Dentists to provide free dental screenings for students

Kershaw County dentists will continue their long-standing relationship with Kershaw County School District (KCSD) by providing dental screenings for elementary school students in K5 to-fifth-grade beginning in January.

L-EMS again receives prestigious national recognition

The third time is a charm as much as the first and second ones. After being the first school in the state to be named a recipient of the national "School to Watch" award in 2007, Lugoff-Elgin Middle School (L-EMS) has been recertified for the honor a second time. Sponsored by the National Forum to Accelerate Middle Grades Reform, Schools to Watch have outstanding academic excellence, developmental responsiveness, social equity ...

School news - Dec. 19, 2012

Pierre Brevard, of Camden, has been named to the Dean's List at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) for the fall quarter 2012. Full-time undergraduate students who earn a grade point average of 3.5 or above for the quarter receive recognition on the Dean's List.

ATEC students paint Phantom Fighter

Level one Auto Collision students at the Applied Technology Education Campus (ATEC) repainted a portion of an F-4C Phantom Fighter at the Camden airport this month.

Jingle Bell 5K fun

Cool clear weather greeted more than 275 runners and walkers during Fitness Zone's fifth annual Jingle Bell 5K Dec. 1. While the majority of participants were from Kershaw County, the event attracted runners and walkers from all over the Midlands, as well as other areas of the state. Lugoff-Elgin High School's (L-EHS) JROTC was one of several groups ...

Camden’s Elliott named to new CCTC alumni council

Central Carolina Technical College (CCTC) faculty and staff recently named Kris Elliott of Camden, to CCTC's new alumni council. Elliott, who works for Accuride Corp., joins 10 others on the council, appointed to provide direction and leadership for the new CCTC Alumni Partnership program.

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School board says ‘good-bye’ to longest serving trustees

Two of Kershaw County's school board trustees said good-bye last week after 27 years of combined service on the board.

KCSD receives unqualified audit report

The Kershaw County School District (KCSD) received an unqualified audit report for the 2013 fiscal year from Larry Montague of the accounting firm of Burkett, Burkett and Burkett during the Kershaw County Board of School Trustees' meeting Monday. Montague said the firm found the KCSD's financial documents "correct and appropriate" for the fiscal year, which ended back on June 30. An unqualified opinion is ...

Walkway to be dedicated to retiring trustees

The Kershaw County School District will dedicate a walkway near Jackson School and honor two retiring school board members Tuesday.

Andrea Nobles to participate in NOVA program

Freshman music major Andrea Nobles, of Camden, is among the 206 participants in Eastern Kentucky University's NOVA program, which serves students with academic potential who are the first in their family to pursue a four-year degree.

Montessori School hosts fire department

As part of its program for character development, classes at the Montessori School of Camden (MSC) selected a variety of service projects to help open children's minds to the concept of service to the community. Each level at the school -- infant and toddler, primary and elementary -- chose to lead a service project for the whole school. Some classes chose raising money and collecting goods for the ...

KCSD nurses offer more than ‘Band-Aids’

Kershaw County School District (KCSD) nurses showed the Kershaw County Board of School of Trustees that they do more than "put on Band-Aids" at the board's meeting Monday night.

KCSD state report cards improve

Ninety-five percent of the ratings issued this week on the South Carolina's Annual School District Report Card for schools within the Kershaw County School District (KCSD) are "excellent," "good" or "average."

Lugoff resident earns honor

A Kershaw County resident was selected as Richland School District Two's (RCSD2) 2012 District Teacher of the Year. Terri Butts, a second-grade teacher at Bridge Creek Elementary School, has worked in RSD2 for three years. She was formerly a teacher and a curriculum coach for Kershaw County School District from 1995-2010 before she went back to teaching at RCSD2. <p ...

The steel bear

Boyd Parker (first photo, center, in "flame" welding hood), a student at Central Carolina Technical College's (CCTC) Camden campus, welds portions of a steel bear as David Karrell (left, in black and yellow hood) of CCTC's Sumter campus assists. For their efforts, Parker, Karrell and their other classmates won first place at an annual "welding rodeo" held at CCTC's Camden campus near I-20 in April. Camden instructor Shawn Hankins said CCTC has ...

Trustees split in favor of substitute teacher contract

Kelly Services will provide contract substitute teachers to the Kershaw County School District (KCSD). However, the vote to do so was split, 5-4, among members of the Kershaw County Board of School Trustees at their meeting Tuesday.

S.C. Secretary of State visits North Central Middle

S.C. Secretary of State Mark Hammond gave North Central Middle School (NCMS) students an overview of his position within the state of South Carolina.

CMA graduate continues family legacy with graduation