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When May arrives, it's time for the annual, highly anticipated Black Cowboy Festival at Greenfield Farms near Rembert. For the 18th consecutive year, Sandra and Mark Myers will host the four-day event, turning their working farm into a Western …
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BY IVY MOORE
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4/13/14 02:00 AM
NEW YORK - CNN is abandoning the talk show that anchored its prime-time schedule for three decades with Larry King and Piers Morgan in favor of several documentary-like series with personalities like Anthony Bourdain, Mike Rowe and John …
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BY DAVID BAUDER
AP Television Writer |
4/13/14 02:00 AM
Popular novelist Eric Jerome Dickey will sign copies of his latest thriller, "A Wanted Woman," beginning at 12:30 p.m. Saturday at Books-A-Million in Sumter Mall. The New York Times best-selling author has published 20 previous novels and a …
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4/13/14 02:00 AM
Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden
And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.
........ Shakespeare, Henry VI (part 2)
Watch out for the weeds, both the annuals and the …
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BY JOHN NELSON
Curator, USC Herbarium |
4/13/14 02:00 AM
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated, Beta Pi Zeta Chapter of Sumter, presented four outstanding young ladies at its annual "Blue Revue" Debutante Cotillion on Saturday, Feb. 8 at Sumter High School.
Breana Colclough, daughter of Thomas and Wanda …
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4/13/14 02:00 AM
It was gratifying to see a good crowd at Friday's concert by the Sumter Jazz Ensemble. To those music lovers who weren't there - as my old friend Booth Chilcutt would say - "You really missed it!'
The ensemble, most of them members of the Sumter …
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BY IVY MOORE
Item Lifestyles Editor |
4/9/14 02:00 AM
Swan Lake-Iris Gardens will be the site of Sumter's largest celebration of spring and Planet Earth. On Saturday, April 12, the city observes Earth Day.
From 8 a.m. until noon, the City of Sumter will host "a day of green," said Lynn Kennedy, the …
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BY IVY MOORE
ivym@theitem.com |
4/9/14 02:00 AM
Gardeners are just like everybody else, except that they garden. And being just like everybody else, gardeners go through their various "phases" or "periods." Some of these phases involve a sort of popularity contest when it comes to certain plants …
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BY JOHN NELSON
Curator, USC Herbarium |
4/6/14 02:00 AM
Associated Press WriterCHICAGO - Eminem and Outkast will headline a diverse lineup of more than 130 acts at this year's three-day Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago, Jane's Addiction lead singer and Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell announced …
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BY CARYN ROUSSEAU |
4/6/14 02:00 AM
The Olympics may be over, but there's still time to get in shape for the Sumter County Senior Fitness Games.The games sponsored by the Sumter County Recreation Department begin April 24 with golf at Crystal Lakes Golf Course and continue through May …
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BY IVY MOORE |
4/6/14 02:00 AM
BISHOPVILLE - Lee State Park is offering a park ranger-led bike ride along the Park's Loop Road from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, April 12. The 5-mile ride follows the park's Loop Road, a dirt and gravel road built by the Civilian Conservation Corps …
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4/6/14 02:00 AM
He's perhaps best known as "Barney Miller," precinct captain on the hit comedy of the same name. As the pillar of sanity in that TV police station, Linden received numerous Golden Globe and Emmy nominations.
Just a cursory examination of his …
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BY IVY MOORE
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4/6/14 02:00 AM
'Leave It on the Dance Floor" is the title of the Sumter Civic Dance Company's spring concert coming up Friday and Saturday at Patriot Hall. So what will the dancers leave on the floor?
"Just about every kind of dance form you can think of," said …
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BY IVY MOORE
ivym@theitem.com |
4/2/14 02:00 AM
Clark Reese will make a case for "Putting Your Family in a Computer" at the April 21 meeting of the Sumter County Genealogical Society. A longtime member of the society, he is a volunteer at the Society's Research Center on the front, ground floor …
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BY IVY MOORE
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4/2/14 02:00 AM
The Sumter County Historical Society hosted its 12th annual Myrtis Osteen Essay Contest, recognizing the winners on March 23 at the Sumter County Museum Heritage Education Center. The annual contest was open to all Sumter County high school …
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3/30/14 02:00 AM
For the eighth consecutive year, the Sankofa Connection's cultural festival encourages participants to "remember the past to build the future," the literal meaning of the Akon word "sankofa." The mission statement of the organization is to "promote …
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BY IVY MOORE
ivym@theitem.com
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3/30/14 02:00 AM
Love can sometimes break a heart but marriage seems to do it a lot of good. A study of more than 3.5 million Americans finds that married people are less likely than singles, divorced or widowed folks to suffer any type of heart or blood vessel …
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by MARILYNN MARCHIONE
AP Chief Medical Writer |
3/30/14 02:00 AM
CHICAGO - A smartphone app for recovering alcoholics that includes a panic button and sounds an alert when they get too close to taverns helped keep some on the wagon, researchers who developed the tool found.
The sober app studied joins a host …
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BY LINDSEY TANNER
AP Medical Writer |
3/30/14 02:00 AM
BISHOPVILLE - The Lee County Historical Society has invited a local personality to present its program at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 8. David Henry Lucas, a native of Lee County and a scholarship athlete for the University of South Carolina, will be the …
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3/30/14 02:00 AM
You've gotten your hands and the knees of your pants dirty, and maybe you've had some success in producing beautiful plants and flowers. Your success prompts you to want to learn more about gardening and plants. If you'd like to add a green thumb to …
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BY IVY MOORE
ivym@theitem.com
(803) 774-1221 |
3/29/14 02:00 AM
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