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SC Palmetto Trail organizers want new 26-mile path
January 31, 2021 GMT
SUMTER, S.C. (AP) The foundation that oversees South Carolina’s Palmetto Trail is looking for money to link one part of the trail in Richland County to another mostly in Sumter County.
The 26-mile (42-kilometer) new trail will be called the Cook’s Mountain Passage and connect a current trail near Fort Jackson in Columbia to the Wateree Passage in southeast Richland County, The Sumter Item reported.
When built, Cook’s Mountain Passage will provide a critical link in the goal to complete 500 miles (805 kilometers) of walking trails from the mountains to the sea in South Carolina, Palmetto Conservation Foundation officials said.
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Osteen was the former publisher of the Sumter Item
Dec 15, 2020 11:00 PM EST
Former publisher of the
‘Sumter Item’, Hubert Osteen Junior died at home Sunday at the age of 84.
Osteen started at the newspaper at just 13 and rose through the ranks to become its publisher.
Friends say Osteen fought for the public’s right to know.
Osteen’s three sons now run the family’s publishing company. Tuesday, the newspaper posted memories shared by fellow journalists, employees that worked for the paper, and friends.
“As times changed in the newspaper business, he empowered people to be creative but reminded us that the story and getting it right always came first.”
Longtime Sumter Item publisher Hubert Osteen Jr. dies
December 15, 2020 GMT
SUMTER, S.C. (AP) Hubert Duvall Osteen Jr., who worked at his family newspaper The Sumter Item starting when he was 13 and rose to publisher, died Sunday. He was 84.
Osteen’s death was announced by the newspaper where he became the fourth generation to join the family business. Two more generations of Osteens have started work there since.
No cause of death was given. Osteen died at home, The Sumter Item reported.
Osteen wasn’t just handed the family business. He had journalism degrees from the University of Missouri and Columbia University and served three years in the U.S. Air Force, spending time in Korea and Vietnam.