Elementary and junior high schools in Williamsburg County School District will offer the two academies in reading and math to help students in grades 3-8 improve their reading and math skills.

Wilson’s first game since winning the state championship last season had an ugly ending as the Tigers and Lake City brawled on the field as soon as the clock ran out Thursday night at Memorial Stadium.

A letter from Harold King, who lives on Fulton Road in Darlington, raises the question people are asking as far away as several inches. Mr. King asked, “Does your column appear on the obituary page of the Blues out of necessity, or is the Voice of the Pee Dee editorializing?” I can only assume the decision makers in their ivory tower were aware that my column on the sports page would make Gamecocks unhappy. If they put it on the editorial page, intellectuals would be unhappy; put it next to Billy Graham, the preachers would protest; put it on the front page, the Obama supporters would protest it. If placed next to Dear Abby, the feminists would howl bloody murder.

Members of Florence City Council, with the mayor leading the effort, need to change the way funds distributed to local groups are accounted for.