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By Tom Poland, A Southern WriterTomPoland.net This fiddle’s origin may never be known. Long did Grandad’s fiddle hang on my mother’s living room wall. I could never walk by it without wondering . . . “What’s its story?” Best I recall, my mother didn’t know its provenance, that fancy wordContinue Reading

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LEXINGTON, S.C. – Two members of the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department’s public information team recently earned a highly selective professional designation from the Center for Public Safety Excellence. The Commission of Professional Credentialing met last month to confer the public information officer designation on Sarah Alexander and Carlee Hatchell. TheyContinue Reading

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SCDNR Director Mullikin delivers commencement address at Coastal Carolina By W. Thomas Smith Jr. Dr. Tom Mullikin, director of the S.C. Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR), delivered the commencement address to the gathered graduating students, friends, family, alumni, and faculty of Coastal Carolina University’s (CCU) College of Science and HonorsContinue Reading

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By Eileen Renders As we age, we all experience tiers of deterioration in various ways, such as hearing, walking, or memory loss. When we realize that we have begun forgetting important things more frequently, we and those around us may become concerned. We have learned that many degenerative diseases mayContinue Reading

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By Tom Poland, A Southern Writer In my youth we had a daily newspaper, The Augusta Chronicle. What we didn’t get every day was local news. That’s what made The Lincoln Journal special. Farmers, grandmothers, country storeowners, housewives, and others pulled news about people they knew from their mailbox. “TheContinue Reading