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Two Manning landmarks have received awards from the Municipal Association of South Carolina.

The new Manning City Hall, located at 29 West Boyce Street and the Johnson Law Firm/Moses Levi Building, located at 2 North Brooks Street, were recipients of awards from the MASC’s 2010 Municipal Achievement Awards and Main Street S.C. Inspiration Awards.

Manning’s City Hall was the recipient of the 2009 Main Street Outstanding Public-Private Partnership Award.

Four Clarendon citizens have been recognized by the Manning and Summerton Rotary clubs for their outstanding service to their communities and clubs.

Three-years ago Lindsey Lyles, 17, became the first player from Manning High School to win a state championship in tennis. She became the number one-seeded player at the school in seventh-grade. Right from the start Lyles had what it took to be a champ, according to William B. Harvin, who she first picked up the racket with at age 10. Harvin, who has been playing and coaching tennis for 50 years, said that he saw something special in her right from the start.

U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene made his first public appearance with a seven-minute speech at the NAACP’s local chapter meeting held at Manning Junior High School Sunday.

In front of a crowd of about 550 and dozens of media, from local to international, Greene talked about the issues that are the basis of his campaign-jobs, education, and justice. He added in humor to all the media attention.

Look out Texas, here comes Turbeville! Those words or some very similar are probably on the lips of the Turbeville Dixie Darlings softball team, coaches and proud parents as the newly crowned state champions prepare to visit the Lone Star state later this month.

Thursday evening the troops from Turbeville earned the right to represent the Palmetto State in the Dixie Darlings World Series by defeating Union 20-16 in the finals of the state tournament held in Dentsville.

There’s a new hunting law that South Carolina deer hunters using dogs need to be aware of called the Renegade Hunter Act.  According to Charles Ruth, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) Deer and Turkey Project Supervisor, the new Act actually strengthens the already-on-the-books Road Hunting law. The way the law is worded, it does apply directly to hunters using dogs to hunt deer.

Mrs. Susan Richardson Briggs, 98, widow of George Briggs, entered eternal rest on Wednesday, July 21, 2010, in the Clarendon Memorial Hospital. She was born in Clarendon County, March 14, 1912, to the late Henry Richardson Sr. and Susan Junior Richardson.

She was educated in Clarendon County Schools, and was a life member of Greater St. Phillip RMUE Church, Pinewood.

She was preceded in death by 10 siblings and three children, Pernell Briggs Sr., Ruby M. Osbie and James L. Briggs Sr.

SUMTER – William Randle Gulledge, 60, husband of Sharon Turner Gulledge, died Monday, July 19, 2010, at Tuomey Healthcare System in Sumter.

Willie Mae Bellamy “Mickey” Dunham, 47, wife of Virgin Dunham, entered eternal rest on Friday, July 16, 2010, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

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.

If you are interested, hold on … this may take several chapters. I always wanted to be serialized!

Edna Grace Hardin Pyritz, 83, widow of Kenneth Pyritz, first married to the late Hoke F. Hardin,  died Sunday, July 11, 2010, in Clarendon Memorial Hospital in Manning.

Born March 24, 1927, in Marion, she was a daughter of the late Rembert Collins and the late Eva Mae Collins Collins. She was a retired inspector for Westinghouse Nuclear Fuel Division in Columbia. She was a member of Temple Baptist Church in Columbia, and attended Good Shepherd Baptist Church and New Covenant Presbyterian Church, both of Manning.