing from the high school's cheerleading account.

Teacher step increases suspended

With no official word on the state budget before Tuesday's Kershaw County Board of School Trustees meeting, school board members were still unable to pass the school district's 2011-12 fiscal year budget.

Share memories for Doby's Mill 10-year anniversary

Did you know that the 2011-2012 school year will mark the 10th anniversary of the opening of Doby's Mill Elementary School?

School board to tackle bonds, referendum

The Kershaw County Board of School Trustees will take up several matters relating in various ways to the Kershaw County School District's (KCSD) facilities equalization plan (FEP) at a combined board and finance/facilities meeting slated for noon Tuesday.

CCTC students in fabricated crime scene for final exam

Central Carolina Technical College's CRJ 202 Criminalistics (Forensics) course is taking their final exam Tuesday July 29 at 5:30 p.m. on location at a fabricated crime scene. NCIS agent Tony Horton is the instructor. He has partnered with the Sumter Sheriff's Department and set up an area in the back of Patriot Park off of Hwy. 441 in Sumter for this exam to take place. It will be in a wooded area where students will actually use what they have learned in the classroom to process a crime scene.