Pinewood News

A year after the projects were approved, some in the community are wondering what's happening with their penny.

A 49-year-old Summerton man was killed early Saturday morning in a single vehicle wreck on Elliot Road, officials said.

One person is dead after a early mornig collision in Clarendon County. The SC Highway Patrol says the driver was going south on Secondary 145, three miles south of Pinewood, around 2:40 Saturday morning.

South Carolina Highway Patrol officers are investigating a fatal Saturday morning accident 3 miles south of Pinewood.

Gina Vasselli / The Item Sumter fire officials hope the improvements to the fire stations will help keep the volunteers they have and recruit new ones.

Seven people have been arrested after Sumter Deputies broke up an illegal dog fighting ring.

Seven people have been arrested after Sumter Deputies broke up an illegal dog fighting ring.

Seven people have been arrested after Sumter Deputies broke up an illegal dog fighting ring.

Seven people have been arrested after Sumter Deputies broke up an illegal dog fighting ring.

Photos Provided Patricia Vatrano, clinical QI coordinator and diabetes education coordinator, conducts free blood pressure and diabetes screenings every third Wednesday at Sumter Mall.

Keith Gedamke / The Item Roosevelt Sinkler tunes up his guitar before a Sumter County Sheriff's Office Gospel Choir rehersal recently.

Two people are dead after a one car accident in Sumter County. It happened early Saturday morning on U.S. Highway 378 about 8 miles west of Sumter.

The 2009-10 budget for Sumter County took another step forward in the process Tuesday night at the regular County Council meeting, even as council made and discussed the need for further changes.

Dr. Leo Edwin Kirven, Jr., 85, formerly of Pinewood, passed away at his home in Lakeland, FL, on May 25, 2009, following a brief illness.

Pinewood Preparatory School sixth-grader Ben Gamble tripped up on a word he'd never heard before in the third round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., and won't progress to the semifinals today.

Would you bike 100 miles for charity? Pastor Jim Braswell, 54, would. Braswell is going to ride his bicycle on a 100-mile route around Sumter today to help Concord Presbyterian Church pay off some of its mortgage for constructing its Fellowship Hall in August 2007.

Charging the City of Sumter, Pinewood and Mayesville $2.50 for the billing and collection of real property and automobile tax notices is one of the ideas under consideration by Sumter County to overcome a budget deficit of more than $3.9 million.

Sumter County residents should soon begin to see the fruits of the local option sales tax that voters approved in November.