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This year's Follow the Blooms Tour, sponsored by the Garden Clubs of South Carolina, will center on the Sumter area, with tours of historic homes and gardens, seminars and demonstrations, lunch and more. All events are scheduled between 10 a.m. and …
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BY IVY MOORE
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4/7/13 02:00 AM
COLUMBIA - The University of South Carolina's McKissick Museum will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Jean Laney Harris Folk Heritage Awards with a folk heritage festival on Saturday, April 27, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the historic horseshoe. …
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4/7/13 02:00 AM
For its April 9 meeting the Lee County Historical Society has invited Elgin citizens David and Susan Little to speak on the contributions of Native Americans to our American way of life. David and his wife Susan are members of the Mohican Nation, …
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FROM STAFF REPORTS |
4/7/13 02:00 AM
For many of us, spring symbolizes a new start. We look forward to spending more time outdoors enjoying the sunshine and fresh air. Dusting away the winter cobwebs, we begin organizing and planning for warmer days ahead. Spring is also a great time …
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By Deborah Kinnard
USC Prevention Research Center |
4/7/13 02:00 AM
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. - April showers bring May flowers - and swarming mosquitoes. There are more than 170 species of mosquitoes in North America, many of them carrying deadly diseases. The American Mosquito Control Association (AMCA) is urging the …
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4/7/13 02:00 AM
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia is getting ready for a supersized game of "Pong" — on the side of a skyscraper.
The classic Atari video game will be re-created later this month on the facade of the 29-story Cira Centre, where hundreds of …
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4/6/13 02:00 AM
DENVER (AP) — Scar was an 8-year-old bulldog mix who was fatally shot by a police officer pursuing a suspect, even though witnesses said he never left his yard and was not barking or growling.
Kupa was a service dog who was shot and killed …
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4/4/13 02:20 AM
Cuts in the federal budget, which includes the Department of Defense, means the U.S. Army Jazz Ambassadors concert originally scheduled for tonight has been canceled. The Sumter-Shaw Community Concert Association, which has a tradition of hosting …
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BY IVY MOORE
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4/3/13 02:00 AM
The pop-rock vocal ensemble 42Five will close out the season for the Sumter-Shaw Community Concert Association on Tuesday, April 16, with a variety of vocal gymnastics. The a cappella group of five young men covers tunes from the 1960s to the …
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BY IVY MOORE
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4/3/13 02:00 AM
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — After a fire broke out at Dorothy Phillips' apartment in Philadelphia, the Red Cross gave her a temporary place to stay. Unfortunately, the shelter would not accept her beloved dog, Max.
Who would care for him while she …
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4/1/13 02:00 AM
THE BLAND GARDEN CLUB
The club held its annual luncheon at Sunset Country Club on Thursday, March 21. After prayer and luncheon the members participated in some challenging games and president Shellie Bradford gave a presentation on local birds. …
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3/31/13 02:00 AM
A local chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, descendants of soldiers who fought to maintain their way of life - which included the institution of slavery - is now seeking to honor a black man who performed an arduous deed in service to the …
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BY IVY MOORE
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3/31/13 02:00 AM
NEW YORK (AP) — Marilyn Monroe's letter of despair to mentor Lee Strasberg, and Dwight D. Eisenhower's heartfelt missives to his wife during World War II are among hundreds of historical documents being offered in an online auction.
Monroe's …
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3/29/13 02:00 AM
Sumter native Glen Browder will return to the city for an author/book event from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. Saturday at Simpson's Hardware on Wesmark Boulevard. He is promoting the new biography, "Professor-Politican: The Biography of Alabama Congressman …
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BY IVY MOORE
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3/27/13 02:00 AM
Sumter's Sankofa Connection will present its 7th Annual Cultural Festival from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. Saturday, April 6, at Mt. Pisgah AME Church. The organization's founder and the festival's presenter and coordinator, Natalie Williams, said the …
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BY IVY MOORE
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3/27/13 02:00 AM
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Saplings from the chestnut tree that stood as a symbol of hope for Anne Frank as she hid from the Nazis for two years in Amsterdam are being distributed to 11 locations in the United States as part of a project that aims to …
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PAMELA ENGEL
Associated Press |
3/25/13 01:57 AM
Don't worry about kids falling out of this tree. It's terrible for a tree house, or just for climbing, and for pretty obvious reasons.
It is a native deciduous plant, fairly common from New York through the lower Midwest, and south to Texas and …
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BY JOHN NELSON
Curator, USC Herbarium |
3/24/13 02:00 AM
FROM STAFF REPORTS
COLUMBIA - Ask the University of South Carolina's R. Blakeslee Gilpin how he ended up editing "The Selected Letters of William Styron," released in December by Random House, and he will explain how graduate school encourages …
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3/24/13 02:00 AM
LONDON - Britain's fertility regulator says it has found broad public support for in vitro fertilization techniques that allow babies to be created with DNA from three people for couples at risk of passing on potentially fatal genetic …
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MARIA CHENG
AP Medical Writer |
3/24/13 02:00 AM
Cane. Walker. Wheelchair. Prosthetic limb. Missing limb.
Those are the easily recognizable injuries of war. But war also comes with wounds invisible to the eye - pain, sleepless nights, viewing passing strangers as the enemy and moving through …
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BY KIM DAULT
Special to The Item |
3/24/13 02:00 AM
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