Roper Mountain Science Center, a facility of Greenville County Schools, will host 118 teachers from 68 school districts across the state for the Science PLUS Institute during the summer of 2010.
Dr. Wuori Speaks To First Steps Group Dr. Dan Wuori visited Dillon on Tuesday, February 23 to address the Dillon County First Steps Board and an audience of invited guests.
Local Students Compete In NATEF Competition Local students have competed in the new NATEF “All Star Challenge Competition” for nationally certified automotive technical schools sponsored by the State Department and the South Carolina Auto...
Lyell Named Outstanding Counselor Of The Year Becky Lyell, South Elementary School Counselor, was named the 2010 Outstanding Counselor of the Year by the South Carolina Counseling Association at the association’s annual conference in My...
LVHS, LHS Receive SAT Performance Awards Seventy-nine highs schools from across South Carolina, including two local schools, have been recognized for their efforts on either the ACT or SAT college entrance exams, the Department of E...
Schools Receive Stimulus Funds For Energy Efficiency Improvements Dillon County school districts have received more than $212,000 in federal stimulus funds from the South Carolina Budget and Control Board’s State Energy Office to make energy efficiency improveme...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Tuesday that Dillon County had qualified for $35.8 million in loans and $4 million in grants under the federal stimulus program for the school facilitie...
As citizens in Chesterfield, Marlboro and Dillon Counties begin to prepare to file their 2009 tax forms, Sheryll Marshall, coordinator of financial assistance at Northeastern Technical College, say...
The struggles of local school districts to absorb hundreds of millions of dollars in budget cuts leads the South Carolina Department of Education’s list of top education stories for 2009.
On Tuesday December 15, 2009 Dillon County Technology Center’s Culinary Arts Program had a very special visitor; Ashanti Odom, a student from the Art Institute located in Charleston, SC.
Fourteen students from Dillon High School were inducted as new members of the National Honor Society in a ceremony held at the school on the evening of December 14th.
PARIS (AP) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy will open a daylong conference Thursday of some 40 nations to start turning plans into action to save the world's forests and help rein in the noxious gases blamed for climate change....
BOSTON (AP) -- The federal government on Wednesday recommended an endangered-species listing for the loggerhead turtles in U.S. waters, a decision that could lead to tighter restrictions on fishing and other maritime trades....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Children inherit about 30 mutated genes from each parent, fewer than had been thought, but enough in at least one case to pass on inherited illnesses, according to a first detailed look at the blueprint for human life in a family....
HONOLULU (AP) -- Wildlife officials lauded Washington's "holistic approach" to conservation in Hawaii after the Obama administration declared 48 species as endangered and announced plans to set aside more than 40 square miles on Kauai as critical habitat to allow the plants and animals to flourish....