Food
Lightlife Smart Sausages are displayed at a store in Jersey City, New Jersey, in September 2018.
Should you avoid meat for good health?
Hangovers happen as your body tries to protect itself from alcohol's toxic effects
This combination of images provided by Amanda Daley shows mockups of a soft drink can and a chocolate candy bar with labels for "exercise calories," or the amount of physical activity needed to burn them off. Daley, a professor of behavioral medicine at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom, says, "They may still ignore it, but let's give it a go. Let's at least give them a chance to be able to easily understand."
What if you knew a cookie would take 20 minutes to run off?
Kim and Jeff Borghoff pose at a fundraising event for the Alzheimer's Association. For Kim and her family, keeping a tradition of Sunday meals helped maintain a sense of normalcy as her husband, Jeff, and his father were simultaneously struggling with Alzheimer's disease.
Sharing a family meal can help those with dementia connect
TV personality Ree Drummond posing for a portrait to promote her new cookbook "The Pioneer Woman Cooks: The New Frontier: 112 Fantastic Favorites for Everyday Eating."
'Pioneer woman' sticks to her groove with new cookbook
Panorama
Members of the Sumter Civic Dance Company pose for a photo at the Freed School of Performing Arts. The company will perform Friday at Patriot Hall, 135 Haynsworth St.

Sumter Civic Dance Company to perform contemporary concert; winners of Young Choreographers' Awards in spotlight

More than 20 years ago, when Andrea Freed-Levenson introduced the idea of the Sumter Civic Dance Company's adding a contemporary dance concert to its schedule, her dancers were less than enthusiastic. Now, however, after two decades of performing …

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Engagements
MR. SMILING, MISS DAVIS
Davis-Smiling Eva M. Smith of Dillon announces the engagement of her daughter, Eva Smith Davis of Dillon, to Lodie C. Smiling Jr. of Raleigh, North Carolina, son of Gloria Jean Smiling of Florence and the late Lodie C. Smiling Sr. The bride-elect is also the …
MR. MAYHEW, MISS ALSBROOKS
Alsbrooks-Mayhew Mr. and Mrs. Michael Steve Alsbrooks Sr. of Sumter announce the engagement of their daughter, Hannah Nicole Alsbrooks of Sumter, to Mr. Jeremy Allin Mayhew of Denver, Colorado, son of the late Mr. Edwin Dean Mayhew of Denver and Shelli Mayhew (nee …
Celebrations
PHOTO PROVIDEDThe 2019 Lord Clarendon Cotillion presented eight debutantes on Dec. 20 at The Matrix Center in Manning. Debutantes were from left, front row: Adela Carpenter Coffey, Anne Patience Williamson, Macey Gibbons Wilson and Mason Elizabeth Ham. Escorts are from left, back row: Nicholas Vincente Ackard, William Columbus Coffey IV, William Dickey Williamson, Parker Neale Wannamaker, Hanks Howard Avinger, John Joe Wilson III, Joshua Edward Baker and Tyler Watson Baker.
Sumter debutante publication deadline is noon Nov. 15 Individual photos of debutantes along with club information will publish in the Nov. 27-29 Weekend Edition of The Sumter Item. Deadline is noon Nov. 15. Please email information and photos to rhonda@theitem.com. Payment of $50 per individual …
NEAL
Ruth McFadden Neal celebrates 100th birthday Ruth McFadden Neal celebrated her 100th birthday on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021, with a family celebration at her home. She was born on Sept. 2, 1921, in Sardinia, to the late Ulysses and Henryanna Kennedy McFadden. She is the oldest of 12 siblings …
Weddings
CAPT. AND MRS. GRAHAM BROOKER STOLTE
Ricciarelli-Stolte ASHEVILLE, North Carolina - Brianna Marie Ricciarelli of Cary, North Carolina, and Graham Brooker Stolte of Mount Pleasant were united in marriage at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, July 3, 2021, at Point Lookout Vineyard. The bride is the daughter of Mr. …
MR., MRS. MATTHEW CONYERS JR.
Goodman-Conyers Nancy Goodman of Dothan, Alabama, and Matthew Conyers Jr. of Sumter and Bronx, New York, were united in marriage on Friday, Aug. 6, 2021, in Sumter. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. Eva Rabb and the late Mr. Benjamin Rabb, and the late Mr. …
Faith
SMITH

Column by Sumter Pastor Clay Smith: Smart people....

We were working cows the other day at the Florida ranch. Greg, who has helped us for years and knows cattle, is running the show. Someone asked me what my role was. I replied, "My role is to ask Greg what he thinks we ought to do, listen to what he …

Yesteryear
Recognized for their services to the Sumter YMCA at the dedication ceremonies Dec. 7, 1971, are from left, Julian T. Buxton, co-chairman of the building fund drive; Mrs. Bobby Richardson, representing her husband, also a building fund drive co-chairman; and E. C. Kneece, former building fund chairman and board president, who holds a painting of the expanded facility.

Yesteryear by Sammy Way: Sumter Rajah Club holds party; museum hosts Civil War re-enactment

Due to missing issues of The Item newspaper, 75, 50 and 25 Years Ago are not in sync. However, the span of years - 75, 50 and 25 years - is correct from the time each section was begun. 75 YEARS AGO - 1947 March 31 - April 5 - Springdale …

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