Don't forget to clock in Sunday night -- not for work, but when daylight-saving time changes again.
Officially, clocks should be set ahead one hour at 2 a.m., Sunday morning, March 14, which will make it 3 a.m.

Most people change their clocks before retiring for the evening.

The hour lost this coming Sunday will be regained Nov. 7 when clocks are set back 60 minutes.

Beginning in 1987, daylight-saving time began with the first Sunday in April and ended with the last Sunday in October.

The "labor of love" is over to establish the facility. Now the love and labor can emanate from the facility.

About 75 people gathered March 7 to formally dedicate the Legion Ministry Center at 320 Reynolds Road in Barnwell.

The refurbished center will now be used as the location for the Barnwell Presbyterian Church soup kitchen three days a week, said the church's pastor, the Rev. David Turner.

The church has been running a soup kitchen ministry for about five years to feed the area hungry, said Angie Boyles, a church member and former church elder.

Barnwell County Council has signed a letter of intent to enter into negotiations to potentially sell the county nursing home.

The news was announced during a March 2 council meeting after executive session.

UHS-Pruitt is a Southeastern nursing home operator and long-term care provider.

Few details can be released as UHS-Pruitt is in the due diligence process, said Councilman Keith Sloan, but Council was impressed with the offer.

He said there were three bidders for the Barnwell County Nursing and Rehabilitation Center and UHS-Pruitt made the best proposal.

The Blackville Police Department is looking for two men who were involved in a March 7 shooting incident.

Blackville Police Chief John Holston said Tracy Davis, 25, and Tyrone James, 35, both of Blackville, were involved in a shooting incident on 30 Falcon St. that sent a female bystander to the hospital.

There was a celebration going on at the address when some kind of altercation took place between Davis and James, said Holston.

James left and returned to the party with a rifle and confronted Davis, he said.

Breakfast is still the most important meal of the day to Jack and Tuesday Johnson.

Jack Johnson is the food service director over the Barnwell 45 and Blackville 19 school districts. His wife, Tuesday, is the food service director over the Williston school district.

The importance of school breakfast is not lost on the Johnsons for two reasons.

With Barnwell County gearing up for the three school board races, the county voter registration office has already been fielding questions about the election process.

Naomi DeFrenn, the director of the Barnwell County Voter Registration and Elections Office said that she has seen particular interest in these school board elections.

"I've gotten a lot of calls about District 45, mostly questions on how to register voters," she said.

The school board elections are April 13. The last day to register to vote for residents to participate in this election is March 13.

Rhett Richardson has a vision -- and not just because he is an eye doctor.

"I'd like to see the Barnwell 45 school district reach its maximum potential," he said.

Richardson, 52, is one of four candidates vying for the two open seats on the board. The others include Renee Geter, Dewayne Eubanks and incumbent Chad Perry.

The election is April 13.

"I have an affinity for the schools and the town itself," Richardson said.

With two children in the district, Chad Perry knows that the decisions the Barnwell 45 school board makes can affect not only its students, but his family.

Perry, 39, has a sixth grader and a ninth grader in the district, and his wife is a reading interventionist at Barnwell Primary School.

Perry is the only incumbent running for one of the two seats open for election this time in the school board race. The three other candidates are newcomers Dewayne Eubanks, Renee Geter and Rhett Richardson.

Renee Geter is tired of seeing South Carolina at the bottom of the education line-up.

Geter is one of four candidates running for the two open seats on the Barnwell 45 school board this time. The candidates include Dewayne Eubanks, Rhett Richardson and incumbent Chad Perry.

Geter, 43, noticed her home state seemed to always bring up rear of the nation's 50 states in terms of academic performance, she said.

Geter also saw the trend occurring locally, she said.

Readiness, respect and responsiveness are some of the things Dewayne Eubanks thinks about concerning the Barnwell 45 school district.

Eubanks, 46, is running for the Barnwell 45 school board. Other contestants for the two open seats this time include Renee Geter, Rhett Richardson and incumbent Chad Perry.

Student readiness and parental responsiveness are two reasons Eubanks is running.