Clarendon County could see its first freeze of the fall Saturday night, and the cold air is arriving without the rain the county's fields and pastures need. The National Weather Service office in Columbia on Friday, Nov. 13, put Clarendon and much of central South Carolina under a frost advisory from 3 a.m. to 8
Cody Simpson, a Home Branch native and South Carolina's next commissioner of agriculture, says his election brings the state's top agriculture office back to Clarendon County for the first time in more than two decades. Simpson, a Republican, defeated Democrat DeShawn Blanding, who is from the Silver community, in the Nov. 3 general election. Statewide,
MANNING — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza — bird flu, Eurasian H5 — in a bald eagle in Clarendon County. The confirmation was recorded Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2026. The bird was found sick or dead and submitted by a private submitter; a collection
