Timmonsville News

About 200 people attended a meeting in Timmonsville Wednesday evening about an upcoming referendum that will ask citizens to allow the City of Florence to take over the town's water and sewer systems.

A clerk for a Pee Dee area school district has been arrested and charged with forgery, according to the Florence County Sheriff's Office.

Her attorney, Patrick McLaughlin, filed a motion with the court saying charges should be dismissed on the grounds of vindictive prosecution, insufficiency and deficiency of indictment.

The U.S. Justice Department, on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency and the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, filed a complaint in U.S. District Court against the Town of Timmonsville for wastewater and drinking water violations, according to a news release sent Wednesday.

Administrators with Florence County Emergency Management say extensive training and meetings have prepared them for this year's hurricane season.

SLED was called in to help the Florence County Sheriff's Office as they served a search warrant on a suspected drug dealer in the Pee Dee.

A portion of Brockington Street at Main Street is closed following a sewage overflow, according to Timmonsville Town Manager Mary Bines.