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Oct 30, 2024 | 
thetandd.com | Lee Harter
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
thetandd.com | Lee Harter
“When Helene tore through western North Carolina … it triggered floods and mudslides that smashed away neighborhoods and took out vital infrastructure. Already isolated communities became information black holes, cut off from the world and each other. Local journalists have spent the days since trying to reach those communities and fill in information gaps — all the while dealing with storm-wrought damage in their own lives.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
thetandd.com | Lee Harter
David Franklin of Orangeburg has connections to American trauma: the Vietnam War and 9-11. He never forgets either. In 2015, Franklin was featured in a T&D series profiling Orangeburg-area Vietnam veterans. Then in 2021, he wrote about a unique experience with the terrorist attacks of 9-11-2001. ---Franklin arrived in Vietnam on his 20th birthday in 1969. Hard days followed.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
thetandd.com | Lee Harter
Orangeburg native Richard Dukes has penned a book, “The Forgotten Son.”The Vietnam War-era story is written by a man who served in the U.S. Army Reserve from 1963-69 when the war was raging. It is his first book. Son of the late Bill and Virginia Dukes, Richard says the published book is a dream come true.
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Jun 29, 2024 | 
thetandd.com | Lee Harter
To hear politicians speak, including former President Donald Trump, people should believe reporters and the editors working with them are purveyors of "fake news."Now the White House is saying videos of President Joe Biden suggesting he is mentally impaired and physically frail are being modified to create what are being described as “cheap fakes.”Welcome to the information world of 2024.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
scnow.com | Lee Harter
To hear politicians speak, including former President Donald Trump, people should believe reporters and the editors working with them are purveyors of “fake news.”Now the White House is saying videos of President Joe Biden suggesting he is mentally impaired and physically frail are being modified to create what are being described as “cheap fakes.”Welcome to the information world of 2024.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
scnow.com | Lee Harter
Local newsgathering has never been more important. Despite so many avenues to get information, people are quite skeptical. Trusted sources, it seems, are hard to find. That’s where the Morning News and local newspapers play a vital role. Professionals committed to journalistic principles are at work every day to bring you news of the community – news reported in as objective a manner as possible. The credibility of our efforts is harmed by those in our own profession.
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May 29, 2024 | 
thetandd.com | Lee Harter
Local newsgathering has never been more important. Despite so many avenues to get information, people are quite skeptical. Trusted sources, it seems, are hard to find. That’s where The Times and Democrat and local newspapers play a vital role. Professionals committed to journalistic principles are at work every day to bring you news of the community – news reported in as objective a manner as possible. The credibility of our efforts is harmed by those in our own profession.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
thetandd.com | Lee Harter
The Times and Democrat has been the principal source of news for Orangeburg, Calhoun and Bamberg counties for more than 140 years. Consider that The T&D was born in 1881 in the continuing turbulence of the post-Civil War era. Consider just a sampling of the news and events it has chronicled since:The Times and Democrat was around when the Battle of Wounded Knee, the last significant battle between U.S. soldiers and American Indians, was fought in 1890.
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Jun 5, 2023 | 
thetandd.com | Lee Harter
