Blackville News

A husband is dead and his wife is still in the hospital after an accident Sunday afternoon just north of Blackville, South Carolina.

Funeral services for Sarah Aletta Coursey Hartzog, 87, of Blackville, SC, will be held eleven a.m. Friday, June 26, 2009, at Folk Funeral Home Chapel, Williston, with the Rev.

Shenese Johnson of Aiken and Michael McMillan of Aiken were married June 20, 2009, in Aiken.

Troopers say a pedestrian has died after being hit by the driver of an S.U.V. Sgt.

Some Miramichiers are such characters you could make a book about them. And that is exactly what photographer Brian Atkinson decided to do.

Jefferson Davis Academy started off the season of graduations this year when it graduated 16 students May 25.

The tragedy of a young girl and the community that pulled together to help her have come full circle as a dream becomes concrete.

The plight of Andre Simmons has Colorado fans especially intrigued. Simmons is the 6-foot-3, 208-pound receiver originally from Blackville, S.C., and, more recently, Independence Community College in Kansas whom CU signed in February.

Funeral service for Mickey Ezell Williams, 38, of Wagener, SC, will be held four p.m. Friday, April 24, 2009, in the Folk Funeral Home chapel, Williston, SC, with burial in Springfield Cemetery.

James Michael "Jamie" Zissette, 28, died Sunday, April 19, 2009. Jamie was born in Newberry, SC, and was the son of Tammy Horner Zissette and Lynn Michael Zissette.

The Blackville Downtown Development Association will host the third annual "Taste of Blackville Festival"A April 17 and 18.

In May 1962 this newspaper noted theA death in a Barnwell County hospital of Essie Dunbar.

Barnwell County, with an unemployment rate of almost 16 percent, is already well above the state jobless rate of 9.5 percent and the nation's 7.6 percent rate.

Explore the sites, tastes and sounds before, during and after the Great Depression in South Carolina during "Abandonment and Rediscovery: The Vanishing Architecture of Central South Carolina," an art exhibit ...

RJ and Karen Klock announce the birth of their daughter, Emma Elyse Klock, born Jan.

All claims are required to be presented in written statements, indicating the name and address of the claimant, the basis of the claim, the amount claimed, the date when the claim will become due, the nature of ...

The UPM sign is gone and the last of the company's employees will soon follow after UPM announced the final sale of its New Brunswick mills Jan.

It's the third plant in the last three months to bring bad news to Barnwell County.

A Blackville plant that makes air conditioning and heating equipment is closing, leaving about 350 workers without a job.

The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division says they have arrested two men on murder charges in Allendale County.