On July 3, 2018, Derrek Pugh, a native of Dillon, will become the youngest Deputy Director in the history of the South Carolina Youth Challenge Academy, an entity of the South Carolina National Guard.
On Monday, June 4, the Dillon Kiwanis presented the Dillon Internal Medicine Hurricanes with the team and individual trophies for this year’s championship. The event took place at the Dillon Kiwanis Michael Lecholop Field.
Today South Carolina Ports Authority announced 197,437 twenty-foot equivalent container units (TEUs) handled last month, a record for the month of May and the second-highest month of container traffic in the Port’s history.
Rev. Dr. Leonard M. Mungo will be the Father’s Day Speaker at New Faith Missionary Baptist Church.
The Dillon County Council For The Aging held their annual meeting.
Today the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) announced $49 million for the Charleston Harbor Deepening Project in the Fiscal Year 18 Work Plan, critical funds that will be coupled with financial support from the State of South Carolina to further the progress of deepening the Charleston Harbor to 52 feet.
Dr. David Garland Johnson died peacefully at Northeast Georgia Hospital in Gainesville, GA on Friday, June 15, at the age of 82.
Mrs. Betty Lenora Jackson Niedenthal, 79, went to Heaven to be with her husband James on Wednesday, June 13, 2018 at McLeod Medical Center in Dillon.
Kelci Hunt, an 8th grader at Dillon Middle School, has been accepted into the South Carolina Governor’s School Summer Program for the Arts and Humanities.
Celebrating National Garden Club Week, June 3-9, Jeanne McLaurin of the Glove and Trowel Garden Club placed a pink Geranium at the Dunbar Memorial Library on Main Street in Dillon.