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From staff reports
DARLINGTON — TheDarlington County Boardof Education named threenew principals at its boardmeeting Monday.
Corey Lewis will be thenew principal of HartsvilleHigh School.
Kathryn White will be thenew principal of CarolinaElementary School.
Shannon Fraser will be
the new principal at PateElementary School.
“I am excited about thefuture for Carolina Ele-mentary School, Pate Ele-mentary School, HartsvilleHigh School and our dis-trict,” said Tim Newman,incoming district superin-tendent. “The new leader-ship represents the bestDarlington County has to
Board names threenew principals
Darlington County schools
From staff reports
FLORENCE — It’s time to getdown to the nitty gritty at theFrancis Marion University Per-forming Arts Center.
It will happen on Thursday,Aug. 30, when that popularAmerican ensemble, the NittyGritty Dirt Band, comes to town.The show will start at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets for the band’s only PeeDee-area show this year go onsale at noon Wednesday. Ticketprices start at just $22 and areavailable at fmupac.org, at 843-661-4444 and at the PAC TicketOffice.
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Bandalways has been hard to clas-sify but easy to remember. Is itcountry, rock, blues, bluegrass orsomething else?
To the group’s legions of fans,it’s never really mattered. Theyflocked to NGDB’s sound andits long string of hits, such as“Mr. Bojangles,” “An AmericanDream,” “Make A Little Magic,”and “Fishin’ in the Dark,” plus al-most all of the tracks from “Willthe Circle Be Unbroken,” theband’s hit 1972 album.
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band haspiled up multiple-platinum andgold records, earned two Gram-mys, IBMA and CMA awards andmore than a dozen nominationsover the years.
But it never has rested on its ac-complishments.
The band’s current lineup ofJeff Hanna, Jimmie Fadden andBob Carpenter represent theessence of the band’s many it-erations. Indeed, Hanna andFadden have been a part of theband since its inception. Theycontinue their nonstop tour-ing schedule today, rekindling
Nitty GrittyDirt Bandcoming tothe PACGrammy Award-winningcountry rockers will bein Florence on Aug. 30
BY ANDREW BOARDWINEMorning News
FLORENCE — When Jeffrey LeeSr. opened up Lee’s Esso servicestation on U.S. 52 in 1968, he hadvisions of what the soon-to-beexit had potential to become.
On Tuesday, the station cel-ebrated its 50-year anniversaryas the first business built on Dar-lington Highwy and at exit 164 offI-95.
Lee said his business openedexactly seven months, threeweeks, four days and four hoursbefore I-95.
“It’s been a great ride,” Lee said.“God has really taken care of mein this business and we’ve reallyenjoyed it. When I was first ap-proached by Esso, I told themthat the person that owned thatstore would die until the inter-state opened up. They made sureto take care of me and that meanta lot.”
There were several months inwhich the store struggled to sellfuel before the opening of I-95.During that time, Lee said, manyof his business friends wouldsend people over to the servicestation just to help with business.
“We would sit around all dayand wait for a car to come by go-ing from Florence to Darlington,”Lee said. “We might not see 50cars the entire day. There wasliterally nothing, business-wise.After the interstate, though, youstarted to see new businessescome. Now, at 5 o’clock, it’s al-most impossible to get out ofthis store. The exit really grew uparound this store and it has beenawesome watching the construc-tion over the years.”
Half a century
PHOTOS BY ANDREW BOARDWINE/MORNING NEWS
Jeffrey Lee Sr. poses in front of the Exxon sign outside his store Tuesday afternoon.
Store struggledbefore opening ofI-95 exit broughtcustomers
See BOARD, Page 3A
See LEE, Page 2ASee GRITTY, Page 3A
BY REBECCA CROSS 38Morning News
FLORENCE — Morethan 50 scholarships wereawarded to Wilson HighSchool students during theschool’s Academic AwardsNight program on Tuesdayevening at the school.
Reanne Smith, a graduat-ing senior at Wilson HighSchool, received morethan $500,000 in scholar-ships, and some of thosefunds came during Aca-demic Awards Night. Smithsaid she would not have
received as much scholar-ship money if instructorsand administrators had notgiven her application ma-terials and reminded her ofscholarship deadlines.
“I like that our schoolappreciates our achieve-ments and wants to moti-vate us to achieve more aswe apply for these scholar-ships,” Smith said.
Smith has a full ride toMiddlebury College.
The scholarshipsawarded during the pro-gram came from multiple
REBECCA CROSS/MORNING NEWS
Radine Tate, representative from the Class of 1967, presentsTaijea Davis and David Graham with $1,000 scholarships atthe Wilson High School Awards Night on Tuesday evening.See WILSON, Page 4A
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