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More than a summer job
Since 1994, Sumter's Community Development Program has run an employment program for high school students who qualify. The federal award-winning Sumter Youth Employment Co-op Program serves young people age 16-18 through a cooperative agreement with … more
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Team Green: keeping baby's gender a surprise
NEW YORK (AP) — While parents-to-be always hope for a healthy baby, finding out the gender of a little bundle ahead of time makes it so much more personal and fun. Or does it? Prince William and his wife Kate have some non-royal company in … more
Sumter Little Theatre announces season
Last year, the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein opened the season for Sumter Little Theatre, and a multiple award-winning musical will open the 2012-14 season again in August. While "Some Enchanted Evening: The Music of Rodgers and Hammerstein" was … more
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Magazine fights child obesity 1 recipe at a time
For years, cookbook writer Sally Sampson had wanted to write for children. No one was interested. But by 2010, the time was right. Alarm over rising rates of childhood obesity was reaching new heights, as was awareness of the importance of … more
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Books continue to excite Sumter readers
Sumter seems to be blessed with avid readers, people who love to read and to talk about books. If some of the recommendations in Sunday's Panorama whetted your appetite, there are many more treats in store. Here are a few recommendations that came … more
Sumter Artists Guild Show opens
The 2013 Sumter Artists Guild Show opens Thursday at the Sumter County Gallery of Art with a reception from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. During that time, awards will be presented to the winners, selected this year by Paul Matheny, chief curator for the South … more
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Got your summer reads? Book lovers suggest titles
Uncle Cecil, a voracious reader of all kinds of literature, once told me that God made the different seasons especially for readers, and that's why summer reading is often different from, say, winter reading. In the winter, he said, it's too cold to … more
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Follow tips for walking outdoors
Welcome to July in Sumter, usually the warmest and most humid month of the year. With average low and high temperatures of 70 and 91 degrees, it is easy to be discouraged from doing anything exerting outside, including walking for exercise. Perhaps … more
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Sumter students work hard during summer vacation
Although summer vacation began in June, eight students from St. Francis Xavier High School and one from St. Anne were still hard at work. According to an article from the high school, the teens spent a week repairing and repainting the home of a … more
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Naiads for a day
Summer intensive classes at Freed School of Performing Arts regularly meet at the studio; however, twice each summer, director Andrea Freed Levenson has them meet at her home for "water ballet." The classes are beneficial in more than one way, … more
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Breath of fresh air
Besides her ever present smile that periodically morphs into a grin - she's got a lot to smile about - the first thing friends might notice about Heather McCoy is that she's no longer reliant on supplemental oxygen. Her voice might be a little … more
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Congress to recognize Buffalo Soldiers
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In the decades after the Civil War, the nation's first black Army regiments guarded Yosemite and Sequoia national parks against poaching and timber thefts, a role that in hindsight made them some of the United States' first … more
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Preserve the past
The oldest surviving Jewish cemetery in the South has suffered damage from time, weather, an earthquake, tree roots, and vandalism since it was acquired 259 years ago. Many headstones are broken, several are missing, and there is other damage, as … more
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New book explores the not-so-miserable only child
NEW YORK (AP) — No kids, one kid, four kids: There's no end to the debate over why people decide on a certain number. But is one family configuration more scrutinized than another? Lauren Sandler thinks so. She delves into the myths and … more
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State museum acquires transistor radio collection
COLUMBIA - These days, an iPod with two ear buds typically provides portable music for the young and young-at-heart. Half a century ago, however, it was one plug in the ear, and the other end of the wire ran to what was then the latest thing in … more
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Artists colony releases anthology
Back in 2007, Martha Greenway and Mary Brent DuCom Cantarutti invited a group of writers from both coasts to a residency based in the Sumter County countryside; Cantarutti is a Sumter native who's lived in California most of her life, and Greenway, … more
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Forum focuses on early black lawmen
The Lincoln High School Alumni Association Preservation Society will present its second forum on the history and culture of blacks in Sumter from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday. The program at the Lincoln High School Building will focus on the role of the … more
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Rare S.C. artifacts at D.C. museum
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The harsh realities of crime manifest themselves through artifacts and instruments of forensics, investigation, enforcement and violence. At Washington, D.C.'s Crime Museum, such evidence can be found prominently displayed in each … more
Horse sense
At 8 a.m. Monday, Father Dan Clarke, rector of the Church of the Holy Cross, and a small group of people and horses gathered at Rebecca Thayer's horse farm for the "blessing of the beasts." The horses and humans bowed their heads as he prayed over … more
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Delta Theta Sorority, Inc. presents 11 debutantes
Sumter Alumnae Chapter of Delta Theta Sorority, Inc. presented Eleven Pearls of Royalty at its annual debutante cotillion on March 23 at Chestnut Oaks Middle School. The theme for the evening was "Crimson & Pearls: Impacting Lives with Grace and … more
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