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News from the local area

Cancer Survivor Tells About Importance Of Relay For Life

by Admin 2 • March 23, 2013

I have been a supporter of the “Relay for Life” fight for the cure cancer research for many years.

by Admin 2 • March 21, 2013

McLeod Dillon is pleased to announce that Crystal Hodge, RN, Intensive Care Unit, Christie Hunt, RN, Surgical Services, and Pamela Salmon, RN, Women’s Services, have been selected to receive the 2013 Palmetto Gold Award. Overall, seven McLeod Health Registered Nurses were selected to receive the 2013 Palmetto Gold Award.

by Admin 2 • March 19, 2013

In the birding world, few species generate more excitement than does the “Purple Martin,” a swallow that is arriving now in the Carolinas, with reports of “scouts” logged almost daily online.

by Admin 2 • March 17, 2013

United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated that Eduardo Nelson, James Quashaun Scott, both age 27 and of Dillon, SC, were sentenced in federal court in Florence, for conspiracy to manufacture and pass counterfeit securities, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371.

by Admin 2 • March 13, 2013

Shots were fired at a mobile home on Legare Street on Wednesday night.

by Admin 2 • March 13, 2013

Two men have been arrested with taking two funeral home tents from the Magnolia Cemetery in Latta recently.

by Admin 2 • March 6, 2013

Ryan Lybrand (R.L.) Kannaday, Jr. is the new chairman of the Dillon County Chamber of Commerce.

by Admin 2 • March 3, 2013

The family of Brandon “Peanut” Graves are still trying to locate him after he has been missing for three years. Graves will be featured on TV One’s Find Our Missing.

by Admin 2 • February 23, 2013

The SC Department of Employment and Workforce (SCDEW) has evaluated its current operations and determined that the number of individuals accessing unemployment insurance (UI) services is no longer sufficient to justify the deployment of staff at two SC Works affiliate centers in the Pee Dee Region (Dillon and Chesterfield).