Manning Junior High School’s Beginners Band received the Superior award at the 37th Annual Carowinds Festival of Music held on May 3 in Charlotte.

Manning High School’s Air Force JROTC drill team was the recipient of 10 awards at various competitions during the 2012-2013 school year.

The East Clarendon Lady Wolverines lost Game 2 of the 1A state championship best-of-three finals against Dixie High School on May 15 in Due West, 8-1.

The East Clarendon Lady Wolverines softball team won Game 1 of the 1A state championship best-of-three series against Dixie High School on May 13 in Turbeville, 2-0.

It’s difficult to make much of a predication on the fishing with so much water coming in from both the Congaree and Wateree watersheds. Lake Wateree and all the lakes above in the Catawba River system are well above flood stage and dumping into upper Lake Marion.

Tommy Graham Ridgeway Sr., 70, husband of Catherine Ridgeway Ridgeway, died Saturday, May 18, 2013, at Clarendon Memorial Hospital.