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 […]
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 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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
The City of Hartsville has named Jerry Thompson as the Hartsville Police Department’s new chief. A veteran law enforcement officer, Thompson has served the department as Acting Chief since January, when he stepped in to fill the position of outgoing Chief James Hudson.
Thompson’s long career has included time with the S.C. Highway Patrol, the S.C. Wildlife and Marine Resources Law Enforcement Division and the S.C. Law Enforcement Division. He began serving the Darlington County Sheriff’s Office in 2008 and […]
The parking space re-striping work for the West College Avenue parking lot next to the Hartsville Memorial Library is taking place this Sunday morning, April 12.