HUBERT D. OSTEEN JR. DAY

Developing downtown Sumter: Sumter Item’s former publisher Hubert Osteen Jr. receives Gamecock City Society Award, proclamation from mayor for time on downtown board

Osteen was awarded the City of Sumter’s highest honor on Tuesday, a day that was also named for him in his honor.

BY KAYLA ROBINS kayla@theitem.com
Posted 12/12/18

A man whose name has been in The Sumter Item's masthead for decades had a whole day named after him in Sumter on Tuesday, a day when he also was awarded the city's highest honor.

Hubert D. Osteen Jr., who began working at the newspaper when he …

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