Bishopville News

The first Pee Dee Blues Bash wrapped up Sunday afternoon with a performance at Barnes Street Activity Center by Bishopville native Drink Small, "the Blues Doctor." At the last of the 24 shows that played in four days, the crowd was still clapping and excited to be there.

The city of Bishopville is hoping the use of stimulus funding to purchase new light fixtures and heat pumps is going to translate into savings on its energy bills.

Bishopville Mayor Tom Alexander, 78, remained in the trauma care unit at McLeod Regional Medical Center Thursday after suffering a massive stroke Tuesday night.

A hundred 3- and 4-year-olds can make a lot of noise when they are playing with streamers and balloons.

Up 2-1 the Lady Cobra volleyball team was unable to finish off the Erskine Flying Fleet in Conference Carolinas volleyball action on Saturday afternoon, losing 3-2. In a true back and forth battle, Coker won the opening set 26-24, but they dropped the second set 25-18. The Lady Cobras battled back to win the third set 25-21, but were again stopped ...

Pearl Fryar's yard in rural Bishopville, S.C., has made him something of an art-world star.

Ronnie Bracey makes people laugh and gets paid to do it. The Bishopville native and 1987 graduate of Bishopville High School is known professionally as Ra Ra Bracey.

Children love Halloween. It's a time for dressing up in costumes, eating tons of candy and knocking on doors.

Gina Vasselli / The Item People line up early Tuesday for the start of the application process for the Salvation Army's Christmas Assistance Program.

Lee County Council discussed extensive facility improvements needed at the various county-owned buildings at a workshop held Tuesday morning at the Lee County Courthouse.

A few friends of Bishopville High School attended Tuesday's City Council meeting to ask for support in their efforts to restore the old high school building.

Lee County deputies are looking for a man who held up a Bishopville area convenience store early Friday morning.

Authorities are looking for the man responsible for an armed robbery of a Bishopville area convenience store Friday morning.

"Cotton is King" again in Hartsville during twin, back-to-back festivals honoring the town's agricultural heritage, according to Marty Driggers, volunteer coordinator of the 2009 Coker Farm's Fall Festival.

Officials at a South Carolina high school near Charleston say a small construction fire on the roof of the gym has been extinguished and students are in class as normal.

Randy Burns / The Item Students return to school Monday at Robert E. Lee Academy after being out three days last week because of the high number of students absent with illness.

Local officials have been working hard to restore the Lee County Cotton Festival to the popularity it enjoyed in the 1970s and '80s. Lee County Chamber of Commerce Director Pam Kelley said the success of the 2009 festival has everyone believing the festival is on the right track.

About 200 people filled the Bishopville Opera House on Thursday night for the premier social and food gala of the year in Lee County, the Taste of Lee.

Randy Burns / the Item Custodians Melissa Griggs, right, and Lillie Ann Wright scrub every desk at the school this week while students and staff stay home for three days because of the high number of student absences.

For the past 15 years, a United Methodist minister has been reaching out to the needy in the Midlands and the Pee Dee with one giveaway program after another.