Businessman Mel Pennington won an overwhelming victory in Tuesday’s race for mayor of Hartsville with 65.5 percent of the vote to rival Pam Sansbury’s 34.5 percent. In Lamar, mayoral candidates Randy Reynolds and Jackie L. Thomas will face each other in a runoff Nov. 17.

It’s a rivalry game that through the years has produced some of the most competitive and intense games one will ever see on the football field, but it was all Lamar (9-1) against Timmonsville Friday, as Silver Foxes quarterback Trevor Norris threw five touchdown passes in the first half before his team coasted to a 52-0 victory. Lamar had won a contest earlier in the season 26-6.

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People & Events Oct. 16

It felt like a playoff game, and played like a playoff game, but mostly felt like two county rivals going at it with everything they had for four quarters. That’s exactly what happened in Lamar Friday night, as the Silver Foxes slipped past Darlington 26-24 in dramatic fashion.

LAMAR - Jerrod Dargan and Jaquavius Peebles each had touchdown runs, and Matthew Mitchell caught a 28-yard touchdown pass from Trevor Norris to help Lamar beat Timmonsville 26-6 on Friday.
 Anthony McAllister also had a 53-yard punt return to aid the Silver Foxes’ cause.
 The Whirlwinds’ only score was a 3-yard run by Brandon Hampton in the fourth quarter.

Two men, including one from Lamar, pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to utter and possess counterfeit commercial checks, U.S. Attorney Walter Wilkins said in a press release.

The largest jackpot in the history of the MegaMatch 6SM game was claimed on Monday

Although James Malloch was a young Yankee from Massachusetts, he served on a brand new light cruiser during World War II named after the capital of South Carolina.

A Lamar man died Wednesday after he lost control of his vehicle and hit a utility pole, S.C. Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. Joseph Robertson said.

Darlington County sheriff’s deputies are asking for the public’s help to find a missing Lamar man.

A jury of Darlington County residents ruled the death of an 11-year-old Lamar boy who died following a December house fire to be accidental in a Darlington County coroner’s inquest Thursday night.

A Lamar man has been captured in connection with a shooting that happened almost three months ago.

A Lamar man has been sentenced to two years in prison for failing to register as a sex offender. U.S. District Judge R. Bryan Harwell also ordered that 30-year-old Terry Dials’ prison term be followed by three years of supervised release.

David N. “Buddy” Stewart was born mechanically talented, so it’s little wonder that he worked in the machinery manufacturing shop at Sonoco Products Co. for 40 years before retiring in 2002.