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Inspired by the couples in Dancing with the Sumter Stars? Even if you didn’t see them competing, but you like to dance or just listen to big band music and jazz, this might just be the chance you’ve been waiting for.
The first week of May is …
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BY IVY MOORE
ivym@theitem.com |
4/28/13 02:00 AM
This Mother's Day, skip the bouquet and get mom something she will really use.
Whether she's a serious chef wanting to expand her culinary repertoire, or an everyday cook hoping to save time on food prep, use the gift-giving opportunity to …
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BY STATEPOINT |
4/28/13 02:00 AM
Sumter piano students Rachel Blanding, Sarah Jekel, Jacob McDonald and Ashauna Leverette are among the state's top young musicians, receiving Superior ratings for their performances recently.
Blanding, Jekel and Leverette played in the South …
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4/28/13 02:00 AM
The Main Street Society will host an open house on Thursday, featuring The Loft on Caldwell Street, an upscale apartment converted from a historic downtown building.
Danielle Thompson of Thompson Turner Construction, which owns the apartment, …
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BY IVY MOORE
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4/24/13 02:00 AM
Derek Burress is not a bingo player, but he makes an exception once a year for a game that's just too much fun for him to resist - Rotary Club of Sumter Sunrise's Cow Patty Bingo. He's been hosting the fundraiser for "11 or 12 years," Burress said, …
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BY IVY MOORE
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4/24/13 02:00 AM
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4/23/13 08:00 PM
The latest Cirque du Soleil production is different from all the others. Quidam, which runs April 24 -29 at the Colonial Center in Columbia, had its world premiere in Montreal under the Big Top in April 1996. Since that time, the production has …
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FROM STAFF REPORTS |
4/21/13 02:00 AM
Fans of National Public Radio's "Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!" will have the opportunity to see the program as it's being taped for broadcast. A live staging of "Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!" will be beamed to select cinemas across the country at 8 …
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4/21/13 02:00 AM
Sumter Lions Club
Lions will be at Simpson's Ace Hardware, 40 West Wesmark Boulevard, from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. Saturday, May 4, selling the club's signature brooms.
Lions Broom Sale and White Cane Day is a long tradition for Lions Clubs …
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4/21/13 02:00 AM
Mark and Sandra Myers continue to spread the history of black settlers in America's Old West through their Black Cowboy "Man or Myth" African American Festival. The first weekend in May marks the 17th year the couple will have opened their 60-acre …
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BY IVY MOORE
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4/21/13 02:00 AM
April is National Poetry Month, and Thursday is Poem in Your Pocket Day.
Remember when we memorized poems in school? We started with the sing-songy ones, like nursery rhymes — "Mary had a little lamb," for example — and progressed to longer, …
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BY IVY MOORE
ivym@theitem.com |
4/17/13 02:00 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) — DNA may be the building block of life, but can something taken from it also be the building block of a multimillion-dollar medical monopoly?
The Supreme Court grapples Monday with the question of whether human genes can be …
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4/15/13 02:00 AM
DENVER (AP) — Thousands of people are expected to join an unofficial counterculture holiday celebrating marijuana in Colorado and Washington this coming weekend, including out-of staters and even packaged tours. The events and crowds will test the …
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KRISTEN WYATT
Associated Press |
4/15/13 01:58 AM
Can you teach an old dog new tricks? Or a young dog a trick good enough to win Best Trick honors at the Iris Festival Children's Pet Show?
The folks at the Sumter SPCA are issuing a "heads up" to young people up to age 12 so they can begin …
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BY IVY MOORE
ivym@theitem.com |
4/14/13 02:00 AM
Lake City, just 35 miles east of Sumter, will premiere ArtFields, a 10-day celebration of the arts whose centerpiece is the largest visual arts competition of its kind in the Southeast. In fact, it's being touted by many as "an epic Southeastern art …
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BY IVY MOORE
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4/14/13 02:00 AM
The Sumter County Cultural Commission has announced a call for first quarter grant applications for Sumter County artists, arts organizations and arts programming. These funds are for activities and projects that start during the months of July, …
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4/14/13 02:00 AM
Gadshill: "We have the receipt of fern-seed, we walk invisible."
Chamberlain. "Now, by my faith, I think you are more beholding to the night
than to fern-seed for your walking invisible.
- Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 1: Act 2, Scene …
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BY JOHN NELSON
USC Herbarium Curator |
4/14/13 02:00 AM
Sumter will celebrate National Library Week along with communities across the country from April 14-20. The theme for this year is "Communities matter @ your library." The Sumter County Library has already begun celebrating the contributions of its …
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BY IVY MOORE
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4/10/13 02:00 AM
Classical pianist Dorian Leljak will present a lecture recital at noon Wednesday, April 17, at the University of South Carolina Sumter. The recital will be held in the Nettles Auditorium and is free and open to the public.
The program will …
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4/10/13 02:00 AM
NEW YORK (AP) — Halle Berry says she's a woman of compassion and Michael Kors says he's a man of action. Together, they want to make a dent in the battle against hunger around the world.
The actress and fashion designer announced a …
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4/9/13 02:15 AM
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