Library to purchase new bookmobile
The Friends of the Florence County Library announced last week that a donor has stepped up with a $70,000 donation to secure the purchase of the new Children’s Bookmobile.
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21 years of serving others
Manna House director begins a new chapter For the last two decades, Daphine Tedder has been serving meals to the needy and operating the food pantry at the Manna House in Florence. -
McLeod Family Medicine South on track for Fall completion
The COVID-19 pandemic has not slowed the construction of McLeod Family Medicine South, the anticipated new McLeod Physician Associates primary care office. Located at 611 Second Loop Road, ground was broken on the more than 7,000-square-foot facility la -
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BLACKBERRY PICKING TIME – Jerry Lee of Florence with sisters, Pat and Ann Lee, are ready to pick blackberries during the summer of 1942. Photo courtesy of Jerry Lee. Do you have an old photo you would like to submit for The News Journal’s Do You Remember? -
S.C. Pecan Festival canceled due to COVID-19
There will be no Pecan Festival in Florence in 2020. The Florence Downtown Development Corp. and the South Carolina Pecan Festival Committee announced Thursday that the 17th annual event, scheduled to take place on Saturday, November 6 in Downtown Florenc
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COVID-19 has not stopped local charities in their efforts to help their communities and Pee Dee Electric Cooperative has certainly not stopped supporting those organizations in a time of great need
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The Allman Betts Band concert at the Francis Marion University Performing Arts Center originally scheduled to be held May 6 has been rescheduled for May 27, 2021.
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Work continues on HOPE Village
Great progress is being made on the model tiny house for HOPE Village, according to officials with the House of Hope of the Pee Dee. -
McLeod Health recently announced the addition of Dr. Robin M. Fuchs and Dr. Ryan D. Fuchs to McLeod Hospice and Palliative Care.
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Amid all the troubles occupying our attention, one of the more worrisome is also one of the least visible. It is the loss of public faith in the effectiveness of our representative democracy.
