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Manning Junior High’s football team won its third consecutive Sumter Middle School Conference championship last night, defeating Bates Middle School. The 14-6 final was played in an almost …
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11/1/19 12:00 AM
Sumter School District superintendent Penelope Martin-Knox addressed nearly 200 school and community leaders for the first time in her role at the third annual State of the District on Tuesday. The …
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10/30/19 12:00 AM
Last Thursday we held a winner’s reveal cocktail and networking event to honor the winners of the 2019-2020 Top 20 professionals under 40. The Sumter Item partnered with the Greater Sumter …
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10/29/19 12:00 AM
Chef Rafaele Dall-Erta has made his way to downtown Sumter from the Inn at Little Washington by way of Milan, Italy. Now, he cooks up regional American cuisine with an Italian accent for weekday …
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10/28/19 12:00 AM
Last Friday Lemira Elementary School hosted a lunch party for students to get them excited about eating school lunch. Faculty dressed up as their favorite 90’s Hip Hop artists and performed …
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10/28/19 12:00 AM
Kindergarteners from Wilder Elementary walked to the Sumter Fire Department's Manning Road Station to learn about what firefighters do and to get a tour of the station. The students were quizzed on …
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10/24/19 12:00 AM
Aaron Smith had seen nothing but spot duty at running back for the Manning High School football team this season, as he has been a standout wide receiver.
However, he was put on the spot, having to play running back in their game against Waccamaw …
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Last Friday the Sumter Career and Technology Center held its fifth-annual Cupcake Wars competition. Each student presented nine cupcakes to the judges, one of each flavor for each judge.
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10/23/19 12:00 AM
Earlier this month, Hillcrest Middle School was recognized as a Palmetto Silver Award winner for its report card ratings’ performance last school year. We stopped by last week to celebrate with …
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10/22/19 12:00 AM
This past weekend we went out to the Sumter County Museum for the annual Carolina Backcountry Harvest. The event was free to the public, and included Blacksmithing, Cooking, Spinning and Weaving and …
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10/18/19 12:00 AM
USC Sumter men’s soccer team improved to 7-6 on the season with a tense 2-1 victory over Cape Fear Community College in their home finale on Wednesday afternoon. The seven victories sets a new program record for wins in a season for the Fire Ants.
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By J. Scott Sewell | jscott@theitem.com |
10/17/19 09:40 AM
What’s it like to be a firefighter? We recently got to see a typical day-in-the-life of a Sumter fire fighter.
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10/17/19 12:00 AM
Thomas Sumter Academy’s varsity volleyball team fell to Palmetto Christian Academy 3-0 (25-10, 25-23, 25-17) in their regular season finale on Tuesday night.
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By J. Scott Sewell | jscott@theitem.com |
10/16/19 09:23 AM
On Tuesday, The Sumter Item celebrated 125 years in existence with an event at the Sumter Opera House’s City Centre. The birthday celebration was highlighted by generations of Item employees, …
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10/16/19 12:00 AM
Yesterday we gave you the first part of our two part look into The Sumter Item’s history over its past 125 years of serving the community. Today, we’re back with Sammy Way for the finale.
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10/15/19 12:00 AM
The Sumter Item was founded on October 15, 1894 by Hubert Graham Osteen. If you know the current Osteen brothers who own the paper, he was their great-grandfather. A lot has happened in the last 125 …
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10/14/19 12:00 AM
We're in the middle of National Fire Prevention Week, but the Sumter Fire Department takes the whole month to put a special focus on fire prevention education and safety. On today's show we tag along …
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10/12/19 12:00 AM
Fall for the Arts is an annual series of performances, exhibits, dance lessons and more organized by the Sumter County Cultural Commission to showcase a diversity of cultural events in Sumter. It …
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10/10/19 12:00 AM
If you were anywhere near downtown on Saturday and didn’t know what was happening, you might have wondered why there were 5,000 kids running around with things like slime and art projects and …
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10/9/19 12:00 AM
Alice Drive Middle School celebrated World Space Week, which is going on this week, by demonstrating a variety of activities throughout campus, and one of those will be chosen to board the …
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10/8/19 12:00 AM