Editorials

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.” 

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.

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.

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.

My how things have changed in the last few weeks!

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.