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Legendary author Stephen King is a well-known baseball fan. You may often find him in the bleachers of a Boston Red Sox game. King integrated the sport into "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon" and chronicled the 2004 Red Sox championship season in book …
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By IVY MOORE
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9/12/10 02:00 AM
Each year Lynn Kennedy promises the annual Sumter Green Fall Feast will be "the best one yet," and, she said recently, "It's true. They just keep getting better and better."
This year, she said, the food and the music will offer even more …
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By IVY MOORE
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9/12/10 02:00 AM
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LARRY CROWE |
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In 1996 Sumter Volunteers director Jo Anne Morris started a new program aimed at introducing fourth-graders in Sumter's city and county schools to the history and workings of their home. Naming the project "My Community and Me," Morris set about …
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By IVY MOORE
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9/8/10 02:00 AM
HAVANA - What would you do if your entire city was taken over by flesh-eating zombies and communist leaders insisted it was nothing but a plot by U.S-backed dissidents to destabilize the government?
If you were the protagonist of Juan de los …
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BY PAUL HAVEN
Associated Press Writer |
9/8/10 02:00 AM
There's a lot of good music to be heard this week. Aside from Thursday's Sumter@Six with Sumter's own Footnotes, there's the Shepherd's Center of Sumter-sponsored concert on Saturday with several talented local musicians and singers, and on Sunday, …
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By IVY MOORE
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9/8/10 02:00 AM
NEW YORK - There's been intense competition going on at the U.S. Open, and it has nothing to do with aces or foot faults.
Instead, five of Bravo TV's "Top Chef Masters" have been working to create the best food of the tournament - something more …
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BY NEKESA MUMBI MOODY
AP Entertainment Writer |
9/8/10 02:00 AM
The Footnotes have been playing beach and variety music together for a long time - since the late '60s, when most were attending Sumter High School. They disbanded in 1971 for more than a quarter century, but in 1999 discovered they could still play …
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By IVY MOORE
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9/8/10 02:00 AM
Back-to-school shopping is over. Children and youth in Sumter County returned to school in August with new notebooks, pencils, calculators and day planners, basic tools necessary for academic success.
Not quite so obvious are other basic tools …
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BY CATHERINE BLUMBERG
SCAL assistant executive director |
9/5/10 02:00 AM
SUMTER DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB
Winners for August were: Aug. 4 - 1st, Larry Baum and Marge Kohli, 2nd, Hugh Cook and Pat Lauterbach; Aug. 11 - 1st, Kenneth Hamilton and Richard Hinkle, 2nd - (tie) Hugh Cook and Pat Lauterbach, Stan Kohli and Marvin …
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By IVY MOORE
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9/5/10 02:00 AM
"Sealing Their Fate: The Twenty-Two Days That Decided World War II" by David Downing focuses on the period between Nov. 17 through Dec. 8, 1941 and claims that the epic six-year conflict was essentially decided in that concentrated period. The …
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By IVY MOORE
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9/5/10 02:00 AM
There are thousands of orchid species. In fact, botanists generally consider this to be the largest plant family, with upwards of 30,000 different species. This really is a bewildering number of organisms, and suggests that there are plenty of …
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BY JOHN NELSON
Curator, USC Herbarium |
9/5/10 02:00 AM
NEBRASKA CITY, Neb. (AP) - Everyone from South Carolina who joins the Arbor Day Foundation in September will receive 10 free trees as part of the Foundation's Trees for America campaign.
Trees for America is a program of the Arbor Day Foundation …
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9/5/10 02:00 AM
He wrestled a shark, rescued 23 swimmers in distress in a single day and braved hurricane winds and surf to pluck Cuban sailors off a sinking ship. And those are just a few of the highlights of Dr. Sam Haywood's stint as a Daytona Beach Volunteer …
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By IVY MOORE
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9/5/10 02:00 AM
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