Kingstree News

Funeral services for Joseph a oeStumpa Chandler, conducted by Bishop Dr. Roosevelt Fulton and Presiding Elder Melvin Frierson, were held Tuesday, March 9, 2010, at Evangelistic Temple Way of the Cross Church in Kingstree.

Addie McClary Brannan, 91, widow of Latta Lester Brannan, died Thursday, March 11, 2010, in a Murrella s Inlet hospital.

Funeral services for Marion a oeCampa Camp, conducted by Bishop Amos Major, were held Friday, March 12, 2010, at No.

Dr. Harry Floyd sits in the recliner with a piece of chocolate cake in one hand and a diet coke in the other...and vows he's going to lose weight.

The Williamsburg County School District Board of Trustees were presented 2008-2009 test results by its principals during their February 22, meeting.

Kingstree Police are searching for three armed suspects who stormed into a local fast food restaurant Monday and robbed it at gunpoint, Kingstree Police Chief Robert Ford said.

A pair of motions aimed at the closing schools were passed by the Williamsburg County School District Board of Trustees during their March 2, meeting.

Williamsburg County firemen will take off their boots for the Red Cross Friday, March 19, in an effort to help fund much needed disaster services to the community.

Two major events from the last week illustrated a very important point we here at The Weekly Observer cannot emphasize enough: civic participation.

A woman who works for Myrtle Beach Middle School told Myrtle Beach Police that someone entered her home Tuesday while she was sleeping and stole a laptop computer that belonged to the school and her cell phone.

This is a blast from the past, published Thursday, March 24, 1977. The cat strolls into the den at Sandy Bay and collapses right in the middle of Dick Tracy.

Williamsburg County is teeming with artists and history and a two-day event is going to serve as the stage to showoff both.

Funeral services for Saraphine Dozier Shaw, conducted by the Rev. Jimmy L. Brockington, were held Saturday, February 27, 2010, at Marion Missionary Baptist Church in Salters.

Confident he could beat last year's second-place finish, 11-year-old Vinny Krishna remained calm as he correctly spelled forsythia, dichotomy, waterzooi and more than a dozen other words in this year's state spelling bee.

Souvenir Books During the fall of 1959, a few enterprising people decided that they wanted to build a church.

Kingstree resident Willie McKnight is a big fan of "America's Got Talent." He never misses an episode of the hit series that airs on NBC each Tuesday.

To save or not to save - that was the question up for debate during a February 15, special called meeting of the Kingstree Zoning Board of Appeals and the owners of a historically significant building on Hampton Avenue.

Budget problems in the Williamsburg County School District could lead to school closures within the district before the end of the year.

Funeral services for Darell Moore, conducted by the Rev. Dr. James E. Council, were held Thursday, February 4, 2010, at Clauddie Henryhand Memorial Chapel in Kingstree.

Public water is about to flow to some 250 residents east of Kingstree as the Kingstree East Phase One water system is scheduled for completion by the end of this year.