Questions? Call the Kershaw County Voter Registration and Election Office, (803) 424-4016. Airport: Applied Technology Education Campus, 874 Vocation Lane Antioch: Antioch Head Start, 1591 Bishopville Highway Bethune: Woman’s Clubhouse, 200 Blackmon St. South Buffalo: Mount Pisgah School, 5160 Mount Pisgah Road Camden No. 1: City Arena, 517 Bull St. Camden No. 2: Jackson School, 1109 Campbell St. Camden No. 3: Camden Middle School’s Phelps … Continue reading Kershaw County Polling places

LEXINGTON COUNTY GOVERNMENT Lexington Town Council: 7 tonight at Town Hall, 111 Maiden Lane West Columbia City Council: 6 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall, 200 N. 12th St. Cayce City Council: 6 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall, 1800 12th St. Springdale Town Council: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Town Hall, 2915 Platt Springs Road Chapin Town Council: 7 p.m., Tuesday at Town Hall, 7300 Woodrow St. … Continue reading This Week – Notes

Elgin Neighborhood Yard Sale Pineforest Subdiv 8am – 1pm Fri & Sat 10/3, 10/4 Next to Blaney Elementary. Continue reading Garage Sales

Elgin Neighborhood Yard Sale Pineforest Subdiv 8am – 1pm Fri & Sat 10/3, 10/4 Next to Blaney Elementary. Continue reading Garage Sales

Explaining how the federal government rates schools What is AYP? AYP stands for Adequate Yearly Progress and is a measure of how well the nation’s schoolchildren are performing on their state’s standardized test. AYP also looks at other indicators, like graduation rates for high schools and attendance rates for elementary and middle schools. It also evaluates the academic performance of subgroups of students like low-income … Continue reading What is AYP?

Kershaw county school board members last week approved a design for the new Jackson Elementary School. What’s next? Administrators and architects will now develop a site package for the school to determine where the building will sit, where to place power and sewer lines and other details. What design did the board choose? Members chose a design similar to Blaney Elementary, said district spokeswoman Mary Anne Byrd. … Continue reading Update: new Jackson Elementary

The public is invited to a ribbon-cutting at 5:30 tonight at Blaney Elementary. The occasion is the first recognition activity for one of eight school construction projects that are part of the first phase of the district’s $102.2 million facilities equalization program. Several projects are expected to be completed this school year. Among work at Lugoff, Elgin and Camden area schools: Blaney Elementary: Renovation of entire building, a … Continue reading A celebration at Blaney Elementary

Disco-dancing fiddler crabs. Stay-at-home periwinkle snails. Steely-eyed great blue herons. Who would have thought a salt marsh could be filled with so many intriguing creatures? Environmental author Kevin Kurtz, for one. The writer took third-graders at Pontiac Elementary on a virtual tour of a South Carolina salt marsh Tuesday, reading his book “A Day in the Salt Marsh” and ruminating about the strange and exotic … Continue reading Marsh musings – Author’s tales transport children to fascinating place

Classes were canceled today at Lugoff-Elgin High School after a fire erupted Sunday afternoon in a storage room at the school. Firefighters from four companies responded to the blaze, which began about 5:30 p.m., Lugoff Fire Chief Robert Polksaid Sunday. The cause of the fire is unknown, he said. “The damage inside the room is so significant it will take some time to investigate,” Polk … Continue reading School’s out after Sunday fire – Lugoff-Elgin High expected to reopen Wednesday

Fourteen Kershaw County teachers have received Education Improvement Act awards totaling $47,100. Teachers at Blaney Elementary, Camden Elementary, Camden Middle, Doby’s Mill Elementary and Lugoff-Elgin Middle received funds. The awards, announced by the State Department of Education, are funded by the General Assembly to promote creativity and innovation in the classroom. Teachers applying of the awards mus provided a proposal outlining activities they wish to … Continue reading Kershaw teachers awarded grants