– Four more candidates have filed for political seats as of Monday morning, according to C. R. Hunter, Jr., secretary of the Marlboro County Democratic Party. Maria Turnage has filed for re-election as Marlboro County Treasurer seeking her fourth term at that post. Julian B. Wright is seeking the elected position of County Council, District Two. Retired Colonel Leroy M. Stanton announced last week that he will seek one of four council seats. Charles M. Berry, partner in Berry’s Auto Parts of Bennettsville, filed this morning for a seat on the Marlboro County Council.

– The old Frank R. Crosland homeplace on East Main Street has been purchased by the First United Methodist Church to be used, at least temporarily, for a church parking lot. The Rev. Thomas F. Evatt, pastor of the church, said he was not ready to announce any other use they might have in mind for the land.

– The former Bennettsville Post Office building has been awarded to the Marlboro County Board of Education to house its administrative offices. This announcement was conveyed to local school officials and to officials of the Marlborough Public Library on Wednesday. Both the County School Board and the Public Library had requested that they be given the building.

– The first shovels of dirt in preparation for the construction of the new gymnasium at McColl-Fletcher Memorial High School were held on Friday, March 9, with McColl School Board Chairman Ellis Moore and Marlboro County School Board Chairman James S. Rogers digging up the first shovel full.

– Mr. and Mrs. Luther B. Ellis of McColl announce the engagement of their daughter, Susan (Billie) Ellis to Dennis Hearn, son of Mr. And Mrs. M.B. Hearn of Laurinburg, N.C. The wedding will take place in July.

– Brenda Griffis Burr, a student of nursing, was awarded a full years scholarship at Larmie Community College.