Cheraw News

One didn't have to travel too far from home to enjoy this year's Cheraw's Fourth of July festivities sponsored by the Town of Cheraw, the Cheraw Recreation and Leisure Services Department, Cheraw Arts Commission, and Wannamaker Drug Store.

CHERAW, SC : Chesterfield General Hospital welcomes Endocrinologist and Nephrologist, Naveed Iqbal, MD to the medical staff.

Economic Security Commission Director Doris Ann Breeden of the One-Stop Career Center in Bennettsville presented two awards to Catherine Faulkenberry Thompson of the One-Stop Career Center in Cheraw at a retirement banquet held at Johnson's Old Fashion Buffet on June 23.

With people still looking for inexpensive vacation alternatives, the S.C. State Park Service finished the fiscal year with its second highest revenue ever.

Former solicitor for the Fourth Judicial Circuit Jay Hodge is being investigated by the FBI for his involvement in Mercy Ministries Inc., a faith-based nonprofit in Cheraw that aims to help battered women and children, according to first assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin McDonald.

A shoplifting incident has led to the arrest of five people at a Cheraw Wal-Mart. Pablo Alfredo Cedeno, 19, and Shiela Bernice Kelly, 30, both of Great Falls, were arrested by local police after employees at Wal-Mart reported several shoplifters running from the store with stolen merchandise.

" Cheraw Town Council heard and unanimously passed the second reading of the new 2009-10 proposed budget totaling $10.3 million during a special public hearing on Monday.

The Cheraw Fire Department responded to a large transformer fire inside the substation on Covington Road in the early hours on Saturday morning.

The South Carolina Highway Patrol announces that Robert I. Lee, a Cheraw native, has been promoted to captain and will oversee its Multi-Disciplinary Accident Investigation Unit.

The Chesterfield County Sheriff's Office is mourning the loss of one of their own Monday after Bernard Simpson died in a motorcycle accident Sunday evening.

A Chesterfield County Sheriffa s Department deputy, who was off duty, died Saturday night after a fatal motorcycle accident claimed his life.

A Cheraw man died Saturday after he was thrown from his motorcycle during a crash, S.C. Highway Patrol Lance Cpl.

Seated on the front row from left to right:. Sintral Lowery, of Cheraw; Ashley Short, of Cheraw; Tina Blakeney, of Chesterfield; and Aliyah Perkins, of Bennettsville.

A month later, the first details of South Carolina's ongoing Fourth Circuit Solicitor's Office scandal are beginning to be picked up by the mainstream media.

Hundreds of young adults in Chesterfield and Marlboro Counties are expected to complete a government summer employment program designed to increase the employment rate and improve moral in the midst of a harsh economic climate.

The Omicron Zeta Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. of Cheraw will collaborate with the Community Development Corporation of Marlboro County and S.C. State University 1890 Extension of Bennettsville to offer free workshops for current and potential small business owners.

A set of twin brothers have been sentenced to jail time in Federal Court Friday for conspiracy to sell crack and powder cocaine.

Plainview Elementary teacher Evelyn Talbert makes her way through a smoke filled school bus to the exit door during a mock bus safety training exercise on Monday at Chesterfield High School.

Last week's Taste of Hartsville didn't disappoint me. In my opinion, it was highly successful.

In this weeka s issue of The Cheraw Chronicle & Chesterfield Advertiser regarding the article on the Fourth Circuit Solicitora s Office, it was mentioned that Safrona Finch was a former employee with the Fourth Circuit Solicitora s Office in Bennettsville.