I have been asked if I was going to reply to a recent letter to the editor: Don't try to change who a good leader is. I told ...

A record crowd of 7,500 attended the fifth-annual eSTEAM Sumter Festival on Saturday in downtown Sumter. The festival brings ...

The Sumter Item will hold a candidate forum for two races in the City of Sumter. A forum for the candidates running for ...

Last year, five small Sumter businesses worked together to bring an interactive skeleton scavenger hunt to the community ...

Daniel F. Barber Jr., 88, husband of Lucy Allen Barber, died Monday, Oct. 7, 2024, at Prisma Health Tuomey in Sumter. Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, 2024, at Sumter First ...

Riley Keough felt a duty to finish Lisa Marie Presley's book on Elvis, grief, addiction and love Riley Keough was quick to ...

121,932 total breakfast meals served, 198,629 total lunch meals served, 4,522 afterschool snacks served and 480 evening ...

The union representing 45,000 striking U.S. dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports has reached a deal to suspend a ...

Best-selling Christian author Dane Ortlund speaks at Wilson Hall's Mission Series on Wednesday night in the Nash Student ...

Millie Virginia “Genny” Nesbitt Geddings, age 76, beloved wife of the late John Edward Geddings, passed away on Tuesday, Oct.

Queenie Bell Brunson James, 91, of 275 Tullah Drive, died Oct. 2, 2024, at her residence. She was born May 15, 1933. She was the daughter of the late Haskell and Hattie Gregg Brunson. The family will ...

Lila Mae Pipkin Tanner, 91, widow of Harry Tanner Jr., died Friday, Oct. 4, 2014, at her home. Born Feb. 16, 1933, in Andrews, she was a daughter of the late Lowell Pipkin and Loye Terry Pipkin.