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Yesteryear by Sammy Way: Mobile art studio comes to Sumter; airport gets new operator

By SAMMY WAY
Sumter Item archivist and historian

Posted 6/3/23

75 YEARS AGO — 1948 Nov. 9 – Nov. 15 • Another case of polio in the outskirts of Sumter was reported to the Sumter City-County Department of Health. The case is a little girl who …

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