Drivers may have noticed signs asking motorists to reframe from throwing trash from their vehicles. The signs are a gentle reminder from the group “Keep Williamsburg Beautiful,” an affiliate of “Keep America Beautiful” to be mindful that the county is everyone’s backyard. Anyone interested in getting involved in “Keep Williamsburg Beautiful” is encouraged to contact the chamber at 355-6431.
Photo by Michaele Duke
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6/30/2009
Depot building undergoes inspection
6/30/2009
An engineering firm inspected the Depot building on Main Street as part of Kingstree Town Council’s commitment to renovate some, if not all of the facility. Deonne Long of CHAO and Associates met with Town Manager Dan Wells on Tuesday, ...
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Wells signs three-year contract
6/30/2009 by Michaele Duke, Staff Reporter
The Kingstree town manager position has never come with a contract but in a special called meeting on June 22, council voted unanimously to enter into a three year term agreement with Dan Wells. Wells was been active at the position since April. “I’m ...
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Man struck while riding bike
6/30/2009
A man died after a vehicle struck him as he rode a bicycle on secondary 33 (New Zion Road) in Cades. According to South Carolina Highway Patrol Corporal Paul Brothers, on Saturday, June 20, Howard Lee McFadden, age 53, was struck by a Pontiac driven ...
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Photo of the Week
6/23/2009
Williamsburg Cares President Jim Wise and Gracie Chandler unload a bounty of good things, courtesy of employees of the Kingstree Post Office. Each year the post office holds a food drive for Williamsburg Cares. Mail carriers retrieve the food items l ...
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Town approves budget
6/23/2009 by Michaele Duke, Staff Reporter
Kingstree Town Council voted to pass the 2009-2010 budget. The budget includes a raise in water rates to the equivalent of Williamsburg County rates. City rates have seen two rate increases in the past nine years. The increase will enable the town to ...
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Old newspapers, fond memories
6/30/2009 by Charlie Walker · 0 Comment(s)
This is a blast from the past, published in The News on Thursday, July 1, 1976.Twenty-two years ago doesn’t seem like such a long time, but as I turn the torn yellow pages of this old battered copy of The County Record, names, places, memories come i ...
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Our 50th Wedding Anniversary
6/23/2009 by Charlie Walker · 0 Comment(s)
It’s Friday, the day before Father’s Day. A wall of green surrounds Sandy Bay. The corn is so high, the tassels are wearing parachutes. Father’s Day doesn’t rank very high on our list of holidays. It ranks somewhere between Bugs Bunny’s birthday and ...
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That burning ring of fire
6/22/2009 by By Charlie Walker · 0 Comment(s)
Internal vigilance is the price of bachelorhood, but cupid is sneaky. He’s like Santa Claus on Christmas Eve; he’s everywhere!And the love bug will bite you if you don’t watch out. The love bug that invaded Sandy Bay must have been starving to death ...