Avoid trouble, take charge of your car loan C1 Reading is fundamental Summer library program will be fun, educational A8 SERVING SOUTH CAROLINA SINCE OCTOBER 15, 1894 SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 2017 $1.75 SPORTS: Yanks Montgomery earns 1st win since May 6 B1 GRADUATION Crestwood, Lakewood, Sumter high schools hold ceremonies Sumter High School graduate Jaidon Martin, center, expresses happiness in getting her degree Saturday while classmates Lillian Marzano, left, and Marc Marrero watch fellow graudates cross the stage. For more photos, see A3. Moments after Crestwood High School graduate moved their tassles from the right side to PHOTOS BY RICK CARPENTER / THE SUMTER ITEM the left, Taylor Danielle Senoli Abrams, left, and Eward Lee Acevedo appreciate the mo- Lakewood High School Valedictorian Christian Compton leads the class into ment while classmates begin to celebrate. the Sumter County Civic Center on Friday night. ATM ‘skimming’ Finances fraud on the rise headline BY CAITLAN WALZER
[email protected] STEPS TO AVOID SKIMMING FRAUD meeting Small hacking devices that fit over the card reading slot • Update your information; BY BRUCE MILLS on ATM machines are mak- • Keep an eye out for attached
[email protected] ing individuals nationwide pieces on the ATM machine over victims of fraud. the card slot and the keypad; Finances headline the Sum- In Sumter alone, there are • Cover the keypad when typing ter School Board of Trustees’ eight different banking and in your PIN; CAITLAN WALZER / THE SUMTER ITEM docket for its next meeting on credit union branches (SAFE • Use familiar ATMs; Customers who use ATMs should be prepared to search the PIN Monday night.