McCormick News

Jim Franklin is no stranger to the McDuffie County School System. He first came nine years ago to be the assistant principal of Thomson Middle School.

For more thanA 40 years, worshippers have gathered along Thurmond Lake forA summertime outdoor church services.

With a distinctive sound marked by the blazing banjo theatrics of Little Roy Lewis, a big bass drum, and robust harmonies from a contingent of identically dressed Lewis daughters, the Lewis Family has remained an institution of Georgia music and of the bluegrass festival scene for several decades.

South Carolina has been chopping millions from its budget for months, and now they're cutting from two of the state's biggest advocates against child abuse.

Once wasn't enough for Terry McConnell. McConnell, a 57-year-old auto repair shop owner from Eastonolle, Ga., has broken his own South Carolina state record for striped bass with a fish weighing at least 63 pounds.

Spartanburg County authorities arrested 21 people and seized illegal drugs and more than $34,000 in cash from a warehouse believed to be the site of an illegal gambling operation.

In this economy, families are making tough decisions to make ends meet. Band instruments for the kids might be the first thing to be cut out of the budget.

Sharon Hollen, third grade teacher at McCormick Elementary School, recently received a $200 reading grant from Marion School District 2. With the money, 115 copies of the book The Big Snowball and copies of ...

An Easley woman died and her husband was critically injured Saturday when the motorcycle they were riding left the roadway and overturned in McCormick County.

The recent storms may have helped the area's lake levels. For the past year, Thurmond Lake has slowly disappeared, but that is changing.

Everyone's buzzing about the federal "stimulus package." What some may not realize, however, is that The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act signed into legislation by President Obama on Feb.

Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009 11:14 p.m. An Amber Alert has been issued for a one-year-old child who has gone missing from Lancaster, S.C., according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

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Fifth-graders in Shannon Martindale's class at McCormick Elementary School were eager to know the best way to study for tests when they become sixth-graders next year at Moon Area Middle School.

Harold McCormick Elementary School recently held a school-wide science fair. Students in kindergarten through third grade completed a science project as a class.

The city of Sumter was pleased to learn on Friday it received an unqualified opinion on its fiscal year 2007-2008 by Bud Addison of accounting firm Webster Rogers.

Performances of the play Inherit the Wind will be at 3 p.m. today and 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Aiken Community Playhouse, Washington Center for the Performing Arts, 126 Newberry St., Aiken.

The literacy of a community holds vast implications for the overall well-being of the people in that community, adult education specialists say.

The Empty Stocking Fund, organized by The Herald, is an annual holiday assistance effort to help needy families in the newspaper's readership area.

Mrs. Ernest Hope King Corley, widow of James S. Corley Jr., died Wednesday, December 31, 2008, at home surrounded by her family.