Kingstree News

Join the Williamsburg County Library on Wednesday, July 8, at 11 a.m. in Hemingway and at 3 p.m. in Kingstree for the summer reading program.

Calling all rising seventh through 12th graders. The Williamsburg County Library is inviting all teens to sign up for our Vacation Reading Club.

Robert Owen "Rod" Dukes, Sr., 53, died Wednesday, July 1, 2009, in a Kingstree hospital.

Richard McClary has been selling his homegrown produce along U.S. Highway 17 in Mount Pleasant for 18 years.

Mary Kristen Cox of Latta and Lucas Marion Oates of Darlington were married June 20, 2009, at the historic Abingdon Manor in Latta, SC.

An engineering firm inspected the Depot building on Main Street as part of Kingstree Town Councila TMs commitment to renovate some, if not all of the facility.

A meeting between Kings-tree Town Manager Dan Wells and local pastors, concerning ministering to Little Mexico, will be held July 2, at 3 p.m. at Kingstree Town Hall.

The Kingstree town manager position has never come with a contract but in a special called meeting on June 22, council voted unanimously to enter into a three year term agreement with Dan Wells.

This is a blast from the past, published in The News on Thursday, July 1, 1976. Twenty-two years ago doesn't seem like such a long time, but as I turn the torn yellow pages of this old battered copy of The County Record, names, places, memories come into focus, and the cobwebs of time melt away.

John S. Brown, Jr., 81, widower of Katherine Bookhardt Brown, died Sunday, June 28, 2009, at the N.E. and Ruby Green Hospice House, Georgetown.

KINGSTREE, SC, June 28, 2009 /Cambridge Who's Who/ -- Alex L. Montgomery, Sr., Executive Director of the Williamsburg Regional Boys to Men Club, Inc., has been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for showing dedication, leadership and excellence in all aspects of community development.

June 22, 2009 - The South Carolina Department of Commerce today announced that 12 Community Development Block Grant project applications have been selected to receive funding.

Kingstree Town Council voted to pass the 2009-2010 budget. The budget includes a raise in water rates to the equivalent of Williamsburg County rates.

Vital Aging Monthly Board of Directora TMs Meeting will be held on Wednesday, June 24, at 10 a.m. The meeting will be held at 501 North Longstreet Street, Kingstree.

A Summer Celebrationa Down at the River is being sponsored by the Town of Kingstree and the Williamsburg HomeTown Chamber on Thursday, July 9 from 5:30 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. The family friendly event held at Gilland Park in Kingstree will feature Fatback Groove Band from Columbia, SC playing your favorite blues and jazz.

The regular meeting of the Williamsburg County Chapter of the AARP will meet Wednesday, June 24, at 12 p.m. at the Williamsburg County Recreation Center, 2084 Thurgood Marshall Blvd., Kingstree.

Most of us are familiar with Mexico. Ita s considered a place of fun and sun, colorful characters and hidden treasures.

Rumors circulating about a group of doctors who are locating an office in the old B.W. Baker Furniture store were confirmed during a meeting held on Wednesday, June 10, at Williamsburg Regional Hospital.

You're going to be able to flush a little easier soon as three areas in Midlands are getting an upgrade to their sewer systems thanks to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

A stay in the hospital can be a harrowing experience, to say the least. Constant patient checks, rooms filled with monitoring equipment creating their own breed of aggravating noise, and of course the bland, boring, tasteless food is simply part of the arrangement.