Pinewood News

The 2009-10 budget for Sumter County took another step forward in the process Tuesday night at the regular County Council meeting, even as council made and discussed the need for further changes.

Dr. Leo Edwin Kirven, Jr., 85, formerly of Pinewood, passed away at his home in Lakeland, FL, on May 25, 2009, following a brief illness.

Pinewood Preparatory School sixth-grader Ben Gamble tripped up on a word he'd never heard before in the third round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., and won't progress to the semifinals today.

Would you bike 100 miles for charity? Pastor Jim Braswell, 54, would. Braswell is going to ride his bicycle on a 100-mile route around Sumter today to help Concord Presbyterian Church pay off some of its mortgage for constructing its Fellowship Hall in August 2007.

Charging the City of Sumter, Pinewood and Mayesville $2.50 for the billing and collection of real property and automobile tax notices is one of the ideas under consideration by Sumter County to overcome a budget deficit of more than $3.9 million.

Sumter County residents should soon begin to see the fruits of the local option sales tax that voters approved in November.

A 49-year-old man was robbed at gunpoint early Friday morning outside Smith's Grocery in Pinewood.

A 30-year-old Pinewood woman told deputies three masked men barged into her home Thursday morning and demanded money, and after using her phone to call her husband, they left empty-handed. A report said about 9:20 a.m. Thursday, three black men wearing black masks and gloves forced open the front door of a home in the 200 block of West Fifth Street ...

The Lowcountry 2009 Spellbound! Bee took place Thursday night at Charleston Southern University.

Don't forget to join us at Myrtle's on Sunday for Souper Sunday, a benefit for Bluffton Self Help.

Five men alleged to be deadbeat dads make up a majority of the eight fugitives on the Sumter County Sheriff's Office 'Most Wanted' list.

Salvation Army caseworker Lucy Copeland is used to getting a lot of hugs. As someone who helps people on a daily basis with money for their heating needs through the Fireside Fund, she is used to seeing ...

A 48-year-old man was killed Sunday morning when he was struck by a pickup truck as he was walking along Pinewood Road nine miles south of the city in Sumter County, the S.C. Highway Patrol reported.

A 48-year-old man was killed this morning when he was struck by a pickup truck as he was walking along Pinewood Road nine miles south of the city in Sumter County, the S.C. Highway Patrol reported.