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When the Sumter County Gallery of Art was completed in 2003, the directors and the galleryboard knew that a very special exhibition should be mounted for the grand opening of the state-of-the-art facility. And since the gallery is a public space, …
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BY IVY MOORE
ivym@theitem.com |
1/6/13 01:00 AM
Happy New Year! Good, bad or indifferent, last year is history. A new year has arrived, and with it, renewed hope for fresh starts and new beginnings. Maybe you've made a New Year resolution to get healthier. I applaud you if you have, because good …
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By Linda Pekuri
SCAL Executive Director |
1/6/13 01:00 AM
Here's a plant with a kind of brutal winter beauty, the drying leaf stalks topped with a constellation of brown, spiny burs. You might have a feeling that this is a plant that wants to spread itself around, if it can. And it wants you to …
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BY JOHN NELSON
Curator, USC Herbarium |
1/6/13 01:00 AM
There is only one week for residents of Sumter and Clarendon counties to submit their photos for the competition being held in conjunction with the exhibition "The Unpainted South - Carolina's Vanishing World." The competition asks amateur …
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BY IVY MOORE
ivym@theitem.com |
1/2/13 01:00 AM
The Sumter-Shaw Community Concert Association invites residents to start the year with some good laughs, "the best medicine," when the SSCCA board brings comedian Robert Post to the stage of the Sumter Opera House on Sunday, Jan. 20.
Post is …
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BY IVY MOORE
ivym@theitem.com |
1/2/13 01:00 AM
CHARLESTON - Festival General Director Nigel Redden has announced the 2013 artistic lineup for Spoleto Festival USA, which showcases nationally and internationally acclaimed artists in a celebration of opera, theater, dance, physical theater, music …
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FROM STAFF REPORTS |
12/30/12 01:00 AM
Sara Goheen, a junior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, often folds placemats or straw wrappers into interesting shapes while she's waiting at a restaurant for the food to arrive.
"It's super satisfying to see a flat piece of paper …
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BY MELISSA K. DUTTON
Associated Press Writer |
12/30/12 01:00 AM
Any amateur photographer native to or residing in Sumter or Clarendon counties is eligible to enter.
Photographs should be in black and white and depict scenes or objects that represent rural or small town life in either county. Digital images …
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12/26/12 01:00 AM
Today - Photography competition begins
Jan. 9 - Deadline to submit photos
Jan. 27 - Photo competition finalists published in The Item
Jan. 28, 9 a.m. - Exhibition opens to public
Feb. 8, noon - S.C. Educational Radio's "Walter Edgar …
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12/26/12 01:00 AM
The South Carolina lowcountry is filled with uniquely beautiful landscapes, and the counties of Clarendon and Sumter, while not precisely part of that storied area, have their own equally singular sights. Writer William P. Baldwin and photographer …
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BY IVY MOORE
ivym@theitem.com |
12/26/12 01:00 AM
Some will be sad when Christmas Day has passed, but others will look forward to the remainder of the 12 Days of Christmas that end on Epiphany, or Jan. 6, also known as Twelfth Night. According to tradition, that's when the Wise Men arrived with …
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BY IVY MOORE
ivym@theitem.com |
12/23/12 01:00 AM
Fifteen years after Sumter WineFest was started to benefit Sumter Senior Services, the event continues to be both its biggest fundraiser and a highly festive event that gives spirits a boost after the end-of-the-holidays slump. The two-and-a-half …
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BY IVY MOORE
ivym@theitem.com |
12/19/12 01:00 AM
Fifteen years after Sumter WineFest was started to benefit Sumter Senior Services, the event continues to be both its biggest fundraiser and a highly festive event that gives spirits a boost after the end-of-the-holidays slump. The two-and-a-half …
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BY IVY MOORE
ivym@theitem.com |
12/19/12 01:00 AM
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Hasbro says it will soon reveal a gender-neutral Easy-Bake Oven after meeting with a New Jersey girl who started a campaign calling on the toy maker to make one that appeals to all kids.
McKenna Pope, 13, of Garfield, …
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12/18/12 01:10 AM
Under the 2010 Americans with Disabilities Act, the law addresses the rights of those with service dogs. It reads, in part:
- Only dogs are recognized as service animals under titles II and III of the ADA.
- A service animal is a dog that is …
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12/16/12 01:00 AM
CLEVELAND, Miss. - Natasha Trethewey smashes stereotypes about poets. She's not stuffy. Or shy. Or aloof.
As U.S. poet laureate, the 46-year-old describes herself as a "cheerleader" for the written word. She chooses the label deliberately, not …
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BY EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
Associated Press |
12/16/12 01:00 AM
Many people assume that service dogs only assist people who are visually impaired. That might have been the reason that Iraqi veteran Kyle Civitella, whose sight is intact, and his service dog Odin were made to leave a Sumter restaurant recently. …
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BY IVY MOORE
ivym@theitem.com |
12/16/12 01:00 AM
UNION BEACH, N.J. (AP) — In the days after Superstorm Sandy wrecked this gritty blue-collar enclave on the New Jersey shore, creating iconic scenes of devastation and loss, the artificial Christmas tree was just an inconspicuous part of tons of …
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12/14/12 01:03 AM
LONDON (AP) — Little Miss Muffet could have been separating her curds and whey 7,500 years ago, according to a new study that finds the earliest solid evidence of cheese-making.
Scientists performed a chemical analysis on fragments from 34 …
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12/12/12 06:13 PM
Mama was in her 70s before she had a Christmas stocking. During her childhood, like my sister Cindy and I, she'd carefully placed an empty shoe box at the foot of her bed for Santa to fill with fruit, nuts, socks, underwear and the like - sometimes …
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BY IVY MOORE
ivym@theitem.com |
12/12/12 01:00 AM
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