Williamsburg County News

The Francis Marion Trail Commission has received The Honor Award from the South Carolina Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects and one from the Georgia Chapter for its strategic plan.

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 into focus, and the cobwebs of time melt away.

John S. Brown, Jr., 81, widower of Katherine Bookhardt Brown, died Sunday, June 28, 2009, at the N.E. and Ruby Green Hospice House, Georgetown.

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.

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.

The regular meeting of the Williamsburg County Chapter of the AARP will meet Wednesday, June 24, at 12 p.m. at the Williamsburg County Recreation Center, 2084 Thurgood Marshall Blvd., Kingstree.

Police launched a manhunt for two men suspected of robbing at gunpoint, the Williamsburg First National bank in Hemingway.

Evelyn Baker Epps, 94, widow of William M. Epps, died Sunday, June 21, 2009. Born in the Hebron Community, Williamsburg County, on February 7, 1915, she was the daughter of the late Benjamin Cleveland and Margaret Wilma Plexico Baker.

Thumbs up to Williamsburg Technical College's Alpha Sigma Gamma chapter of the Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society, which recently raised $750 for the American Red Cross.

A Williamsburg County man has been sentenced to seven years in prison on a federal gun charge, according to a press release from U.S. Attorney W. Walter Wilkins.

Two small communities nestled on the border of Clarendon and Williamsburg counties will no longer be dependent on wells for suitable drinking water, thanks to a $545,200 federal grant.

County and school officials provided the public with tentative budgets for Fiscal Year 2010 during public hearings held Tuesday at the Lee County Courthouse.

The family of a slain Nesmith couple still is searching for answers some two years after the crime.

One person is dead after being struck by a train in Williamsburg County. Officials say it happened around 5:15 Tuesday morning at Cades Crossroads, off Highway 512, south of Lake City.

Published on 5/27/2009 Written by Michaele Duke, Staff Reporter During the May 19, Williamsburg Regional Hospital board meeting CEO John Hales proposed that the board consider designating a number of beds to a new service providing inpatient physical rehabilitation.

Williamsburg School board, having committed itself to no cost increase in a reorganization, added new positions in a series of actions, but had to cut salaries in those positions in order to do it - also it pressed right up against a state deadline of May 15 in the process.

Congratulations to Krista Poston, Williamsburg County Golden Apple Award winner for April 2009.

Three people from Glen Burnie are awaiting extradition today for the murder of a 17-year-old high school student last month in South Carolina, county police said.

Four people are in custody after a Williamsburg County murder investigation. According to a press release from the Williamsburg County Sheriff's Office, Antonio Lavelle McClary,19, of 55 Dove Street in Kingstree, Twanda Mack Allen,36, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, Kelvin Michael Bowen, Jr., 31 of Glen Burnie Maryland, and Ronald Hakeem Mack of Glen ...

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