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16 hours ago
8 min

The Apples were Green

On May 27, 1926, a 23-year-old newspaper reporter tried to put Atlanta on the aviation map.

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Jul 29
4 min

Letter to the Editor: Geoff Hult

Considering the times we’re living in, let’s examine the issue of COVID-19 and masks.

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Jul 23
2 min

Letter to the Editor

It's one thing to have to live w/bad state regulations & an even worse City zoning decision, but quite another to have to pay for them too.

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Lamar T West, Sr.

Jul 22
3 min

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC?

Due to COVID-19, our City and Council meetings are all but impossible for the public to view, attend or participate.

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Jul 3
3 min

Commentary: Clemson University and John C. Calhoun

University Trustees voted 13-0 to remove John C. Calhoun’s name from the University’s Honors College because he was a slave owner.

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Jun 30
2 min

Long Cane, 1780: Disheartened and defeated, fall of Charleston

Patriot forces began to march in from the backcountry of the Carolinas to try and rescue Charleston.

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Lamar T West, Sr.

Jun 24
2 min

I believe in the "Thin Blue Line"

In Abbeville County, we should support our police, our deputies and other law enforcement officers.

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Jun 17
1 min

Letter to the editor

When choosing a treatment that will promote the goal of staying drug free for good is not all about length of time but effectiveness towards

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Jun 17
2 min

Letter to the editor

Well, to those who may not know, the entire season of the Opera House plays have been cancelled.

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Jun 4
2 min

Two Revolutionary War battle sites to visit

Our Long Cane Patriot soldiers fought in numerous battles. Here are two battlefields to visit.

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May 21
2 min

Dick, the Slave: Revolutionary War Hero

General Pickens later remarked that there was no finer or braver man living than Dick.

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May 5
1 min

Letter to the Editor: Jim Irwin

It is time to vote several council members out June 9, 2020 at the primary!

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Apr 28
2 min

Long Cane Massacre: Dispersal and starting over 1760

The Long Cane Massacre Site is significant to the history of exploration and settlement in South Carolina.

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Apr 22
2 min

How life could change after COVID-19

We Southerners are a hardy lot. We have been through much. The Civil War, reconstruction, the boll weevil and the depression.

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Apr 20
2 min

Colonial times stories from Long Cane 1760-1783 aka Abbeville

Long Cane, South Carolina, as Abbeville was known in 1760, was established by mostly Scotch-Irish settlers from colonies further north.

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Apr 15
2 min

Life of a Long Cane militia soldier: Winter, 1781

The Revolutionary War was won and lost in the Backcountry of North and South Carolina by tired guerilla fighters, some using only farm tools

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Apr 15
2 min

Letter to the editor: Jim Irwin

The county director and landfill director need to understand this is not time to spend our money.

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Mar 31
2 min

Letter to the editor: Jim Irwin

When you are riding down the highway you smell a skunk you don’t see one but you know it has been there!

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Mar 18
1 min

Letter to the editor: Jim Irwin

Has our County elected personnel lost their minds? The only time the school trustees and county council know you is when they want your vote

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Mar 18
1 min

Letter to the editor: Tabitha Brantly

Council needs to look again to find property more suitable with more space for the kind of development proposed for Chestnut Street.

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