McCormick News

The McCormick County Council is one vote away from finalizing a 5.12 mill increase on county residents.

Saluda County Library staffers Christal Gulledge, left, and Sandra McAlister, right, welcomed new Library Director Jessica Christian, center, on her first day on the job Mon., May 13.

Jamal Andrews wants to be an electrical engineer. Andrews, the class president of the McCormick High School class of 2013, was described by administrators and peers as a lightning rod for the class' spirit and determination.

Within the first 20 minutes of a McCormick School District board of trustees meeting Monday night, members passed a flurry of money-saving motions necessary to close a gap in next year's budget.

McCormick residents have a new tool in the constant debate about the best way to use the resources of Lake Thurmond and the Savannah River.

Mrs. Bettie Joyce. Martin 79, of 310 Ashcroft Drive widow of Charlie Frank Martin died May 8, 2013 at Hospice Care of the Piedmont.

As Assistant to the Clerk in the McCormick County Courthouse, Dansby is doing what she loves best and that is helping people in the very community that she was raised.

TYRE king Bob Jane's empire was once estimated to be worth more than $100 million.

Some members of the Willington African American Center Committee of McCormick, S.C., visited the Biddle Hall Museum on the historical Bettis Academy Campus in Trenton.

So, this year, the local communities set their own schedules. Greenwood's 19th Relay for Life is 6 p.m.-midnight Friday at Greenwood YMCA.

Commencement exercises will begin at 3 p.m. for industrial and engineering technology, agriculture, health science, and nursing graduates.

Two local high schools received national recognition in the U.S. News and World Reports annual ranking of the country's best high schools released last week.

Lander University held a farewell dinner recently for a group of educators from Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon in Bangkok, Thailand, who left for home after completing a one-month American Language and Cultural Studies institute created by Lander's Office of International Programs.

Catherine S. Hanna, 94, died April 29, 2013 at the Saluda Nursing Center. Born January 31, 1919 in Augusta, Georgia, she was the daughter of the late Jack and Georgia Furqueron Scruggs.

Juanita Dorn Gilstrap, wife of William Gilstrap, died Monday April 29, 2013 at her residence on Jeter Street.

If you live on the Westside of Edgefield County and felt the floor beneath you tremble in the wee hours of Friday morning, you are not alone.

Three years ago, a small group of volunteers cleaned up the roadsides of McCormick County for the benefit of tourists and residents.

Greenwood Mayor Welborn Adams issues a proclamation declaring May 18, 2013, "Let's Get Physical in Greenwood Day" at the unveiling of the Self Regional Health Express.