South Carolina Currents

17/04/2025

“I didn't want it to be a really small version of a big box store with fluorescent lighting and white walls,” Colton Cauthen says. “We wanted to create something that just really, felt magical.”

The shop has a whimsical book arch made from hardcover books, colorful murals depicting classic books and a movable book letter to reach the highest shelves. Customers have compared Jack’s Books to the library in Beauty and the Beast and said the bookshop was reminiscent of Harry Potter or stepping through the wardrobe in the Chronicles of Narnia.

Check out your April issue of SC Currents Magazine!

https://www.mpd.coop/news-releases/jacks-books/
https://currents-mec-sc.newsmemory.com/

The Place Where Stories Begin Jack’s Books is an independent bookstore that’s writing a new chapter for downtown Florence Jodi Helmer Colton Cauthen can help you travel to far off lands, prepare delicious...

27/03/2025

Searching for the perfect wedding venue?

Southern Celebrations at Collins Grove – Where Love Is in the Air Nestled between a sprawling pecan orchard and vast farmland lies Collins Grove, a picturesque event destination on the Northeastern...

09/01/2025

A love of real food and nourishing the local community has kept Criswell motivated to continue growing SC Real Foods. Check out your January cover story of SC Currents magazine!
https://www.mpd.coop/news-releases/sc-real-foods-convenience-meets-home-cooking/

07/11/2024

There is a wonderfully creative wall calendar waiting inside the middle of your November/December issue of SC Currents Magazine! Congratulations to these 13 children on their imaginative drawings being selected for the 2025 calendar!
Winners will be contacted about their gift card pick-up for next week.

We received so many beautiful drawings that it was hard to choose! Thank you all for your submissions!

If you have any questions, please call 843-292-4387.

30/10/2024

It's almost Halloween! Have you heard of The Gray Man of Pawleys Island? Check out the story in your SC Currents October issue!
https://currents-pdec-sc.newsmemory.com/

13/09/2024

Did you catch last month's story on Mr. B's? Read it here!
https://www.mpd.coop/news-releases/mr-bs/

13/08/2024

Do you have children between the ages of 3-12? Have them enter their artwork into our new calendar contest for 2025!

Details below. Submissions are due by September 13th.

26/06/2024

Florence County native Melvin Purvis took down some of Chicago’s most notorious gangsters. Check it out in your June issue of SC Currents!
https://www.mpd.coop/news-releases/the-man-who-got-dillinger/
https://currents-pdec-sc.newsmemory.com/

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09/05/2024

Carabo now tends 50 beehives and a waiting list of customers eager to purchase honey from Carabo Farms.

Sweet Returns Jodi Helmer photos by Kristen Hayes Photography When Chelsea Carabo attended her first beekeeping associating meeting in 2021, beekeepers teased her for growing her operation so quickly. “I thought, ‘I’ll get two...

28/03/2024

40 years ago today, an outbreak of tornadoes swept through the Carolinas, causing catastrophic damage and taking the lives of nine people in Marlboro county.

The story below is from our March 2019 issue of South Carolina Currents.

[This story originally appeared in our March 2019 SC Currents magazine] March 28, 1984, began as just an ordinary day in Marlboro County. But it ended as a day that residents,...

14/03/2024

This is where the dream of zip lines, glamping sites, kayaking, hiking and a par 3 golf course come into the conversation.
Bryan Braddock hopes to create a family-friendly adventure and recreation park open to the public, with the generated funds helping offset the cost of services provided to people experiencing homelessness. House of Hope of the P*e Dee

House of Hope serves those facing homelessness or addiction in the P*e Dee By Jodi Helmer Walk with House of Hope CEO Bryan Braddock on a newly acquired 240-acre property called the...

21/02/2024

In 1978, McNair of Lake City, SC was selected from a pool of 10,000 applicants to join the NASA astronaut program and made his first trip to space as a mission specialist aboard the Challenger in 1984. He was the second African American astronaut to go to space.

The Ronald McNair Life History Center in Lake City honors the legacy of a local astronaut Jodi Helmer The world watched as the Space Shuttle Challenger launched from Kennedy Space Center on...

19/01/2024

Pick one of these soups to keep you warm for the upcoming chilly weekend! From your SC Currents magazine; page 20!
https://currents-pdec-sc.newsmemory.com/

17/01/2024

15 years after US Airways flight 1549, local Florence survivor, Michael Nunn shares his recollection of the Miracle on the Hudson.

15 years after US Airways flight 1549, a local survivor shares his recollection of the Miracle on the Hudson Jodi Helmer On the afternoon of January 15, 2009, Michael Nunn boarded US...

21/11/2023

Some things are just better together. Peanut butter and jelly……Barbie and Ken……pineapple and pizza……. Well, maybe not everyone will agree on that last one. But what everyone can agree on is that Marlboro Electric and P*e Dee Electric, while wonderful and special apart, are better together!

Thanks to the recent merger that members collectively approved, the name of your electric cooperative has now officially changed to MPD. https://www.mpd.coop/news-releases/better-together-two-legendary-electric-co-operatives-become-one/

13/10/2023

It’s been 35 years since the reports of a strange creature damaging vehicles near Scape Ore Swamp, but the legend lives on in the P*e Dee.

Check out the wild tale in your October SC Currents magazine! https://currents-mec-sc.newsmemory.com/

15/09/2023

From 1986 - 2016, six players from Lamar High School went on to the NFL. It's an impressive statistic for a town with fewer than 1,000 residents and a high school enrollment of just 275 students.
Check out the cover story for your September South Carolina Currents Magazine! https://currents-pdec-sc.newsmemory.com/

24/08/2023

Tomorrow is the last day to submit photos for our 2024 Calendar! Please read below for specific submission details.

2024 Calendar Photo Contest

We invite you to share your beautiful, engaging photos with readers by entering this year’s annual calendar photo contest. As many as 13 winners will be selected. Submissions are accepted until August 25, 2023 to [email protected]

The contest is open to MPD Members (Marlboro Electric Cooperative and P*e Dee Electric Cooperative members). Each person may submit up to 10 photos.

Each photo should include:
• Photographer’s name and address.
• A description of the photo.
• An email address and telephone number where the photographer can be contacted. Only digital JPEG photos will be accepted. Photos must be landscape (horizontal) format and at least 300 dpi at 11 inches wide by 9 inches tall. Vertical photos and files larger than 15 megabytes will not be accepted.