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2015 Screen on the Green season begins with “Searching for Bobby Fischer,” sponsored by Learn and Win

Screen on the Green, the City of Hartsville’s free series of summertime movies, will launch this Saturday, May 9 with a showing of “Searching for Bobby Fischer,” sponsored by the educational group Learn and Win, in Burry Park, 131 Cargill Way.

The evening’s presentation, the 1993 film “Searching for Bobby Fischer,” tells the true story of Josh Waitzkin (Max Pomeranc), who demonstrated a genius for the game of chess at an early age and was tutored by famous chess teacher […]

May 4th, 2015|News|Comments Off on 2015 Screen on the Green season begins with “Searching for Bobby Fischer,” sponsored by Learn and Win
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Special column — The Hartsville Police Department and the Hartsville community

Police Chief Jerry Thompson
Hartsville Police Department

After all the time I’ve spent in Hartsville, I know this is a great community. I knew that long before I was named Chief of Police about a month ago. Even so, I’m now learning it all over again. Since coming back to the Hartsville Police Department from the Darlington County Sheriff’s Office, I’ve been tremendously thankful for the kindness which many of you have shown to my family during what has, at times, […]

May 1st, 2015|News|Comments Off on Special column — The Hartsville Police Department and the Hartsville community
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Recyclers of the Month – April 2015

Tiffany and Ford Wallace are the City of Hartsville’s Recyclers of the Month for April 2015.

Tiffany said much of what the family throws out, such as bottles and shipping boxes, goes into recycling. She has long been a recycler, she said, and has taught her son to be one as well.

“I’ve always felt it was important,” she said. “It’s just as easy to throw items in recycling.”

As the Recyclers of the Month, the Wallace family received a yard sign […]

April 29th, 2015|News|Comments Off on Recyclers of the Month – April 2015
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Hartsville City Council special meeting

Hartsville City Council will have a special meeting Tuesday, April 21, 2015, 5:30 p.m. at Hartsville City Hall, 100 E. Carolina Ave. Click here for the meeting agenda.

April 17th, 2015|News|Comments Off on Hartsville City Council special meeting
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Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Day in the City of Hartsville

April 19, 2015 has been declared Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH) Day in the City of Hartsville by proclamation of Mayor Mel Pennington. On April 16, Pennington presented the City of Hartsville proclamation to CDH awareness advocates Kristin and Andy Dampier, who lost their daughter Kaegan Dampier, born with CDH, in November 2014.

The day is meant to call attention to this life-threatening birth defect which limits the growth of the lungs and occurs in one of every 2,500 live births […]

April 17th, 2015|News|Comments Off on Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Day in the City of Hartsville
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Child Abuse Prevention Month in the City of Hartsville

A proclamation issued by Mayor Mel Pennington during the Hartsville City Council meeting on April 14 declared April 2015 as Child Abuse Prevention Month in the City of Hartsville. Pennington presented the proclamation to Casey Copeland, an advocate in community-building organizations including OneHartsville, as well as Ronald Krein, Director of the Darlington County Department of Social Services.

The proclamation noted that more than 15,000 cases of documented child maltreatment occur every year in South Carolina. It also called for individuals, […]

April 17th, 2015|News|Comments Off on Child Abuse Prevention Month in the City of Hartsville
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A Moment with the Manager – Pride Park’s Pinwheel Garden

By Natalie M. Zeigler
City Manager

In recent years, the City of Hartsville has done much to support the needs of our community’s children. Last spring provided a dramatic example, when we partnered with very driven parents and grants received from the Byerly Foundation to build Garrison’s Place: A Handicapable Playground. It attracted a lot of attention as the first playground in the region to place such a strong focus on adaptive play equipment for children of different ability levels. We […]

April 17th, 2015|News|Comments Off on A Moment with the Manager – Pride Park’s Pinwheel Garden
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City of Hartsville to plant Pinwheel Garden in honor of Child Abuse Prevention Month

WHAT: Pinwheel display planting in observance of Child Abuse Prevention Month
WHERE: Pride Park, 630 S. Sixth St.
WHEN: Tuesday, April 21, 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.

Hartsville, S.C. – The City of Hartsville is inviting parents, children and organizations to help mark April as Child Abuse Prevention Month by planting a Pinwheel Garden at Pride Park, 630 S. Sixth St. The ceremony will take place Tuesday, April 21 from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., with refreshments provided.

The pinwheels to be planted with help […]

April 15th, 2015|News|Comments Off on City of Hartsville to plant Pinwheel Garden in honor of Child Abuse Prevention Month
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Hartsville’s Great American Cleanup returns April 25

Hartsville residents are invited to spend a Saturday morning making the city’s neighborhoods a better place by volunteering for the Great American Cleanup, taking place April 25 and leaving from Pride Park, 630 S. Sixth St, at 8:30 a.m.

This 12th annual event, sponsored by the City of Hartsville and Keep Darlington County Beautiful, comes as a time to clear away trash and debris from road right-of-ways in neighborhoods of their choosing. Last year, Hartsville’s Great American Cleanup brought together […]

April 13th, 2015|News|Comments Off on Hartsville’s Great American Cleanup returns April 25
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City Council regular meeting April 14, 2015

Hartsville City Council will have a regular meeting Tuesday, April 14, 2015, 5:30 p.m. at Hartsville City Hall, 100 E. Carolina Ave. Click here for the meeting agenda.

April 13th, 2015|News|Comments Off on City Council regular meeting April 14, 2015
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