Editorials

September 1, 2010

Three of the most important eye conditions to be aware of are: cataracts, glaucoma and diabetic eye disease. All of these can cause serious loss of vision – in persons of any age.

September 1, 2010

Some students called it “the basement.”  Others called it “the dungeon.” As best I can remember, it was the only classroom below ground level in the original Manning High School built in 1907. Perhaps its planned purpose was as a storage room. But to a group of us in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the space was affectionately known as “The J Room.” 

August 24, 2010

A week or so ago, the maternal unit told me about a speaker she saw on Book TV (I know, it is rather staid) about the future of history. That phrase, “future of history” seems almost oxymoronic, doesn’t it?

August 18, 2010

People with eating disorders experience serious conflict in their eating patterns, such as a severe and unhealthy decrease in the food they take in or overeating, as well as extreme concerns about the shape of their body or weight. Eating disorders usually develop during adolescence or early adulthood. Eating disorders are real, treatable illnesses. The two main types of eating disorders are anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.

August 18, 2010

Last week I wrote about some of the great things that are on Clarendon’s horizon. They excite and invigorate me. I am almost perfectly happy with where I live.

August 11, 2010

Hello citizens of Claren­don County!

My name is Chuck Waters and I am a new member to this community and the new reporter for the Clarendon Citizen.

I am a single, 27-year-old college graduate in his third job. I am a native South Carolinian as I was born in Newberry in 1982.

Since finishing college in 2006, I have been trying to obtain a job back in my native state.

August 11, 2010

In 1984, Canadian crooner Anne Murray won a raft of awards for her song, “A Little Good News Today.” It spoke of Bryant Gumbel and bombings in Lebanon and wishing for a day where no liquor store was robbed and no one overdosed.

August 3, 2010

I try to be a tolerant person. We all have pet peeves and admittedly, I have quite a list. People who play their car music so loud I can hear it in my office. People with bad cell phone manners. Those who allow their animals to run the town without proper restraint.

August 3, 2010

Over the past month, I have had a number of requests to discuss the topic of “gout.” It seems as though there are quite a number of you experiencing the excruciating, throbbing or crushing pain brought on by this severe and painful form of arthritis.

July 27, 2010

My how things have changed in the last few weeks!

July 21, 2010

She knows it’s wrong.

July 14, 2010

Beloved readers: I am back and it has been a long and (for me) interesting, life-altering journey. If you are not interested in the more-than-month-long medical journey I have been on, I encourage and beseech you to turn the page and read the rest of this newspaper.

July 7, 2010

Every 11 minutes someone is added to the medical organ transplant waiting list.  More than 102,000 people, enough to populate a small city, are waiting for an organ donation in the United States.  Eight hundred South Carolinians are awaiting an organ transplant with approximately 90 percent needing a kidney.

June 30, 2010

What is going on in our world? News of the assault on nearly retired Clerk to Clarendon County Council Betty Pritchard hit the Citizencommunity hard. How can this go on in our peaceful, friendly and “safe” community?