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Clara Marie Yarborough Small, 53, wife of Donald Wade Small, Sr. died Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at her home. \ Funeral services will be held at 4:00 p.m. Friday, May 2 at the Chapel of Cox-Collins Funeral Home, with Rev. Steve Small, Rev. C.B. Turner and Rev. Larry Small officiating. Burial will follow in...
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Lucie Britt Saleeby, 62, died Tuesday, April 22, 2008 in Greenville Memorial Hospital. Visitation will be from 2:30-3:30 p.m. Thursday, May 1, 2008 at Kannaday\’d5s Funeral Home in Dillon. Graveside funeral services will follow at 4:00 p.m. in St. Paul Methodist Church Cemetery in Little Rock, SC, directed by Kannaday\’d5s Funeral Home. \ Mrs....
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Alina Weatherford Lambert, 43, died Sunday, April 27, 2008, at Georgetown Memorial Hospital. \ Mrs. Lambert was born in Dillon on October 24, 1964, a daughter of the late Rufus Weatherford and Margie Lee Tyler Weatherford. She grew up in Dillon and moved to Georgetown as a young woman and attended Winyah High School....
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The DCS Warriors baseball team has been playing some very exciting baseball of late and Tuesday, April 22 against region foe The Marlboro Academy Falcons was no exception.
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This week's recipe is my Aunt Evelyn Dukes' Sweet Potato Casserole.
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What is the best way to bring in or attract an industry to our county?\ This is a topic that receives a great deal of discussion and debate in many circles.\ The construction of an industrial speculative \’d2spec\’d3 building could be an instrumental tool in getting an industry to locate in our area.\ An...
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As all of you know there will be a new interstate, I-73 within our area. \ I fully believe that this project will be a great benefit to the economy of our area. \ I would like to take a moment to tell you a little about the process in which the SC Department...
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Now that the first phase of the North Eastern Strategic Alliance (NESA) airport study is completed, the need for regional air transportation planning is clear. \ Given the rapid growth in population, employment, tourism, and interest from international businesses and tourists, we must be willing and able to accommodate that growth. \ The region...
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What Is The Digital Television Transition, and How Will This Impact Me?
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Census 2010 may seem far away, but it is actually just around the corner. \ County and municipal officials needs to begin making plans now on how to get the most accurate count possible of every single person in Dillon County. We can\’d5t depend on someone else doing it for us.\ The census count...
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More than 80 refurbished instruments were delivered to J.V. Martin Junior High School on Tuesday by Batesburg-Leesville band students and leaders.\ The instruments were collected as part of what is being called Musi c Replay.\ A photograph in The State newspaper inspired the drive. \ As people dropped off their old instruments, Eric Lifchez,...
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